The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-19
MANCHESTER MATTERS.
NEWS ITEMS FROM ACROSS The
RIVER.
reaencr~' lxamination-fscf Para
graphs anu BriefIfems-Ihc trial of
the Liquor eases IN she Hastings
soutt-Satiroad Hands step WORK.

Superintendent Puiliam will conduct
the examination of teachers Tor the
white public schools Of this city to- day.
This examination will be conducted at
tho Raiubridge-street school building
beginning at Q O'Clock this morning
The examination Of colored teac nefs
will be conducted tomorrow morning
at the Maury-street school building.
Miss Mary Cobb, Of Buckingham. Is
visiting the family Of Mr. Benjamin
Morris. on Perry street.
IL the absence of Mayor Atkinson
Yesterday morning Justice Perdue pre-
sided at the Mayors Court. No cases
of importance were on the docket.
The Hastings Court was crowded al
dav Yesterday. The cases OF the parties
charged with violating The laws gov
erniug the sale Of liquor were called.
The court met at 10 o'clock. aud the
cases were Immediately called.
The case Of NJ. Mitchell. proprietor Of
a bar room at the corner Of Seventh and
Huh streets. was first called.
The Indictment IN ihi, case included
four counts-that ~. charged defend
ant with selling liquor on four different
Sundays. \ number Of youths were
introduced as witnesses, most Of VIII ON
testified 10 having Obtained liquor from
defendants establishment on Sundays.
Nj. Mitchell had no counsel. and cross
examined the Commonwealth = wit
nesses himself. The case was submit
ted to the jury without argument. and
after Icing out twenty five minutes.
they brought ia a verdict OF guilty on
three charges aud fixed the fine for the
first oifense at $40: for the second, SO,
and for the third, 50.
The Court then ordered that the
license which had been granted "a
Mitchell be revoked.
Later i'm the day the case Of Mitchell
WAS tried for selling liquors 20 minors.
The accused pleaded not guilty.
There were six counts so this indict
ment. In consideration OF the previous
verdict, Commonwealth Attorney
Page only introduced witnesses to tes-
tify as % two Of the counts. and the eX-
animation lasted but a few minutes
Mitchell made no defense, and this case
was also submitted without argument.
The Jury brought IN n verdict OF
guilty on the two counts specified and
assessed the.line al so for each Ctlence
The case q Dunn x Hicliie. charged
with selling liquor ON Sunday, was
brought mp.
The defendants pleaded guilty on the
first count. and the jury assessed tn,
fine at 40 each and the Court revoked
their license.
John Burke was fined 500 for aiding
and abetung Dunn a lllckie in selling
liquor on Sunday. There are several
other cases to be tried to-day.
IL is expected that the record in the
John a. Jones case will not be ready
TO present to Judge Hancock until som'
time next week.
The Central Methodist Sunday schoO
picnic at Forest Hill Park yesterday
was very largely attended. Eycrybod,
who went out to the Park seemed Il
have had a splendid time.
About forty house, are now in cours
Of erection in Manchester and vicinity
Miss Emily Keeling. of Berkley, j
visiting Mrs. A. II. Fitzgerald, ON POr
ter street.
The hands on that section of the Belt
Line in Chesterfield, two miles abov
Manchester. the commissary depart
ment of which is on the Midlothian
turnpike above Judge Hancock. IS farm
have stopped work. They claim iha
they should have been paid of La
monday by VIC. Gibbons. the sub-con
tractor on that section. who has not We
settled with them Up to the 10Th.
Yesterday a weil-knOwn 0wansbor'
merchant told a ZINES reporter that IN
was getting ready To levy on come %
the goods at the commissary depart
ment To secure "a debt due him.