National Republican., 1877-07-16
.h.rmome,rio nendIny, For Ye.terday.
CITY NOTES.

house blotters Saturday night |
The petit jurors In the Criminal Court have
hcen discharged until septemberF
Yesterday was st. swithin day, and asi did
not rain the weather prophets are non-plussed.
The police made thirty mine arrests during
saturday and saturday night It was unusually
saiet
A new trial was granted on Saturday to
Matthew j. Pope charged with selling liquor without
aBcense.
Cumberland Is boasting black bass twenty
twoand inches in length caught In the river
near that city.
There are few Of them who have not yet
gone to the springs Nine tramps were sheltered In
the station-houses saturday night
This will probably be the closing week of
ne term OF the Circuit Court, and II Is expected thai
NE appeal calendar will be finished.
A gang of chicken thieves is devastating the
hen-c -coops and chicken.houses in the vicinity OF
brooks station, on the Metropolitan Branch rail-
road.
Saturday morning Mr.. Alfred J. Marshall
painter OF Alexandria died suddenly at his residence
IN that city from the effects Of attack Of cholera
morbus
Richard johnson will stand trial in the
Police Court this morning. charged by oricer Lewis,
Of the First precinct, with carrsin concealed
weapon.
Frank Gsssaway was convicted 10 the Grim
hal Court last SATURDAY OF assaultnE and roohing
Randall johnson, and sentenced to Ave years In the
Dsnitenuary.
. Thomas Van Ruth has been sent to the In
sane Asylum. A charge Of asssuitng bis wifa pend
ing against him In the Police Court was on Saturday
soie pro'cq,Hed.
Warren C. Stone, esq, has associated with
him rs partner in his law business Mr. L. r. Hanley.
Both the gentlemen graduates OF the law school
0f0eorgetown College.
, . Saturday evening James Coyle, fourteen
vsars old while playing with colored boy at the cor
her OF Fih aud streets northwest fell on the pave
ncnt and broke his arm.
Max and Paul wellner, the two brothers
who were arrested for stealing $40 nom Albert De
y1lie were on Saturday committed for q hearing by
Judgc Smell bonds bsing aKed at 900 each.
The work Of laying the concrete pavement
d The Intersection OF Massachusetts avenue and
Yoarth street northwest has heeu completed, and the
streets interesting At that point present more re
spectable appearance.
Chip Thompson, the enterprising rope
walker who broke his head in Alexandria about two
years ago has turned up In Philadelphia, and has n
ready fallen from a wire stretched the Schuyl
lii. lie will distinguish himselfyet
Officers Ross and Perry last Saturday night
found the body OF coorsd infant, much decompOsed
on X street, between New Jersey avenue and Third
street northwest and took TO the seventhprecinci
station The coroner gave certificate OF burial
, OF all the old notaries appointed by the
spurt af,een remain In offce and Of this number two
ssy have fled an impression OF their Official seal with
ne clerk Of court required by law. Unless this
b done the clerk cannot certify to the notarys official
character.
p A permit has been issued to A. r. Shepherd
n repair brick dwelling at the northwest corner OF
at nf IA sIul and
70 e D. Church construct twostory brick mill for
s.wtnx wood, on Twelfth street, between and +
sostheast. for tGo.
Marriage licenses have been issued to the
Sbiiowing parties: Charles T. Mercy, OF Memphis,
Tenn, and Annie Adams T A. Scrivener and Kate
Coates OF Cunsrd, ireland: e. II. Fuse and Nellie H.
Roche; Spencer Hill and Annie Givinss f. W. War
I'm and Matilda Gross.
- John Scheck was approached by two white
men at the corner OF sixth and streets northwest,
about iaD oclock yesterday morning who attempted
70 rob him. Schecks cries for help brought out Offi-
esr ONell from police headquarters, but by the time
- reached the spot the two robbers had escaped.
William Alexander Warren, residing in
Nichols row. between and q and First streets and
delaware avenue northeast, awOke at o'clock yt s.
Sesday morning and found his wife, Hattie Warren,
Tying dead ct his side. She had been sick since her
confinement, three weeks ago. The coroner was no
tfhed OF her death
y Henry Burk, Abraham Washington and
hudson Taylor were put trial In the Criminal
Court saturday the charge of RSsaultina and rob
blpg Peter Norton The first two were convicted and
the last named acquitted motion for new trial
wa overruled and the parties sentenced to the pen
tentiary for three years
Rev. Samuel Scott, colored Baptist
preacher was fined s5 by Judge Smell last saturd D,
fr assalting his wife Betsey Scott. She said that h
reverend gentleman did nothing to support her nn'
that he came to her house to take her household
koods when she resisted and he assaulted her an,
threw her down Scotts witnesses denied that Their
Nss any assault. An appeal WAS taken.
4 Officers Morgan and Janifer, Of the Secon,
precinct yesterday afternoon arrested colored bar
ber named John e. Brooks, charged with stealing q
hom the son OF Mr. VIM Bird wylie about mont
aso. Mr. wyile went to the shop where Brooks wa
employed to get 80 bill changed. Brooks took III
bnl to get II changed, and disappeared. lie len tn
tty and had not been here until yesterday whe
he was arrested.
4 Yesterday afternoon, shortly after 12 o'clock
while summer-car No 80, OF the Washington an
Georgetown railroad going east, soon amer pas,
ing the seventhstrect Junction the pin holding III
Nhifietrees came out, separating the horses frcm III
car, frightening them and causing them to run OF
They were captured by Oficcr Columbus, Of the Sci
enth precinct, opposite Marble alley, between FOu
snd-ahalf and Sixth streets. One OF the horses WI
slightly injured.
When the Western train moved from the Ba
timore and Ohio depot yesterday morning little gil
hot more than four years Of age len the pli,
form, Its parents having gotten on the train withOr
her II clung the STEPS Of the car, and fell and
most slipped under the wheels, when Onicer NJ
Henry caught 1t, and lining up, by running ROI
with the car safely deposited II on the plRtfOrr
where II was quickly snatched up into the arms
the terrified mother. The narrow OF the chi
was witnessed by many persons, whose blood "
chilled with fear.
On the south side Of Babcock lake near Il
Washington monument, Is u fine spring Of most d
ncious water. II should be preserved and protect
IN the usual way for the benefit of those who visit /
long neglected reservation. A correspondent, "
counterfeils the signature of George Washington ca
attention to the spring, and says: Appeal to G.
Casey for q small expenditure for this purpose, a
assure him that II will be the best spent money of
official life, and by common consent the famous q
monument pump OF Gnks-bsHtHI days Will lie C
yertsd into the Casey spring Of the future"
Pickpockets Arrested.
Sam Patch, alias Campbell, and Warn
Meyers, alias John Guy Edwards, two not
thieves, were arrested Saturday night, abo
IL o'clock, by Officers Whcclock and McKenI
of the Seventh precinct, charged with bei
suspicious characters. They are known to &
malice as nick poe X cts, and both have served