The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-22
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correspondence OF the Richmcnd Dispateh.f
JANUARY 81. 1875. q
The Mayor this morning gave ms decf.
sion in the market cases, which ior some
DAYS past have excited so naich interest 10
tl,e community. The matter was nrsf
brought to notice by complaint from the
butchers that the fourteenth section OF the
market ordinance, which prohibits tue sale
during market hours Of fresh meats, &c..
as any other place than at the markets, was
being violated, and the proper papers were
;ss,,ea 10 have the parties so charged
hronrht into court. Here the question OF
the validity Of the ordinance was
nromntIy raised, and counsel APP
Wearing. il was ably argued. The
ground taken by the defence was that the
Common Council is allowed NO powers ex-
cont such as are expressly granted in the
charter of the municipality; that III this
casn the power OF the Council is strictly
cnnfincd TO the establishment Of market
bn,,scs aud the ordaining and enforcing OF
laws relating to foresta!ling, huckstering,
and reerading,r and that in the re-
stroint placed upon the business OF per
SONS doing business outside OF the
marset.houses The Council had transcribed
;tS Granted mowers. On behalf of the butch
ers and the citvit was argued that the power
10 establish markct-houses carried with 1t
tho right TO pass and enforce all necessary
laws for the proper regulation OF their
trade. even TO the prohibition on the sale
clsewh here than at the markets during mar
se: hours of certain articles: that the
weight OF judicial construction in the land
was in favor OF this right, and that the
highest courts OF the different States had so
decided.
The Mayor gave decision in favor OF the
validity OF the ordinance, the weight OF 1u-
dcial construction and authority being in
favor OF the right to regulate where the
power to establish is given. Anappeal was
taken TO the Hastings Court, and the proba-
bjlity is that the matter will only be settled
bv the Supreme Court OF Appeals.
Robert Williams {colored) was arrested in
this CITY this morning, having in his posses
sion valuable milch COW stolen from Mr..
r. f. Butler, Of Chesterfield county, last
night. He was sentenced to ninety days
IMPRISONMENT in the city jail.
The sheriff tomorrow morning will take
over the folowing-named persons, convicted
OF felony in the Hastings Court OF this city
and sentenced each to one years impriSon-
ment in the penitentiary: Ellen Walker,
Minerva Wo2dley, Sarah Hill. Harriet
Crump, John Mason, and David Branch.
They are all negroes. He VIII also send
over to the Howard Grove asylum, on We'd
nesdav, the crazy man Joe Orange, who
some time ago battered down his house with
IN axe. savagely resisted the police, and es-
caped into Chesterfield county, where, after
arousin@ the colored population by his con-
duct. he was arrested, bound with ropes,
and brouSh, back to the city BY ten or a
dozen stalwart coiored men.
Rev. Dr.. Gibson, Of Grace church, and
Rev. Thomas Spencer, OF st. Johns church,
both preached yesterday on the subject OF
The Duration of Future Punishment, and
both earnestly opposed the views advanced
bv Cannon Farrar and other distinguished
men, who hold that the punishment OF the
wicked is eternal.
The counties around are clecting dele
gates to the meeting Of the Farmers Coun-
ell to be held in this city On the Goth OF Feb
Iuary.
The pay train OF the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio railroad arrived in this city this
evening. The employees along the whole
lire are being paid off for the month OF De-
cember. No back wages are being paid on
this trip. ROBIN ADAIR.