Circuit Court

"Mr. Sheriff," remarked Judge Kinne as he ascended the bench. yesterday, "you will please take a crowbar and see if you can pry the frozen clods off the December terra ot the circuit court. Get it open as soon as possible. The harvest is past, the electiun over, not a democrat saved, and now to business with a fat calendar." The sheriff stuck the bar down a few times with a "Huh!" in a hoarse stage whisper at each jab, pried down on it, and presently his "Hear ye, hear ye, the circuit court for the county of Washtenaw is now in session," announced that the job was accomplished. The cali of the calendar then proceeded. The case of Frank T. Gardner, colored, charged with assault and attempted outrage at Cheisea, was continued to the March term, on a showing made by defendant's counsel. F. Grove Campbell, to allow time to assuage the feeling supposed to have been raised against the prisoner by the Argus headline concerning the charge against hini. The People vs. Frank Sharpey; assault. Continued. The People vs. James Smally; slander. Discontinued. Same ac:ion in the cases of Wm. Brown, bastardy; Nathan Heath, rape. Case of Irving VV. Hicks, larceny, continued. Cases against Fred Brown, for violation of liquor law; ready for rial. Moloney, charged with car breakng, pleaded guilty. The opening trial of the term will be that of Walter Robbins, colored, charged with creating a large vacuüm in the wheat granary of Mr. -Tammond, of Augusta.