GOOD AND BAD LUCK. - Thomas Gleeson and Patrick Foley, the lucky finders of a tin can containing money, while excavating for a building a day or two since, and who thinking they might as well be substantially benefited by the discovery, essayed to appropriate the prize to their own use and behoof, suddenly found their bright dreams clouded by the prospective result of a prosecution for grand larceny, and plead that they didn't mean to keep the money, but simply propose to hold it under advisement or consideration for a while, as Judges sometimes do in their findings, (which is supposed to be a play on the word "findings.") They were examined yesterday, and Judge Shepheard took their cases under advisement, and will to-day render this finding in the case, (which is also supposed to be a play upon "finding in the case.") Should they be held to answer, Gleeson will see his Foley, (which is still another goak.)
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THE PUEBLO CASE. - This sleepy old concern, replete to torpidity with fees, gave signs of life yesterday. It is not dead, but sleepeth. Judge Hoffman ordered counsel for the United States to file their brief before the first of October, and that the case be finally and peremptorily submitted for decision. The Judge took under consideration the matter of transferring the cause to the U. S. Circuit Court.
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SLANDER. - The Rotenberg family haven't a good opinion of Owen McCarthy, and in conversation selected suitable words to express their views of his character, to wit: "Old drunken thief," or phrases footing up that sentence. McCarthy has made Abraham and Rachel Rotenberg defendants in a slander suit, and asks the Court to give him two thousand dollars' worth of satisfaction.
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HENRY MEYER. - This desperately wounded youth has so far recovered that he will be out in a day or two; yet up to the present time, it is said, he has failed to recall any of the circumstances of the deadly assault upon him.
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CHINA AT THE FAIR. - Chy Lung, of Dupont street, near Washington, has deposited at the Fair Pavilion, a hideous carved image of a Chinese lion, for exhibition. It is embellished with all the ghastly-painted deviltry so pleasing to the Chinese taste and so grateful to his eye. It will be well for the prudent Christian to treat the monster with respect, for it may, possibly, be a Pagan god in disguise.
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