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

The Courts.
Court IN GENERAL TERN.
Yesterday, Valentine Roth agt. the Baltimore
and Potomac railroad company; judgment of
lower court reversed. Lawrence Wilson agt.
Theodore +. Gatchel on hearing.
To-day. Wilson agt. Gatchell on hearing.
CIRCUIT COURT.-Jud9e Mac Ar,tbur.e
Yesterday, Lansbureh agt Mcmahon; juror
Withdrawn. Vierkorn agt: Woodward; motion
for new trial Miller agt. Kiian; 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.
EQUITY COURT.-.J,Mqe Wylie.
Yesterday, Kinney agt Mcguire: pro confesso
against defendant A. g. Mcguire. Cutler agt
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
defed. Burns agt. Metropolitan Building AS
ISOLATION; exception overruled: auditors re-
port confirmed and injunction dissolved without
prejudice Rider agt White dismissal of bill
ordered; appeal prayed Hammond agt. Ham
mOnd; divorce granted.
To-day, McAuley agt. McAuley; sale ratified
lowed to intervene. Gunton ACT. Zantzinger;
rule issued. Shields AIT. Driver; defendant
directed to pay money into court. Keyser agt.
Hitz; do. and stay of execution. Suter agt.
Chandler; pro confesso ordered. Bowie agt.
Pickrell; F. Hume allowed to intervene.
POLICE CoURr.-Judge Smell.
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 a coat from Mary Edmonston; continued.
WIN. Euraw 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-
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, vagrancy; 80 days each.
Mary Lewis, profanity; IS or days. Tinker
on the street, by firing off pistols and cursing
and swearing; IS or Is days each. Jno. Adams
loud and boisterous; IS or Is days.
Affairs in 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
Gil on Tuesday night. The new law. however.
does not take effect until the first OfMarch next.
when the present renting Of the fish benches in
market expires Alexandria has nearly always
had free trade in fish. The first at
which was made in 1900 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 of meat, fowls. butter. cheese,
Il,
pOration except ct the market house," but very
soon fish was included. Popular feeling opposed
monopoly of this kind and thereafter the es-
tablishment of a market. acithOM further enact
nent. was never supposed to prevent the sale
elsewhere of goods similar to those sold in the
market. Whenever the councils desired to pro-
hibit the sale of any product elsewhere than in
the city market. the council made 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 sale, nor shall
any person purchase any kind of meat, poultry,
butter, 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
VINO snail purchase the same contrary to this
dCt sHdli ScEcfaliE forfeit ana pay ten dollars.
Fish, however. could then be sold as well out Of
market as In market. Fish could be sold out OF
market eoen during market hours. for the law
just quoted made the following exception: PRO
yided. that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to extend to the sale and purchase of
butter in frkins. beef and pork for sailing or
already salted, or Of fish" The finance COM
mittee. however. construed the code to limit the
sale OF fish to the market and as the fish benches
were 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 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
dou5t whether she could now digest food even
II she were willing to eat. She is scarcely able
to move hand or 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 dsap-
peared from Alexandria stables
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