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Show times even his auricular appendages were buried in the furrows caused by the reverberations rever-berations of his intellectual machinery. Clerk Glenn, who had burned the midnight oil in the preparation of a speech for the next feast of the tribe of Tuscarora, was also perturbed in mind, but aa usual Attorney Coad was as cool as an arctic iceberg. A Neighbors" Row. August and S. W. Stringfellow, naughty scions of the well-known Stringfellow clan, were arraigned for disturbing the peace of E. Woolf, a neighbor. Through an Interpreter Inter-preter the complainant related a graphic tale of neighborly discord. At intervals the witness' wife would endeavor to prompt him and the court would stop her in her mad linguistic career by exclaiming: "Wait a minute, there," "Be quiet there," "Birdie, ! come off your perch," or words of similar import. He also had a friend there who contradicted Interpreter Ifft several times, but the quill-driver was equal to every emergency emer-gency and came out of the labial fray with colors flying. Every male member of the Stringfellow clan was placed on the stand to refute the statements of the prosecution, but the court did not lose its self-possession. He, however, how-ever, considered that the defendants were not as bad as they were painted, and dismissed dis-missed the charge. A Woman in Disgrace. Mrs. Sam Masterson pleaded guilty to being be-ing drunk and was gned $3. She declared that she could not pay the fine and it was with regret the court ordered her iacarcera-ted iacarcera-ted in the city bastile. Mrs. Masterson is a most proteasing young woman, stynsmy dressed and her bonny black hair was surmounted sur-mounted by a Gainsborough hat from which waved a magnificent white ostrich plume. A course of the bichloride of gold cure would be the proper caper in this case. Annie Pleads. Miss Douglas, the colored damsel now notorious no-torious as Irrepressible Annie, entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of prostitution. prostitu-tion. The case was then continued until late in the afternoon. Police Pointers. B.' F. Smelzer of 514 West Third South street, reports that thieves entered his residence resi-dence last evening and that an inventory showed that a ladies gold watch and chain, a necklace, a pair of bracelets, three rings and a pin, all valued at about $200, were appropriated. ap-propriated. One by one the bluecoats succumb to the mayor's guillotine. Next! Mike Cantlon, one of the new police appointees, ap-pointees, was a sergeant of police under John M. Young's regime. W." F. Hill, who will hereafter wear the uniform of a policeman, is an old-time railroad rail-road conductor. " ; " Herbert Slide, the ex-pugilist,' is anxious to become a guardian of the police. Some of the deposed policemen have con 6tantiy been advised to "saw wood and say nothing." While engaged in that not very congenial occupation the mayor is wielding his. official ax with Gladstonian vigor. - William White has been charged by August McDonald with stealing; eighty ivory harness har-ness rings from an outfit belonging to Frank Art, who keeps his team in Jennings' stable ori Second West atreet. --. ... THE POLICE GRIST HILI. Proceedings Before Jnstlee Keeler This 6uaij' SiisBur Morn. Kcsler, J., spent last evening in studying the cholera question and in consequence his digestive apparatus this morning was sadly out of kelter. A frown extended from his tssophagut to the nape of bis neck, and at |