Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-04-08

GKsxANIA HOTEL BOWLING ALLEYS, 3.s @
stTeet.-Grand general prize rolling Of the
Washington Bowling Club, No. l.
WASHINGTON SkATISs CLuB-A meeting of
the Washington SKATING Cluo was held last
mig ht AZ The Board Of Trade Rooms The Oh
oct Of the meeting, the Chair mir w
fYs.S stated was TO conside- .oe \. q, ,, nn, N,
81 rsisfax SUFFICIENT sum to puTcha.a ,hs
srcsnds upon wn.sa the PARK Is loca.edd, the
~astH pe sSsos sAp : :, the end of the
nsxl season, and he said thai he called on the
owners Of the property, to whom he stated that
the club would purchase the grounds, thinking
he would be sustained by the club, but be was
sorry 10 say that be was mistaken. He was
SlVQ cut. and he wanted to know how he was
10 get clear Of his promise. He thought the
gate money would pay for the grounds, as the
payments became due. Mr.. Alexander Adam
uper examination Of the treasurer's accounts,
IL appears that the receipts for the winter of
1863 and 1867 were $7,3ss.25; expenses for the
same period S6,'3S-24. The park was opened
for SKATING twenty-se days, and the average
amount received each day at the gate was
ASIA. The report gave the items of
was Of some length; which, after being
read and debated, was adopted Mr.
Moore submitted resolutions making an
additional assessment of $40 on each share OF
stock, In order TO meet the requirements of the
treasury, and giving sixty days time for the
assessment, TO be paid in; after which, all as
sessments not paid in shall be declared null and
VOID, and new certificates at so each be issued
by he secretary; and that certificates of delin-
qpent stockholders be redeemed finn the treas
ury at their par value, upon presentation at
DR. Lovrie offered an amendment proyidins
that the whole amount realized there from be
appropriated TO paying OF sundry notes,
amounting to 5000, cash payments made to
Columbian College; also, imposing q forfeiture
OF shares upon any member who shall fail or
IefBse 10 pay the $40 assessment within sixty
days. The resolutions and amendment were
disguised at considerable length, when the
Chair stated that the club proposed to pure base
the ground of Columbian College, at $1,000 and
The assessment of $40 was TO raise $4,000, which
the owners required should be paid in cash.
Subsequently the amendment was withdrawn
and Mr.. Moore's resolutions, as originally re-
Ported were adopted. Mr.. Frazier then sub.
united an amendment TO the above, providing
that the Cancelled certificates shall not be sold
TO persons not members of the club: which was
adopted. Adjourned.
A CLAW IN THE PUDDING.-Mouaay affair."
noon case came up before Justice ] T O.
Clark at the Central Guard House. which at
uacied considerable attention, especially anon z
me sellers and the consumers Of buildings and
sausage. A Mr.. Robinson last week purchased
from Well-known pork butcher some pud-
olngs, and found in one ofthem, while at the
Table. something which looked TO him like the
pale, and making for the door was immediate
taken with something resembling sea sickness
or.ahk LcheNtu Iter u Wnlie ne carefully
wrapped up his discovery and took il to the
SMITHSONIAN Institute, when il was examined
by some OF the sayants, who gave il as their
opinion that the my sterisuslookng claw was a
part or the toe of ground mole. Mr. Robin
son, on receiving this information, procured a
warrant under the act prohibiting the sale of
uhWnolesome meats, and the butcher was ar
rested py officer j. n. Grant, OF the Sanitary
force, and last evening an appearance was
made before Justice Clark, the defendant being
represented by Mr.. l.. Schade. Quite a num-
Der OF witnesses were examined, and the claw
vas suolected TO a critical inspection by the
Jssuce Several experts testified on the part
OF me defence, that the supposed claw was not
enc IN reality, but was curiously shaped piece
OF Gone from bullOck's Jaw. The Justice after
S,a-lng tnaf II 1t had been proved clearly that
the cause OF action had come from the use of
Tat meaf, he would impose the sew crest penalty
OF the law upon the accused, SAID the evidence
not oeing sumelentiy clear on that point, he
would dismiss the case