Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-23

demurrer sustained, with leave to answer. f.
;. d L. Co. agt. Dodge; argued and submitted.
NOyeS agt. Inland and Seaboard COastinr: on
hearing.
POLICE CoURT-Juige Smell.
To-day, Kate White, Fanny Kelley and Ella
Randolph. profanity; S. each. Annie Hill. pros
titutton; bonds or 80 days. Jas. RyOn, vagrancy
bonds or 30 days. Fanny Belmont, vagrancy;
GO days. JAS Scott alias Jas. Scatt alias Scott
Thomas, larceny Of cook stove from John p
Lohr, second offence; grand jury. Joseph Webb,
assault on Edward Quigley: SO or 60 days. Jas.
Brown. larceny OF a set OF scales valued at $50.
He was arrested on Saturday night about twelve
O'Clock by Officer Sparks. Brown testified that
he bought them for 50 80 to make a speck for
himself; $50 or 80 days in jail. Issetta Hem
mondS, larceny OF over $40 from Maria Cant
Both parties are employed in the family of Mrs.
stone, and Maria charges that the money was
was taken, after which the case was sent to the
grand jury; $500 bonds. Frank Jones. threats to
Geo. Brown; both cOloled 1t was testified that
FRANK seized his shot gum and, pointing it at
George, threatened to scatter his brains; 800
ponds 10 keep the peace or 30 daySin jail. Mat
thew Smith, assault and battery on Lizzie
Hughes, striking her with an ironing board on
her mouth and drawing razor on her, all of
which was testified to by Mrs. Hughes; s. and
costs.
WOMAN STABBED WITH BUTCHER KNIFE
Frank Taylor. assault aud battery with in
tent to kill Sally Taplett, both colOred Sally
told the court that Frank came to her house on
and stabbed her in the breast, giving her a very
bad cut. Dr. Hazen attended her, and sewed it
up. She bled about a quart and half OF blood.
and was faint from its loss before the doctor ar
rived; grand jury-bOndS $500.
STOLE A STOVE.
Tom Scott. alias ''ScOtt Tom,' cOlored charged
with stealing cooking stove from Mr.. J. b.
Lord, who testified that 1t was taken out of his
scoW lying at the foot of 18th street wharf. He
recovered the stove from defendants pre- nises
A second offence was charged, and the case
went to the grand jury.
WOMAN SHOT.
Charles King, assault and battery On artha
Cornish, both cOlOred. This affair took place
yesterday, at the corner of 1917 and streets,
as stated In THE STAR last evening. a dispute
arising, the shooting followed. Martha was
shot In the back part OF the thigh. Dr. Walter
complainant gave testimony stating tn 1t she
left her house TO go to a store In the nei yhb0r-
hood, when she met King on the corner, ami he
SnOI ner. The case was continued to Sa .uriav
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HoFFMAN's SON.-1n July last James Hoffman
OF Tulley, Onondaga county, n. Y, dted, after
eating his supper. Charles Hoffman, his son.
charged that his mother had poisoned her hus-
band, saying that his mother had sent him to the
oil dg store to buy arsenic, and then made him put
some or the poison into his fathers tea. Large
quantities of arsenic were found in Hofmans
remains. Mrs. Hoffman was arrested At the
coroner'S investigation her son confessed that
ms M mother knew nothing of the poisoning, and
that ne had conceived and perpetrated the crime
himself, his motive being revenge upon his
Iather, who, he said, had whipped his mother.
III.
boy was arrested. Last week the district attOr-
ney consented to accept plea of murder in the
second degree, and Hoffman was sentenced to
imprisonment In the Rochester House of Refuge
until he reaches his majority. He is only IA
years Of age.
A .'FIRE-BUG" CONVICTED. Charles Van
GaasDeck, the kingston fre-bug," who was
pafdoned from the New York state prison white
OF the same offence at Rondout, y. Y, yester
day. He is "a years old, and OF respectable
parents. He has not yet been sentenced, but it
Is supposed that he will get ten years.
MURDERED IN MExICo-Eberhard Focke, a
well-known merchant of Exchange Place. New
ork, was murdered on the Sth of November
last In Mexico. Mr.. Focke was in Mexico Oh
business, and was expected to return TO hi
family in a few days. The murderer has not
been brought to justice.
Poor HERBERT. How | wish you did not
have to slave so at that horrible store from
morning till night" said his wife, as, with
fond caTess, she seated herself on her husbands
knee, and gently stroked the auburn locks from
business understood her at once, and answered:
wen, Susie, what is it-a bonnet or what? Go
light on me, for money is scarce'n ever.'
LIBEL SUIT AGAINST THE N Y. TIaEs.-In the
Z. S. District Court at New York, yesterday, the
trial wa, was commenced of the suit for $50, 900 dam
Carolina, against the New York Times, for al
. legged libel In special dispatch from Washing
ton, In september, 1877, to the effect that the
plaintiff had been arrested for ESi;ganly. Col
keitt alleges that the article was entirely false
Mr.. George Jones, OF the Times, in his answer,
AYERS that the article does not apply to the plain
TIN, but to another person by the name OF Col
| Keitt.
NEW EVIDENCE IN THE COBB CAsE-Evidence
which viii probably effect new trial of Kate
COBB is believed to have been discovered. The
| New London Telegram will publish to-day the
| sworn statement OF a lady residing In another
part of the state to the effect that while riding
WIN Cnas: D. COBB, IT., one day last spring, he
| told her under pledge Of secrecy that he was
In the habit OF taking Fowler's solution OF
arsenic incidentally. The lady kept silent dur
| Ing the trial partly through natural feminine
dread OF being witness and partly through
| the belief that Kate Cobb would be acquitted
II q new trial is granted TO Mrs. Cobb the lady
ible. ~ f'O''>'>N NV '>'N''0' '''AA'''
DEATH FROM FRIGHT.-At Petersburg, Va,
| Doll1e Ann Martin, wife OF Samuel Martin, was
found dead in her bed by her husband Monday
| morning, about four O'Clock. She was said to
| OF the chimney OF her room; but although there
| were certain suspicious marks and scratches
aDout her race, and many reports OF mystery in
on application, declined to hold any inquest.
| A FLORIDA CANvAssING BOARD CONVICTED
| The Jury in the case Of the Brevard county
{F1a.) canvasSing board, for making false re-
turns in the late Congressional election, brought
/ III q NcluICt VI guilty, Will u Recommendation
| to mercy in the cases of the sheriff and the jus-
tice Of the peace. The county canvassng board
| and two inspectors Of the late election from
| Alachua county were arrested yesterday on q
| charge OF violation OF election laws.
E~-Mr j. G. Morris. OF Talbot county, Nd
| recently skated from Long Point to St Mich
aels harbor, a distance OF three miles, in thir.
| teen minutes.
iE Mother Mary OF the Sacred Heart, Supe-
| rioreSs Of the Gray Nuns OF Ottawa, and head OF
| the order In Canada and the United States, died
| last week. Her body lay in state at the convent
| one day. and was visited by thousands.