Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-09-23
District improvements.


orders have been issued for u inch pine
sewers In alley In square 465, and on + street
between Ith and sth southwest; - grade and
gravel L street, between 26th and 9th and
9Th street, from X a2d l. northwest; gravel ID
street. from 9Th ID eth southeast; to repair aIIey
on south side ID, between 9TH and Sth north
west; the paving OF L street, Z to eth streets
.outhwestj has been changed from blue rock +
concrete. Set curb, lay sidewalks and concrete
carrlageway on b street, between LIST and 2d
northeast. Put in Pinch sewer on New York
avenue, between 18th and 10Th northwest and
on X street, between 18th and goth, northwest
Grade north side of Pennsylvania avenue, be-
tween LIST and I'd streets, southeast Grade
gravel and build tfessle bridge on Suit road.
A BUILDING ASSOCIATION ON A New PLAN.
number of well known business men of this
city recently determined to organize a building
company on plan entirely new in this section
The capital stock is to consist of five hundred
SHARES OF $500 each, to be paid in monthly in
stalments of $40 on each share, and they have
secured already subscribers Tor four hundred
shares. They have arranged for the purchase
OF square No. 562. bound q by 9th and 10th and
and L streets northwest, which, according r.
the plat, has one hundred fine building lots
through the center of the square is a street
hfty feet wide, and when under way the com
pany Will at once improve the interior street
This seems sensible plan of cooperation, and
the names Of the gentlemen connected with it
IL a guarantee that its affairs will be admins
tered in a business-l like manner. and will prove
profitable. The subscribers will hold a meeting
tonight ut the board OF trade rooms for the pur-
BO>C VI pOsiuS VI Jut remainder or the stock
and perfecting the organization OF the com
pany.
NEW STEAMERS ON THE PoToMAC,-,he
steamer Palisade arrived in Alexandria yester-
day afternoon, and will be run hereafter, com
mencing to-day, on the Potomac river on the
schedule of the Inflated Wawaset. The Pail
SADIE has been taken from the Norfolk and
Richmond line. She belongs 20 Mr.. L. W. H.
White, of Crisfeld, and Is commanded by Cant
Joseph White, The steamer Pilot Boy, also to
IA m lNuQE EN y alA
steamers schedule, arrived here Yesterday from
Baltimore, and commenced her trips to-day.
ANOTHER SUIT AGAINST rHgB. & q. RAIL
ROAD CoMPANY.-Yesterday Messrs. Merrick
ana Norris entered suit for John NJ. Hall against
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company, for
$1,000 damages. Plaintiff sets forth til at as he
was crossing ID street, in this city on the 18th of
June last, he was caught between two OF the
Baltimore and Ohio cars, and his foot crushed
and broken, by reason of which he was laid
up and disabled from business for over two
months. He claims $1,000 damages.
The CASE OF JUDGE wRIGHr.-Th,s morn
Ing the grand jury of the Criminal Court of the
District of Columbia, Judge McArthur re-
turned into court twenty-nine bills of iudict-
ment charging John W. Wright with forging
and uttering the names of several Indians to
receipts for bounty and back paw due by the
United States or or about October list, 1872
me indictments are found on the evidence of
Joseph a. Williamson, Alex. Clapperton, John
u. Jones, OO-saw-me, Thos Sanders robert
JOHNSON ana Henry T.. Mills.
TRANSFER OF PoLICEMEN.-Oficers Dins-
more and Riordan, of the 5th precinct have
been transferred TO their old quarters at the
7thi and Officers Powell and Dubois, of that
precinct, have been transferred to the 9Th; Of
hcer Mari, of the same precinct, exchanges
places with officer Mores of the 9Th, and Dr.
ficer Ofutt, of the eth, and officer Richardson
Of the sth, exchange places.
INCREASE OF RAILROAD BUsINKss.-Last
night the Baltimore and Potomac railroad COM
pany found IL necessary to run three freight
trains north instead OF one, which trains In
Guided "a cars Of stock from the south. The
through freight business south from New York
has increased TO such extent that the officials
are making preparations for furnishing addi-
tional facilities.
The REGATTA To-DAY.-This morning the
regsua-between the Fanny Bell, Gertrude,
Spray, and John It. Given-for the prize psn,
nant took place, the boats getting off about 10
O'Clock. The Given lead for some distance but
the Bell passed her when off Alexandria. The
race Is to Fort Foote, rounding q buoy and re-
turn.
SUIT FOR DIvoRoE.-Yesterday Mr.. !. III
MIandeyilie filed bill for divorce for Mrs Ella
Lawrence (Ree Groshon) from the bonds of
matrimony with Atkins S. Lawrence. we'll
known In theatrical circles, and now in Phila-
9elpnia, on the ground of adultery with one
Lu Chandler.
SINGULAR AccIDENr.-Yesterday afternoon,
two carts collided on Q street, between Atm and
9TH, and james Kicks, colored, one of the
drivers, was thrown out and one Of tho horses
DIR. Prentiss dressed the wound.
IWm. Packer and Herman Franks vere
drowned in the bay Of San Francisco SUNDAY
afternoon while endeavoring to reach the wreck
off ha Caefa Rica a sail hOaf-