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The cage.

--Since our last report, the following parties have found temporary accommodations at the cage: William, slave of D. McDaniel, charged with stealing a turkey; Ann and Eliza Edwards, charged with fighting in Exchange alley; Isabella, alias Pus Rix, charged with walking the street dressed in men's clothing; Hiram Endle, charged with entering a car on the York River Railroad and stealing therefrom twenty pounds of butter, valued at $80, the property of Mary Howel; Mildred Taylor, for keeping a disorderly house to the annoyance of her neighbors; James W. Spicer, charged with felony and escaping from the jail, and Stafford Oliver, charged with stealing a lot of window cash and pine plank of the value of $50.

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