Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-14

''ChTis and Lena" Drama
IA>os.- cO~sqs.-"The ws-.n,ofnsxv,-.,
songs, dances, &c hViA'
-~saden~ed locals.
a-5cDents have been made 20 pHret ase n
fSu Tor me St. stephens Catholic, C,lurch
SOGECT Of Pennsy wanna avenue and s3i,a street
Rev Thomas Guard of Baltirrors, will Iec-
tnre on "Roiv and SouI' at Fop-od1v NJ
Church next Tuesday evening for benefit of
GOrsach Chapel.
citizens of Washington: Peter TaItavull and r.
NJ. BOteler, corpse preSrver; John A S'yed-
berg, rotary blower.
The Mt. Zephyr Bouse, situated near Mt.ver-
non, IN Fairfax county, Va, was totally de-
strOYed by IRE yesterday morning Los $40 600:
iEssIsnce - ,O1O.
The second performance of "The Doctor of
AicSntara," at Wallis Opera House, by the
rolored American opera company last night,
was event greater success than the perform
ance u Monday ght.
Ap interesting entertainment is to be given at
SeatOn Sch5ol building on Friday evening for
the benefit of Trinity Mission school, TO consist
OF music by Mrs Cecilia Young Smith and Mr..
Chase, dramatic representations, readings, etc.
We bespeak for it a large attendance.
The officers and leading members of the
various Catholic societies met at st. AIMS In
FAINT A-iy lum last night, and made arrangements
for grand festival to be given tor the benefit
Of thai institution at AnalOstan Island on Mon
day and TUESDAY, the 2d and Cd of June next.
Mr.. Joseph Walsh, who was badly injured
yesterday by falling of the back building of his
fathers residence, las stated in THE STAR of
las EVENING" was regarded by the physicians
at Providence hospital as somewhat improved
tlis morning.
The FIRE alarm bell striker in the steeple of
the 18th Street Baptist Church, has been put
hcClelland, the Messrs. Gait, and other bust
ness men in the central part of the city, who
paid the cost of strengthening the steeple for
the purpose. the work being done by Mr.. Glenn
ents, carpenter.
The dealers in secondhand furniture and
Clothing met last evening, 20 adopt measures to
pending before the Legislature Increasing
tnelr license tax to 500 per annum Mr.. j. T.
Ford presided, and Mr.. p. Policy acted as secre-
ported draft of a memorial to the Legislature
demonstrating against the passage of the bill in
question, which was adopted.
Death of Colonel J. L. smith.
Colonel John l. Smith, aformer weIl-known
resident of this District, died yesterday at his
Md, (near Jessups Cut, on the b. s. y. X. K. y
after an Illness of several months Colonel
Smith in years gone by occupied prominent
Louisiana avenue, near the City Hall, and
learned the trade OF printer under Gales 6
subsequently with Mr.. G. c. Fulton, now of
the Baltimore Americana he bought out and
published the Georgetown 4drOcdte. a tri-week
~ paper. This was few years before the Har
TisOn and Tyler campaign, and the firm being
staunch wings, backed by VIM. Preston, OF
South Carolina; VIM G. RIves, of Virginia;
and y. r. Tallmadge, of New York. published
RerisIc. After the Campaign had closed the
firm was dissolved, and Mr.. Fulton continued
20 publish the AdrCcdte for some time. Col.
Smith returned TO the case at the National
IHt,HigeHcer Office. subsequently he was ap-
pointed a justice of the peace, and for several
years acted "a police magistrate in this city.
and his Office became one OF the leading ones in
Washington. While acting "a a magistrate he
found time to study law, and was admitted to
the bar in April, 1919. He for several years
commanded one Of the uniformed militia
regiments. and for several year. was
e9Ptain OF the Continental Guards. He
was for long time a leading member of
Ryland chapel, methodist EpiscopaD but sub
sequently he became a communicate of the
Protestant Episcopal church. In 1855 he was
elected To the board of Aldermen from the 9Th
ward of Washington. and served two terms
(four years. and was a prominent candidate
for the nomination TO the mayorslty. About
the commencement OF the war he removed to
elected to the legislature of Maryland. serving
IL the session of 1854. He leaves considerable
property in this city. His remains will be
brought here and inferred at Oak Hill.
The Grammar Prize Medals.
eUEsTIoNs AT THE ANNUAL ExAMINATION.
The annual examination for the medals offer-
ed as prizes in the grammar schools for pro-
crossing IN the study of grammar took place on
saturday last at the jefferson school building.
Each school was represented by six pupils The
following were the questions-selected by Mrs.
John Thomson:
PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMAR
4, What Il the basis of grammar? ?, What
II part OF speech? Example. 3. Hsw should
Yen determine the part of speech TO which
given word should be referred? Example. 4,
What may the antecedent OF a pronoun be?
Example. 5, How does a pronoun represent a
modified antecedent? Example. 6, What is
voice in grammar? And how is the passive
tential mood affirm? 5, What is tense and
what are Its forms? Example. 3, What d. the
auxiliary verbs express? Example. 10, Give
the formula for parsing an intransitive verb.
IL, On what three syntaetical relations is
analysis ehsefy based? IL, How do analysis and
Parsing differ?
Correct the following, where incorrect: 1,
Pupils expelled from other colleges will not be
allowed admittance here. 2, All these trees
send their top roots deep into the ground. 8,
Gentle reader, let you and me, in like manner,
walk in the paths of virtue. 4, Alan's, Smiths
and Green's store is opposite to ours. 5, Your
70 employ whoever should be sent. Z, There
are constant hostility betweenthe several tribes
Of Indians 9, He dare not say not more than
one was hurt.
3, And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
with The dew Oh his brow and the rust on his
TO- He insisted that the co;,stitgtion was certain
and liked. and contained the permanC' III .,
the people, and was the supreme law, and coua.
De revoked only by the authority that male IL.
ii, III i should use the clause "when springre-
more was wanting to make a statement. IL,
Neither OF these hypothesis is well founded,
though they have each of them its advocates.
Is. By such a course of proceeding am refused
that protection which every citizen has a right
Ia expect
u, All, well for rs all some sweet hope lays
Deeply hidden from mortal gaze
ANALYSIS AND PARsING.-
"Men, who their duties know,
But know neir rights; and taosriag ddrs m1ia-
tGia,
PTeyeDt lie long aimed blow,
And crush the tyrant ,oLile they rend the chain;
TASss constitute a state,
And sovereign lar, that states collected tciI,
Ger thrones and globes eIats
.Sits empress, crOwning gOOd-eXpressing III"
AnalyZe the first four lines, and parse the
words IN italics.
A MAN DECGGED AND Roundabout II
O'Clock last night man, named John kilmar-
tin. was drugged and robbed in knOx's alley,
betW cen T. and and Sd and \ street, as he
asserts, by two notorious colored thieves, named
Spider Brown and Henry Read. The man was
picked up in an insensible condition, and word
sent TO Lieut. Gessf0rd, who ascertained that
the men had left for Murder Bay A dspatch