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Show fa onpiEii Et lailed in Hii Examination Befor Judgt Zana and ii Denied tut Bight of Suffrage. THE WIFE AG1IS3T A WIFE. An Interesting Istue en Trial in the Distriot Court The Grand Jury on Mondayi Vj'roreediDfre before JudjreZane opened open-ed rviri1! a candidate fron Findland for Amrioan citizennhip. His dialect was ileum .and nlraoKt unin'elli(ib!f . He wantfd the right of americsn auffraije howevor and the Judge referred to hii cateebisU'. ' "What l'orm of government is thie?" via lauuiiliBd. "I doud iinderithood." "Dou'tyi: i know what the word government gov-ernment mi1 a neV" "Itvae iun,-iita medicine," wai the intelli(,"'nt rep ly the spectator unable to longnr com'rol their risible while Critchlow BUtf Jted that he probably derived hie idt-a from the form of pov-i-rnruent that ', re'nily preBuribed by the punplt of iew Orleans for the benefit of its foreig n intelligence. "Do you know who tho jtrosident of the Utiilod etati'S W" tJoiitinued the courtaiiiautleof disistfalJuigfrotu hid brow. "Ho Tas named HwirDn?" "Yesf And how wa ho made president?" presi-dent?" "liy dose kings. , "Correct you are eeT.rimed the rourtaa be east i'ih eye up' and down the rugged column of still more rugged intelligence, "but them ar.a nixty mil-lions mil-lions of thou kings." Aloud and eternly.1 "lio and info-nn yourself upon these matteu if ynu "want to he-cune he-cune an American citizen," ar.d the classical contingent irCm Kindland moved hurriedly down Ube aislo and creatfalleu vanished from the door. It waa a formidablo rebuite to ignorance nnd a person who bus resided in Amer-' Amer-' ica for iixteen year. Wlf Aln 'Wlf. The case of Mre. Annia Peters Brain against Mis. Mary ii. Hrain was then taken up. Parley L. Williams esq., ap- , pearing for tho plaintiff and Messrs. ' ltirhards t Moyle for tb, defendant. 'J he action involves title to a piece of ground that was left by fclward I'.rain at the lime of his doath in May a year ago. ldaintirT setting up that as tbe wife of deceased she was entitled to possession. The defendant denies that plaintiff was the wife of deceased, and alleges that for many years prior to his deiun she wa married to him in what .h.t believed to bo in law and in fact. The case is exciting considerable interest. inter-est. The proportv iu question is located on tho brick yitr J in tho northeast portion por-tion of the city and is regarded now as quito valuable. Court Noil. The grand jiiry will renew its labors on Mouday, unit tniuions of the marshal's mar-shal's ollico are busy notifying witnesses wit-nesses to be present on schedule time. Assistant United States Attorney Stephens is preparing for an rventtul week in the grand jury room. There was a dry docket in Commissioners Commis-sioners Noricll, Pratt and Wolcott's oillcos during the day. (Tniied States Attorney Varian is engrossed en-grossed in somfl deep and mysterious tasks, the nature of which will probably proba-bly bo revealed nt the next term. His visit to Washington was .fraught with significance, and another agitation is gathering strength in the library. The attention of Captain (ireenman was occupied during the day with the Jack Arnold case, in which the defendant defend-ant was arrested for failure to support his wifo and two babes. His defense was based on a charge of extravagance on the part of his wife, who w as thinly clad and who testified that she owed t he bloom in her cheeks to the kindness of her parents. It was also developed by Judge, Powers that the husband's hus-band's cigarette bill had amotiuted to about as much as Mrs. Arnold's bill for garments, and the decision is anxiously awaited. |