Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-07-15
GEORGETOWN.
Correspondence of TIE Star.


a q GEoRsKrowN, July IS, ieSs
In the junior female department Of the public
school, silver medal was awarded to Miss r.
Marsey, for exceiiing In punctuality, efforts to
improve, and moral department Honorable
mention was made of Miss Ellen Payne.
For being present the greatest number Of times
at roll-call premium TO Miss Emma Marsey.
Honorable mention was made of the following
little misses: Elmira Crowley, Josephine Tanner,
Matilda Paxton, Martha Blackman.
First class in reading, premiums TO Clara Don
aldson. Emma Marsey, and Elizabeth Fowler.
First class in geography, to Emma Massey, T..
PAYNE, and Alice silence
First class ia arithmetic, TO Elizabeth Fowler,
Emma Marsev. and Mary Thomas
Dlctation, 20 Ellen Payne, Emma Marsey, aud
Marion Williams
Writing, premium TO Miss Ellen Payne.
Spelling, Matilda Paxton and Caroline Brown.
Reading, 10 Georgiana Chick, Florence Martin
aud Josephine Tanner.
Third class, in spelling, to Caroline Greges
and Fannie Roe.
Reading, to Sarah Kitchen and Amanda Camp.
bell.
Fourth class, spelling, to Martha BlackInan;
writing, to Louisa Hornbergeri for punc' uaIity,
TO Emma Crowley; for general improvement 10
Annetta Craig, Emma Pearson, Ida Barron, Ida
Wilson, Fannie Mcknight, Georgiana Martin.
IL may be proper for US to state that tue
why no premium was awarded to Miss Sarah
Pearson, who was examined with the pupils Of
the senior department, is, that she bad been
elected sub assistant teacher For several wears
past she has usually carried of the highest hon
OrS.
We cannot imagine where s'Mercury'' obtained
his information that the exercises Of examination
ON Monday, Mrs. Farquhar's.) were ''tedious. -
His opinion is in direct conflict with all those
who were in attendance
During the last week or two the fish. house of
MIR. James Gross, situated on the fish wharf, has
been robbed Of some four or five barrels Of verv
prime shad. Upon aSceI Ia ming the fact he set
SOME inquiries on foot which soon led to the dis
coveTy that black fellow, now at the Washing
ton farm, by the name OF Bill Day. had been ped
| ing sbad about town: and, upon questioning
| him with regard to the matter, he ascertained
that be day. Ben Lacy, now in Jail, and John
Norman, now on the Georgetown farm, were the
parties who had committed the theft They ef-
fected their purpose, in the first place, by reno
wing portion of the plank roof, taking the fish
out OF the barrel, and passing them out through
the top OF The house finding This rather a taIdy
process, they then priced the door of the hinges
and rolled them out by the barrel.
One OF the crew OF the schooner A. V. Bedell,
Captain Rider, accidently fell board yester-
| day afternoon, and was drowned before he could
he rescued from the water He was a young man
about twenty-five years of age, native OF Brook
| Ign, New York, and named Thomas Donne
| Coroner woodward held an inquest over the
body this morning, and the jury rendered the
| following verdict: The deceased was a hand on
board the A. Bedell; that he shipped at New
loIk on board the said schooner for the port Of
Gsorgetown: that on the l4th instant be was
setting OH the railing of said vessel Joking with
some Of the crew, and accidentlv fell over boa d
and was drowned. The jury also believe that
every Effort was made TO save him He was poor
and had means
We have been requested 20 say that the reason
why the lamps on DumbdTton street were not
iighted on Monday night, was owing to the
lighter being taken suddenly ill while going the
IoInd OF his duty
The picnic given by the Young Catholics,
Friend Society al Arlington Spring Yesterday was
certainly one of the most imposing and ag rsea Z.
affairs OF The kind which we have known for
some time There could not have been less than
from fifteen hundred to two thousand persons on
the ground Everything passed of in the most
agreeable manner. No disorder or accident of
any kind occurred during the entire day to mar 20
the sl2 htest extent the pleasures OF any one And
all returned to their homes at early hour, well
pleased with the exercises and amusenenis of tue
day.