Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-07-16
LOCAL NEWS.

L
tribution of premiums to the pupils connected
| with the schools of the Fourth District is in
progress this afternoon in the Hall of the
| Smithsonian. The awards are made rs usual
by Mayor Wallacb, the nsmes Of the pupils
| entitled to recei We them being read OFF by the
Secretary Of the Board, Mr.. Dayton.
Medals for Good Conduct, Punctuality, and
Improvement during the year, were awarded
to Charles H. &. Luff, of the Male Grammar
School. Lizzie A. Allen, of the Female Gram
mar; William Lee, OF the Male Intermediates;
Maggie A. Cameron, OF the Female lntermedi-
| ate; Melinda Thomas, of Secondary No. l.;
| Henry Smallwood, of Secondary No. 2; jose
phine Hayenner, OF Secondary No. 3; Charles
of Secondary No. S; John q. Mothershead, of
Secondary No. 6; Ellen Halliday, of Second
airy No. :; Annie Whitemore, of Primary No.
| /, and Theodore Farmhouse, of Primary No. g
Premiums OF books for attention to study,
exemplary conduct, and general improvement
| were awarded to VIM. H. Rowe, Geo. Davis,
Headley, of the male Grammar; Hannah John
son, Annie Bailey, Maggie Humphrey, Bette
Lynch, and Lizzie Henning, of the female
grammar John F. Shea, Andrew Boyce VIM.
Delaney, Robert Cassell, and Henry Herbert,
| of the male Intermediate Annie L. Thompson,
Joanna Mister, Ida N. Rowe, Mary q. Bohle-
| der, and Georgina Mitchell, of the female in
termediate; Fanny Mortimer, Sarah Baker
Jane A. Adams, Josephine Baker, and Rosa
Fahey, OF secondary No. i James Sayers,
John Hail. Jane Hadaway, James Wells and
Charles Dulin, of secondary No. L; Robert
King, Stephen Wright Mary Callahan, and
Sophia Walker, OF secondary No s. Alice
harrison, Kate Cassell, Birney Wiley, and
Florence Hinton, of secondary No. 4; Willie
Jones, John Pearson, John Neale, Hedges
Wood, and Charlie Taylor, of secondary No.
S; Albert Mullin, ROBERT Cameron, Frank
Bid, Robert Hinton, and Eddie Kertz of sec
ondary No. 6; Martha Radcliffe, Sallie Nc
Dewitt, Maggie Ecklof, Mary Jones, and
Belle Halliday, of secondary No. Z; Laura
Vernon, Susan Williams, Geneva Burgess
Maria Linton, and Clorrissa Burgess, of pri-
mary No. L; John McCook, AIphonso Rock,
James Frazer, Simon Irvine, and John Two.
meyi OF primary No..
The following pupils received rewards for
Penmanship Winfield s. Waters, OF the Male
mar: Charles Gordon, of the Male Intermedi-
ate; Bella Robey, OF the Female intermediate;
Fanny Cornwall, of Secondary No. |; Fannie
Butler, of Secondary No. ,; Thomas Cridler,
Secondary No. g. Ellen McCook, of Secondary
No. !; Charlie Mitchell, of Secondary No. S;
Samuel Yates, OF Secondary No. 6; BERTHE
Headley. of Secondary No. Z; Margaret West,
OF Primary NO. Land Alfred Yeatman; OF Pri-
mary No.
For Punctuality:-A II. Stephenson, Gee.
r. Aiken, Samuel E. Boyce Robert w. Young,
Edwin Bergmann, Thomas McArdle, George
Davis, Charles H. G. Luff, Samuel J. Garrett,
Winfield 5. Walters, James Curtin and John
Allen, Lilly Bennett Hannah johnson, Annie
Bailey, Emma Thomas, Clara Thomas, Clara
Magee, Alice Milburn, Josephine Robey, Mag
gle Humphrey, Addie Burch, Agnes Sage, and
Ida Humphrey, of the Female Grammar
schools Peter Boland, Charles Miller and
Wn. Lee, of the Male intermediate; Maggie A.
Cameron, Georgiana Mitchell, Mollie M. Bow
en-, and Clara V. Worrell, of the Female Inter-
mediate; Fannie Mortimer, Melinda Thomas,
Camilla Bailey, Laura Mitchell, Fanny Earn
STA Rowell, Louisa Strobell and Will
liam HALEY, of Secondary No l. James
Hoover and Joseph Williams, of Sec
ice Cooksey, Alice Thomas, James Phipps,
Charles Crump, David CridIer, Kate Klein
dienst and George Spransey, of Secondary No.
No. 4: Jenny Hepburn, George Chesney and
Daniel Lynch, of Secondary No. S; Robert
Hinton, Henry Mitchell Samuel Lusby, John
]. Eiehmeyer and Oliver Viehmeyer, of Sec
ondary No. 6; Ellen Halliday, Mary Thomas,
Sallie McDevitt, BERTHE Headley, Louisa Car
roll, Kate Carter, Maggie Ecklof, ElLaLusby,
Mary Jones, Lavinia Selby, Alice Morris,
Belle Halliday, Jane Wilman, Jane Boswell,
and Maggie kennedy.* of Secondary No Z;
and Theodore Farmhouse, Levin c. Handy and
George K. Handy, Of Primary No. =
For Vocal Music premiums were awarded
to the following, viz: VIM. H. Rowe, of the
Male Grammar Lilly Bennett, of the Female
Grammar; Arthur Wheeler, of the Male Inter
mediate: Bella Robey, of the Female Interme-
date Annie Humphries, of Secondary No. 1;
Havenner, of Secondary No. 3, Annie Creigh-
ton, of Secondary No. 4: George Hall, of Sec
ondary No. s. Henry Mitchell, of Secondary
No. g. Ellen Halliday, of Secondary No. Z.
-* The awards for punctuality in the
case of the schools designated with an asterisk
are as furnished blythe teachers, but may, per-
haps, be subject to slight revision from trustees
upon point raised by some of the members of
the Board
THE REPUBLICAN, THE CHRONICLE AND THE
PUBLIC Scholastic belated Republican,
which never discovered that the school exam
nations were in progress until they were half
through. and then only through eleemosynary
aid, picked up a detached report of here and
there school, not having the enterprise in any
case to send reporter, charges upon the Star
that it is ahead of time in publishing the
awards OF premiums on the same afternoon
they are announced at the Smithsonian.
We have to inform the Republican that the
Star has always thus published them, and if
our neignbor would devote one half the atten-
ton and space to the schools and to school
affairs that the Star has uniformly done, its
suddenly protested interest in such matters
would not put it in SO ridiculous attitude.
The Chronicle also, which has shown its zeal
in behalf of the public schools to the extent of
copying verbatim, typographical errors and all,
the Stars reports of the examinations, takes
elaborate pains at q large outlay of words to
correct the Star in the statement that the Rev.
DR.. Gray offered prayer at the Smithsonian
yesterday. He did not pray, and the Rev.
DIR. Morsell did, the Chronicle says. Is it pos
sible!
COMMUNICATIONS OrENED.-This morning the
repairs on the line of the Washington Branch
Railroad were completed, and the train leaving
Baltimore at s o'clock this morning arrived
here about noon, bringing the mails and the
Northern papers. Yesterday the mails and
much OF the baggage of the passengers were
transferred at Laurel by way of the turnpike
bridge, but the trains each way this morning
carried off the large amount Of baggage and
express freight which had accumulated at this
point. Another train leaves this afternoon,
but after to-day the old schedule Of six trains
each way per day will go into operation. The
president and the various officers and en-
ployees OF the company, as wella Col. Mccall
lum, of the military roads, deserve much credit
for their promptness and energy in having the
necessary repairs made at once
A RIoT.-About noon to-day a fight occur
red near the corner of Indiana avenue and First
street, between two soldiers, in which one or
two pistol shots were fired, but fortunately
without effect. The pistols were then used
over each others heads, and one of them was
badly cut about the face; the other also being
badly used. The reports of the pistols i'm
mediately brought together about thirty SOL
diers, friends Of the combatants, who joined in
the fight, and number of citizens who where
near by also "went in" For q short time
something serious would happen. but guard
of the 18th N. II. were promptly on the spot,
md fa1 throo Of "a r,r moi ale h0