The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-06-08

\ Long Docket is Quickly Disposed of by
the Great Dispenser.

a Long Docket is Quickly Disposed of by
the Great Dispenser.
This is the season when the poor cooped-
up city man S fancy lightly turns 10 thoughts
OF gardening. and wien on some soft. sunny
morning the windows are thrown open and the
gentle breeze watts IN all sorts of loDgings
after uuattMnabie things. he leans contem-
plativelv over the back sill anu gazes out
upon the tom-cat haunted waste which d.
y1es bis yard from those on the next street
and a great desire Oils bis soul 10 run truck
Ing farm IN his back yard.
There is something so sweet and rural ike
in the cultivation OF % row or two Of onions u
few hills of potatoes patch OF peas and a
few other varieties OF the vegetable kingdom
that 10 almost makes one forget the bump
bump-bump Of the flat-whee street-car the
mouotonou melody Of the humming electric
wires and the disc0rdant jingle OF the fire.
bells during the sJll hours OF the silent night.
And then II is 30 nice to aTlse early IN the
morning when the slyerT dew IS upon the
tender grass and pull the weeds from around
the corn and stralghten up the bean vines
that the neighbors chickens SO kindly
scratched down the day hefore. OF course
all these things are mighty pleasant,
but Ike everything else there are
seasons of distress and trouble. When YOU
so out % get a few radishes for breakfast and
hnd that some wicked person has been in and
helped himself ahead Of you. after AL tho
caro- and time and labor YOU have spent on
that little patch. 30 say nothing OF the fact
that enough money has been spent 20 buy
radlshes for a whole season You begin 10
think that farming IN the city back yard Is a
failure and that the world is full OF vanity
and thieves.
Yesterday morning James Johnson. a GIN
ger cake colored negro. was charged with
entering IN the nighttime the back yard of
George Jones aud stealing and carrying away
"a lot Of radishes TO the amount OF five cents.
Mr. Jones said that his servant girl told HIM
that she had been told that James had radshes
fOr breakfast. Giles Jackson. the cele-
brated coOred iuminary IN the legal tirma-
ment, objected 90 the testimony and said il
was not evidence. He SAID that because Mr.
Jones raised u few little white Iadishes and
James happened to havo white Iadishes was
no reason they had been stolen. The EVIL
dencc not being sufficient the case was dis
missed.
Maggie Lewis (colored). charged with as
saulting and beating Lizzie Wilson; George
MOuntz cursing and abusing Nancy Curle
and Kenny aud Charles Smithers. disorderly
conduct, were dismissed. rs the evidence was
not Of a convincing character.
To have d session OF the police court and
not have n wife-beater ~ as remarkable as f1r
"a man 20 resign his position one day and the
next TO take up arms against has former cap
tam. Fleming Christian (colored) was
CHARGED with demonstrating with his wife.
MollIe Christian. beyond the usual limits OF
a private lecture. Even the wise settler Of
family feuds could not ind out tho full
extent OF the domestic dlssenslons but
n was very evident that Fleming had
been unkind. The wonderful love of a
woman. however. cannot be accounted for.
and Yesterday the wliely affection popped
ont ike tho cork in a beer bottle. and as
FIcmipr was cast into the fo-bddlng looking
nen tears bedimmed her eyes. and in sobblng
accents sne begged the Justice TO pardon her
,~ovvard husband Fleming, however, SEEM
al 10 prefer prison persecution 10 home hap
,,iness aud the sixty days was allowed 10
Giannotti q Brot her were charged with
keepinr their place OF business open on sun
Sov ! &. said no did not sell anything
Int soda water. tobacco and peanuts Ito
Harry j. Heckel was charged with keeping
his bar'room open on Sabbath day. lie was
fined .25 and took AL appeal
Rem Kicker WAS charged with hghtlng In
the bar-roor Of Julius KlubeT. Fined $500