Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-27
THE CDTRTS.


THE COURTS.
COURT IN GENERAL TERN
To-day, NOyeS. trustee, agt Inland Nay-;ra-
| ton Co.; decree below Diminishing bin affirmed
| opinion by Judge Macarthur. Mcpherson agt.
| cox: argued and submitted In re estate of
| Ferdinand Butler: on hearing.
| CIRCUIT COURT-JuFge Cartier.
This morning the January term of this court
| was convened and adjourned for two weeks
| after eXcusing George W. Alexander James II
| Smith, Thos. Russell, James joyce, and ". s
| RCOSe.
POLICE CoURT-Jtfqe Smell.
saturday, Charles FitZSmmonS charged with
vagrancy; workhouse thirty days. julia Dig
| gins, loud and boisterous; SIS. Charles Wilson
| forfeited collateral Charles Pierce. Throwing
S, nad IN ~ tne streets: S. Agnes White was
H anea . iop street 6lasphemy VIM Fossell, in,
par, nearing postponed until Tuesday. Henry
a. HI1'!t I assault On Henry johnson, a
small BOY who testified that Strathberg changed
o quarter Tor him giving him but IS cents in
change Tor quarter, and he called his attention
| 10 IL When the man assaulted him: fined - and
| costs. John G. Poland, assault on a boy: 81
ROBERT Iasker, larceny Of brass castings fined
| FLO: James Chapman, larceny of dry goods from
| Lutuell d Wine; thirty days in jail. Emma
| MattAeWs, assault and battery On Vim. Wtnsey
SON larceny OF prayer book; Jail sixty DAYS
| ChaS. King, charged with assault and battery
with intent to XIII Martha Cornish by shooting
| her: bail for action OF the grand Jury SteDhe3
| Lee and George Lee, larceny Of a Land Office
report and Presbyterian memorial Volume:
| ind SO or thirty days.
| Mary Gibbs. larceny of a woollen Skirt and
| olner household articles from Elizabeth Marae.
| 3 or ten days. Robert Rollins assault and
battery on Margaret Adams STRIKING her VIII n
his cl!nched fist; s..
THE CoLORED PICEPoCKET SENTENCED.
James Market, the colored man who Sna ched
| a pCcketbook from l. Adella Robinson, Satur-
day, on Pennsylvania avenue near 10Th strnat
nv
mons, was arraigned on the charge and pleaded
ao1 guilty d1; Miss Robinson was In court and
| first told her Of the theft he having Witne ;sad
| the same She carried the pocketboOk in her
OUTSIDE pocket. She had not recovered 1t. Gen.
AVet1ll, VINO was with the lady at the time
stated that he started 10 follow the thief, Who
ran. and he followed him until ne was out of
breath. George Munro, colored, testified that
mesa ne saw TINS man approach this lady and take
something from her pocket. Samuel Harris,
coiored, testified to the same. Officer Fit,
summons, who made the arrest, gave an account
OF OF inc chase, and stated that he caught him in
me White Lot: He had So on his person
When searched in the station house; but had
thrown the pocketbOok away The court
sentenced nm TO SIX months In jail, and ordered
RESTITUTION or the money recovered
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I'M IAMPA ma THE PEDESTRIAN, IN CoURT-Na-
po.eon Campana went to Waterbury after his
nished it luxuriously There he lived with his
new wife and his three dogs, enjoying the com
Tort or nome and writing challenges to the Nov
OK papers. Thursday evening his wife went
her, ana WanteG him arrested. Campana was
arrested, but he gave bonds in S1O0 His wife
reIuIned 10 her fathers house, taking her new
wardrobe, and as Napoleon says, 500 of his
moEey The trial was postponed yesterday. In
court ne showed big roll of bills and said that
ne was lii the hands of men who had hired him
1Or year, and he couldn't walk anywhere with
out their permission. He considered WatarhIrv
the best place on earth. All he would saw abonf
me trouble with his wife was that two women
came to his house, and he didn't want them
there He said no more to her than his dad
mother in the grave. The Judge advised him to
sell MS furniture and pocket the money ATter
81 81 lhis, ,;.s we PUT 10 an appearance.-IN,c
CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION OF THE INDIaNs-A
public meeting was held last night In All Souls,
church, New York, in behalf of a better ana more
Christian civilization OF the Indians, and also
to raise money in aid OF Hampton Institute. so
mat ina souhd, practical education may be given
the younger Indians; The church was crowded
and Hon. VIM. Z. Dodge presided. He urged
more humane and Christian measures toward
the Indians Gen. Armstrong also spoke, and
Saiu the only way to end the Indian troubles
was 10 thoroughly and practically educate
mem IN all useful matters. Other addresses
and others, and collection in aid of HamDtoS
institute was taken up.
A NOVEL CANNoN.-A. F. Potter. Of the C,o1dan
Gaze ana Miners Iron Works, has lust com
p!eted a new breech- loading cannon, with a
noNei pro]ectlle Tor the government of Guate-
mala, to be used in the mountains. The gun
oarrles one and half pound ball, which, il is
cia,med, 1t VIII project three miles. The Gun
Us smooth 46 bore but the projeetlle is provided
back at small angle from the line Of iirectt Im
" gives to the bali rotary motion All thai
6Isech-pin. The breech Of the gun is made of
aneIehd materials so arranged that there is no
expansion from heat. One Of the most imnort
anu improvements in the gun is the raising and
depressing apparatus, by which man behinI
lhe gun can raise or lower it to any anpIe
s waleh Is accurately denoted By pointer On
osmre r. VI alin can be taken without ex-
iosure. IL is Claimed that the gun can do three
,iInes as much work, with four men, as an ordl.
nary gun with ten men. Mr. Potten iS now
Regulating with the Guatemalan government
i ~, oattery OF SIX guns.-[San Francisco car.
SPRUCE TREES TURNED INTO PAPER.-Curtis
uiles pulp mills are on full time the pulp being
i Maae from spruce logs which are hauled from
"esC becKeI Springfield Republican.
1A Congregational church in Illinois bas
reJected candidate for its pulpit on the Sole