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The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Campaign in Southwestern Virginia. (search)
ies 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.