National Republican., 1877-09-11
raxRxoAErRre REAprsos FOR YxsrsspAy.
CITY NOTES.

"A large number of minor cases were
disposed Of by Judge Mills yesterday.
The Mrs r. B. Hayes Temperance So
oioty is threatened with internal dissensions.
Robert McColum was fned SIS or
thirty days In Jail In the Police Court yester.
day for malicious trespass.
The case against John w. friedman,
charged with most indecent offonse. has been
set for tomorrow In the Police Court.
Martha Woods stole SO worth of wash
ing from Virginia Minor, and was yesterday
sent to jail for sixty days in default of $40
fine.
The work of repairing the Tiber arch
at NJ and North Capitol streets was commen ed
yesterday by the contractors, Mossrs. Murphy
q Davis.
1t cost Thomas Armstrong $40 and
costs for an assault on Louisa Wood;all. Both
parties are colored, and Judge Mills fixed the
damages.
The work ofplacing the new draw on
the Virginia end of the Long bridge was fin
ished yesterday morning, aud trains ran yes
terday as usual.
A colored damsel named Lizzie, for the
larceny of fifty cents worth Of buttons from
Joseph Cato, was fined five dollars by Judge
Mills yesterday.
the Police Court yesterday for profanity. This
isa modest. looking colorcd youth, aud not the
spirit Of the great departed.
The finance committee of the Labor
Exchange meets this evening at 1880 o'clock
at the office of Fitch & Fox. A full aud
prompt attendance Is desired
The tall grass which 20 long has dis
figured the Smithsonian grounds is being cut
down and stacked, and the genial rays of the
sun are fast turning 1t into hay.
The public schools were opened yester-
day. Tho scholars who were on the rolls last
year were admitted and the transfers made.
Scholars will be admitted by tickets to-day.
A colored man named George Chandler
contributed s. in the Police Court yesterday
as the result of street fight He protested
that. "hC was not fighting; they were fighting
me-"
John W. Norris, Charles Carter, James
Bigler and John BlackstOn were fined s. each
in the Police Court yesterday for an affray at
the corner of Seventh and b streets Saturday
night.
This is good time to get mp grand
concert in aid of the Labor Exchange move
mcnt. There are enough singers In this city
and leaders of ability to organize regular
jubilee.
A little colored boy by the name of
Robert Tunsell struck John c. Hall. another
colored hoy of small size, in the head with
stone, and the matter was settled for $40 In
the Police Court yesterday.
-Oficer Hamlein yesterday morning re-
covered half set of handsome silyer-niounted
double harness, which an unknown colored
nan offered for sale for $40. The harness Is
at the Fifth precinct station waiting to be
identified.
Walter Hungerford, very black and
very ugly, pleaded guilty In the Police Court
yesterday to an assault with intent to kill
Dora Williams, his paramour, and he was COM
mitted to Jail for the grand jury In default of
$500 bouds.
The following marriage licenses were
Issued yesterday: solomon Gross and Laura
Smith George W. Hutchinson and Clara Van
Gueder Fernando Shipley and Ann Jackson,
George Bool and Mary Eugleke, and Fanny
Warner and Chris Holm.
Three colorcd men, named Singleton
Bell, Lewis DOdson and James White, created
disturbance ut the corner of Four-and a half
and streets southwest on the 25th of August |
last, and were fined five dollars each for 1t in
the Police Court yesterday.
The ear drivers of the Washington and |
Georgetown railroad give a picnic on Thur
day, September 20, at Beyers Seventh street |
park. As they know how to manage such |
things and have hosts of friends 1t will un- |
doubtedly be recherche affair.
One of the nicklc-plated lamps belong
ing on the hook aud ladder was lost In run |
ming to the fire early last Sunday morning, |
and the finder would confer favor by return. |
Ing II to the truck house on Massachusetts, |
avenue, between Fourth and Fifth streets
northwest.
William Warren, cOlored, acknowledged |
In the Police Court yesterday that he stole q |
broom from Mrs. Anna d. Yates, but pleaded |
as an excuse that he was drunk. The Court |
hold that man who was able to get drunk |
these times was able to pay IS to support the |
District, and fined Warren accordingly.
referring to an article entitled "A Cap
ltol Hill Husband" published in Fridays issue
Of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, we desire to
say that We were imposed upon by our inform
lnt, and have done great injustice to the par.
hes referred to therein, and chccrfully retract
lhe same as the only reparation left us, and
Cue the parties.
Mrs. Hardy, colored, mother of John
Hardy, aged about ten years, tried to prove in |
the Police Court yesterday that one Albert |
smith, white boy, had ill-trcatcd her son, |
but was only successful in showing that she |
felt aggriovcd at young Smith because his |
father had called her "nigger." The case |
was dismissed.
Special Assistant District Attorney |
Robert J. Murray has just submitted his re- |
port of cases tried by him in the Police Court |
during the month OF August last, showing the |
number to be AL, of which there were 4Oi |
convictions and Go dismssals. The fines
amounted to Sl,707, and tho forfciturcs to
s53l, making total of S2,32s.
The case Of Julia Berry, charged by
James +. Russell with perjury, was called in
the Police Court yesterday and postponed, the
defendant being required to give $500 bonds.
The alleged false swearing was done before
United States Commissioner p. f. Larner when
she said that Russell was often drunk that
she sold two and half dozen whisky bottles
for him; that he threatened to decapitate her
with carving-knife and pitch her head out
of the window, and u number of other matters
equally material to the issue being tried.
An honest-looking Irishman named
Daniel Kane was accidentally run over by n
carriage Saturday, and the pain was such that
he had to get drunk to stand it, This caused
his appearance in the Police Court yesterday
to answer the charge Of profanity He adj
mitted the language, and told the above as an
extenuation, saying in addition that this was