The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-23
TIL DOG D AVS
ARRIVE ED EARLY
No 1ramps and No DRINKS on the
Docket.
GREAT DISPENSER is BENIGN.
Jones the Lamp Lighter. Marched Up
The Hill aud Marched Down again.
A Nemesis OF Eate Followed
Geo. Shields TO Petersburg.

There were no tramps and no drunhs
II the Police Court yesterday and instead
of the austerc, suiphuric, volcanic, sun
in-an-eclipse sort of an air. the Great
Dispenser wears when the docket IS
composed OF this class OF offences, S
classic features were clad IN Il benevolent
Gheribie brothers cast of benignity that
shed its rays over the assembled multi
tude like an aurora poTeaiis on an Ice
berg.
THE DOGDAYS.
The dog-days have arrived this year
before James River wafer got warm en-
ougfi for bathing, and the Great law
Giver has grown very inquisitive about
dogs.
The amount of hard swearing about
dogs for the next few months TO come
will keep the Recording Angel Workin:s
overtime.
If a dog has been on your premises
ten days you become sponsor Tor i.ih
and you may give him away to &coun-
1ryman or declare he belongs TO ne.Sh-
Dor or, is u tresspasser on your premises
or what not, but nothing short of q ctr-
t;lcate that you have paid one dollar for
a small brass tag that cost the cat!
nineteen cents by the pound will satisfy
the avenEing spirit of the Great Law
Eiver, that you are not a parasite on the
body polite. -
GOOD MANAGEMENT.
Short acts and prompt stage manage
nent characterized the performance al
the matinee in the Big White Chamber
yesterday, and the actors that were
not waiting in the flys ready TO come on
the second their names were called, lost
their places in the programme.
A mellow drama, by Washington
Branch, colored, was used as curtain
raiser. Branch was charged with be ng
drunk and disorderly in Harp Hall. lie
entered the hall when festivities were
sn progress and happiness reiGned, ana
the notice taken of him not being suf-
ficient to satisfy his love Of adulation
from his colored contemporaries, he pro-
ceeded TO attract attention to himself by
gymnastio gyrat!ons and high-note noises.
After dancing war dance for min
Ute he started out to take the place oy
storm and was only dissuaded by the ar
gument of overwhelming resistance
He meekly shuffied to the Sergeant's
desk and contributed So and cost to sus-
tanning the gas works and other
necessary evils.
UP AGAINST IT.
Hunter Walton, John Conway, George
Ricketts,. Leonard Scott and Arthur
Kessler. a knee-breechcs and sailor col
Tar brigade, with their faces all cleaned
and hair nicely reached and shoes black
ened, lined up in front of The Great DIS
penser like fire company on inspection
day They answered cheertullg to- roll
call on The charge of, that they ION War
rant, did unlawfully be disorderly in the
street and interfere with John Jones in
the discharge of his duty as la1nT-Nshter
of the city gas lamps.
yo1,, r. 1ic n
made, his statement charging the little
boys with having grabbed him by the
coat and by the feet and pulled him off q
lamp post, and kept him from lighting
the gas. ~ :,
Jones, the gas manipulation, identified
all the boys present, five in number. rs
being his ASSISTANTS. except one. who was
a witness for the prosecutions
The Great Dispenser looked at Jones
and then creening over the desk in or
der 10 see the young Americans stand
ing shoulder to shoulder in the shadow
of the piece of furniture, viewed them,
TOO, and what he thought he kept to
himself.
What did these highwaynaen do to you?
sternly asked the Great Dispenser.
And Jones told how his life and peace
of mind had been jeopardized by the
-'lighwaymen."
Jones WITNESS lOlu now the
boys pulled Jones' coat-tail and pulled
his feet, and the other boys listened.
THE OTHER SIDE.
Then the other boys were given an inn
ing, and proved that Jones witness was
the boy THAT started 1t, and, moreover,
that Jones struck them all with switch
before they pulled at him. and that Jones
was laughing. and had been playing with
them.
The Great Dispenser dismissed the
charge, and then a lot Of other people
laughed, and Jones looked cheap. Jones
was lucky that there was no freight 10
pay.
William Green (colored), a fugitive from
justice in Manchester charged with
shooting another negro was held for the
officers of thai city. Chief Lipscomb
was notified by phone, and before the
court was oyer a Manchester officer had
the prisoner on the way to that city.
Ben Kicker. white boy, was charged
with throwing rocks at the house of Il.
L. Christian (colorcd). Ben said he
didn't and the negro said he did. and the
case was postponed to summon wit
lcsseS.
Mary Saiterwliite was arrested for
proving the streets at night, and was
fined $3.50.
CALLED BACK.
George A. Shields (colored) was charged
with being suspicious character. He
was arrested in Petersburg. under the
name of George Wilkinson. and denied
to Detective Gibson. who went after
him, in the jail of that city, that he was
George Shields .or had ever been in Rich
nlond.
He was CHARGED with having assaulted
mo1cr1nen and conductors Of the Rich
1nond RAILWAY and Electric Company on
the Sth of last August. Willie Jefferson
and George Brown, two other negroes.
were arrested. and Shields escaped The
first two were fined $50 each, and put
under security of $500 for twelve months,
and in default went to jail.
Shields was now given the same pun
ishmcnt. except tl1at the fine was made
So.
A singular circumstance in regard to
this case was that the warrant for Shields
was made Ineffective by the fact that
1ale magistrate. Sharpe, who issued it,
ard Policeman Parkinson. who got it ont,
have both since died. Therefore, Shields
was arrested as n suspicious character,
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