Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-09-17
al EXA NJ IA.

THE OTTMAN CAsE.-In the corporation
court TO day, all the attorneys, both for the
government and Gilman, were present, to
wlt:-Messrs. Wilson, Lewis, Merrick and
Elliott from abroad, and the resident conn
sci, f. l.. Smith and NJ. ID. Ball. 1t was evil
dent that both parties were fighting shy, and
there was a good deal of skirmishing on both
sides, with a view of bringing the other out
The plaintiffs first filed a motion to move
the case - the y. s. court, under the act OF
March, 1875, but finding that did not induce
defendant to enter an appearance they with
drew the petition. Ottman's counsel de-
clned To make ANY formal appearance on
The record for him, because they will resist
the civil suit partly on the ground that the
same plaintiff suing him civilly has incarce-
rated him on criminal charge, and rem
dered II impossible for him to answer the
civil process. The case was finally suffered
10 go by, without action, until the next term
OF the court, when Ii will be matured for
hearing against Gilman, under the law. The
counsel for the United States will then move
1t TO the U. s. court, and 1t will not probably
be heard there till alter Ottman has been
trled in Washington on the Indictment for
robbing the Treasury, and the attachment
suit there has also been heard. Meantime
the process here keeps the money attached
still in the bank.
THE CORNERSTONE LAYING AT FALLS
CHURCH.-The cornerstone of the new NJ.
+. church at Falls church was laid yesterday
by Rev. +. b. Phelps, assisted by the resident
clergy. Remarks were made by MesSrs.
Phelps, Porter, Boyer, Evans, and VIM. A.
Duncan, esq. The music was very fine, the
regular choir being assisted by several vol
unteers from this city. The organ was pre-
sided over by Mr.. IL. c. Clark, also of this
city. The box under the corner stone con-
tained the minutes of the last conference, old
coins, &c, and copies OF the Sentinel and other
daily papers-SeYuinei, 18th.
NERDANT BRIDAL PARTY.-There arrived
at the Mansion House yesterday afternoon,
and left on the midnight train for Fredericks-
burg. bridal party, the most unsophistica-
ted, probably, that ever stopped at that hotel
before. The bride was pretty looking
child. not fifteen years old, who was neatly
and tasJefully dressed, but the groom and
groomsrnau, the gawkiest looking pair that
ever left their native heath. 1t was rum
away trip that had been interrupted week
before by the father of the bride, who had
caught her at a neighbOr's house Just pre-
Vlous to her starting off, boxed her
Jaws and sent her back home. But the
second attempt had been more successful;
they had been married in Washington and
were on their return to their home in Stat
ford county. AT seven o'clock in the even
ing, after they had been sitting in the parlor
OF the hotel for about an hour, the groom
came down TO the clerks desk, told the clerk
ne reconed he'd go to bed, and asked for a
room with two bed In it, saying that the
whole party intended sleeping in one room.
The clerk informed him that such sleeping
arrangements as he proposed were not in ac-
eordance with the rules OF the house, but
that he could give him and his wife one
room and the grOOmsman another, and with
That unsatisfactory understanding he had to
be cOntented, and no more was seen of him
until the servant called In time to take the
coach for the depot.-Gdzette 18th.