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Whipped.
--The Mayor yesterday awarded punishment to Peter Graham, a colored representative of Chesterfield, for bad conduct; he also had whipped Lewis, slave of Eliza Ryan; George, slave of Elizabeth Powers, and John, slave of Kennon Whiting, for stealing a box of tobacco (worth $10) from Gardner & Hall.
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Two hundred and fifty Dollars reward. (search)
Violating the liquor Ordinance.
--Eliza Ryan, who keeps a grocery on Main, near 20th street, was fined $10 yesterday by the Mayor for selling liquor to be drank in her house without a license.
Bernard Whitcomb was ordered to pay a fine of $20 for selling liquor in his house on Sunday, contrary to law.
James Mathews was also fined $20 for the same offence.
The testimony in this case proved Mathews's house to be one of bad repute and an annoyance to the neighborhood.
His Honor required him to give security to appear before him again this morning, when he will be examined on that charge.
Peter Ruffe had to pay $20 for violating the Sunday liquor law.
There are few establishments of this kind in Richmond that cannot well afford to pay a fine of $20 every Sunday for the privilege of keeping open on that day, and if the law were made to break up the liquor traffic on the Sabbath, instead of to increase the revenue, we think it might as well be abolished for the go