National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-09-15
CITY NOTES.

-Good 2J-cent meals at the Holly Treo.
Judge Smell resumed his duties in the
/ Police court Saturday morning.
The only Turko- Russian and sulphur bath
house in the city, 9O3 street northwest.
THE police made forty-iour arrests Satur.
day and Saturday night Twenty-one of them
wero " DRINKS"
- Twenty.nine tramps lodged in the station.
houses Saturday night The cool nights are
driving them in.
The best Vienna bread in tho city can be
obtained only at F. Freund's, 702 Ninth street
northwest also confectionery.
"A sneak-thief stole n lot ofchildren's shoes
from Beibrick's store on Seventh street neal
NJ northwest, Saturday night.
The body of dead colored infant was
found by officer Shilling on New Hampshire
| Avenue between . and Il streets, Saturday
morning.
- The case of It. Zoll Hoover, arrested last
| Friday on the charge of obtaining money on
false pretenses, was, on Saturday continued
until tomorrow.
| john Jackson, n colorcd rough, after
threatening the lives of several people, sh OF at
an unknown man on Thirteen-amd.a- half street
near c, Saturday night. Jackson was arrested
by officers Bailey and Fritz.
About quarter past ten o'clock yesterday
morning, a frame house in the alley between
| First and Second and b and G streets north
west caught fire, and an alarm was struck from
box -, The house was owned by Henry
Hicks, colored. The damage amounted to
| about 800
A colored woman named Georgiana Long.
ford was found dead in bed at her home No
453 Whites alley southwest, yesterday morn
ing. She retired apparently in good health
Saturday night. The Coroner Investigated the
case and decided that death resulted from
natural causes.
- Saturday evening about o'clock the roof
of u kitchen attached to John Browns house,
AT tho corner Of North Capitol aud Boundary
streets, WAS discovered TO be Oh fire. The
flames were extingushed by the Ownor aud
some neighbors without turning in an alarm
Tho damage was slight.
In our report of the presentation OF the
portrait in crayou of Colonel Moore to the
Washington Light Infantry Corps, which took
place on Friday evening, credit for the worl;
should have been given TO Mr.. NJ. Baumga rten
who copied the portrait from an excellent
photograph by McAllister.
About eleven o'clock Saturday night Bill
! Clark and Charles Jackson had a bruta street
! fight ut the corner Of Thirteenth and streets
Clark used his teeth effectively, succeeding il
chewing Jackson's fingers badly, and jackson
| pounded Clurk's head with two pound
weight. They were both arrested.
! "A white boy, seven years old, named WI
| lie CleaYGrs, was knocked down Oh Pennsyl
vania avenue near the Capitol, about o'clocl
yesterday afternoon by the horses of chario
! No. 81 aud hurt about the leg and head. DIR
| Marsteler rendered surgical aid, after which
the boy was taken to his home, No. 20 Nortl
A street, in the police ambulance.
- A colored boy named George Carr, refl
gee from the Reform School, made several at
| tempts to hang himself in cell at the Contra
station Saturday afternoon. He did not appea
| 10 be IN earnest, however, as lie always made
noise to attract the officers before doing TIN
! desperate deed. He used up string, u poke
handkerchief, and a pair of pants. in trying h.
make a suitable moose.
Yesterday afternoon Aliens Chapel Goot
Hope Hill, was crowded, the occasion beinl
the second quarterly concert of tho Sunda,
school. The Pioneer school, superintonded b,
Mr. Solomon G, Brown, and the Good Hop
school, under the direction of Mr.. j. ii
| Young, were present as visitors. The singinl
and music were very fine, aud the large audi
ence, which included many visitors from til,
city, were much pleased with the exercises.
--Momentary passion among tho juvenile
never, perhaps, evolved more direct reply than
was heard last evening, Two youngsters of tel
years. or Whereabouts, were discussing cata
chctical topics on Il street; well, who mad,
your suddenly inquired one with the energy
born of selfconGeiyed superior knowledge
| With the precision Of Il quick rife shot cam,
the answer: You didn't (Which, judginl
from tho subsequent silence, seemed to sottl,
] the question