Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-29

VIM. Ferguson and Richard Middleton have
been temporarily appointed superintendents
in the Engineers department OF the District
government.
Acting Sergeant Owen T. Sturgis and Pri-
waite Charles p. Reese, of the Metropolitan
Police force, have been relieved from duty by
school Trustee Bald Win. of the I'd school d.
vision has called The attention Of the Commits
siCners to the necessity for at least six addi-
tional school rooms in the I'd school dis rict
A dele CATION OF citizens waited upon the
District tommlssio OF tbs morning TO urge
tendant for The Washington asylum, in case a
change is determined upon.
The District Commissioners, in response to
small around the streets, state that ''you cannot
become an ii1nerant vender without suDjecting
yourself Is in3 necessity of' taking cut a
license for that business, or to the penalty of
st..inE "a. 'hnut a license"
In reply to communication from John
hldOut, as attorney Tor the jurors summoned
TO attend at recent coroner s inquest asking
oy whom the fees will be paid, the Commls-
Assistant Attorney for the District in the
premises as follows: 81 think these fees
should be paid by the United States"
Today permit was issued by the District
commissioners TO the Lawyers and Bankers
Association, represented by Gen. VIM. Birney
70 give an entertainment (base ball game be-
tional base bali g ounds on the Sd Of Septem-
Der, 1877, for the benefit Of the yellow fever
sufferers.
Tie published statement to the effect that
Treasury to an application made BY the Dis.
trlct Commissioners to place the District of
Columbia 3.65 bonds upon the public debt
ion NO has beeS ss 70
Treasury official.
Ger VIM Dubois-a special action OF tresp .ss
for illegal arrest and malicious prosecu' ion on
the Sd day OF August, 1878, in which plaintiff
sues sue the defendant, laying damages at $1,000
Commissioners to the attorney for the District
with instructions to defend the case, as the
officer appears to have been doing his duty
MIR. n. D. Larner secretary of the Masonic
han Association ct al, in communication to
the District Commissioners calls attention to
the condition Of the alley extending from G.
street south to the rear of the Masonic Ten
pie, and asks that it be properly graded and
paved
A number Of taxpayers ard residents in the
county petition the District Commissioners
and request the appointment OF Mr.. B. F. Mar
tin. of BrightWood. to the position Of supervi-
sOr of roads for the middle district should
there be any change made there.
"A petition from the property owners, resi-
dents and business men residing and doing
business on Center Mai ket Space. between 7th
and 9Th streets n.w asking the District Com
miSsiOnerS to remove the hack stand from
Center Market Space, has been fled, setting
is injuring the business therea bouts Referred
TO Commissioner Twining.
~ ne work OF paying l4th and East Capitol
streets will temporarily be delayed by the
restraining order sued out by Joseph vii.
llams. who claims to be the lowest bidder for
East Capitol street.
DIR. A. w. Adams has been appointed DO.
lice surgeon by the District Commissioners in
place OF DIR. w. q. II. Newman, resigned
Majo Morgan has recommended that Lieu
tenants Austin and Gessford be tenpOrariIy
designated the m of f1.,n ,Iin
IN place OF Inspector Brock and Mr.. Curtis
the former OF whom is absent on leave and the
latter i'll. The District Commissioners have
approved the recommendation.
The District Commissioners having been in
formed some weeks since by au anonymous
writer that the medicines furnished by Mrs.
Gilman to the Washington Asylum were not
up to the standard, the matter was investi-
gated by the visiting physician and commits
sioner Of the almshou>e. The report of DR..
Dyer states that the drugs supplied are "up to
the standard" Mr.. CaSwell, the commits
sioner, corrob0rates this statement and in
dorses the good Quality of the drugs supplied
THE NEW MARKET IN GEORGETOWN
In answer to communication from Joseph
Weaver requesting that the country people be
permitted to sell fruit, &C., of their own rails
III Georgetown, the Commissioners decline to
grant the request. and refer him to an extract
oil OPINION OF the assistant attorney, as fol
dealers In Georgetown is fixed by an ordi-
nance OF the corporation OF that city, ap-
proved May u, 1865, and prohibits sales by
them ae east VI warehouse alley, although they
are permitted to 90 as far west OF the market
house as necessary. The power of the Com
missioners to act in the premises and modify
TINS ordinance Is doubtful, and / ain Of the
opinion that the prayer OF the petitioners
should be denied"
BILL TO ENJOIN EXECUTION OF MuRDOCK's
CONTRACT FOR PAVING EAST CAPITOL STREET.
Yesterday afternoon Messrs. W. a. Cook and
u. ID. Barrett, for Mr.. Joseph Williams con-
tractor, filed bill against the District Com
tract which they have awarded w. G. Murdoch
1or laying concrete pavement ON East Cap
itol street. In the bill Mr.. Williams says that
under the law the Commissioners were ,und
10 award the contract to the lowest bidder:
that he was the lowest bidder, but that the
contract was awarded to Mr.. Murdoch. He
ASKS an inJunstion-fitst, to prevent the Com
second, TO prevent Murdoch from tearing up
the street; third. to annul Murdock's con-
tract; and fourth, to compel the Commits
Sloners to award the contract to him, {Wil-
liams-l The contract with Murdoch is ready
for delivery at the Commissioners office, but
this suit will opera'e as stay until the prey
nm1nary hearing, which will take place on the
I'd OF September.
ORGANIZATION OF THE PLAsrERBRs' UNION
Beck's Hall was filled last evening with Dis
trict plasterers. The meeting was held at the
request OF the Workingmen's Assembly that a
M CHI elected De Mr Hs
ferman, vice president; John Christian re-
cOrding secretary: William Sibly, treasurer;
Brooke EdmonstOn, financial secretary and
Charles Crown, sergeantatarms. Mr.. Spier,
OK the organization committee Of the assem-
bly,, took the floor and briefly urged the neces-
sty OF all the trades organizing He closed by
Introducing Mr. Barker, also Of the assembly
MIR; Barker said although the plasterers had
withdrawn from the assembly, he did not like
to believe they had grown cold. Laborers
should unite, for then capitalists cannot tread
them down. The assembly had no politics, ex.
cept Tor It's own good. Banded together work
Ing men can control politics and dictate who
shall be put in office. The workingmen should
preserve their organization with the intelligent
men OF their class to The front. When all the
piasteiers We're organized they could demand
their own prices for labOr-nOt exOrbitant
prices, put such as were sufficient to support