Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-03-22
The Courts. a
COURT IN GENERAL TERN.

Monday, Miller agt Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad Co.; new trial granted. Burnett agt.
BabcOck; affirmed, with mobilization of deduction
OF Sl25o from the arbitratOrS fee Hbernia Build
ing Association agt Gibbons; on motion decree OF
March amended and signed KeySer ACT. Prem
tSS; affirmed. Johnston agt- District OF Columbia;
On trial.
argued anu submitted.
CIRCUIT CoUR1-.Judae MacArtnpr.
Monday, Muir ct al agt. Dale; motion to give
additional security granted. HitZ administrator,
agt. Wagner; verdict for defendant Click agt.
kettier; Click ct al, executors, agt SchlOtterbeck
Judgments by default United states, use OF Minor
agt TrCok ct al; plaintiffs called and suit dis
missed Lathrop agt- SlmGns; plaintiff called and
suit dismissed Flagg agt. Kirk ct al; ON trial.
Yesterday. Flagg agt- Kirk etal.; On trial.
United States agt. FAINT ct al; of calendar XII
len agt Glen Falls Insurance Co.; postponed till
Monday at defendants costs.
EQUITY CoURT-J,adge Hogg,er.
MONDAY. kinney, agt- Mcguire; time = take
testimony limited TO thirty days Morrison agt
Rutherford, testimony In owens agt Rutherford
allowed To be read In this cause. WeStham Granite
Co. agt- Chandler: time to take testimony extended
ninety days ODwyer agt Jackson; prayer of
Dill granted and certain conyeyanceS Cancelled
CLARKE agt- TtltOn; commission to get answer of
Infant defe ndant ordered TO issue. Christiancy
agt Christ.ancy; motion TO suppress interroga-
tories Overruled; commission TO take testimony In
Detroit ordered TO issue.
ordered taken before John Cruikshank, examiner
Sisen agt; Wheeler; appearance OF absent de-
1endant ordered Jones sst. GRITTY; decree cor
rectlng decree N equity cause 1853.
CRIMINAL COUkT-J,edge While
Monday, John Grahe, unlicensed bar; verdict
not gulity. WIN. Smith, soiomy; pleads guilty OF
assault; plea accepted and sent to jail for thirty
days. Hugh Strder, second offence petit larceny:
verdict guilty.: notice OF motion in arrest OF iudg'
ment Augustus C. Sotelio. murder: plea OF not
guilty w1thdrawn: motion TO Quash Indictment
argued ana submitted Adjourned till 10 m. To-
DAY. Observation-Disclosures Shaw, John T. Mitchell
A H. Schoheld, Samuel Morris, Samuel Lincoln
and Lewis Rubin
fee; recognilance for 800 taken. Richard Shorter
larceny; pleaded not guilty. William Harris, sec
e en S IL petit larceny pleaded guilty sent
Roberp johnson, burglary and larceny; pleaded not
guilty Henry Young, second offence petit larce-
ny; pleaded not guilty. Ed OBnen, robbery;
recognizln ce forfeited and bench warrant ordered
ssued Henry ROeth, assault with intent to XIII;
pleaded not guilty. Andrew b. SChofield, forgery:
PoIICg CoURr-F,s1qe Shell
Aohday, Chas- Williams and Jos. Sanders, lar
ceny or 81 from Mrs Augusta Fleminss; three
months each Ella Boston, larceny OF $50 from
Thos siattery; 90 days IN jail Philip Davis, lar
len, threats TO Elizabeth Taylcr personal bonds to
Keep the peace. Chss- Hawkins, threats 10 Jane
Gibson, Richard Beigel, Annie Howard, Carrie
Dent. Elizabeth Rice, Carrie wilson and Ida Stew
art, all cOOred, vaerancy; 90 days each.
Yesterday, Collins Brown suspicious character:
bonds or W days VIM. u. Nell and Horace Noerr,
anray; ONeil forfeited collateral, and Noerr Was
nned - OF 10 days John Cherry. profanity; $ or
days Chas- Dempsey, loud and boisterous 50 or
- days Henry s. Smith. do; 40. Carrie Will
nalns' loud and boisterous: IS or Is days
How Nusmegs Grow.
NufInezss grow on little trees which look like
little pear trees and are generally not over
twenty feet high The flowers are very much
like the lily of the valley. They are pale and
very fragrant The nutmeg Is the seed of the
nuit, and mace is the thin covering over the
seed The fruit is about as large as a peach
When ripe, it breaks open. and shows a little
nut Inside The trees grow on the islands of Asia
and tropical America They bear fruit for sew
enty or eighty years. having ripe fruit upon them
all the seasons A fine tree in Jamaica has over
four thousand nutmegs on it ever year The
Dutch used 10 have all this nutmeg trade as
they owned the Banda Islands, and conquered
ali the other traders and DESTROYED the trees
To keep the price up, they once burned three
piles OF nutme-s each of which was as bio as a
church Nature did not sympathise with such
meaaness. The nutmeg pigeon. found In all the
Indian islands, did Tor the world what the Dutch
had determined should not be done-carried
those nuts which are their food. into all the sur
rounding countries. and trees grew again.
and the world had the benefit
In the far north of Europe spring has been
unusually early this year. Primulas and rose
buds We're gathered in Danish gardens in JAN
uary, and the starting. the first harbinger of
spring, had arrived from the south i'm fiocss.
Dublin comic paper says that the govern
mert are about 10 prohibit The Meeting of the
waters at Ay0ca. and that the growing of
potatoes Is To be interdicted because the gov
eminent objects to drilling" for ''Irish cham
p:ons."