RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3578, 11 August 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, August IJ.. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M.)

Drunkenness. —Wm Thompson was discharged with a caution. Joseph Mitchell was lined 10s, with the option of forty-ei-ht hours’ imprisonment. a Obscene Language.— Thomas Hutcheson, for making use of indecent language, was fined ss, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. A further charge against the same prisoner of being illegally ou the premises of Mr Langlands, in Alva street, was adjourned till next day. BjRE|CH OF THE RAILWAY REGULATIONS.— vobp was charged by Andrew Davidson, railway poster, with obstructing him on the Rahway Station';— The evidence went to show that accused, wh.o wgs'drunk, had created a disturbance while in the railway-carriage. He was discharged with a caution.

Assaum. —M‘Donald v. Sullivan, and Sul* haan v. McDonald, trumpery assault cases, were distrussied, his Worship thinking the striking mutual—Mr Stewart appeared for M‘Donald, and Mr Stout for Sullivan. Preach op the Turnpike Ordinance.— Hugh M-.Cgtobeon, collector at the Ander®on’s Bay toll gafo, jyaa oharged by Robert Wilson with illegally demanding apd taking toll from him, be £tei n g a persoa exempt from such-payment.— Mr Stout for complainant, Mr Harris for defendant.—Complainant was in the employ of the Government, having charge of two stations in the Province. The question before the Court was whether he was a person exempt from toll, as contemplated by the Ordinance —The Sencb decided that he was, and fined defendant in the nominal sum of Is and costs.

Fifteen hundred new journals have been registered in France during the last three years. A Sign.—lt is pronounced an ominous sign when a man who has been married scarcely twelve mwthß begins to betray an abnormal interest mjme causes of lockjaw.