Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-04-21
Condensed Locals.

Ohio republicans meet tonight. See adv
The street lamps will be lighted al 1:lO D.
m. and eNtinguished at 3:15 a. m.
In the list of pardOns published yesterday
u should have been stated that Career was
and had already seryed twerty-six months.
His parton was recommended by the Jury
who convicted him.
A chorus of upwards of 500 vocalists, Sc
lected from the various cOIored public
schC OILS, are rehearsing at the Sumner schOal
building. under the supervision OF Prot. j.
ESputa, preparatory 20 giving a grand con.
cert next month, ut FOrd's op sra house.
Warden Croker. OF tue jail, LETT on the Q %
train OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
last nj ght, en- route for the Albany peniten-
uaTy, having in Charge number OF prison.
Court.
The pastors and the committees represent
ing Asbury, IbCneZeT, and Mt. Zion NJ. T..
churches ana Bladensburg circuit, met last
plght In As0ury church To consider the pro-
pTieLy OF holding campmeeting. Rev. p.
q. walker was elected chairman and Rev.
Benz. Brown, Jr.. chosen secretary.
To prevent any miscODstructiOn from
similarity OF names IL is proper To state that
q. Harrison Emerson, proprietor and pub
Ilsher OF the popular Business Guide of
Washington, ID. c., is rot in any manner
interested in the Employment Agency IN
the Columbian Law Building, of which we
mad occasion 10 speak yesterday in our po
lice reports.
A company has been formed in this city
for the purpose OF establishing q summer re-
sort at Bluff Point, st. Mary's county, Nd.
lDilOWluS nave DeCn erected OfIlcerS. a.
*. shepherd, president; Frank Jones, trea-
surer; George PaTkhUTst, secretary; f.. q.
wheeler. manager. The property consists
OF 1I5 acres OF land and IL Is the purpose OF
the company TO erect hotel.
THE WASH EGTON MONUMENT SOCIETY
met yesterday, Mr.. COrcOran presiding and
DIR. Blake secretary. Mr.. r. ID. Stuart sub
United report from the committee on the
prOpTiety OF memorialiZing state and terri
tOrial legislatures for aid in the completion
of the shaft, and il was ordered that the me-
mortal be prepared and presented at the Lext
meeting. Mr.. Stuart presented q drawing
showing the modified height of the monu-
ment and It's base, and giving the termina-
ton of a number of the highest structures in
heights, and that the proposed monument as
modified will be higher than any of them
The drawing was approved and adopted, and
ordered 10 be printed and autographed under
his direction. IL was also ordered that the
model at the Patent Office be altered to con-
form TO the notifications OF the plan. a let
ter received from the secretary of Charter
Oak Council, No. {, o. u. A. NJ. New York
city, stating that an application had been
made for the payment of the first instalment
OF the subscription OF his council, was laid
before the meeting. The letter purported to
have come from the late secretary of the
Monument Society, and requests the money
10 be forwarded to him at Philadelphia. The
the application as a gross attempt at fraud
and The signature OF the late secretary a for
gerry. as he departed this life nearly two
months before The date of the application.
The society approved OF the secretary's an
SWer.