Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-07-06
LOCAL NEW S.
CONDENSED Locals.

we are glad to learn.
Dr.C- c. Cox is quite i'll with a bowel COM
plant
See advertisement G. desirable team. two
boTst and caTTia &c, f0- sale by an army Gficer
Mt Henry AIbys the .well-known and popu-
lar confectoner on fifth street, has gene to
Europe with his family l. spend some months.
will lrave the depot in this city at IL O'Clock
Monday -E2orBing.
MI Edward Msyhew vas thrown from his
buggy st-1ight on 5th street. between L and
NJ streets, and badly hurt. :
MIR. Lemuel BuTsley, representative in the
House OF Delegates frsm Fac Dist legislative
district, has rendered his resignation but IL has
not yet been accepted by the Governor.
The cross connections in the new IS inch
water main haze been completed a. far as 18th
street northwest. and tie water has been let in
GCw1 10 tina! I<rat.
Mr.. John II. Breoks has received his commas
son fJCm the President member of the
Dis Iict Council ~ I'll the vacancy occasioned
by lie resignation Of 5Ir- John A Cray.
The Nentila;or" il the name OF neat little
weekly paper supporting Grant end Wilson,
just started in this city by the Columbia
Printing Association"
Major John Trzerack has been elected Presi-
dent o. the German Veteran Union. The re-
firing president, Major Carom, was presented
with q Handsome Maltese cross.
Hr JOIN l.. Toole, formerly of the firm OF
Simms y TCole. of this city, died on Tuesday
last at Charlottesville, Va, after a long and
painful illness.
Tie Macedonia Sabbath school OF Potomac
city CeiebESted the Fourth in the woods near
fEe II sane G=ylum. Addresses were delivered
by FrSderieA Douglass and others.
The commissioners ~ aPprsise the private
property for t4Ie purpose of enIsrging the Capt.
Ioi grounds, will complete their work on Mon
day next and submit their report to the Secte-
Intre name 81 an outraged aud long-sufferins
community we sSk why President Riker does
nos put more ears on his road? The few now
tanAing are eEo1'sed to sufocstion on every
trip.
Toe camp meeting of BladensbuEg Circuit of
the u. E ChureeI, ERl commence August q,
1st2. in the WOODS of.Iohn V. Byles, about eight
miles from Washington city, five miles from
Alexandria, and q half mile from Tolsons old
eamPS-ound, on the road leading f-sn MARI
The taxpayers ssSooiation-per Jehn III.
Crane-leld meeting last night, bat the
acting business Crane SAYS he is willing to
make a meeting Of hiElseii all the rest of the
year, but 80 view of his hereafter doesn't feel
like being Sroiled prematurely.
The Governors Mounted GEard will attend
the funeral - morrow o. their cOnrade Will
liam SydnOr. who died yesterday suddenly of
su1stToke. he was at the time Of his death in
the employ of Il. NJ. Whitney soda water man
ufaeturer, ana ~as for some years driver on
the til street cas-.
Rs,ta Seligmsa obtained decree CT divorce
yesterday in the r guilty court froZ her hUs-
band Wolf SeligLaa-. They were married in
Georgetown last yassr, and she alleges that he
comLssssed adultery, and abandoned her and
reelected TO contribute to her support. n. III.
KILLER appeared for The petitioner.
John Cochrane. yos-tt about thirteen wears
OF age, and a son of George W. Cochrane, eS1.,
of this citI, fell from t.ae hCrricane deck Of the
steamer IrSnsides. wk!lH. OIL the excursion to
IiIsy po.ss with &. CSznkaty a, washington
fall his head came in contact with boat that
was hanging 1t the side ct the steamer, iRhict-
ing serious ilja-ies to his face aid eyes.
DK4TH OF MES. DRAKE MILLs.-Mrs. Drake
Mills, Who fell {. 1m the window o. her room In
the fouEth story g the Metrspolitap hotel on the
morning of the IL instant, a stated in yestsr-
days STAR, died this morning. few minutes
before 6 clock. She was conscious t. the last,
and was able to Converse up 70 within three
minutes OF her death. Her con, DIR. Sutton and
daughter, Mrs. Fernando Wood, o. New York,
with Mr.. Wood, were 18th her during her last
faction that Proyidenos had decreea that sIe
should live tG see her children. In the fall she
received fearfSl njuries 10th legs being broken,
as also an arm, and the ASull fractured, but IL
rs tho1ght that Death resulted from internal in
juries. Yesterday she stated that il was SO warm
she could not sleep. and sat in the window to
get fresh air, and while .thete fell out. Mrs.
Mills was lady of great wealth and an extern
Eive traveller. She leaves q large number of
s;mpathizing friends. During the war she
her, and also maintained several Ioldiers' faIa-
lilies.
TIE Q1pHANs' FRIEsD.-Mr. Edward
Semmes gave his nineteenth annual entertain
ment 20 the iiS.e girls OF ST. ViRcent's Orphan
Asylum. at his residence No. 219 c street last
evening. The exercises consisted OF singing,
dancing. and giving of prizes the whole com
Guiding with banquet. Mr.. Semm.s has
always taken grea: Interest in the success OF
this school, and il regarded by the pupils and
teachers with high esteem. Before the party
dispersed, Mr. 3. presented 10 Miss Lynch and
Hiss Clart, O the school, Slid gold cross to
each, and 10 Miss Grow he gave yalu able gold
necklace. The Orphans numbered 120 on the
occasion, and were iB charge OF fi.e sisters OF
charity. Mr. Semmes is the oldest living
guardian Of the asylum, aud has made himself
generally beloved for his many charitable acts
His last charity is the deciding OF fifty acres OF
fine land just on the outskirts of the city, to the
asylum, and in speaking OF this subject says
that If he lives long enough be intends improv-
ing the property with iine large building for
the pse OF the orphans.
ANovrI NAERrAeE-Ont the evening of the
9Th, says the Alexandria Gazette OF YESTERDAY,
the pilot Of the ferry steamer City Of
Washington was the scene of a remarkable
marriage. The parties, Miss Maggie Forsyth
and Mr.. Howard Hardy, accompanied by Rev
y, W. Phelps, Left Washington on the o'clock
boat, and landed at Alexandria at half past 2,
pectant couple waiting on the wharf. In short
time the preacher returned. when the three and
the pilot OF the boat, Mr.. j. X. Wood, who had
been requested to act as witness, repaired to the
pIot-house. where, beneath the steamers flag
and with the tresses of the bride blown from her
blusEing cheeks by the breezes of the Potomac.
the twain were made one according 70 the form
of the NJ. +. church. The groom was so excited
that he forgot to salute the bride but the gallant
pilot saving that he was a married man, and
knew how IT was HIMSELF" performed that
part OF the cert mony with due precision. The
happy couple then left the boat.
VISIT TO TEE ENGINE HoUszs.-Governor
Cooke, accompanied by Chief Engineer of the
fire department CrOnin, President Baker, of
the hoard of fire commissioners, Commissioner
Bayley, ex- Commissioner Collins, and Mr. Ten
ney visited the several steam fire engine houses
In Washington and Georgetown and the hook
and Ladder house in this city, yesterday. In one