AGGRAVATING A PAWNBROKER. -- Monetary transactions are a good deal like verbs: regular and irregular, deponent, defective, and so forth. A deponent transaction is one that has a passive form with an active signification, of which strategy in money speculation is an example. Under either of these classes might be included the transaction of a certain pawnbroker on Dupont street, with Hannah Spencer. The pawnbroker advanced seven dollars on a gold chain. In due time Hannah went to redeem it, and seizing the chain while it was in the hands of the beneficent uncle, she threw down a sum of money, being chiefly green-backs, and retired hastily. The sum thus equivocally tendered was less than the amount due on the pledge, and Hannah was punished with a prosecution for petty larceny. She will appear this morning for sentence.
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JUDGE SHEPHEARD'S SCHOOL OF DISCIPLINE. -- We hope our worried readers will bear with us for referring daily to this tribunal. True, it is a hackneyed subject, but we still continue to notice it purely as a matter of pol-i-ce (policy.) Were we the Judge of this institution, we would feel that our miseries would be greatly modified by going at once to a certain place you read of, where visitors are likely to get the d___l. The calendar this morning numbered forty-three cases, made up of the woof of human nature and the warp of whiskey; and three-fourths of these cases are not worth the time and patience required to listen to them. A large crowd was in attendance this morning, expecting to hear the Lee - Forrest case ventilated, but they didn't. It still stands in abeyance.
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CONJUGAL INFELICITY. -- Dennis Meagher lives easy, and enjoys all the luxuries of married life. His wife Mary earns at the washtub a support for the family, including a number of small children, equal to those of John Rogers of Smithfield. When Dennis is in trouble he licks his wife, and thus finds an he-licks-her for his woes. On Saturday evening last he pitched Mary down a flight of stairs, and followed up the fun by kicking her in the face and over the body, for which he will this morning appear before Judge Shepheard for sentence.
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A PEACE-MAKER. -- A bar room row, on Pacific street, was yesterday interrupted by the appearance of officer Coffey, who, as in duty bound, interfered, and in attempting to arrest some of the parties, received a blow in the face from John Thompson. John was trying to arrive at a solution of the affair by conquering a peace, and simply struck the officer to demonstrate his plan, for which demonstration he was required to answer this morning to a charge of assault and battery, and was held for sentence.
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THE BELLA UNION IMBROGLIO. -- The two fighting artistes of the Bella Union melodeon, Marie Forrest and Marian Lee, "the people's favorite," have amicably arranged their little private difference of opinion, thus depriving the crowd, whose morbid tastes in these matters draw them daily to the Police Court, for a little bit of anticipated fun. The pending trial was dismissed.
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