Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-20
THE COURTR.


and Abraham Curtis, loud; s5 each. Mary
Jane Lilly, street profanity; IS. Samuel
Smith was bllletted for the chain gang for
yasrancy. Matilda Washington, street pro-
family; IS. William Laner, Idle and incorri-
gible boy, was reprimanded and dismissed.
George Hart, assault and battery on Charles
Johnson; So. John DeltZ and George Grant,
two boys, charged with malicious trespass
on tire Howard University grounds; $40 for
Grant, Deitz dismissed. John Mason, as
James A. Nelson and Jenny Nelson, assault
on Constable Horatio Merryman while he
was ejecting them from house for default
of rent. MeIryman seemed to be more scared
than hurt. Defendants are a colored man
and woman of small size and not at all of
ngbting turn; so James was punished by be-
fred Jones, assault on William Douglass IS.
Aka Robey, threats to John w. Forrest;
slOo personal bonds to keep the peace.
VICTORIA Woodruff Her Separation
from Colonel Blood.-Correspondenc OF the
Cincinnati Enquirer from New York says of
Victoria G. Woodhull The writings that
written either by James II. Blood or Stephen
Pearl Andrews. The maternal Claflin was
and is the bitter foe of both of these writer's,
Blood out of the family" At length she as
succeeded, and Blood Is, as 1t were an out
cast. VtctOria's mind was so worked upon
6y her mother that recently she babe the
fingered on the door stoop, and she hurled
vituperative language at him. She has
frequently denied that she Is addicted to
profanity, but on this occasion she swore
''like the army in Flanders" She accused
him of robbiDg her, and she is now about to
obtain divorce without publicity" The
Colonel" Is depending upon his brother,
George, for food and lodging, and is much
distressed In mind. Victoria is cat sea-"
She has engaged several men to do her
please her. Ali last week Tennessee tramped
from one newspaper Office to the other with
laudatory article written by q wretched
writer, ana she succeeded In having the
nal OF to day. Victoria is heartily sick of
her rupture with Blood, but as she is in the
night she is determined TO undo the knots of
matrlmonY. She has worked perseveringly
10 keep the facts out of the newspapers, and
none OF the dailies have been Informed of
them. Her Woodruff & Claims Weekly
has disappeared. and she is undecided
whether to go to France or commit suicide.
A CRAZY NAN IN CHURcH.-The scran-
ing account OF an exciting incident In the
First Presbyterian church OF that city dur
Ing the service on Sunday morning:-"An
old man, dressed In shabby, dirty clothes,
walked into the vestibule and paused a mo-
ment at the door leading down the aisle
having large cudgel In his hands. After
like very demon, and then went striding
down the aisle, brandishing his cudgel from
side to side In frightful manner, aud
oSicoi hS 81 Vic up LIS NOict. II or mo-
ment everybody was stunned, ladies
screamed, men jumped about not knowing
what to do, and Others, thinking the church
was on fire and he giving an alarm, ran
frantically out of the door. Two ladies
tainted and one almost went into convul-
sfons. Two or three young men, VINO were
cool headed and discerned what was the
matter, seized the old reprobate and handed
him over TO Officer HetZel, who was on the
spot. In the evening he disclaimed knowing
anything about II, says he Is very sorry II
IN IN mo h 0O h sxeNN lx0N
gives his name Is Michael Driscol, of shan
tee Heights"