Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-06-09
LOCAL EW :.
District Government AMIR.

good and sufficient stone wall. 80 feet
long, feet high ana Two thick. has been or
dere'i below the canal oa Washington street,
georgetown, 10 protect the property adjacent.
street contractors WHO permit dirt % be
hsuiinE on the paved streets are 20 De charged
streets hereafter.
The market master OF the Northern Iib-
erty msrket-houSe has teen directed 20 have
the wagons which are ABOUND that place on
market days hereafter parked on a lot al
lolnlng the market house. instead of ON Sun
BY order of the District Commissioners the
SIDEWALKS on ifth street nnrfhw- a bPtyvaan
\ anu L streets, have been widened two feet
by putting back the Voc lem rails TO taaf
distance. i4th street is an important th0r-
onghfare and This u an improvements that
pedestrians Will appreciate
A four ton double beam hav scale has g,sa,,
ordered To be erected I'm place Of the one
now I'm use i'm Georgetown. the builder u
have lease on the same for one wear. free OF
expense. and 10 Afterwards To belong 10 the
District, the uSe OF the same 10 be soid an
nually thereafter.
In reply To q request OF a propariy-holder
adjacent 20 Jackson Han alley that hits
alley he cicapeJ twice Per week, located a. II
Is M the heart of the city. surrounded 10y
hotels. stables and restaurants. Lieut. HoNic
STATES mat the active corporation OF the
property holders al i8ccnt. ~ their sanitary
habits i Indispensable 10 the keeping c.ean
the public alleys
A NoUTHFVu FEMALE TurFp - This
morning Detective COomeS arrested a little
white girl banned Kate Howard. about thir-
teen years old, who resides with her mother
IN the eastern portion OF the city. ON the
charge OF stealing two gold watches. One
OF them, valued AT Sl21. belonged Ia Mr. w.
w. Minship. in the army engineer bureau.
Winder building. He states that this gitl
has been i'm the habit o. visiting his Office Ton
some time past soliciting aims; that about
TWO oclock yesterday she came and said her
mother had nothing to eat in the house AMI
he gave her . cents from his vest pocket
which was hanging up in his Office with his
watch In pocket. Having occasion b.
leave the room for a moment he LEFT her
standing there. and on his return She was
gone In short time he missed his watch
ana suspectlng this girl ne reported the case
20 0hlei Clarvoe. who put il i'm charge OF Mr..
toomes. After arresting the girl ne made A
toCr through the pawn shops and such other
places as buy anything that comes along
without asking any questions and in a ieyy-
elers shop on i street he found Mr. Win
shlps watch, which the dealer had pur-
chased of the girl for so: also another eoiH
watch worth about SO. which had been
stolen in the same manner from Mr. VIM N
Grtiith, on 18th street. which the girl had
sou lor 10. Tue property was recovered.
and measures will be taken 10 prosecute Ia,
dealer who, IL i alleged, must have known
the articles 10 be stolen. The little girl states
that her mother sends her out 10 beg, but she
never took anything not her own before
The officers doubt this statement
y MOTHER SEEKING TO RECOVER UrR
1HILD FROM THE GYPsIEs.-Neste ntay Mr.
VIM. VI. Evans, attorney for Mrs Sarab
Harrison, obtained from Judge MacArthura
writ OF RDbedS corpus for the return of a little
girl nine years old named Curlenia HarriSon
now detained al "A camp OF gypSies near this
city. She is the daughter OF the pefltfoDeT
whose husband J. a gypsy named Valentine
Harrison. Her petition sets forth that her
husband has lately been confined i'm the aSy-
lu1n as an insane man, but that upon MIS-
discharge or escape he took the little girl 10
TIE gypsy CO mp, where the mother alleges
She will suffer FOR the want OF the neceSSarieS
OF lie.