Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-09-10
Educational Institutions.

terry were alleged as causes for divorce.
Educational Institutions.
DIRECTORY FOR PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
Parents and guardians looking around for suit
able schools at which to place their children
and wards for the next term, should consult
our advertising columns.
The classes In Life and Antique of the wash
ington Art Club Will open oct. 1st, In Venom
Row, under the capable charge of Mr.. E. c..
Messer. The Club aims to furnish good faciI'-
ties and instruction on the most reasonable
terms, and II the public respond, to establish a
school that shall do credit to that organtZ ltiOn
and to the he capital city. Beginning with the
other features will be added If the den, and
should warrant 1t: as lectures on anatomy
perspective, &c. There is good reason to believe
That school OF this character is needed at this
time, and no effort will be spared to I'LL the
want adequately.
Miss Florence Hopkins popular select achool
Tor girls and boys will reopen on Monday next,
at her residence. 121 Pa. ave. W.
MacemOiSelle BTun has opened class at No
Iowa Circle for the study OF French. Her
course of instruction secures perfect pro-
nunciatton AID thorough knowledge of the
language.
The Rosslyn Seminary, No. 1886 street. near
10th street northwest, Miss B. Ross principal, is
This school has a good 1Ccord and is well
patronfZed.
The English and French Boarding and Day
school OF Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred BuJac, No. 1O1S
18th street northwest, resumes September 22d
Mr.. L. W. Maxon, No. IOS East Capitol street,
has opened private school in the classics,
physics, higher mathematics and English
branches, where he prepares students for col
6ges end U. s. academies. Terms reasonable
"A lew French school, under the direction of
Mademotsene L. Foulon, from Paris, Will open
tober /, 1879. The object OF this school will be
to answer the wishes OF parents DESTROYS for
their children to acquire correct pronuncie-
ton, 1uency in conversation, as well as thor
ough knowledge of the French language All
brarcheS OF education suitable for young ladies
viii be taught here, ard all lessons will be pre-
pared dui Tag school hours under the superb
guage, drawing, painting and music, will also
De taught, and private lessons will be given to
these desiring special instruction.
The 5Sth course of lectures Of the National
Medical college Of the Columbia university, H.
between 1-th and 18th streets, will begin on
Monday, OCTOBER 9Th, and continue until March
Tor affordfng the students practical instruction
IN anatomy, chemistry and the use of the mi.
cro- cope, under the personal direction of com
Fetent teachers. See advertisement elsewhere
A SCHOONER LIBELED.-Messrs. Enoch Totten
and Linden Kent, counsel for the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad Company, have fled In the
clerks Office Of the U. s. district court In this
city libel against the schooner ArleyilIe H.
Peary, now lying at the ship yard, for damages
The damages to the bridge are laid at $500, and
Deputy q. S. Marshal ONetl has seized the
schooner ana chained her to the wharf at the
s s1lp yaIo, 10 obedience to the writ. The
evening, In tow OF the tugboat Fannie N. Gil
pert; TIE tug passed safely through the draw.
put, Oy some misunderstanding as to orders,
tne schooner was thrown across the draw,
carrying away her bowsprit and libboom, and
causing damages to the biidge as above alleged
TIE vel stu lies at the ship yard but It IS
give cond for the damages, and release the
VesseL-[Asr. CARTE.
LIGHTNING STRIKES A PRINTING OFF1cE,-Tbe
papers In the eastern cities have recently
amused themselves with a description OF the
nanosomest entertainment given at a restau
rant In Chestnut street, In Philadelphia, to the
ccmpOs1tors OF the daily morning papers. at the
unusual hour OF four In the morning The en-.
tertalners were two compOsitors on the Phila-
enough to have an investment of one dollar IN
the celebrated Louisiana State Lottery on Ar
gust l2tn, rewarded with prize Of Fifteen
common with those who write to NJ. A. nau.
phin, P. o. Box 6s2, New Orleans, La, or same
person at No. s1s Broadway, New York.
FELL FROM A RooF-AbOut 1870 O'Clock this
ironing white man named JAS Pearson. a
or snrer, While working on the roof of house Ss2
distance Of 80 feet, breaking his nose, rio. and
otherwEe njuIing himself Internally. DR.
Newman rendered medical aid after which he
was sent to bis home.
capitalists is prospecting near Herndon, with a
view OF opening copper mines. The time
Tor the f1remen's parade has been changed from
0ctoeer I'd to September sOth, the first day of
tne Ialr. VIM. O'Connor, q white man, hall
ing nom Washington, was arrested for the lar
Gerry OF q vest and pair of shoes from Quincy
Taylor, IN the county. AFTER hearing the case
Justice H. A. Whallon ordered him Whipped
before returning to Washington.
RELIEVED OF Two BUILKrs.-Yesterday DIR.
A. A; MaIsteler was called upon to extract two
pistol balls from colored man named Charles
W., Mnil Jams alias Tilman, who had been shot at
tne van Ness house, on 18th street. near
street, place which has recently been fitted
up as lager beer garden for coiored people.
ore pullet was taken from his upper jaW-bone
and the other from the shoulder-blade. Alter
the operation the man left for his home in
snother colored man during difficulty there
at picnic. No arrests were made.
RECEIVE o.day MasOn's improved quart lars.
John II. Lagruder, fine groceries, 142l New
York avennc.
SwNpIED By THREE CARD MoNTE.-Yester-
from New York, and while looking about the
Capitol q tall man who called himself Frank
Wilson offered himself as guide, and on going
over to Arlington TO see new statue OF Custer
and one Of the rebel General Lee, as represent
ed by the guide, they were joined by two
others, one of whom produced cards and rolls
OF money The result OF the trip was that
tracey was SklnneQ out or k23 Dy the three card
monte trick, and his watch was forced from
him. He offered to redeem the watch after
arriving In this city, and thus induced Wilson
to accompany him here with 1t. but the first
policeman they encountered Tracey turned
over his guide TO him, charging him with high
way robbery. Wilson was aIraigned In the Pc
bee Court this morning, upon the charge of
larceny. officer Berkeley. who arrested him.
testified TO finding the watch and chain In his
possession, and he was held for the action of
the grand jury.