Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-23

ater REVISION OF the list. footed up2i 4S9 -i2 Is.
whit: yyJ0- tci0Ted. 100 less than the spring
befoIe.
PRacgRprSGs or rag BOARD OF PUBLIC
WuRkS--Cn saturday, O'Hare * Co.'S contract
Tor sever in l. street, from 1itn to 2lst street,
was extended 20 embrace a sewer in the aley in
square T. w HusSey & Co.'S contract for a
sewer on West Capitol street was amended so a
10 read, - An eight-irch pipe sewer from 81 70
street, and a tteeu-inCh pipe from 1 y to 9th
street The contractor for the grading and
macatamiZing ct leu street east, navy yard.)
better known a. Bridge street. has been directed
10 push the work TO speedy completion. The
superintendent OF roads was directed to have
the stone walls on Broad branch road rebuilt.
TO-DAY.
The board of public works have directed the
water registrar - have the fire-plug at the cor
ner OF nm aud Water street raised 70 the proper
grade, and 70 lower water connections on 18th
street southwest. The contractor Hugh McGin-
Mss, for resettiDg curbs, &c, on Rhode Island
avenue, was amended so as TO include the layiny
OF crosswaiks 10 houses on line or sad improve
rentS- HessrS- Robinson & Co., Baltimore,
were awarded the contract for furnishing one
million Of paving brick and five hundred thou
sand arch brick az board prices. The chief en-
gineer was directed, il found nCcessary, to wall
The upper end Of the culvert under New jersey
avenne, between ID and streets, and have
a twtiye-inch pipe laid through the wall as
Tar a. necessary 70 accommodate the fill
ard treat the lower end in like manner, puttinTy
In t:teen-inch pipe a. far needed for IN q
slope. Esi= special care to preserve the trees as
far as possible. Richard Roth well was awarie Il
CUIIFHcI Tor laNlrg a Twelve inch pine
on the north side OF b street southeast, between
Sd and ith streets. Mr.. Adolf Cluss was directed
10 cause doors 10 be placed in the fencing, and
70 have return fence put about the property OF
Hen y a. Garfield, on the corner of 18th and
streets. a. requested by him. The superintend-
ent OF amps was directed 10 have put no az
many lamps as may be necessary during the
coming season wherever they may be needed.
RIOT AND PEoNIsCCoCs SHoOrING-A C0un-
tryH07 Stg, ~ Mob, and On Of the Rioters Shot
~ f'OiicsBlGH--On Saturday night Oficer
Satell, Of the second precinct, went to the cor
ner OF and 5th streets northwest where he
had been informed a man had been shot He
there fOUnd q crowd OF cOlored roughs behaving
In q sorderly manner, and learned tn at a cour-
uyman had been shot by one or the party and
carried 20 drugstore corner of 9th and n
street,, where his wounds were dressed. on at
tempting 10 arrest the Tingleader OF the gang
the crowd gathered around aud followed him for
some distance, and the prisoner, while on the
way q the station-hOUse, turned and struck the
OftCer in the Jaw. The officer. in trying to de-
fend himself from the crowd, lost his baton, and
THE prisoner escaped. The oficer then turned
upon he crowd and emptied his revolver of all
Its seven loads, causing them TO scatter % the
right and left. He then returned TO the station
house and reported the facts to Lieut. johnson.
IL ruRnOred that one Of the rioters was shot in
the side BY the oElcer.
ACCmENTs.-On SATURDAY, evening last. q
colored boy, named Henry Watts while driving
BIS horse ana % cart at the corner Of Thirteenth
the cart passing over him, and injuring him
quite severely.
DIR. j. h. Gibbs, while examining tina pro-
gress Of the work at Wallis new opera house
yesterday, was walking across a plank when 4
broke, throwing the doctor To the ground with
such violence as 10 fracture and dlslocate hi,
right ankle joint
Yesterday afternoon a youth about Is years O
age, named Leopold Miller, fell from = chestnu,
tree near Glenwood cemetery and broke his leg
Sergeant Pool procured q wagon and convened
him TO his home on street, between 9Th and
tth streets, and DIR. Elliot was called in and So
the broken limb.
The MYSTERIOUS STARRING OF A MARINE
zHeuer hartHe Charged WA ns Bloody Deed
an account was given in last Fridays STAR OF
tEe hhG.ng the previous night Of q marine
named fentnor lying in an unconscious state
near lhe Msrine barracks, having been pre-
NouslS staooed by some person unknown. He
Is nov reported TO have so far recovered as 70 bs
able 70 give some account of his INJURIES IN AT
night lie states that hts assailaDt WAS anafher
marine named Miller, who, on being chaygaa
with Tie crime, stated that he retired ~ his
quarters between II and u O'Clock which ssata-
ment, however, IL cOntradicted by the onard ~,
duty, WHO says that il was after midnieht vhsn
hereturred. DR.. Pinkney is OF the opifion tha,
the wound was made with a sword pluncad
c0wnwards, which, striking one OF the rfhs'
glanced. bringing the point out again through
lie clothing.