Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-28
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| EQUITY COURT-Jtttde Hylie.
Yesterday. Watkins AFT. Hunter: sale ordered.
McNOnald agt. Kelly; sale ratified and reference.
| Westham Granite Co. agt. Chandler ct al; pro
cOnfessO agt Geo. N. Robson and H. d. Cooke
| DOcral agt. DOcral; testimony ordered taken.
| Dayton agt Dayton: sale ordered. Barstow
agt Aiken; guardians ad litem appointed.
! SOussa agt. Fisher; do. Magruder a@t Boyce:
| sale ordered and trustee appointed to sell.
| Luchs agt. Gutenberg ct al: pro confessO.
Stockton agt. New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance
Co.; sale for IS, eco ordered Burns agt. Cross;
bill dismissed. Kennedy art. Sprague release
ordered and Morris appointed trustee Gilmore
agt Chipman; sale of assets offered. Pfefer
agt Pfeitfer; proof ordered taken. Adjourned
to Tuesday.
PROBATE COURT-Ja,dGe Hdqner
Yesterday. estate of James Shea; order rati-
flying expenditures by guardian. Estate of
J0hn u. Stafford: rule on Ann Stafford. admin
| stratrix. Will of John Purdy: petition fer let
tiers testamcntary filed by W. B. Webb and
granted; bond $4,000
CRIMINAL COURT-Juclqe Cox.
Yesterday VIM. Douglas; grand larceny. Emma
Mathews. witness; committed to jal Ellen
Long. convicted of assault: sentenced to a fine
OF $50. Edward Nash, violating building resu-
lations. and Frank Foster. Sunday bar, recog-
niZances forfeited. Chas. Clark bOistercus talk
ing; nolle pros. Godfrey Il Randall unlicensed
billiard table: jury unable to agree and dis
charged. Samuel Booth. vagrancy: nOlle prose-
qui. Bernard Leonard. unlicensed bar; guilty
To-day ThOs. Darlington, resisting officer.
and John Lyons. Sunday bar; nOlle prosequis
JOS Bigly, indecent exposure; verdict not
guilty.
POLICE COURT.-.Judge Smell
Yesterday. Peter Churchill cursing and swear
ing in Georgetown; IS or Is days. j. Smith. loud
and bOisterOus; S5Or Is days Robert Sherlock.
and bOisterous; SIS or Is days. Perry Dynes.
trespassing on park; So or Is days. JnO
| Nelson, 1.-The Judge cursing and swearing: IS
or 15days. VIM. Brennns. loud and boisterous;
do. Julius |. Atkinson, charged with making
| an excavation on the street without a permit:
| personal bonds to not repeat the offence
| Jennie Nixon. white girl, charged with being
| found drunk on the street. and known as pub
lie prostitute: 80 days in the wOrkhouse Henry
| Washington. loud and bOisterous; S. or Is DAYS
Chas. Golden assault on Patrick Henry Lough-
| rane $40 or 30 days Theodore Scriyener as
sault on Sarah GatewOod; 50 and costs. Matilda
Duff. charged with clubbing young man named
Robert Butler over the head with rolling pin
until he was senseless So and costs Robert
Butler assault on Mary Austin; s. and costs
VIM. Bensnger, assault on Jenny ChitiSter SIS
| and costs. Washington Simms charged with
assaulting another cOlOred boy named Howard
GillisOn. by striking him on the head with a
brick; IS and costs or 20 days. Chas. Kibby. as
sault on John StrOus; IS and costs. John Hon.
esty alias Wm Honesty. cOlOred was charged
with stealing Is shirts. 20 collars and 10 pairs
of cuffs from Jane Honesty, his mother: con-
tnued for further evidence Augustus Mason
cOlOred, charged with stealing two loads of
bricks from Leo l.. Ryder; $40 or 30 days. Ar
thur jackson, cOOred, pleaded guilty to going
into an unoccupied house. owned by William
Rothague. and cutting out certain water and
| gas fixtures. He was sentenced to one wear i'm
jail: Jos. Cole was charged by Officer Shanks
WIN being suspicious person. A lady testified
that she was in store on 9Th street this morn
| ing, and caught this man in the act of picking
ner pocket He was sent to Jail for so days
Maggie Sullivan threats of personal violence to
Jenny Baker; personal bonds to keep the peace
for six months. Minnie Lockwood. threats to
Jenny Baker, do. Emil MOntrop. affray: for
feited collateral. Lewis Lee, assault on Emma
| Thompson; SIS or Is days.
| Alexandria Affairs,
| Reported for THE EVENING STAR
U. S. DISTRICT COURT-The district conrt of
the United States has been occupied TODAY
with the hearing Of the case of r. H. Stuart VS..
the POtOmac Ferry company, owning the steamer
Arrowsmith, claiming $4,000 for injuries in
flcted by the alleged negligence of the officers
OF the steamer. Col. r. NJ. Mayo, of Westmore-
land appeared for the steamboat company, and
HON. J. Amber Smith, Hon. John Critcher
and NJ A. Jones for the plaintiff
In. Inc case comes up upon removal from
the state circuit court Of Westmoreland upon
the suggestion that the admiralty law under
whlcn the state court was proceeding in this
case is unconstitutional. plea to the jurisdic-
tlOn was entered and the case was continued
until next term
CIRCUIT CoURT.-The circuit court, Judge
Keith, was engaged to-day with the suit of W.
Wright VS. James Green's executor, action in
volylng the ownership of piano claimed by
Wright, which had been levied on as property
OF a tenant Of Mr.. Green. The case was not con-
| cluded at noon WI
POLITICAL SPEAKING.-The readjusters held a
meeting at the post Office lot last night with
Col. r. NJ. Mayo, D. NJ. Whiting and w. RufYin.
THE TELEPHONE ExCHANGE.-The work of es-
tablishing telephone exchange here is DELAYED
by the nOn-arrival of the poles. All other ma
plicatiOn has yet been made to the mayorfor the
designation of streets on which telephone poles
may be erected. 1t IL thought that the exchange
will not be in operation until about the LIST Of
November