POLICE CALENDAR. - The muster roll yesterday morning contained forty-two new names, to wit: Drunk, 22; misdemeanors, 6; assault and battery, 6; threats, 1; malicious mischief, 1; assault with deadly weapon, 1; petty larceny, 2; grand larceny, 3.
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FOUND AGAIN. - Little Mary Kiel, alias Long, whose specialty is to runaway from home every time she gets a chance, has been again coralled, and was in a cell in the station house yesterday. As no one has yet manifested a desire to adopt her, she will probably be sent to the Industrial School to-day.
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DISMISSED. - The motion of defendant's counsel in the case of the United States vs. T. J. L. Smiley, indicted for grand larceny, to dismiss for want of jurisdiction, was sustained yesterday, Judge Hoffman rendering the opinion, and a nolle prosequi entered. Smiley, though released from his bail here, is still amenable to the laws of Mexico; the ground of the motion being that the alleged offence was committed on the coast of Mexico, and so consequently beyond the jurisdiction of our Courts. The cases against Redmond and Bloomfield follow in the same category.
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Note: T. J. L. Smiley was being prosecuted for salvaging gold coins that had gone down with the S.S. Golden Gate off the coast of Mexico in 1862. For more info on the wreck and its salvage see: http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~ssgoldengate/
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FINED. - Lewis Burke and Tobias Goll, convicted of beating a man out of his natural countenance at Smeyser's brewery, presented affidavits yesterday morning in mitigation of sentence, and were fined each $40, with the alternative of fifteen days imprisonment. E. A. Fuller was fined $10 for committing an assault and battery on Michael Reese. John Dolan, an employee of the steamer Chrysopolis, paid a fine of $15 for striking his wife a blow in the face on Jackson Street on Sunday last. According to the testimony, John wants to do what is right, but his wife drinks liquor, and keeps a very unhappy state of affairs in the domestic establishment. James Kennovan, for assault and battery, fined $10; and Ellen Smith, same $10. James Bryant, for spiriting off a game cock, fined $200, with the alternative of sixty days imprisonment.
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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
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The Dog War.
It is pleasant to know that during the month of August the Poundkeeper killed one hundred dogs, but that pleasure is greatly modified by the reflection that probably fifteen hundred were born during the same month.
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BLANK CARTRIDGES AT LAST.
After the long blank cartridge agony under which the Board has been suffering for weeks, an order was finally passed, last night, for the purchase of five hundred dollars worth of that species of ammunition, to be divided among the several regiments in such proportion as the Mayor may see fit.
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