Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-09
condensed Locals.

Street lamps Will be lighted at 5:55 pm. and
extiDgulshed at 4:20 am.
The German orphan Asylum Association last
evening re elected l.. ketJler and j. kiSer, AMI
elected NJ Hebner and F. Laldgraf directors.
DIR. Little, OF JniontOwn, was appointed visit
Ing physician, ard DR.. j. Walter advisory ply
stefan.
The Ladies' Christian Temperance Union met
last night, at Odeon Hall, and talked over the
program for this winter, when efforts VIII Oa
made TO induce Congress to submit the question
CT local option to the people OF the District
The hearing OF the case of W. E. Thomas on
WITT OF laoeaS corpus, Issued on saturday last
Thomas, the mother. directed 10 6. Il. Cuttings.
has, by consent OF the parties, been continued
to next saturday.
SiIlIiEgtOn sends Frank LeslfaS St1Fay Nr1.
nziHP for November and the useful Tribune Al
DlGnGc for 1880
The new river steamer Excelsior arrived at
the wharf In this city to-day.
AT the Lutheran SYNOD at Westminster Nd
li1day morning, the devotional exercises were
] d by Rev. NfXGcrT, OF Georgetown, u. G..
Friday evening the subject OF foreign missions
was discussed By Rev. Dr.. Butler. OF Washing
tor. and Rev. Rowe, lately returned from India.
AZ general meeting OF the Knights of
Pythias last night resolution was adopted 10
attend the celebration ia Il iltimO.e on Friday OF
next week as body. It is thought that up
wards Of Ole hundred members OF this order
VIII go over then. Neber's band, OF sixteen
pieces. has been engaged for the purpose. They
Will remain }heTe two days.
Last evening three cOlOTed bows took TO the
second precinct station house the dead body OF
a cOlOI6d female infant found in alley between
G. and Il and 10th and llth streets northwest.
The published statemf nj that Detective MIL
ieT. who left here with Mr.. McElir5sh Saturday
night for Indiana, has been ordered hack b. the
DISTRICT authorities, is Ignored b. Major B.Ock
who states that he knows nothing ab1Tt it. He
s1a'eS that at the request OF District Attorney
CCrkhill he detailed two detectives TO his Office
for sPt Cial duty; that he sent Detective Miller
ard MCEliTeSh 10 the attorney, and further
than that he knows nothing about their move.
mthts other than what he sees published In the
newspapers.
Tie Metropolitan Hotel has been leased By
NJ. Marshal Brown 10 MeSsrS Selden and Ron
bins, who VIII Offn IL sometime between the
18TH ard Slst OF this month. Mr.. Selden has
lately oeen connected with the kimbalI House
or Atlanta, Ca. and the Noryell and Arlington
Houses OF LyncEburg, and Nf. Robbins has been
IN the hotei business some years in Memphis,
Tenn, and other southwestern cities,
The elegant steamer W. ". COrcoran VIII
make Sunday tIip TO Potomac City aud returu
for only fity cents. The boat leaves at II a. IN
See advertisement.
About $50 o'clock ills afternoon, a coIored
man, Iamsd John Matthew'S was seriously In
cured " telng gored 10y bull at the cOw-
yard OF MI. Holly; at BeDning's. He was con-
Ney "a 10 The hospital by the police ambulance,
Officer Jones' OF the fifth precinct. arrested a
yourg man this morning. who gave his name as
+, +: Levy. on the Charge of PLAYING the three
carce monte game upon Il gentleman named NJ
SterLbUTg, by which the latter was fieeced out
Of S2c0 Heis detained for a hearing.
To.mOTow is the day on which, under the
resolution OF the general conference of the NJ f.
church, held at { IcinnatI In May last a collec-
ton is TO be t:ken up In all the Methodist
churches In the land TO aid in reducing the
debt OF the Metropolitan church OF this city.
TEE TRIAL OF JOHN BECKETT FOR KILLING
KCsALEE HARRIS.-Thls morning. in the Crinl-
nal Court, Judge James, the trial OF John Enck-
EFT, Co!CTed, indicted for the murder OF Rosalee
Ellen Harris, IN July last, by shooting her with
shot aimed at David POindeXter was resumed
MIR. Perry prosecuting, and Messrs w. A.
Cook and T. H. Fall for the defence. Ned Cash.
and G.. W. Williams were examined as to the
shooting, and Morris Gayney as to Beck stt
statlrg In the black maria, when he was On his
way 10 jail, that he shot at Poindexter. aud
yes soTry he struck the girl. II having boeD
stated thai The brain Of human being was
something Ike that OF q calf Mr.. Perry pG0-
GrCed calf brain. Mr.. Cook said he woali al
nit that Mr.. Perry had Killed calf. Mr.. Fer
ry-I cid Lot Kill #. Mr.. Cook-Well, calf has
been killed. and this is his brain. Mr.. Perry
Wen, that is correct. Mr.. Cook. for the defence.
mace the opening. claiming that the shot was
Ered ID stlf-deferce. and that their witnesses
would fatty contradict those for the prosecu-
tiCn.