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Show Conway Against Clinton. The suit of Cora Conway us. Jeter Clinton and others, now being tried before the jury in the district court, will doubtless, beforo it is finally settled, decide whether the corporation corpora-tion authorities have the right to abate as a nuisance a public waison dejoie. Almost everyone who was in this cily in the summer of 1S72, will remember tho occasion which laid tho foundation for this case. The plaintiff had been several times con- acted and fined for prostitution, ana jnonesullry August day she was gain taken before Justice Clinton to nswer the charge of kooping a house Df ill-fame. The justice adjudged her guilty, assessed a light fine and issued a writ to the city marshal mar-shal directing him to abato the establishment as a nuisance. Within an exceedingly short space of time the writ was executed. A posse went to the house, and, speaking ftricr tlie manner of the hoodlum, " went through it," destroying everything of j value found there, save only the personal per-sonal effects of the "unfortunates" wiio occupied rooms there. This suit is brought under the statute to recover damages amounting to three times the value of the goals demolished, the allegation alle-gation being that the property was wilfully and maliciously destroyed. The suit of Kate Flint against Clinton, Clin-ton, et. a!., similar in every respect to tho one above, except that larger damages aro claimed, is the next cause on tho calendar. |