Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-11
The District i'm Congress-.
CEMETERY FOR SCHOOL PUR-
POSES.


POSES.
The Senate to-day passed the bin granting
all the right and title of the United States to
square l09, in the city of Washington, COM
monty known as Holmeads cemetery, In the
District Dist Of Columbia for public school pur-
erS of the District or their successors in office,
may at any time sell any part or the whole OF
said square: but the proceeds of such sale or
sales shall be exclusively invested in sites for
pub bic schools or in the erection or purchase
OF school buildings, and shall be used for no
other purpose whatever. But before making
any disposition of the said square, the Dis
trict of Columbia shall remove all the bodies
remaining inferred therein to some suitable
burial ground, together with all tombstones
or other monuments remaining at the graves
from which the bodies are so removed.
DEsCENTs AND INHERITANCE.
Also. "a bill declaratOry of the law relating
to deScents and inheritance in the District of
Columbia in certain cases." which enacts,
that the issue of any marriage of coOred
peTsOns, contracted and entered into accord
ing to any custom prevailing at the time in
any Of the states wherein the same occurred,
shall, for all purposes of descent and inherit
ance OF, and the TRANSMISSION OF both real and
personal property within tine District Of Co
lumoia, be deemed and held to be 'egiti mate,
ard capable of 1nheriting and transmitting
Inheritance, and taking as next of kin and
distribute according to law, from and to their
parents, or either of them, and from and to
those from whom such parents, or either of
them, may inherit or transmit inheritance,
n3thihg in the laws of such state to the con
traiy row Outstanding: PrOrided, That moth
ing herein shall be construed as Implying that
any such marriage is not valid or such Issue
legitimate for all other purposes"
PROTECTION OF LIBRARIES.
Also, the bill epacting THAT any person who
shall steal, wrongfully deface, iniure, multi lte
tear. or destroy any book pamphlet, or IN anu
script, or any portion thereof, belonging to the
Library OF Congress; or to any PUBLIC library
in the District of Columbia, whether the prop
erty of the United States or of any Individual
or corporation in said District or shall steal,
Wrongfuliy deface, injure, mutilate, tear, or
destroy any book, pamphlet, document, manu-
script. print, engraving, medal, newspaper, or
work OF art, the property of the United States.
shall be held guilty of a miSdemeanOr, and on
conviction thereof, shall, when, the offence is
not otherwise punishable by some statute of
the United States, be punished by a fine of not
less than ten dollars nor more than one thou
sand dollars, and by imprisonment for not less
than one nor more than twelve months, OF
both, for every such offence"
THE WASHINGTON MoNUMENT-The adop-
ton by the Senate yesterday. and by the
House last Saturday, of the report of the com
mittee OF conference on the Washington mon
ument BILL secures the prompt completion Of
mat structure In accordance with the mOdi
fed design prepared by Mr.. Larkin G. Mead
and adopted by the Monument Society last
year. The monument will consist of the shaft
40 feet in height. Around the base will be a
HouDic tcIldCt, -uU lttb Square ana II iteJ IN
height. At the four corners there will be stairs
leauIng to the upper terrace, on a level with
the the entrance to the shaft. At distance of 30
bas relefs on the four sides of the shaft 30
feet in length and II feet in height, represent
Ing prominent events in the life of Washing
ron ION ,, On each side of the steps to the terrace
ueS representing distinguished characters of
revolutionary times. The pantheon seen on
so many OF the plans was never adopted
no atl COL - nj
ten feet in height. which has been on eX-
hibition in statuary hall, and in the
room of the Senate committe on pub
which is the plan by which the monument will
be finished, was prepared by Mr.. Larkin &.
Meade at the special request OF DR.. John B.
Blake, the secretary of the society, who has
worked during the session almost necessarily
tor the success of the enterprise. The joint
STmWlss Enrc Consisting OF the Presdent Mr.
Edward Clark. tarchtect Of the Capito9 and
j. q. Hill, Supervising architect of the Treas
ury( will, it is presumed, go right to
work and finish it with all practical dispatch.
There are 12O tablets which have been con-
trlbuted from societies and other OrganiZa
tCns: as also from several states and foreign
countries, 40 of which are alreadyin The mOnu-
nent, and 80 now in the lapidarium will be
placed In it as the work proceeds, and it is
expected that many others will be contributed
for tbs purpose.
An adjourned meeting of the Monument
Society will be held at Il O'Clock on Thursday
at the Office of the Judge Advocate General,
and the vacancies OccaSiOned by the death Of
Prof. Henry and Major Mcdonald will be filled
as required by the charter.
THE ANSWER OF BELvA A LOCKWOOD to
q. writ issued by the Hon. Judge of the Police
Court, June the 18th, to show cause on the Sth
OF June, 1878, why she should not be adj Judged
guilty of contempt, is as follows; That She
naS the proIoundeSt respect for the court and
It's DEGREES; that she is not before the court in
the cause of John Martin, either as plaintiff,
defendant, witness or attorney; that she did
not request further hearing, nor any hearing
before the Police Court, but demurred to her
goods and chattelS being returned to the thief
WhereupOn the court ordered that the lieuten
ant OF police hold the things until June the
4th, having previously ordered that they be
returned to John Martin; that the defect
III the warrant, in that it did not mention the
vent the detention of the stolen goods which
goods it did correctly describe that Martini
While the felony OF which he is accused is
vantage OF his own tort, and receive the stolen
goods back, before the grand Jury, to whom
the case las been sent has disposed of it; that
cedure of the Criminal Court to receive her
household goods, awaited herself of her legal
remedy. after due consultation and cOmpe-
enn e gal ady be and by writ Of reReyea
Cartier and eRtitIsd Bslva A. Ioefwood '! VS.
day of June, 1873, at / O'Clock p. M, replevy
from the said John Martin, to whom these
goods We're now cOnstructively delivered, uch
portions of her goods as she had succeeded in
hndlng by means of the search warrant: that
she IS FULLY persuaded that she had perfect
legal right to repevy from j Ohm Martin, the
things that he had stolen and taken by force
and fraud but she is not conscious of having
dlSobeyed, in any particular, any order, de-
cree. or even any remote suggestion of the
court; that John Martin has fled his answer
to the suit in replevy No. 1865, in due form of
law in the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia: Had the writ been improvidenty
he could have demurred: that the affiani has
given the requisite bond for the things re-
covered in double their value; is a resident
citizen, a taxpayer, and au officer of the court;
and as such be not likely apt to abscOnd be-
fore the action of the grand jury; wherefore
having fully answered, she asks that the
rule OF the 18th instant, may be dismissed.
1t appears to be a question whether or not
the goods were in the custody of the officers
or of Martin, when the replevin was served;
the court reserved the final disposition until
next Saturday, to ascertain the facts by further
proofs.
Two WIDOwS?-A few weeks ago Edward
d. Griffith, for some five or six years past the
superintendent of the Metropolitan Railroad
Company, died here quite suddenly leaving a
wife and two or three children and some pro-
perty, mostly personal Since his death
woman residing in or near Baltimore who
claims that his real name was E. Griffith Davis