Mayor's Court, yesterday.
--Scarcely anything was done in this court yesterday.
The following cases were booked, but owing to the absence of witnesses they were continued till future days!
Rebecca Chandler, charged with cutting and stabbing
Henry, slave of
W. A. Wright, on Tuesday night. [Rebecca is a girl of notoriously bad character, and presented before the
Mayor yesterday a dirty, bloated face, in one corner of which she was constantly revolving a huge chew of tobacco.--The night of the stabbing she was pretty well sacked with whiskey, and rendered night hideous before her arrest by load curses and yells, during which she brandished a formidable bowie knife, and threatened death and destruction upon any one who attempted to molest her. As she was leaving the court room, on her way to jail, some one accidentally stepped on her dress, which so excited her ice that she pitched into him in handsome style — with her tongue.]--
Jordan Miller, receiving a horse, valued at $300, the property of
Edwin J. Duval, knowing the same to have been stolen; Jan.
R. Shumsker, charged with stealing a saddle and bridle from
Chas. A. Snowden;
Eliza Whitehurst, for stealing a diamond breast-pin, belonging to
Lt. Col. Jas. Nelligan; and
Susan Thompson,
Mary Burke and
Kate Fitzgerald, charged with receiving one dozen knives and forks, belonging to the
Medical Purveyor's Department, knowing them to have been stolen.
John C. Allen and
L. Abrams were each fined for permitting their servants to go at large, contrary to the requirements of a city ordinance.
Butler, Jacob, John, and
Addison, slaves, charged with stealing several articles of
dry goods from
M. L. Jacobson, were each ordered to be whipped.
Similar punishment was inflicted upon Joe, slave of
Thos. Owens, for driving a wagon across the sidewalk.
