Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-03-04
LOCAL NEWS.
AHUsEmeNTs ro-NIGHT


that name.
Growers TEEATBR-At Growers, to night
Bulwsr's admirable play OF "Richelieu" will
Re performed, and for the last time. Mr. Ed
Win Booth, as the s.Oardiaal," has ever iyer
satisfaction. and enters fully into the spirit o.
the character, rs evidently intended by ths
author. Mr. Booth has been induced To ex.
lend his engagement throughout next week
CAh1EsBuEY.-At this hail tonight anothe,
coed performance is announced, Miss D,rs
Dawson the double. voiced vocalist will sing
many faNoIi'e scngs, and in addition the per.
foTmances OF Mile Medea and the Sandford
troupe, the Chinese pantomime of aKim liza, u
will be given. Tomorrow afternoon there
viii be grand matinee.
NAEI4TlEs,-at this resort there is nightly
some novelty introduced All of the perform
els are gcoc, ana their songs, dances and Eth.
cp!ar performances elicit the most unbou nded
..rTiause always. Iiss Kitty Lee, Maggie
friei, Lima Wiadell, Eliza Florence and other
ravoTtes are performing here.
THE DAVENPORT BoYs are sill at Willards'
HAN, and o-niGht will give some more myste-
Iicus displays and incomprehensin!e demon
SiTations. They announce that to- morrow wall
be their last night, and all who would see
them must therefore hurry up. There will be
private sitting altar the public performance.
MAaIC-At Washington Theater TO- night
Prof "iseman viii give another Of his inter
$stipg magical soirees. He will completely
mystIfy his audience, but without any claim
10 the aid OF spirits. Tn sse who would laugh
Sno really enjoy themselves should by all
Nlsft 1iot ~ lscmte.
CONCERT AT ODD FELLowS' HALL.-Mrs.
Cecilia Young krptschmar will give her second
concert tonight at Odd Fellows Hall, for the
D@nent OF the Seventh street (Island) Presby-
taIlan Church. The first vas given on Tues.
day, and Was so well conducted and the seIsc.
uons were so admirably performed, that there
will certainly be great desire to attend this
concert also This distinguished vocalist will
&c assisted hy the "Arton Giee Club" Herr
kaufman, the renowned vioiipist, &c and AL.
together II will be one of the most attractive
concerts or the season.
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT or THE Mun,c.,
PEP RTMRNT OF GEORGETOWN COLLEGE,
yesterday afternoon the annual commence.
men OF shis institution took place in the large
nail OF the College, in which was assembled
large number OF ladies and gentlemen, friends
Cf The institution and graduates. The band of
me l!th u 5. Infantry was present and fire.
quehtly lnters peTsed the ceremonies by psr.
forming appropriate music. Dr. Eliot the
Dean OF the faculty, read the act of March LIST,
I,i2, empowering the president and directors
of the College TO confer degrees after which
Rev. Father Early, President of the ColIeye
briefly addressed the students and the audi
ence, giving the students some excellent ad vice.
.oi ur hain.s OF me grad uates were called as
IoIoWe, and the Dean, DR.. Eliot, handed them
the r:irchmeD's certifying to their attachments
An medical knowledge; the candidates as they
received the degrees being loudly applauded,
dhc 81 the same time receiving boquets from
tier iaIr friends:
Clement q. Barbour, d. C.;.J. Beers, N. Y:
D. X. Brow,r, Penn; Aaron r. Gleason, N. H.:
George p. Hanawait, Ohio; Oscar Palmer
Mlch.; j. w. Pettjchn, ILL.,; VIM. E Poultou
fa.i John A. Ruff, Nd; Thomas G. Smith. d.
Il George Sylvester. D G.; ]. Lawrence Tur-
Iurpin, Va: Henry Z. Van GIeson, NJ j.;
ward, I'll.
Or. Thomas AntiseIl, Surgeon II. s. Vols
delivered the vaiedctory, giving a history of
the progress of medical knowledge and of en-
inent ply sicians and medical institutions from
Ehe hme OF Escniapius to the present day. The
yaiedictory was very interesting, and will, we
understand, shortly be published at the Instance
OF The students.
DEGREES OF DIvoRCK.-Yesterday Judge
Wy le sitting III equity, made n decree divorc-
Irg ionn Purseil and Sarah PurseII q msusa ct
y""rG IRON bed and board.) The petition, filed
by :. T. DTury, counsel, sets forth that the
peiticr rr was married On the 10Th of Septem-
Der, 1859, to one Sarah Rollins. VINO lived with
him for one month, and then deserted his bed
and beard without inst cause or provocation,
and she has continued 10 live away from him
since.
Judge Wylie also made decree divorcing
BrSoEsey Bates from the bonds of natrimony
with Henry II. Bates. The petition filed by
messrs. Bradley and Bradley, states that the
pa ties were married in TIoga county, n. Y,
octo;Pr D. 1915 that they we'd TO this city in
1eiI3: hat they have one daughter, now four-
teen years OF age; that !he respondent about
seven years since committed adultery with one
Mary StrOebei, German girl, who was a SER
time past been living in ad ultery with the said
Mary. and has had three children by said girl
one OF which is dead, and The respondent paid
the funeral ex Expenses.
The respondent, by his attorney, ". Y. Fen
dali. acknowledges that his wife was 70 him
al that wife should be, and admits with
sn1me and contrition that he has been guilty
OF "oultery with the girl Mary, and that he
about to leave the city when the process
VI as served on him.
servant iD the employ of Mrs. l.. NJ. Crane,
was arrrstf d yesterday by Oiicer Pendel, of
tn" Fourth Ward, for stealing various articles
1TGm her employer. Upon searching Brdyets
TANK four sheets and a III bile cloth were found
and Identifies as the property OF Mrs. Crane
Justice emerson sent her to jail for court. A
i1w "eeEs ego Brloget was accused of steal
icE 'en-dCliar note at house where she was
then employed. The money was not found,
ard the evidence not being positive, doubt
arose in the mind OF the justice as TO the PROB
ability OF theft, and then she was above to
go for bail, but never appeared until yester-
Gay. The evidence now is positive, and the
same justice sends her to court.
Mary j Hall. colored woman well known
TO The police and prison guards, was arrested
by Officer Crown for stealing feather bed
tIom her sister, Ellen Hall, OF Prather's Alley,
ard carrying it to the Seventh Ward, where
she sold it. She was taken before Justice Gi.
Eerson, who sent her to jail for court.
FOURTH WARD STATION CAsEs-Johu
Clark, drunk: locked up hours. John Kantz-
nPr, keeping vicious dog; bail for hearing.
Nicholas sullivan, larceny; Jail Tor conrt. Mar
tin Doyle, drunk; dismissed James McKin-
ley, profanity; s. SIS. Oliver Bay, burglarious-
y entering a house; bail for conrt-aso for
threats OF violence; bali for peace. John K.
Eovirgton, drunk and disoTdsrly; military
Henry Jones, reasonable language; do. G. H
I1eI" as, assault and battery with inteAt 10 kill;
bail for hearing. John 5. ORley, disordariy;
dismissed. Lewis Rice, swindling; do. Marg't
shea, assault and battery; bail for peace. Maria
WEIGH. drunk and disorderly; Sis. Daniel
Iemps ny. drunk: sl.5S. Margaret Shea, disor-
Gerly; S25S. Alexander Moore, grand larceny;
deferred. Ddnl Hickey. assault and battery;
bail for court. Jas. MEG uire, threats; dis
missed. Bridget Foley, grand larcenE ian for
court Mary j. Halt, do; do. ThoS. Welch,
bUCsstering unlicensed: s55S. George Growers,
assault and battery; dismissed. Jas. Bowen,
rape; bail for hearipg.
PORT OF GEoRGETowN.-Clearad- Steamers
Thomas jefferson, Sehellinger, for Chesapeake
CITY; ". r. Dawson, johnson, tor Rock Greek:
Alma Howard, Hunter, ior Chickamaxum;
Caroline Hall, Lawson, for New York: /. a
Iayles, Baylss, for Baltimore; Sarah Louisa:
Adams for Phiiadelphia; Lynchburs, Vanchof
for New York; Magellan, Crinmer, do: VIM