Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-02


Alhert Gleason has been awarded contract for
fIs4lng, seWeTing, except on the west side OF
town. parking. setting curbs, lay ing sidewalks,
and BUILDING area walls on High street. from
Bridge TO 81 street. and paving carriageway of
salt street, thiIty-fve feet wide, with cObble-
sore, from let TO Sd street. John O. Evans was
awarded contract to pave with Stowe wood
pavement the carriageway of High street, from
Wet 10 Bridge street, Georgetown. John APP
mans contract was amended so as to include
yutring in the eCesssFy 6-inch sewer lateraIs in
lot No. Il, corner OF 18th and streets north
vest, connecting with the 11th street sewer.
The chef engineer VAS authorized TO remedy
the overflow, corner Of 4th and = streets east
by charging the inlets and ont falls CT three OF
The eaten basins nearest that point.
The Registration.
~ the second registration in the 16th district
To-Day, So voters were registered-2Sl white
and &C coored: making the total registration in
that district, I55-55i white and POI cOlored
Last year the registration in this district was
7@-53l white and .6j ccloTed. The present
Registration il II less than last fan, the whites
Increasing 20, and the cOlcred falling Off ca.
TO-DAY.
To-Day the board, in the 18th district regis
tered Col voteTs-5l6 white and IS colored
making total this year Of i,3G4-6s7 white and
90 eoi0red. Last We ar the total registration was
1y5aO-51s white anu 1y2 cOlOred. Thus there Is
afalling of in the total of Co. the whites having
INCREASED 20 and the colored decreased 1Gj.
"THE HISTORY OF THE DEvIL."-An old and
cuIlOUs volume bearing this title and printed i'm
1S2-.O years ago-was among the books
g knocked down" at Messrs. Lstimer & CIeary's
referred 10 was small one, and books of its
SIC can be readily bought in any second hand
bookstore for ten or fifteen cents, every one
se' med eager 10 purchase, and il rapidly went
MP from ten &C hts to 81 10. at which price 1t was
nj ally sold Mr.. Gle airy, the auctioneer GOOD
naturecly remarked that it was singular that
everybody should want 10 know something
atrut the devil. when so many present would
M ke his personal acquaintance before MANY
years The great sale of books continues this
evening.
ALL FAIR MINDED CITIZENS, not blinded by
ICiudice, should attend the great mass meeting
AT Lincoln Hall Tomorrow night. where they
Will have an Opportunity to be informed Of the
plans and purposes Of the present District gov
err ment, what the have done aud propose IN
do, and why III be disastrous to the inter-
ests OF tax payers to elect opponents of the ma
ticnal and local administrations. Gey. Cooke.
Alexander X. Shepherd. esq, Prof. LaDgstOn
John r Cook, Senator Harlan, Hon. Geo. Tay-
Tor and Others will speak local topics interest,"
ing TO taxpayers and TIE citizens generally,
ard retute some of the miss.ateneut7 which
have been extensively circulated by the Oppo-
rents Of progress-
THE /. o. q. r. Library ASSOCIATION held
its annual meeting last eyenirg z. and elected the
following officers: John II. Bartlett, president;
r. Finley Hunt, vice president; Thomas W.
Fowler, secretary; l.. A. kidder. treasurer; and
VIM. Mclean, Andrew j. Donaldson, Alfred
II. Gawler, Henry Urine, and Thomas Greer,
directors; and George ". Mclean. librarian.
The library was reported as having :, SEQ volumes
on it, shelves and being in a good condition;
and during the ten years of its existence over
go OU books have been taken out and read
Aest Of the new publications have recentIy
been added TO the catalogue, and the interest IN
this valuable institution is on the increase.
RoBBING THE DEAD.-Oficers French and
Redway, Of the second precinct. report tn at they
have discovered that the burial vault on Me
WI Ia m a ius of NJ
old families, has been broken open by some
unknown parties. Lieut.. johnson directed his
oftcers to notify the surviving members of the
families who placed their dead the rein, and he
had the vault temporarily secured. 1t is not
Known what TIE object Of the sacriegiOus act
could have beer except IL was to rob the dead
or any Jewelry which might be found in the
cot ms.
TEE THgATkKs.-Ihe palace of Truth,
SUI amUses the patrons OF the National Tleater
with IT. CrOn situations and carefully managed
stage effects. The theme is enc which mi ght be
wolKec up IA hundred different ways and still
afford entertainment and a moral as any one
car realize who will imagine himself or herself
III the Aforesaid palace.
The IheateT COmigue with its numerous
att actions Is doing good business, and will no
oonbt continue 70 draw while II is kept up to its
present. standard.
he SUDDEs DEATH OF ANN MONTGOMERY
ColoEer Patterson yesterday viewed the boIy
Of Ann Montgomery, who died suddenly in a
house on Ridge road, in the eastern portion OF
Wsshirgto co.. nty, as stated in TIE STAR of
Hast EVENING" and after a post norton exam
1natIon deemed al inquest unnecessary, As she
died from natural causes-congestion OF the
brs.n- She came from Fauquier county, Va
and her name was Anna Suthridge, which she
dropped on going TO live with the colOred man
Montgomery.
Mr.. ABEL G. DAVIS, late secretary OF the
fT, mans Insurance company OF this District,
oied yesterday morning ct his residence on ID
street, In the siNty-hrst year of his age. De-
and raised in the District, his parents, who sur
yive him, being residents Of East Washington.
lie was foreman of the plumbers department
IN the navy yard for many years. His funeral
took place this afternoon at O'Clock.
DIpN'r DIE OF THs INJrRIxs-Dr T. r.
Aarugan, under instructions of Coroner Pat
ferson, made post mortem examination yes
terdAy IN the case Of Allen X. Benner, de-
ceased, late clerk In the Ordnance Bureau,
who was injured q few weeks ago by a fall from
Q street car, at the corner Of 7th street and
death was caused by acute Inflammation OF the
lungs, and not BY injuries received by the fall,
Ne vas supposed.
An INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES WANTED
About two O'Clock this morning an alarm OF hre
was sounded from box -, corner Of East Capt.
tol and % streets; about eight minutes later an
alarm was sounded from box 6, corner of 81 and
North streets; few minutes later box Is
corner of ~ street and Maryland avenue, wa,
struck Of and all the alarms proved to be false
ELsxwHxRx will be found some intsrestins
reading for housekeepers in quest of choice
butter, In the announcements OF Geo. M. Oyster
g. Co.
PRIGG's JEwELRY SroRR, No Al Pennsyl.
wanna avenue, received some splendid specimeu,
Of Alaska Diamonds, set In gold straw anf
white colors, yesterday.
WE CALL ATTENTION to the opportnnit,
offered for investment In desirable country
property near " Soldiers Home" by advertise
ment OF b. II. Warner, in another column.
PERsoNAL--Dr. Jos. Taber johnson. OF How
ard niyersity, has gone north on business fo
That iIktitufiOn and MI he. abs nt ma dava