Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-15
The Courts.
Court IN GENERAL TERN.

I.
and Potomac railroad company; Judgment of
lower court reversed. Lawrence Wilson agt.
Theodore F. Gatchel on hearing.
To-day, Wilson agt. Gatchell on hearing.
CIRCUIT CoURT.-.Ttadge Mqc Arthur.
Yesterday, Lausbureh agt Mcmahon; juror
Withdrawn. Vierkorn agt Woodward; motion
for new trial Miller agt, Kiiian; judgment of
condemnation.
To-day, Eastwood, executors. agt. Barker,
and Kennedy agt. Green and Frasier defaults.
Stilson agt. Bigelow; referred. Campbell agt.
District; on hearing.
EQuIrY CouRT.-.1,p1ge Hylie.
Yesterday, Kinney agt. Mcguire; pro confesso
Romans and Jones agt. Crafty; appearances of
absent defendants ordered. Magruder agt.
Suit: correction of decree nisi and change Of
name of Richard Low to Robert Low ordered.
yelling agt. Gales; reference to auditor Or
dered. Burns act. Metropolitan Building As
sociation; exception overruled: auditors re-
port confirmed and injunction dissolved without
prejudice. Rider AFT. White; dismissal of bill
ordered: appeal prayed. Hammond AFT. Ham
mondi divorce granted.
P0LICE COURT.-Jttdge Shell
To-day. VIM. Newman, assault with intent to
Kill Chas Brown: continued for one week. Robt.
Brown, alias Moses Booth, colored, charged
with Keeping policy shop; continued
Lizzie Barron, alias Jenny Lee. colOred, larceny
of coat from Mary Edmonston; continued
WIN. Eutaw pleaded guilty to disorderly con-
duct in the Division and was sent down for
Is in default of IS Thos johnson. an eight
year old colored boy, was charged with being
yagrant, having no home and was sent down
for 80 days. Chas. Clark, loud and boisterous
pleaded guilty. and committed for Is days in de-
fault of IS. John W. Curry, charge of keeping
an unlicensed bar; dismissed. Johannah Robin
son, Mary Jackson. and Sophia Lewis. colored
charged with being public prostitutes: bonds or
80 days each. Frank Taylor, Jas. Taylor, and
Elias Ross, colored vaerancy; 50 days each.
Mary Lewis, profanity s. or days. Tinker
O'Brien and sappy O'Brien, dsorderly conduct
on the street by firing off pistols and cursng
and swearing IS or Is days each. Jno Adams.
loud and boisterous; S. or Is days.
Affairs i'm Alexandria.
Reported for The EVENING STAR.
The NEW FISH LAw.-The fish monopoly
question: which has attracted much attention
here in courts and councils and out OF them was
settled. as reported yesterday. by the city coun-
Gil on Tuesday night. The new law. however,
does not take effect until the first of March next
when the present renting Of the fish benches in
market expires. Alexandria has nearly always
had free trade in fish. The first at
tempt at monopoly in market products
which was made in 1850, did not include FISH.
The law of that year provided that mo person
Shall, during the market hours. make sale of or
offer or expose for sale, nor shall any persons
purchase any kind ofmeat, fowls, butter. cheese,
tt.SS VI NcectaDtS at any place Nltiiin the cor
p0ration except at the market house," but very
soon fish was included. Popular feeling opposed
monopoly of this kind, and thereafter the es-
adjustment OF a market, acltltOW further enact
fient, was never supposed to prevent the sale
elsewhere of goods similar to those sold i'm the
market. Whenever the councils desired to pro-
hlblt the sale Of any product elsewhere than in
the city market, the council made a law which
IN terms forbade the sale of such product else
where But council never afterwards until last
year attempted to limit the sale of any product
to the market except during market hours
And when this attempt was made it was
made in plain terms, for the act of 1921
declared that no person shall during market
hours make sale Of, or expose for SAFE nor shall
any person purchase any kind of meat. poultry.
hntter, eggs or vegetables at any place within
the corporation, except at the market house
Every person who shall sell Or expose for sale
any of the articles aforesaid. and every person
who shall purchase the same contrary to this
act shall severay forfeit and pay ten dollars
Fish however. could then Ice sold as we'll out of
market as IN market. Fish could be sold cut Of
market ecen during mG,'ka hours, fer the law
just quoted made the following exception: PRO
vded. that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to extend to the sale and purchase Of
butter in firkins, beef and pork for sailing or
already salted, or of fish, The finance COM
mttee. however, construed the code to limit the
sale OF fish to the market. and the fish benches
We're rented by one firm, that gave a monopoly,
and the courts sustained this action. The new
law, however, destroys the monopoly after the
LIST of March and gives free trade in fish, subject
to a license tax.
REPORTERS NOTES.-Miss Violet, the woman
on Queen street who seeks suicide by fasting. is
now in condition so low that the physicians
doubt whether she could now digest food even
il she were willing to eat She is scarcely able
to move hand OF foot and her death is impend-
ing. No police cases this morning There
have been few cases of ''pinkeye' among horses
here, and the disease has now entirely disap-
peared from Alexandria stables.
A Buffalo Doctors Remains Crematet
in Italy.
The remains of DR.. Walter Cary of Buffalo,
N. Y, who died recently in Italy, were reduced
to ashes at the crematory of Milan on the 22d
Of November. They will be brought to this
country from England ON the steamer which
sails to-day, accompanied by the relatives who
were with him during his illness. The Buffalo
Express says: "The crematory at Milan is the
most famous in the world. Although it has
been in operation scarcely year. it has burned
over $50 bodies, many Of when were brought
from foreign countries. In Italy there are no
fewer than eighteen societies established to pro-
mote cremation as means of disposal of the
dead and there are soon to be CrematOry tenn
pies at Rome, CremOna. Pava and other large
cities. At Pesth. too. there is an association
loI actively promoting the same object, While
at Paris the municipal council favors it, and it
would be introduced but for the opposition of
the minister for home affairs. The Partisan
cremationists assert that in a very few years
at least 10 per cent would be cremated The
gravest objection urged against cremation is
that in criminal cases it would cover the track
Of the wrong-dCer. To obviate this, Signor
LOrin, of Milan. has offered to the municipality
1900 to maintain post norton examination
room, where the bodies of all persons whose
deaths are not accounted for to the entire salts
faction Of the authorities can be examined
With such provision as this. the lie Moyne
crematory at Washington. Pa, the only one in
this country, would serve the promoters of Gre
nation as well az the famous furnace of Milan"
DARK Prospect FOR AN ALLEGED BANK
RoBBER-Wm. Burke, who was arrested last
week in Buffalo, on suspicion of having stolen
railroad bonds from bank in Cleveland, Ohio
was before the common pleas court in that city
yesterday, and ordered to be turned over to an
officer from New York state where he is wanted
for theft of bonds in Cohoes. The Judge said
that if he was convicted in New York and
served out his sentence the fight would then be
as to whether Michigan or Ohio would claim
him on other charges. The sheriff and the New