The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Violations of the liquor law.

--Several citizens were summoned before the Mayor yesterday on the suggestion of former customers, charged with violating the ordinance prohibiting the sale of any kinds of liquor after ten o'clock at night, or on the Sabbath. James Golding and Thomas McMinnis were each fined $5 for a violation of the municipal enactment referred to. A witness proved that the latter had a bagatelle table ‘"going"’ on Sunday. Defendant remarked that he did not consider that gambling; but the Mayor, who has been of late especially zealous in his efforts to extirpate all kinds of games of hazard, informed Mr. McMinnis that the members of the Legislature did not coincide with him in opinion, having placed the enticing game alluded to in the prohibited category.--A case against Mr. Edward Cunningham, for violating the anti-liquor law on Sunday night, was, after a long examination, dismissed, the Mayor adopting the suggestion that had forced itself on the minds of parties bearing the testimony that the accusation was not made so much in the interests of law and order as a desire on the part of the informers to ‘"get even"’ with Cunningham for some real or imagined slight received at his hands.