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Show u a in lavur or giving piaintiu $,uuu. In a new trial in 1887 the jury awarded the plaintiff $8,000, but the supreme court set the verdict aside. Somehow the case came into court again last January; Janu-ary; the jury made an award of $3,000 for C'iriack, and this time the supreme court sustained tho verdict. Boston Transcript. At the residence of Col. A. Bass, at Rome, Ga., a partridge found its way into the house and was captured by Miss Hattie and safely put in a cage. A little while later another partridge, perhaps he mate of the first, walked boldly iu and started upstairs and was also captured. cap-tured. Waiting a Long Tim for Damage. Charles Ciriack, of Dedham, SO years old, has been paid $5,000, the amount awarded him in his suit against the Merchants' Mer-chants' Woolen mills, of Dedham, for damages 'or the loss of his right arm in the machinery of the mill. As the injury in-jury occurred eighteen years ago the case settled is somewhat remarkable in law. Ciriack was 12 years old when he lost the arm, and it was not until 1885, when he was 25 years old, that he thought of entering into litigation. By this time the men who were foremen and workmen work-men in the mill in 1872 were either dead or scattered over Jfew England; but that fact did not discourage Ciriack's lawyer. The case was actually brought to trial in 1888: tha inw duooTad atasdiaa- 10 |