Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-15
LOCAL NEWS
Coudens<n Locals

The grand DAY and evening picnic OF Mount
Vernon Lodge X. Of p, A. Anaiosan Island on
delightful out door partiesof the season.
John Galway was suDstruck yesterday while
streets, and was taken 10 his home In East
FogndTy N. E. Church is temporarily closed
in eOnssauspee 81 ne 90, e,fsns,ss repairs now In
Cake the congreea.on viii until vther nsttce
occupy willard hall ON Sunday
The Board Of Public WORKS We svxrded
ing brick sewer on Boundary rect eaS, I.om
Ilth 70 18Th street east. 1t vi be RSne feet
nine inches in diameter.
TIA Mr. Charles jest, web known carpen-
trr Of this Gig, died yesterday st Q SIMMER
1850. IN Pepusylysr.a, whittier he hal so.e to
Mssnfncent scenery, cool mountain air. q 1
good fishing, at Beilefonte, Pa, and hospitab'e
kOsts at the Bush house in that place. TIE cele-
brsted spring thereyieds Il, oe6 gallars Of water
per minute, while the scenery e uueycelled in
Switzerland. good table b the boast of the
hotel. Sse Advertisements.
The new Temperance Hail Building Assocf,-
zion met last evening at the Office of MIR. ID. p.
Holloway, and completed its Organization by
the election of the following officers: W. II.
Young, president; e. e CORNER, secretary; Ed
ward johnson, treasurer The association pro-
poses to build hall for the use OF the temper
ance people Of the DISTRICT
The Vienna corresnondent of the New Yo X
T.IBupe in noticing re United States esuc
d Dnal grouD in the exhibition lays: "Our cad
ing educa cnal textbooks sre shows: the
nodel Of the Frar Kiln schoolhouse in Wc~h-
ington, and the photographs of Boston, st.
Louis, end Washington school buildings will give
fOreil hers favorable impression Of our pubic
school architecture, while the charts fsr1ished
by our principal Giles, showing the sch VI a.
tendance and the smorut Of money they expend
for education tagether with the library of state
ton to ell who may wish to make q thorough
study Of our system OF public education"
The WASHINGTON GROVE CAMr-MEErrNG
The Me'is d-ts of this DISTRICT held a meeting
last evening at Wesley Chapel, corner of 5th
and + s.-eets, In reference to the proposed
Chased by the association, near Gaithersburg,
in MsryIand, on the Metropolitan railroad.
Meta .tbsiardiny the rain, there was a goo
ST. ndance; delegations irom the different
chutches, including their pastors, being TT.
sent. The meeting IVES opened By singing and
prayer. DIT. F. Howard, president, took the
be to increase the existing interest in the APP
preaching cJmp-meeting 20 enthusiasm, to dis
De OF tie remaining stock, and insure the
soceess or the enterprise Dr. Green spoke in
regard to he peculiar benefits derived by 'he
Me-hOdiss church from camp-meetlngs, and
urged a. to SO in the proper spirit, and COM
Mrs. ley gave her personal experiences of 81
yCsrs re Gar attendance on clmp-meet ngs.
Others followed, speaking OF the Importance of
the coming camp IN citing 10 the church. The
IN citing. was intersp ersed with hymns appro-
pirate 10 the occasion. Owing to the prevailing
stste of religious feeling the business iteu'S
sale o. stock, Sc, were conducted privately
The officers OF the association are as follows:
FlOdo-rdO Howard, president; w. X. Wood
wPrT, vice president; !. A. Ruff, treasurer; 4.
r SIM IN, Qt05 Pennsylvania avenue) secre-
tary; John T. Mitchell, 3. II. Stinemetz w.
81 Mur'ayh TbOs. SommerviIle, j. W. Wade,
Alex. Ashlev, X. III. Willet, W. III. Talbot
and G. W. MOSley. trustees, G.. 7. McCilue II.
IL L1ngle~, W. r. Hunt, Israel We ,held.
ITiah G..iith, Geo. 1. Hall, L. S. Chapm91,
Tbos. p. Morgan. jos. n. Davis, Henry j.
Whalen, j. k. Riggles, G. 4. Woodward,
G., n We cOUm n. g.
ciICu'Pr has been isSded by the committee
in re-epee to the meeting, which says: The
as>ocit on Is formed for the p. emotion of a
grea- pubic and personal good, for soul and
body, v thout special privileges to any. The
tIact l. located on the line of the Metropolitan
railroad, sone twenty miles from the cisy, is
elevated and healthy, and embraces near two
two hundred acres of beautiful woodland, with
abundance Of pure cold drinking watar. After
the land has been plotted, il is the intention of
the trustees to issue renewable leases to Sits
slif-ble for summer rc tidences, for which its
nearneSs 70 the railroad, its elevated position
being over five hundred feet above tide-water
Its salubrtty, and numerous other advantages
render 1t desirable. The capital stock has been
Fixed at S'0,G 20, divided into 200 shares of 500
each The camp t1's year VIII be held August
18th.