The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-19
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JUSTICE JOHNS COURT.
The Small Docket Was Made Up Mostly
of One.Horse JaCs.

JUSTICE JOHNS COURT.
The Small Docket Was Made Up Mostly
of One.Horse Jags.
The genial sunshine yesterday melted
His Honor's sternness into a jolly good
humor. and there was plenty of room
for fun from an outside source. for the
docket was perhaps the smallest since
the year began.
The audience was thin. and even some
who came expecting TO witness thrilling
tragedy were disappointed TO find only
a farce comedy of the low order.
Would you believe 1t? Nearly every
body on the string was drunk or had
been so, at least. The recent crusade
against the gamblers has absorbed the
attention OF most OF the philanthropists.
and of late such thing as temper
ance lecture has been almost unknown.
The natural sequence was that several
town artists had a good chance TO plead
Tack OF warning" and they proceeded
10 do the town with quite sporty"
air.
The case OF John Currie and j. II.
Miller, charged with having in their
possession lot OF iron supposed to have
been "swiped' from some unknown per-
son. was continued till the Dist instant.
a suspicious character and vagrant
were dismissed. and then Il. w. Allen
and J. +. Paggett were touched for 81
each on the charge of drunkenness.
Castor Austin is an old black negro,
who. though pretty fair character, Will
get drunk occasionally. He was on
glorious tear Thursday. and the neces-
sity of furnishing a carriage was soon
apparent. The patrol did the work. and
CASTOR was soon jagged. He believes
in eating, and when pulled he had three
immense loayes Of bread in his posses
sion. He didn't seem to object seriously
10 being arrested. but the bread must
not under any consideration go out o.
his hands. Those same ioaves were
brought into the police court and while
CASTOR didn't have the little fishes in
addition. he was thinking very seriously
about stopping at a corner restaurant
and ordering a half fry as a sort of relish.
believing. as he did, that man cannot live
on bread alone.
But the Justice annihilated his calcu-
lation by sending him 10 the calaboose for
thirty days. CASTOR had sobered up won
derfully. When ushered into the jug he
by no means forgot his loayes, and he re-
ouestec OF Mr.. Kerse that he would pre-
serve the loaves until the time was
served The jailer granted his request,
but CASTOR will likely have to turn sailor
in order to masticate the hard tack when
he gets out.
Edward c. Beasley did the Jag. He
was assessed 81, and being unable to meet
the fine he remarked to the Justice, you
can't get blood out OF a turnip."
mo" replied His Honor. but you can
nut the turnip in the Jug" and Il was 50
ordered.
IN give you a rest on this docket and
see you later.
The following judgments were rendered
from the civil docket Of Friday:
w. ]. Snellings in favor of Aug.
Jacob L................ $500 "a w
James d. Wade in favor Of City
of Richmond. .......................... 70 w
Charles Johnson in favor of +. ).
Ryan ...'.sssss'''s.'.''. III
Sam. Richardson in favor Of Joseph
Dean ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. W
r. c. Traylor in favor of Gay & Lor-
raine .......,................' 10 w
p. A. Haskins in favor of Gay & Lor-
raine OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. w
Osborne Watson in favor OF j. b.
Moore a. CO.....-..... ............t... III W
H. S. Jennings in favor of S. Bach
rach................ .................... Is 90
f. c. Christian & Co. In favor OF
!. b. Budding. so 90
NJ. =. MANN III ldNOI VI hulHc'
Martin ........................ II %
r. r. Sale in favor of S. II. Halves
....'......... ...................... % Is
Ro. Henning, Jr., in favor of j. NJ.
Ryan ........................ IL rs
.'........ DECENTRALIZATION 20 90
]. L. Grigg in favor Of G. w. Ander-
son az Sons. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. W
Gertrude Hope in favor Of DR.. Jos.
A. White .........................1 6 90
r. G. Wilson in favor of Mrs. +.
Brauer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ..'.s'..s 20 w
Mrs. NJ. Z. Smith in favor Of Charles
SaelZer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. w
b. Bernstein in favor of c. II. Nor
r1s ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ~ w
w. NJ. Parrish. .....................7 70 sc
Paul Metrick I'm favor Of Ed. HILL. Is
James Wood In favor OF Roberts
60. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES .'...'''' ou
Overton Smith in favor OF Hop
kins & Robertson...... p
Georgia Sampson in favor Of Hop
kins & Robertson......... Z "a
II. +. Cooper in favor OF Hopkins
& Robertson ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. u
Arnold Haag in favor OF w. f.
Clarke ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. o.
c. e. Hutchison in favor Of w. f.
Clarke .s....s.s.'s....' IA
Robert Edwards in favor of w. +.
Clarke OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. "
A. T. 'Crabbin in favor l.. w. Powers