National Republican., 1877-07-21
Reading, For Yesterday.
CITY NOTES.

Not marriage license was Issued yesterday.
Young lovers havoc fear Of entering wcdlock on
Friday.
The Eagle and IIooley clubs will play their
second championship game on the White Lot this
alcrnoon at t9Doclock.
Michael .Droney was protsnc on the Seventh.
street road Thursday afternoon, and yesterday
Judge Smell fined him s. for IT,
A number Of rowilcs congrcgatc every night on
the Seventh street steps Of the Patent Oncr aud
they make themselves obnoxious by their Insult
ing remarks to ladies.
Mr.. Domcr, pastor OF ST. Pants church. will al,
dress the Y, NJ. T. A. open air service In morrow
evening at the corner Of Seventh street aud Penn.
sylvania avenue, ut 7 O'Clock.
The case Of Michael Keiiher. charged In the
Police Court yesterday with selling liquor without
license In Ge1ryctowii, was postponed, and attach
ments Issued for abscnt witnesses.
John Ronshaw, grocer on IIigh, opposite Second
street. Georgct0wn, was fined sl0j In the IOlicc
Court yesterday for selling liquor by the small
without license. lilo appealed and gave boud'
In the sum OF 500
Permits have bccn issued to L.. $. Chapman To
street between First and Second northeast, tpr
ssOoO and to build seven story brick dwellings
In the same locality for sl7,JO.
. The caseof Ie ,nard T. Williams, coloryl, charged
with forging the name of Robert Franklin ~ not,
for St5 was again continued IN the rOlice Court
yesterday In consequence of death In tho family
OF the principal witness for the prosecution.
About o'clock last night coal oil lamp ex
ploded In the house No. tOIy Twenty .drst itrect
northwest, occupied by Leroy Phillips Sergeant
Perry, OF the Fourth precinct: extnsushcd the
flames with the assistance OF citizens. Damage
slight.
rkEdward Williams, an ugly idotic.looking negro.
with his front teeth out, plead not guilty In the
Police Court yesterday The charge OF being pro.
Island avenue Thursday afternoon, but the cy
Sience was too strong against him. and he paid
lime Of 81.
The members OF the New Orleans Exchange
made the trip from New Orleans To white sulphur
Springs 10 attcnd the cotton convention (now IN
seSsSn, ws, N my ho1rs n through Pas%Se Ss
Midland route, OF which Capt Pcyton, the agent.
had the sole charge
! Elon Behrcnd plead guilty before Judge Smell
yesterday to an assault on Raphael Sanger. The
parties met on Seventh street northwest Thursday
morning and had high words which ended u,
Pshrend 9sn assa1ting ssnser He paid fine Of s.
the same offense was dismissed.
Thomas Cassidy, large. healthy looking artl.
lerst, plead guilty before Judge Smell yesterday to
neishborRood OF Thirteen and half street
northwest and was hncd 81. and Ia default was
sent to drll in the potato patch Of Ilo olsson's
hrm lie will be missed at roil-call
hrs. Marin v. shanks, by her counsel. Mr. A. q.
Riddle has filed bill for divorce from her hiis,
band, Benjamin shanks, with permission to re-
na er maiden nG ma s%s They nsv %sTS married led
part with a colored girl named Susan Cole, and
another woman named Susan Peters.
q. James A. Griin coored, was in the Police Court
son on he istk Of july at % the sshSe.len @ papE
Grimm got drunk and wanted Celia to dance with
him, which she refused TO do, when he struck and
Kicked her In the side. He also struck her on the
head, for all OF which he was fined $40.
John Farrell, q bushy headed white man, plead
guilty yesterday in the Police Court to the charge
" and one Ss nISS
frightening tho lady passengers returning from
picnic a, the schuctncn park and he wa. hned IS,
and in default was sent down for fftecn days.
The contract for laying sig foot brick barrel.
sewer oil l. street northwest, between Sixteenth
street and the Slashrun sewer was recently award
ed by the District Commissioners to Mr. Henry
Hlmber, and the cost Of construction will be about
ei0OO The contractor has begun work, and push.
ing with his usual cnorgy, the work will not be
long incomplete.
The pump at the corner Of Fayette and Seventh
neighborhood depends upon this pump for their
supply OF drinking water. and the attention OF the
than once and yet 1t has not been repaired. It Is
time that this source Of water supply tO the inhab.
itants Of this neighborhood was placed In order.
- Margaret Hughes. a white woman apparently
forty years OF age, was at the bar OF the Police
Court yesterday to answer the charge of intOxica
ton. She had on All old fashioned sun.bonnet
debauch. officer vokman of the Fourth precinct
arrested her Thursday evening f3r ounging around
went down for sixty days
sEllen Coleman colorod, plead not guilty IN the
Police Court yesterday to the charge OF vngrancy
Dancer Auldridge testified that frequent complaints
public reservation between Thirteenth and -Four.
soenth streets and Pennsylvania avenue northwest
abontthis woman constantly loaans In the re,er.
was sent down for % days
"a woman who was picking berries along the
railroad near Rockville was Instantly killed by
day. when tho train approached tho eugin Ger
blew the WHISTLE and the woman ran up the en-
aansment out OF danger. but evidently becoming
confused, she ran back as II to the trnck In
front OF the engine, and the cow-cather struck her.
cutting of the whole of the back of her head.
10 The case Of John and james Twine, two col.
Carter also ecored.Sn he % i7,S nsian, 'ic whics
was continued In tho Police Court on Thursday
came up for final hearing yesterday, when John
sixty days. Carter was arragned on II counter
charge for assaulting the Twinc bruthcrs and was
fined $40 aud costs, and In default was sent to jia
for twenty days.
George Curran, alias skinny" Currnn. a tall.
skinny looking negro man, was IN the dock OF tho
Police Court yesterday, charged by Mrs. Anue NJ.
ing her bird and cage from 10 front Of her promises
on the morning Of The I'd instant Curran plead
elusive, and he having been before the court pre-.
yiously on other charges, the Court imposed finc
ofsSO, and In default sent him down for 60 days.
Yesterday morning, between 7 and so'ciock, a
negro youth named Cornelius Ashton entered the
drug store OF Mr.. \ J. Mcpherson, No 0ii r street
northwest and while lie clerks back was turned
lined the top Of one Of the show cases and stole
iiye handsome smelling bottles, valued at be.
tween 81 and SIS lie was about To depart when
the clerk caught him and sent for Officer Slattcry
OF the Finh precinct, who arrested him. Judge
Smell committed him To Jail for four months
Ashton Is a noted sneak thief and shoplfcr.
g. Between 5 and 0 O'Clock yesterday morning on.
Ger Auldridgc, Of the Finh precinct arrested n
negro boy about sixteen years OF ago on rennsyl
yaiiia avenue, between Tenth and Eleventh streets
northwest, having In his possession two valuable
silver mugs, which he stated were given 10 him by
his mother. Al the station. house he gave the name
OF John Thomas Williams Judge Smell sent him
TO the work house rs suspicious character On
ono of the mugs IL Inscribed. From my grand.
father" and OH the other, Presented 10 Sergeant
X. II. leslie by Capt Robt McLane for the best
shot May is, 1876"
. The oficers in charge Of the Washington navy
yard and its various departments arc John C.
Febger, commodore and commandant depart
ment OF yards and docks Civil Engineer A. q.
Hepocal; department Of navigation Captain A. G.
Badger; department OF ordnance, Lieutenant Com.
naiider A. y. Crownlnshelh; department OF medl.
cline and surgery, Adrian Hudson; department of
PROVISIONS and clothing, PaymAster George A.
Lyon; department OF steam engineering Chief
Engineer John W. Moore; department OF cOn.truc-
tion and repair, Naval Constructor r. W. Steele.
John A. Waters a genteel, looking white man, was
N the lnck Df the pOlrN (sOurt Yesterday