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again absent yesterday, the Recorder declined further to continue it, and discharged the accused. A white woman, named Jane Wright, was charged with having in her possession a stone jar and five pounds of butter which was stolen from Alexander R. Holladay. Officer Jenkins executed a search warrant upon the premises of Mrs. Wright, and found the jar, about two-thirds filled with ashes; but the sides and rim around the top were smeared with butter, which indicated that it had been recently emptied of that article Mrs. Holladay identified the jar as one which had been stolen from her, filled with butter, some weeks since, at the time that her residence was broken into and robbed of several thousand dollars worth of groceries. Susan Wright, a daughter of the accused, claimed the jar as here, and said that sometime since she begged it from negro man for the purpose of putting oak ashes in, which it was her custom to save. The Recorder discharged Mrs. Wright. Jacob Goldenstine