Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-08-12
Condensed LOcsle.

The G0rrgral Z0uaVes have a stracs ,lr IN ars
parade tJ-mO-TOw. $500
EC--rs. y. ". Go.eler and Ea--,- Sar,,za,,
10th we.i-knoHn city merchants, are now in
BERN Ir-Shssirg for u Q fall trade.
Las uiS Conductor OF car -, Pennsylvania
.ehue, l~en eating buttered waterIc son, or
y Lat = TIE cause Of his denloraliZed condition?
The attention Of the Pump doctor If called to
IAe pump o. d street. between 9th snf 10Th.
tOLli west J be pump Il in genera us, IN that
Eatt CT TIE city, aid The water Is much missed.
AZ enthusiastic CuuE LADY II tie Registers
rfhce OF the Treasury Department would like tO
Get eoci thousand that President Grant will be
Mr. W y. COTcoran has sold his HareUeod
estate, nePr tie SOlEiers' Home. to ar English
gentleman for SC25 cGl, and given the proceeds
oi the sale Co the COrCNrau Art Gallery.
II l. said mat party OF thirty-1ye persons
nave chartered steak tag 20 convey them from
L. oi-y 70 lie scene oI tie O'5alGWin-N Mace
The Potomac water n TIE northern part or
HE city y sad - taste bad. being favored an
paIeh. with dead tsh. 5 IT the ''eonferva'
"efih' lie minute Fesetabie growth which made
Ile wafer taste tshv year or two ago?
1-lectrEs clocks have been gut up in tho offices
Of the District controller AID register. in the
CCium"ta buildings, and V L understood thai
the Other O.loes on the DistTict government will
L furnished with them.
The steamer Lady of the Lake brought M on
hsr last trip la.t night over 400 Passengers
tI0n ClymOnt and Marshal Hall, where they
had spent the dsy in pic-nieiDg. The day AZ
these PAGES SSs quietly observed ard nothing
Miss LIZA G.. Simpson. who recently attempt
Ed 70 commit suicide in New York writes % her
parents that she is nearly recovered, and that
she viii probably take a trip TO Scotland before
T6tuTniI : - Washington.
A mad dog was shOt on Saturday BIZ Mr.. John
taliey, res ding OF 6Ll street east, bet -een A
and Is streets south. after il had bitten his little
wound.
Coroner Patterson held an inquest on Satur-
day afternoon on the body 81 James Mcnamara
late clerk in the War department, who died
from an overdose of laudan6m administered by
h'mseH. tie W's about twenty nine years OF
age, an 1TiShman, and served in the 18th
tBTOCAlyBJ New York volunteers during the
war. His tuHezsl took place tbs afternoon
Mr.. A. r. Shepherd, vice president of the
board OF public works, is of OK a few days'
Iecreating t1uE. lie will spend day or two at
Cape Nav, after which he will make a fving
visit Major Ben. Perley Poore, at Indian
Third Sergeant HaEFtson. Co. A, ". L. L. has
been promoted second sergeant of that com
Iany, vice KendTiok, resigned, and Sergeant
Cuttings TO third ser eant, vice Harrison pro-
noted Corporals Spotswood and Ross have
been elected to I'LL vacancy Of fourth and 9Th
serSean's, and Ptiv6tes TaI9UiaE and l. D.
hudd seventh and eighth corporals
On sunday next, the 18th inst, the ceremony
OF laying the c0Tner-st1ne of the German Re.
1orm church, OF y street, between 5th and 9Th
streets, will be performed by the Grand Lodge
~ HaSons Of this District. NJ. W. G. Master
Stansbury officiating. The lodge will march in
procession from the Temple, corner of 9Th and
+ streets.