Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-02

| 4Uo ith Street.-AdCt.
THE COURTS.
| CIRCUIT COUkT-Judge Cartier.
| Yesterday, Leonard Travis ct al. VS. X. l.. B.
| Clark; suit on a contract for sale OF land in
Virginia, $500 damages, money alleged to
have been paid by Travis when the contract
Morrs Mnr r1 b of pfs eReea
| tions rendered and signed; motion for new
trial on exceptions filed. r. S. Andrews ct al
SEQ SEQ w. o. III ''''''' '''7"'"' '''''''''" III
EQUITY CoURT-Judge Macarthur.
Yesterday, Hare VS.: Bennett; provisional
ratification of sale. Hayden VS.. Chesapeake
creed and for money and interest Jackson
| Bros. & Co. VS.. Albright: order for deposit of
notes with cIeTk Provost VS. Colea zer bin
exception to auditors report Overruled.
| POLICE COURT-Judge Shell.
Yesterday, Phil. Lancaster, fast driving 500,
| or 80 days. A. j. Moran forfeited collateral
was sent down for vagrancy. VIM. Bergman,
| violation of the liquor laws by keeping open
| his bar after II O'Clock midnight; 500 James
and Sherman streets northwest 1t was testi-
ned that he keeps eight cows at this place; and
fine of S. was imposed. James MOrrisey was
Straightner, vagrant, was sent down. Agnes
White was sent down again for vagrancy.
Harry Smith. larceny of two market baskets
with - dozen eggs and other things, amount
ing to 81, belonging to market woman. Smith
pleaded guilty, but said there was not as
many eGgs in tbs basket as charged go or 30
10r larceny OF meerSchaum pipe and clothing.
George Bates was fined s for stealing bottle
Of mineral water. Daniel Brown, colored,
days in jail. John Burke was fined 80 and
costs for assault and battery on John A.
i Rheem. 90 Dan: Brown was arraigned on
costs or ten day. in jail, Also, charged with
assault and battery on Samuel E. Arnold; s.
and an. costs or ten days in jail. Also, assault Oh
0i1lcer BianfOrd: So and costs or ten days
Richard Ward. white, larceny OF some car
penters tools from Mr. Brown, his boss. 1t
was in testimony that he sold the tools to
Tuition to the value of the tools and $40 fine or
30 days Neal Foster, colored, larceny of two
punches OF herrngs and BUNCH of perch fish
another colored man, Saturday night with the
fish. which the latter had been sent to deliver
5 and en ssaeed S S
ran. This was a second offence and the case
went we to the grand jury. He was also fined s.
Wharton were fined for ARRAY, SIS each.
Geo: puval ARRAY; S.. Ollie Allen. small
white boy, assault on Lucy ScanlOn. This was
dent and bad language. A stone was thrown
and veLy offensive language used at the same
time; so and costs or 80 days in Jail. Frank
Neale; small colored boy, larceny of black
hen; S. and costs.
Mary Nutrell, was sent down for vagrancy.
James Donnelly, licensed bar; continued for
sentence. John J. White, was fined; $lO5 for
keeping an unlicensed bar. James Cloth
ETSIrth was fined slo5 for the same offence
or fifteen days in jail. John Blackwell col
ol ,e;i assault on Samuel Donaldson small
White boy; $40, or thirty days in jail. Chris
TOPPER Lewis, assault on VIM. Summers a
youth S. and cost.
A SU0pT n,,,oh o oh
Repubtic0n, of the I'D instant, says:-"Ber-
nard Nolk is well-to-do farmer, living in
Addison county, Iowa. He is a native of Ger
omaha On Tuesday a single man. with no
Intention OF committing matrimOny, and
before , night ne was married to a young lady
whom he had never before seen. 1t happened
in this wise: He imbibed quite freely ofliquOr.
and in this happy condition he made up his
street he saw young girl washing in room
between Farnam street and No. 2 engine
house, and walking up to her as She, was, he
Would She marry hims She saw that G he mea Hl
business, and calling in the other women in
NE me, house, they made an immediate inyestiga
showed them that he had considerable ready
cash with him, and a good farm in Iowa. She
gave her consent, and proceeding to the Office
OF Hon. w. o. Bartholomew county Judge,
license was obtained, and Bernard Vok sand
Annie Fisher were made man and wife, The
bride is years OF age, and was born in Sioux
City, Iowa.
THE MYSTERY. OF SEVEN SKELEToSs..-A
cave has been discovered on the farm of Mr..
is in the high bluffs that overlook the Tonnes
see river: Mr.. O'Brien and his neighbors ex-
Riore ed it the other day, and they were horrl-
ned to find seven skeletons tenanting the dark
ness: Judging from their surroundings, and
the fact that the mouth of the room in which
they were found had been almost entirely OBJ
structed by debris, which must have been
many years in accommodating, it is probable
that the bones are those of some early abOrigi-
aae ono Of d fba % The
cate that fearful tragedy had been enacted
IN the gloomy recesses OF this subterranean
cavern cav for one OF them lies across the other,
the throat of the supposed victim. The walls
of the room in which the skeletons were dis
nhed Se as ese aS 4 tRe a ass
not vestige of anything that would indicate
that the cave had ever been occupied by hu-
man beings remains.-[P aducah San.
MURDER CONFESSED ON A DEArHBED.-
Geofyss AK Mr assaG
klnson. Me- was returning from trip to
NeT where he had been buying
gold lie ss Stopped in mag Bangor day
and then started on foot for Atkinson, lodging
the first night in tavern about nine miles
seen OF heard from afterwards; but it was the
general opinion that he was murdered. The
other DAY man, near Is years OF age, VINO
has lived in Milo about forty years, was taken
sick, and finding that he could not live. called
| cerned with two others in the murder of MI.
| Blake in Glenburn.-[ Detroit Press.
| AN AMoROUs SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
| The superintendent of schools in Mount Ster-
ling, H.. was riding in railroad car with the
| stop at Quincy and get married. but she de-
| clined to marry him then, or at all. On the
| stOppage of the train at Quincy the ardent
out of the car. She scratched. screamed and
| hit SO vigorously that he was glad to drop her.
! police officer arrested him and he was fined
| SIS for assault. l-E
A$PO0r Provost ParadOl's daughter, Lucy,
| Is dead, only a few weeks after her brothers
suicide: Her elder sister is nun, and the
| family is now extinct.
| ASThe New York Bulletin announces the
failure OF Booth & Edgar, sugar refnerS, with