Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-18
CRIMINAL NOTES.

posed in the Police Court yesterday.
Louis Cheatham, colored, was fined $40.
| in the Police Court yesterday for gaming.
IT'S said that A. ID. Bedford regrated
the market yesterday morning. He will
| form one in the sad multitude which viii
hang anxiously upon the decision of the
Police, Judge this morning. -
Elijah Giddings and JEFF Mickey, are sus-
pected Of belonging TO that class who
awake blythe night, and sleep by the day.
Clad In fsthomle's penury," "a ~
aud they are going to be tried in the
Police Court this morning on the charge Of
vagrancy.
James Ash, the individual who is ac-
cused of having lin moment Of abStrac-
| tom thrust his hand into the pocket OF
Mrs. Flanagan, while lounging about the
markethouse last Saturday, was taken be-
fore Justice Everett for trial yesterday, but
by consent of both parties the hearing of
the case was postponed until P. NJ, to
day.
The ever-thirsty Lucinda Banks was
gobbled up yesterday whilst INDUCING in
her faEorite occupation of hanging around
gin mills, patiently awaiting an invitation
to sslicker." 1t is computed that if the
time thus wasted by Lucinda had been
properly utilized by that person, she might
have surrounded herself with all the com
forts and many of the Injuries of life. But
it's Lucenda's funeral, and if she enjoys II.
and is willing to pay the fiddler, it's ali
right. She will probably be sent down as
vagrant this morning.
Frank Carter and Ransom Humphries
got into difficulty in Bob Petway's saloon
on Cherry, below Broad, Monday night.
when Carter drew his little pistol and fred
three times at HUMPHREYS, with q view of
perforating the physical structure of the
latter. Owing, however, TO the fact that
Carter never did have any reputation as a
marksman, HUMPHREYS escaped with a
whole skin, while a couple of men who
stood some ten feet of, ON either side Of
him, both came within an ace of being hit.
Carter was arrested and locked up, and was
yesterday fined 500, by Judge Duling-
half the amount being for firing and the
other for carrying a pistol. None but
gifted mathematician can compute the
quantity ofpebbleS Frank Carter will burst
during his sojourn of 1881 days at the
workhouse.
John Brown, colored, wa sauntering
along last Sunday night, when he smet up"
with his most bitter enemy, al the point
where the street crosses the tunnel. II was
an opportunity not to be lost, and in an in
slant the mind of John Brown, colOred,
was made UP. Throwing aside his some
what greasy and ragged coat, John Brown,
colored, waded into his most bitter enemy
and battered him up in a manner fearful
to behold. The police heard of his exploits,
and during the day Monday, they looked
for him, and when they found him they
chung TO him. Yesterday morning he was
allowed to tell Judge Duling all about it,
and the latter took such an interest in him,
in consequence, that he gave him an order
on the city workhouse larder-good for
sixty-six days.
The careful and conscientious reader Of
this department Of the UNION AND AME-
RICAN doubtless remembers having seen
therein the name of Calvin Bracy men,
toned in connection with pair Of shoes,
supposed to have been the property of one
S. Abrams, and found in Calvin's posses
sion under circumstances Of more or less
suspicious character. He will also remem-
Der thai Bracy has been vibrating between
the Magistrates Court and the Jail. Yes
terday the case was finally disposed Of by
Justice Everett, the prisoner being released
on account of the nOn-appearance Of the
prosecutOr-who will thus be required to
pay the costs. However, his boot and shoe
business has been extensively advertised,
and he has lost nothing by the transaction.
Jacob Watkins, colored, week or two
since, called upon James Watkins, a cole Or
ed cobbler, with dilapidated old pair of
brogans 10 be mended. The old man re-
connoitered all around them, and finally
concluded be had leather enough in the
shop to mend them, and so undertook the
job, and as Jake had but one pair of shoes
in the world, loaned him pair to be worn
until the old ones were repaired, Then |
he hammered and nailed away for few |
days, and finally finished up Jake's mud |
crushes and leaned them up against the |
side Of the house, where they looked like a
couple of new-fashined coal boxes. BY |
this time he was ready for his pay, and |
waited anxiously for Jake to come around, |
but las was the experience of those /
Spruce street folks) he awaited and |
watched in vain" and his heart "Was rem
dered sick by deferred hope" Jake is one
Of the trickiest of darkies, and when he
found that the shoes which had been fur
nished him by that cohfding cobler were
worth much more than his own, he fought
shy of the old man, carefully avoiding the
street upon which his shop is located. Yes
terday he was waited upon by an officer
and served with az warrant charging him
with 'breach of promise, and fraudulent
Of property" Then Jake
succumbed to the force of
as il were, and when taken
before Justice Cassetty, at once offered to
he individual he had so foully wronged
'uch terms Of compromise that the latter
lgeed to dismiss the suit.