Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-05
THE COERTS.

into an engine for the abuse of any particular
denomination, it is just as well the public should
| know ii. NON-SECrARIAN.
THE COURTS.
| CIRCUIT COURT-JudGe Cartier
To-Day number OF judgments by default
| were taken. Babe aSt Morse, ejectme 1t suit
| on trial.
| CRIMINAL CoURT-Judge Wu'ie.
TO-DAY, the trial of the case OF Charles S
| Iones-action to recover balance on pay
masters acc0unt-WaS resumed. and occupied
! The entire day..
! EQUITY CoURT-Judae Macarthur
Yesterday Ramsey agt. Daniels; johnson sud
STUFFED as special auditor Carter agt. Leaox;
land warrant vested. Grant agt Carson: do
/ Byrne agt. Stickney; sale ratified nis McCui-
Tough ast. same; bond filed 10 perform iudy-
| ment on mechanics lien. Hayden agt i0cE-
! head; sale ratified aid conveyance ordered
| Thomas agt. Fuller ct al; trustees account
| referred to auditor. and Waggaman substituted
| as trustee. Baldwin aTt. PAYNE ct al: pro con
! feSSo made final as to r. \. Payne: partition
! sale ordered and bond approved F. & q 7. Co.
| aSt Earrct: sale decreed and trustee appointed
| Baltley Casey agt. Hebron; order On Cook to
/ Sho" cause, etc. Green agt. Adam: pro con-
fesso as to Cole set aside. Gilmore AFT. DeTlin:
pro confesso as TO Sherman. Hcyde1rick and
| Whiting, ana former order set aside Downing
! agt boucher; sale ratified nisi. Temple at
| Lacy: will construed and specific perform nee
ordered. Moody aSt. Adams; trustees report
! confirmed. Linthicum agt. Chandler: trustees
account confirmed and securities ordered trans
ferred. Heatley agt. Heatley; referred to eX-
am ner to take proof. kleindienSt agt. Bennett;
| AUDITORS report recOmnltted. Barry agt Hume
pro con1eSso as to Ennis, Riley and Downing
Lewis agt. Kennedy ct al; motion to take pie
on ne denied. National Capital Insurance Co
agt. Russell ct al: TeStraing order on cross bin
till December /. Flaherty agt. Second Wash
lhgton Building Association: twenty days al
loved loved plaintiff to take testimony. Mullins agf
Harding: time for fling amended bill limited
jackson agt. Albright: thing of amended bill,
allowed ard answer in fifteen days. Vanden-
pirgh ast Gordon ct al leave to file amended
bill. Washington Market co. agt Plant. trIls-
tee; authority 70 sell in twenty days If de-
fendant does not pay. Connolly agt Lawrence;
trustees sale not ratified because OF appeal
To-day, Deale agt. Burnstone; bin dismissed
Without prejudice Jackson agt. Smith; sale
GecIeed. Jenkins agt. jenkins, Carter act,
Iona LomaX al, and Patterson agt Harmon; pro con
le5sO Within agt. Within; referred To ex-
aminer. Ebbinghaus agt. killian; time for
taking testimony limited. Bryan agt Edwards:
leave TO Tile amended bill.
PROBATE Co-RT-3rqisteT U.bs'cr.
Yesterday, the Will of Lucinda Lewis, de-
ceased, was ii led for probate and order OF pub
iicatlon issued. Estate William Boyd, deceased;
Inventory OF personal estate returned. Estate
IL. a. McC0mb. deceased first account OF ad-
i1ihlstlation passed Estate of Robert Har-
tlson, deceased; petition OF Robert Murphy ct
Al. claiming to b. the ieirs-at-law OF the de-
ceased and distributors Of the cSrate, was filed
POLICE CoURT-.Jufqe Saell
| To-Day, Patrick Quill, charged with kee1iar
| unlicensed bar; case continued. Thomas Con
hor and Michael O'Neal, disorderiy: Conner
tined s. and O'Neal SO. Michael j. Finnigan.
| Inns, loud; s.. Richard Watson, loud; forfeited
| IS. Frank Seivy and Elias Cook, charged With
an ARRAY; s. each, Henrietta Beckett, c)lored,
| larceny Of IL yards of calico: thirty DAYS in
| jail. Matilda Peters, threats; personal bonds
| Jenny Jackson, larceny OF a roll of blue ribbon
| from fancy store on eth street: continued
! days in JAIL Mary Smith threats to Martha
| Peters; personal bonds to keep the peace
| Henry Whitney, assault and battery On Anna
/ his wife; personal bonds to keep the peace
| THE BODY OF A BETRAYED GIRL FoUND.-A
! special dispatch TO the New York World from
! Troy, December 3, says: This morning Mr.
! Case a hOiel-keeper at Saratoga, was Mortified
! to find the head of woman on the piazza of
| hotel, dog was eating flesh from it. Follow
! ing the trail of the dog to 4 spot in grove
! about geo feet from the hotel. the arms, legs
ana other portions OF woman'5 body We're
! found all OF them being in a decayed condition
| \ small pistol was found near by. The head
| had bullet hole in it. The remains are recog-
! ni2ed as those OF Seyenteen-year-Od girl
| Alice Ielyea. whose parents live in Saratoga
| Sct efal weeks ago She was employed as a ser
| want in Cases hotel, but disappeared suddenly
| No trace has since been had of her until her
| horribly mutilated remains were found to-day
! ii is known that the girl was betrayed some
| months ago. and no doubt Size committed sui
| eide In consequence.
| OPPOSITION TO SUNDAY AMUsENENTs.-A tel
! eSram from Cincinnati, Dec 3, says: The grow
| ing prevalence of Sunday amJSementS anu va
| riouS other methods Of deSecrating the Sab
| BATH which have become notorious In this city
! Tor months past, has finally aroused public
/ opinion, and meeting Of sixty prominent citl-
zens was held this evening, and 4 working com
mittee of twenty appointed, who will endeayor
| 10 enforce existing laws, and if additional
legislation IS needed, direct their efforts toward
/ securing it.
| MRS. la BAUs MARRIAGE.-Mrs Mary A. La
| Bau the daughter OF the late Commodore Van
derbllt, whose win she is now contesting. was
| quietly married at her residence In New York.
| Tuesday evening, to Mr.. Francis Berger, former
| consul general from one OF the German states
| The bride wore robe Of black satin, handsome
! received few presents, but all were elegant and
| costly. Among them was dressing case, sent
! by Mi. Thomas Lord, ST., and card case from
| Cornelius Vanderbilt. TEe newly welded pair
| sailed for Europe yesterday.
| ExoSERATING MARSHAL WHARTON.-In retuta-
| ton OF the recently-publshed charges against
Marshal Wharton, OF New Orleans of inefi-
| cheney as an officer Of elections, he has for
| warded TO the President statement endorsing
and entirely generating him, signed by every
prominent federal officer present in the city,
| white and cOloied; also, signed by the chairman
OF the republican state central committee. the
chairman i1 Of the parish committee and numer-
Gus other prominent republicans, among them
eX-Lieut. GOV. Antoine.
TIE DAVENPORT NATURALIZATION CASES.
Judge Blatchlord, OF the L. S. court in New
York, yesterday morning, in the case of Peter
Coleman against United states Commissioner
john. Davenport, which came upon the return
to the wr1tS OF certlorari and habeas corpus In
the matter OF his application for his discharge
from Imprisonment under one OF Commissioner
DayenpOr'S commitments, upon hearing the
facts Of the case, decided that Coleman Should
never have been taken into custody, and his
immediate discharge was ordered, Judge
Coleman OF having used certificate of natural.
ization knowing the same TO have been unlaW-
fully issued or used under the decision of Judge
| of the court that issued the same which had
been publicly pronounced, declaring the certifi-
Gates to lie valid and legal. Coleman was ar.
rested upon an affidayit made by one Stephen
| Moser, q subordinate OF Davenport's The same
kind OF a form is used In all Davenport's cases
Judge Blatchford insisted that the prisoner he
at once discharged, but his counsel reuuesttno
| that the question OF the naturalization proceed.
ings OF the superior court be passed upon by the