Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-25
LOCAL NEWS.


musements, &c. Tonight.
NatloHG. Tasdfer.-Mr. ". }. + florence in ''I=i-
7hsa'er Burlesque, songs, dances.
Condensed Locals.
inCent Coiyer has sent two Indian canoes &c
the Smithsonian institution.
Messrs. Green & Williams, auctsonee-s, hare
recently sold lsS lots at Huntington, at sJ.'5 to
The Commissioner OF Patents has Just Issued
~ Amber. Of this CITY.
W. II. Tslisferro is the regular republican
candifate for the house Of delegates in the 1Ita
Alta meeting of the medical society and tie
meIie@I faculty OF Georgetown college, last
night, resolutions Of respect te the memory CT
the late DR.. X. q. CroggOn were adopted.
The work Of opening streets through the go--
eminent reservations bounded bv 7tb Sth and
9TH streets and Mount Vernon place and N
street, Is progressing rapidly.
Amorg those present at the Greeley meeting
which endorsed Dir. HiDe at I mon hall lat
evening were y. G. OTdway, DIR. g. II. PurviS,
Marceilus West, and a number OF others VINE
ate mpt TO pssr a. republicans
At the 12th-street NJ. r.. church, East Wash
ingtOn,) Rev. N. +. HysOn. pastor, very inter
est'ng protrGcted meeting haS been in progress
for tWo weeks. There were i IeDitents ut The
altar n Monday night, and thus Tar there have
been . CONVERSIONS
Mr.. j. W. Rawlings. formerly q this city, has
recently been promoted to the position Of der
uty collector Of the port OF Charleston. =. &. Re
was formerly employed in the Office OF the Sec
Rotary OF the Treasury, and was transferred ia
the Charleston Gu. tom hsase in 1858.
"A complimentary serenade was rendered 70
Mr.. Charles Abel, King Of the Washington
Schuetzen Verein, last evening. Mr.. August
which Mr.. Abel appropriately responded. The
latter subsequently entertained the serenaders
with q collation..
At a meeting of the German Grant ana Viii
son soldiers and sailors campaign club last
night. resolutions were adopted indorsing Cen.
n p Chapman, aeknow ledgRg in the highest
fow hTa .affrs-
tTict. and pledgiDg their earnest and active sup
port fOr his reelection.
The Riga Worthy National Grand Council of
the 4. o. of the q. 5. and ID. Of ). OF North
America held its twenty-first annual session in
this city recently, and elected officers for the
ensuing two yeaIs. Among the officers elected
W. N g. prelate; George Gale, Il. W. N. G..
sentinel; Mary l.. Anderson, X. III. s. to Il. W.
n. g. orator-sll from Georgetown.
Proceedings Of the Hoard OF Public
Works.
Mr.. Geo. Follsnsbee has been instructed to
push TO rapid completion the improvements on
I'd street west. Permission has been granted to
General Aeigs to make an experiment with a
cheap mosaic lconerete) pavement for side
walks W.O. Murdoch has been granted per-
mission TO take sand and gravel from the inter
section of North Carolina avenue and O street
ut IS cents per load contract has been made
with Albert Gleason for Iesetting curb and re-
laying fOOtwalks on Sd street. frOEa Pennsyl-
wanna avenue TO VI street northwest. The chief
engineer was instructed to have rough wooden
Heps constructed at the end of West street.
GeorEet6wn, near street bridge, so as to en-
able citizens to gain access to the street. Chief
Engineer Phillips has been directed to examine
the Old curb and brick on 9th street west be-
tween - street and the Boundary, and if the
same will answer for replacement not TO allow
new material 70 be used. 1t ordered that
tne a tTis from the various streets be removed
after the completion of improvements as soon
as possible. The contract OF j. v. w. Vanden-
purg ior grading Virginia avenue has been ex-
N IA thsaO
sections OF F and 22d streets and G and 2lh
streets; also, the north side of Virginia avenue
The contract of Follansbee & Co. for the i'm.
proyement OF 18th street, from X street to the
circle at the intersection of Connecticut and
Massachusetts, avenue northwest, has been
amended to include the grading, setting curbs, |
laying footwalks and paving the carriagewsy of |
18th street. from the circle TO Boundary street, |
With cobble stone. The recommendations OF |
me Chief engineer for Improvements on X street. |
between 9Th and 9th, has been approved by the
board, a. follOws: FOotwalk on south side four
teen feet, leaving twenty feet carriageway be-
tween curb and rail, and that the carrisgeway
ana footvalk on the opposite side be the |
ssme. This, with the space occupied by the
tracks, Will make the earriageway So so feet
The remainder of the street to 60 into the park
On the north side. j. ". Thompson has been
notified that the temporary strip Of wood nailed
70 The tmbers OF the Ninth street railroad have
become 80 worn ont as to admit water under the
ing y With danger, and he was requested TO |
this. W f''''
TO-DAY.
billiard * Co., Contractors for GRADING, sattino
curb. &c, on street, from 18th TO 18th streecs
were notified to push their work more rapidly |
gwen 10 Others more prompt The superlnten-
cent OF roads IN tie county was directed tn nut In
-i-inCh pipe culvert across the road leading
iI1n, oennins's bridge to Marlboro near the
sCiIItd scLoStE house. Stephen Tally was no.i-
ned 70 Fave BIS work on c street, between 18th
NM isrn streets, rusnea iv.ward to completion
rs rapidly as possible. The order for sewers on
10th street, north of New Hampshire avenue,
was Sonnternsnded in Consequence OF there
not helng Improvements on private property
enough TO justify its construction. The super
irferdent OF lamps was directed TO have a gas
Imp ERECTED at int rsectols Of alleys in square
No. +A-bates alley. 4 Contract has been
given TO O'Hare * Co. TO construct three-foot
barrel sewer in Eth street from Q street,
running distance of about 10 feet 70
ronnl CT with the arch on 18th street. /
TIE republican general committee was granted |
permission to erect flagstaff in front Of their |
headquarters on Pennsylvania avenue, between |
~ and 9Th streets. Columbus Lucas, contract
or. was directed 10 finish setting the curbs Oh h |
street. between 18th and 10Th streets, at snce so
that tia building of the market sheds can be /
pTocee ell with without delay. The board, in |
reply to an inquiry OF Assistant Engineer For
syth, have decided that the property OF the /
Young Mems Christian Association and the Ma |
sonic Hall Association on the corners of 9Th and /
ID and 9Th and streets, is assessable for special
improvements. II. II. Clark was granted per- |
mission TO place a stand for the sale of notious |
on 10th street, near Pennsylvania avenue. |
Toney CHS was granted permission to keep a |
fruit stand near the National Theater on T.
street, between 18th and 1ith streets. In COM |
IhSnce with a petition OF property-holders on 4
ID street, between 18th and 18th streets, that the
construction OF the sewer on said street be dis
continued for a distance of 1j5 feet from the ]
east ] ne OF 18th street, in consequence of said /
property draining i.:o Ohio avenue, the board |
have gwen orders 10 that effect.
TIE REGIsTRATIoS-Fourth District.-The |
second registration in the ith district George
town east Of High street) yesterday. resulted in
the enrolment Of Jls whites and 23l colored; |
making a total registered this year OF l,0S!-633
white and "a cOlOred- Last year the lumber OF
whites Who registered was isS and cOlOred 40i; |
total SOC; showing ar increase this year OF Io5-
rs white ans g colOTed.
TO-DAY.
AT the second registration in the 5th district,
to-day. the names OF JGJ voters were registered,
OF v hiCh number 2S5 are white aud go cOlOred;
making the total registration i'm the district this
year ], III, OF which 81 are white and 5S} col
OTed. Last ycsr .O35 persons registered-5I3 OF
" lGm white and - CglDrE al. he