Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-17
Summer Entertainments.

He intends TO remain in Australia several
years.
Summer Entertainments.
The Young Mems Potomac Social Club will
give their first annual picnic next Monday at
The new SchuetZen Park, Gales woods.
The knights of st. Bernard, of Georgetown,
will give their sixth annual picnic at Green
Springs next Monday.
shall Hall next Thursday on the Mary Wash
lngtOn, leaving at $50 a. m. and returning 40
Franklin Temperance Legion is to give an
excursion this evening, leaving at Z and re-
turning at IL. On board there will be vocal
music and dancing
Co. A, Washington Light Infantry, promise
day of pleasure to all who go on their excur-
sion next Wednesday. They will leave at 80
a. m. that day on the John W. Thompson and
go to Blackstone Island. arriving here at 10
p. m.
The trip by rail and steamer from here to
oxford, Md, ana return will be delightful
one. The eXcurSiOnistS leave at on the
morning of The I'D and go TO Annapolis by
rail, and from there ride fifty miles down
Chesapeake bay on the Samuel j. PentZ Of
Bait imOre. They leave Annapolis at p. IN.
for home.
The palace steamer Louise leaves next Mon
day at = Tor Baltimore, where they Will arrive
at O'C,Ock the next morning. AT Point Look
ont stop of five hOurs-frOm to 8 p. m-WiI
be made TO give all an opportunity of bathing
and fishing. The fare is only fifty cents, which
makes the excursion the cheapest given this
Season, while the trip is So arranged as to
make II one of the most enjoyable. Meals
will be furnished at fifty cents and good and
cheap sleeping accommodations provided for.
The excursion to Richmond, by the Young
Catholics Friend Society, on the occasion of
the conservation of Father keane. leaves the
Ia tilnoIe and Potomac depot at II pm. Sat
urday, the 9th. and returning, leaves Rich
mond at . pm. This will he very pleasant
and Interesting trip
and Point Lookout. 1t leaves next Sat Irday,
and IS for the benefit of st. D0minicS schools.
SUNDAY EXCURSIONS.
The steam pleasure boat Nellie will leave
Congress street bridge, Georgetown, at in
the morning for Great Falls. She is perfectly
sale. comfortable and makes excellent time
The C0ckade City leaves at pm for an en-
Joyable sail down the river, and returns a.
pm.
The Sue leaves this evening at for Piney
fOint and Point Lookout. returning at am.
Monday. Her appointments are excellent aud
her trips so well managed that they cannot fail
to be pleasant ones.
The Harbinger leaves at $50 am. for a
grabbing fishing and bathing trip to Nan
jemOy.
The Lady of the Lake leaves at p. M for
1--WE hours sail, calling at GlymOnt both WAYS
The John w. Thomson goes to Glymont at
q in the afternoon.
The MattanO will leave at 5 30 pm. for Mar
Shall Hall, reaching home at haIf-pasJS.
The Mary Washington will leave at pm.
and return at PM, after five hours on the
water.
THE RAIN yesterday did but little damage
in the city as compared with The previous
storms OF the month. In the adjacent cOun-
try the damage was quite. heaN ;, especially by
the overflow of truck lands. the washing of
country roads, and the destruction of small
culyerts and bridges on the turnpike and other
roads On the Alexandria aud FrederickS-
burg railroad near Long Branch, (ten miles
below AieXandria.) about two hundred yards
OF track were washed out. A cow belonging
10 Mi Carl Heirloom was killed by lightning
about clock under a large tree situated in
Mis- Ga .eS pasture, near boundary. between
Isl aId I'd streets northeast.
THE LATE JUSTICES OF TIE PEACE. who
went cut OF office under the recent act of Con
FTeSs, have generally complied with the Law
by sending their dOckets to the Office of the
ClCrk 0i the court, and some have also sent
th.I papers. 1t is claimed that. although the
recent ;.ct uses the term ''dOckets' only, that
There Il an old law requiring the same dispO>i-
fioE OF the.s papers, and that in spirit the
recent act cOntelnplateS the papers as well as
The docket Some have not as yet turned in
cases these papers are being bought out by
some of the defunct cOnStabieS. The only
proper mode 10 revive one Of these old juig-
ments is by getting transcript of the iudg-
ment from the office of the clerk of the court.
DEEDS IN FEE have been filed as follows
Ill r. kluckhuhn to Frederick Winter, lot SO.
line kiuckhuhn, lot %, square l94 s.. g. b.
Bailey ct al. trustees. TO j. F; Darth, lot 81,
square e25; $. Levi Woodbury. to E. M.
ford county, Va. $500. Michael Conner to
Rosie y Nell, l0t ID, square 80; 5000. T. w.
James to Robert johnson, lot z: square 277;
S2OCb. Z. NJ Matthews TO Ann McQuade, lot
:, square II: s.2l5. Henry BakerSmith to
Archibald White, part OF tract called Peters
MIL Seat and addition TO WOodwards lot -
81 49,.
SHOCKING OUTRAGE IN NORTH WASHING
ToN.-NeSteriay afternoon, about 1 O'Clock
Miss Id Turner, living at No. Pap Ilth SIT, 81
borthweSf, reported TO the second precinct
officers that a white. man. Wei dressed in a
black cloth suit. black SLOUGH hat, dark com
pexiOn, hive feet eleven inches high. and Il or
20 years old, with smooth face, called at the
house and asked for permission to write a
noe On being lei III. he Knocked her down
ana While sen.e less h. outraged her and made
Wis escape through The back door. The Off
EeTs ale locking for him.
ACCIDENT ~ TIE NAVY NARD.-About ~
q clock This morning. as i gang Of wockmei
were piln4 timber II the navy yard, a large
log, weighing several thousand pounds, feI
from the top of the plea distance of twelve
feet, striking man by the name of Henry
9Th ana al streets southeast He was fright
July II Inflated .bOut the face and body. He
~ single man, but the only support of an
aged mother.
Two MARYIAND THIEVES SENT TO THAT
STATE FOR TRIAI-Mr. r. A Shekell. OF
Rockville, Nd, arrived AT police headquarters
this morning. and fully Identified the 500
note and other articles taken from Albert
IOit dHu hOntit DuNalL tnH TWO cOlored
thieves arrested Thursday night in the West
Ind by Detective ClarvOe. They are fuei-
HveS from the Maryland reform school and
were sent 20 Rockville by Lieut.. Vernon.
BLACK SILKS, coIorec silks, checked silks,
striped silks, every shade of colGred silks in.
ciuuing al the very light and dark shades of
silks also cream and cardinal colOred silks
Carter $, I'll Market Space. Black silk, 80; ex-
celleLt black silk, - our real satin finish black
SIX, Il and SlE5; black (damaSSe) silk grena-
Gine al real c0si figured linen lawns black
linen iSWu>-AdCt.
An - % GONG 10 the springs, the eaSide
OI q" 'lsI. friends? III so, be sure and provide
SouFSen "i'h a strong and durable trunk or
ne'.~ IaSeuag bag or satchel, from the exten-
Nv ,,Ssoiliient OF our friend TOpnam AS eth
S'lttt loli,!aS Odd Fellows Hall His goods
tte"aFend themselves, and are sold ar the
re ..-leSt reduction IN prices "o
RoBhFn aGAIS--Last night the res.aurap+
a. " James roy, gu l. street befwean L.
.ah' III s''''h--eSt- was robbed for rhe four-I
t'Ui- N'Eih . year or two This time m
ih..Ns-~ .4..@ cut the glass in the door nriaS
ti.- E.,4 u.ru. Shti carried off all his cf<,ara
~ 4 -'.s-.ct % and a small amount of chanG.N
a.. sSar+ si,' 70 80 worth
Con ". III. DAISGERFIELD, an old aud well
known citizen Of Prince Georges county Nd
who lived lew miles from ihe ferry Opposite
Alexandria. died on W. inesday evening
quite suddenly. He was minister TO Frame