Police Court.
--The sitting magistrate distinguished himself on Saturday, by dispensing justice to a batch of small fry cases, which, though by no means ‘"too numerous to mention,"’ are scarcely worth the space here given them, much less the huge folio page appropriated to their elucidation upon the massive journal of the Court. It would seem that the combination of the civil and military elements in the administration of local justice, has had a tendency to abash offenders into at least a status of intermittent decency.Alfred, slave of Edward Freeman, arrested without a pass, and supposed to be a runaway, was committed to be called for.
John Moore, whose domestic infelicities have formed the basis of sundry paragraphs heretofore, was arraigned on the charge of assaulting his wife. The assault was rather apocryphal than otherwise,--in other words, when submitted to the test of an examination, proved to have no more substantial foundation than the ‘"baseless fabric of a vision."’ Mrs. Moore had evidently seen double when her vision embraced her ‘"gude man"’ in the attitude of an avenging spirit. This was the idea of the Head of Police, and being communicated to the parties, one of them quitted ‘"the presence"’ highly jubilant, while the other, judging from appearances, had feelings ‘"more easily imagined than described. "’
Matilda Pleasants, a free negress, arrested for beating the child of H. Copeland, was fined $10, and ordered to suffer a physical demonstration at the hands of an officer of police.
A. Chann was fined $2 for allowing a dead dog to remain on his lot.
C. H. Powell, summoned up for permitting a nuisance, had his case continued.
