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Show j IN TIIK I'OI.K'K COI'RT. There wa.- a -piry timu at alderman Clinton's court room yesterday. The first case was that of Mrs. Catharine Wiseman, one of tho defendants arrested for keeping houses of prostitution. prosti-tution. Mrs. W. thought at first she would conduct her own examination; did not wish towa.siemoneyon lawyers. She had with her a young friend, dressed in the bight of fashion, with flowing rinq!et-", ctcelra, a sparkling eye and a spirited face. Both ladies seemed to be considerably excited, and when the witness for the city, a Mr. Jones, was sworn and began to tell his story, the younger lady seized judge (logo's cane, and was about to belabor the witness ' witli it. " Vott lioj! I '11 kill any man who swoars to a He," she paid in the most tragic manner. Officer A. V. Smith rulicd to the rescue, and was treated to a harp blow from the fj.st of the young heroine. For a moment mo-ment it looked if the court room would bt; cleared by this pugilist, and (he excitement was intense; I but the ladies were laken out of doors Ly the oflicers lo cool oft", and in a few minutes the hearing of the ca.se wns re.iuiued; but not till after Judge Clinton had informed the pugilist pugil-ist that she was under arrest lor assaulting as-saulting an oflicer of Ihe court. Mr. Jones then lold his story, which was quite to the point, developing the fact that the business of tho defendant is pretty good and improving. lie made his contract with one defendant and i paid another one for a room which lie did occupy, lie was not frcqueully interrupted inter-rupted with the remark, "You lie," ; and the cros examination was very rich. About this time Jud-c W. Kail and Gov. Johnson came into court and announced themselves as the counsel for Eeveral of the defendants. After examining the affidavits, &a, they moved toquash the writ on the grounds, 1st, that the complaints were insuffi- ; cicnt, failing to cite the ordinance and ! section upon which the offence is based; lid, that the logislaturo not having dclined the offence charged as a crimo, the city had no legal authority to declare it a crime, and could only i proceed against it as a civil action punishable by fine; i!d, that Alderman Clinton has not by virtue of his office i legal jurisdiction as a justice of the peace, and cannot exercise judicial powor. Judge lloge replied lo the arguments argu-ments of the defence, and alderman Clinton overruled the motion and the court adjourned till afternoon, when the ease of Mrs. Wiseman was proceeded pro-ceeded with, the room being crowded j to overflowing. The testimony of I Mr. Jones was repeated. Tlio defense de-fense had no witnesser; but she distributed dis-tributed her cards as a milliner and shirt maker freely among the lawyers and spectators. The counsel moved to dismiss the case on the ground that the city ordinance prescribing Ihe offense had not been quoted and tho book of ! ordinances offered in evidence. The court overruled the motion, and the defense look exceptions. The judge proceeded lo give his decision, de-cision, llo said by the ordinance he had tho power to fine the defendant $100 or imprison her six months, or both; but he did not bolieve in imprisonment im-prisonment for first offenses; the prison I in not a very favorable place for ro- form. An old Methodist hymn reads: "Wliilo Ihe lump holds out to burn, The vile-L dinner may return." A fine of i'100 was imposed upon I tho defendant, she to stand committed j until it was paid, and the counsel gave notice thnL they would take the case j up by a vert ton tri or writ of halms corpm. In the next case, Cora Taylor, MaL-. MaL-. tie Oram, and Rose Miller were called, and one of them fainted away and was .carried out of the room. The motion ; to quah was made as in the previous ! case and was overruled, and at the rc- quest of the city attorney the ease was ! continued until this morning. Tho ! counsel for the defense- in several of these cases will apply for writs of habeas hab-eas corjiiis returnable before one of the district judges, to test Ihe legal questions ques-tions raised in the examination. ! A CAni). Wn have redncpJ tho price ! of l-'UltNlTUltE, CJiOCKEKY, ! ULAS.S and SLLVKTtWAIl K 20 per conL, and soil exclusively for cash, Tho stock is tho lnrgn.it and chonpost west of Chicago. Crystal Palace, "8 Main Street. C. It. Barratt. n.t Tub CiikavrstBoarb in town, at Iho Washington Houep, Third South street. MEALS TWKNTY-yiVJS CENTS; lodgings fifty cent". o20 Mail to JiisoriAM. The population popula-tion of -Bingham is estimated at about fifteen hundred persons, and its prospects pros-pects as a mining camp are most encouraging. en-couraging. U has numerous mines, with four smelling furnaces, and three more arc in course of construction to bo supplied with ores for smelling from that canon. This important camp is within less than thirty miles of this city, and only some fifteen miles from Sandy station ou tho U. S. railroad. It has had, by the regular daily singe, a daily mail six limes a week untirreccnlly.but lately the ptngu runs only tri-weckly andthoir mail facilities aro proportionately proportion-ately limited. The influential men of Bingham urge, and we think reasonably, that a place of o much I importance, and so contiguous to a ' railroad over which a daily mail passes, I should have a daily mail. Col. Wick- vicr is alwajs energetic, not only in having the mail scrvico under his charge efficient in all respocLs, but in having increased mail facilities extended ex-tended wherever practicable and the interests of the community demand them. This wo consider a proper and urgent ca?e for his action; and Ihe people of Bingham will feel under obligations ob-ligations lo him if he can have them supplied with a daily mail during the winter months as well as through the summer. |