Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-02

Nav CRY OFFICERS This morning Sam.
uel T. Douglass wss duly installed as City
Register, r. Finley Hunt as City Surveyor.
and John n. McCalls as City Collector. Tbs
last named has appointed as his clerks Jers.
miah Hepburn and Jshea Wheeler.
SUDDEN DRATH "A man named Jacob Leh.
man was fined by Justice Bates, on Friday, for
profanity In the streets. Yesterday he was
conveyed to his long home; an evidence of
tue uncertainty OF life. 1t is said he died by
sun stroke.
HE PROPERTY to be sold to morrow after.
noon,. by Green 4 Scott, on Pennsylyania
avenue, between Second and Third streets. (sce
advertisement,) offers fine opportunity for q
profitable investment, owing to the public i'm
provements in that vicinity.
Mr.. kRPLER, the WE'LL known manufacturer
OF root beer, has presented rs with sundry bot.
ties Of his popular summer drink; which,
being tested by the thirsty in this establish
ment, was pronounced exceedi ngly nice, being,
at the same time, innocent in its effects.
CAPT. FRENCH FORREST has entered upon
his duties as Commandant Of the Washington
Navy Yard and was on Saturday received
with the ceremony of salute of cannon, and
formally introduced to all tho master work.
men.
PUMP. PUMP,i PUxPii.-Thc pump on
ID street north, between Sixth and Seventh
streets, Is badly out of repair, and has been
for q month Will the proper authorities see
that 1t is put in pumping order?
CRIMINAL CoURT.-Ihe-e being no cases
ready for trial, the traverse jurors were, this
morning, discharged until tomorrow.
WATCH RkrURSs.-Peter Henson, making
promiscuous charge with pistol On the citi
Sens OF tAe Northern Liberties, security for
peace; W Ford, colored, profanity, fne and
costs; Louisa Hill, colored, out alter hours,
dismissed; Charles Mcdonnell, drunk, dis.
missed; Peter Galway, colorsd, bathing In
the canal, workhouse ten days; r. Galloway,
colored, do. Nathan Bush, colored, non resi-.
dent, workhouse thirty days.
COMMUNICATED
TEETH vs. LEArHKR.-Mr Star: am an
old bachelor of eigh y summers, without
teeth, and am thus compelled to live SOLELY
on vegetable diet But while L leave my cars
niverous fellow boardcrs to fight over thei,
India rubber beef and antsdiluvian chicken,
demand, In the name of our glorious Consti.
tuition, that We shall not 10 choked with pota
toes 1t only for grape-shot to be used at Sc.
bas:opol! Whom lived with the " old folks at
home the dyspepsia never came within hun.
dred miles ofus. If the monster ad only shown
the tip Of his nose our sable cook would have
knocked out his brains with the frying pan
No; ii we had nothing but hickory wood for
dinner, 1t was sure to be boiled soft.
In my "teeth days L remember regu.
larry paid the walters 10 give me the bes.
pieces Of neat, and others followed nv exam.
pie, until finally epersbs 4y paid them, SO tn at
we were no better of than before. I have
since thought that the plan, now so prevalent,
OF paying your board twice over. is unjust !;
tor if one half Of the b arders thus daily buy
from the waiter the very best pieces, the other
haf must necessarily get daily the psyy uOrst
pieces; and this ia not loving thy eighbo
az myself" Furthermore, when the non.
paying bOarders on the first stroke of the bell
rush like rockets into the room, hoping for a
share Of the "spoils," and Notwithstanding
md the "paying plates" already piled up
with all that is eatabls bef0re the arrival of
the owners, while you are left to philosophers
over the bones, is rather apt to raise mutinous
feelings. Let US old bachelors call a mass
meeting, with Mrs PartiDgton in the chair;
also let there boa grand procession, with ard.
boiled potatoes and tough chicken for ban
ners. By united eff0rt We can thus put down
this order of " Have Everythings." and bring
back be goids1 age CT cooking
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