Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-16
The COuFtS.

CIRCUIT COURT No 1-Judge Co..
To-day, McDade agt w. & G. II. r. Co., ON
trial.
CIRCUIT COURT, No 2-Judge lMerrick.
Yesterday. Browning agt. Miller; verdict for
plaintiff Morrison agt Stewart; defendant
To-day, Boyer agt varnell; verdict for plain
tiff for $500 Brown agt Conger; on trial.
EQUITY CoURT-Juige Hagner.
Yesterday. RolIings agt: Rollings; testimony
ordered taken before Examiner Edwin For
rest. Hutton agt. Miller: pro confesso as to de-
PENDANT ordered. Murphy agt. Genesta; de-
fendant allowed to inspect goods. Wright agt.
Otterbach; trustees appointed and reference to
the auditor. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
company agt: Grant; hearing on ON receivers re-
leave to new parties TO intervene.
To-day, Serrin agt. Fowler; rule on defen-
dant Ieturnable December 22l. Nickerson
answers. Shoemaker agt. Chappell; decree re-
forming deed granting Injunction and cancel
absent defendant ordered. Smith itgt Smith,
sale ratified nisi. Frederick agt. Washington
Beneficial Endowment association; demurrer
sustained, with leave to amend. Hewett agt.
| Western Union Telegraph company; motion
ordered heard in General Term in first in
stance King agt. Swami; Edward Swami APP
pointed guardian ad litum.
POLICE CoURr--Judye Shell,
To-day, Alex. Jackson and Charles BaltZcll
and Judge Smell imposed Il fine OF $50 or 60
days each. Ernst Crown. charged with the
larceny O 81 from Mrs. VIM. IL. Skinkle was
sentenced to the reform school.
PARDoSED TO CLAIM HIS INHERITANCE
Rudolph Schmidt, who confessed to stealing
six table covers from his employer, was sem
fenced In New York by Judge Giderseevc on
June IL. 1854. to two years and six months in
the penitentjary. Since then Schnidts mother
died in Germany, leaving large estate to be
divided between Schmidt and his sister.
Schmidts lawyer represented tO the district at
tOrney that unless Schmidt appeared in Ger
many in person before January 5, 1886, he
| would lose the property. Schmidts conduct
has been exemplary while in prison, and the
/ facts were laid before Governor Hill, who par
doned him. Schmidt was released on Monday
A Boy MANGLED By A DOG.-The hydrophO-
! bia excitement in Newark. n. j., was Increased
last night by Charles Nicols, u 5-year-old boy,
doctor attending him says that aside from the
danger Of hydrOphobia The boy will be crippled
for life, as his hips and one thigh were terribly
lacerated. The dog was killed.
| There Is news In London OF Q sanguinary con-
| f1ict at kosep, In Egypt. the natives being re-
pulsed by the British only after severe and
six inches q snow and good sie,ghing at
| Cumberland, Md.
| BY an explosion of gas in q flre-proof vault In
the Terre Haute city building, the Office of the
city clerk and city treasurer were demolished
| Prince bismarck was painfully Injured yes
| terday by the stumbling of his horse. The
muscles OF his legs were severely strained, and
| he is confined to @ sofa 1T his residence.
The British government will retain Mr.. Peel
1 as speaker OF the house OF commons.
| The Connecttcut Congregational Club met in
Hartford yesterday, and Yas addressed by
| in the SOUTH Tue club adopted resolutions
| taking strong stand against Sunday news
papers.