Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-04-09
District Government Affairs,

The amount collected yesterday on account
OF special assessment taxes was $500.
I'LL Liquor licenses We're issued YESTERDAY to Pat
rick Cusick, and John +. Kelly, and transfer
10 Charie DieU from f. LambrOeht. approved.
VITAL STATISTICS.
me total mortality in the District of Co
lumbia for the week ending Saturday ApriI
81. 1850. was %, or at the rate or 1924 per 900
per annum. OF the decedentS is were white
males, % white females. % c0lorcd males and
II colored females, showing an annual death
rate OF 1913 per 600 for the white and 81 80 for
the c0lored population. From phthsiS pull
mononS consumption there were u deaths.
pneumonia IL. bronchitis and diseases OF the
nervous system each, diseases Of the heart, &
premature birth 3. The deaths from violence
were as follows: Homicide, scald. overdose OF
!audanum, crushed by railroad cars in Jury from
fall. criminal abortion and hanging by judicial
process, each. There We're 90 births reported
70 white males. - white females, 81 celOred
nual birth rate OF 1871 per 200 for the white
and 5l.oI for the colored population. Marriages
reported 23-White, 10; colOred 4 Still-births.
I3-White. 4; colored. 8.
BUILDING PERMITS
issued by Inspector Entwisle: VIM Orme, re-
pair brick house, No 129 9th st. NV. $780, W.
s. Davis. repair brick. No ga Maryland ave- s.
W: $500. VIM. Gunton construct three story
Otlck Office, Louisiana ave-, between AZ and
ttn StS.: SIS Goo NJ Campbell, Oh brick build
ing. corner 18th and Massachusetts ave. NV
900: Ewd. A. Clark, one brick dwelling. 9th
ST., between d and E s.w.; 500. Geo. Breftbart
one brick stable, in alley between I'd ana Ed
and and SIS. Sc; 1900 w. g. II. Newman.
construct brick stable, L, between oath and
18th streets northwest; 500.
THE BOoKBTNDERS' SOCIETY, Of this city have
passed resolution OF thanks 'to the Hon.
James c. Blaine. OF Maine Hon. j. T. Morgan.
of Alabama. lion. VIM. Pinkney Whyte. OF
Maryland, Hon. Otho II. Singleton, of Mtssis-
slpp Hon. Benjamin Wilson, OF West Virginia
Hon H., Philip G. Hayes Of Illinois, and Hon Ed
est efforts to obtain an equitable settlement OF
the holiday question as affecting the employees
OF the Government Printing Office, ana recon-
mend these gentlemen TO the favorable conSid-
GRAFTON OF artisans throughout the country as
being worthy OF their support to any position OF
trust within the gift OF the people"
WASHINGTON FISH MARKET-sold byR. A. Col
den, ageDt-3,50o shad from $l3 10 SIS per 100:
5000 behring's from s. to $40 per 900; 800
punches rock and perch. from 10 to 40 cents per
bunch.
PRoDIG10US MUTToN.-From time immemOrial.
during the progress OF the ages, some remark
aole event has originated which eclipSed all
preceding occurrences and cast them in the
shade SO it has been in the history OF mutton
as handed down to us from the days OF the Pat
rlarchs, who were proverbially fond OF tooth
some dishes. This preamble leads one to re-
mark oonfidentially that Mike Homiller, the
celebrated carnifex at stalls No. 1872, 103 and
display for consumption multitudinous assOrt-
meat OF suculent lambs OF the renowned South
down and CottsWold species. reared by Col. j.
K. Langley, of st. Marys co.. Nd. and disposed
of by J. r. w. Mankin, esq. who vouches for
the hereditary excellence of the aforesaid pro-
vender.
SUIT FOR SLANDER.-To-day in Circuit Court
no. y, Judge Macarthur, the case of Collins
agt. Nlehmann, action for SANDER was COM
menced. The plaintiff charges that defendant
said OF and concerning him ..YOu are thief
and were run out OF Market &c. and Vieh-
mann testified that Collins told him that he was
tor l,f.. I,Hi,
for IL being done.
DEEDS IN FEE have been recorded as follows
VIM. W. White to Chas. johnson ct al, lot B.
Patrick Ready to Catherine Ready. north Il Of
lot l6. SO. Il; 81 800. VIM. +. Mattingly and
ChaS D. Prentiss trustees. to Geo. Truesdell,
lot G, in SUBJ of original lot So 79l; 81 $50. W
W. C0rcoran to X. b. Derrick, sub. lots -, Is
and 70, So. 500; 81 .0544S. Jacob Ii. Ella to Mon
treyiile St St part LOT 49, IN sub Of Me
Clark, part lot l}, in sub. OF metropolis Views"
$500. Nathan Webster 10 John S. Miller lot j.
In sub. of SO: north Of so. sos; $4,000. JAS B.
Putnum TO Chas. II. Knight, part lot p So. All:
$1,000. Isaiah Shoemaker to Jas. Gibbons, part
OF tract OF land called ''FrIendship;" s.. Anna
B. Smith to John B. Taylor: part lot 5. So. I51;
S. X. Ross Perry and E. H. Goldsmith to
Mary Ann COyle, lot &C. in SUB. Of original lots
J 10 4. IN So 1917; 1925. Jas. A. Harland to Mary
F. Coy1e sub lot ;, of lots to IL, So PSI: 5000.
jos f. Eckloff: trustee, to Mary 6. Shepherd
lot &C." in shepherds sub. or So. 623; s..
Margaret and Thomas Bellew, to Charles A.
Beavans and John w. Shaw. west part OF lot /,
SO. $50 $1,000. G: F. Ecklof to Mary g. Shep
herd lot sc" of Shepherd sub. Of So $685. 00
Margaret Bellew TO {. A. BeayanS OF al. part l.
50. 4So $1,000. c. F. Eckhon to NJ. G. Shep-
herd lot &. So 623; s., 600. j. l.. Barbour to
milton Ford, lot y, So. LOIS; $500. A. H.
Stephenson ct al. trustees, to NJ s. Church lot
{, 81. 40; 5. 3d. 50. j. 7. Given ct al. to Ed
ward Weston, lots and 81. part g. 50. 2l5;
s22.50o \. L. JeffrieS to J. &. Alley. lot il, 3d.
1919; $50 900. j. b. Alley to \. L. Jeffries prom
erty In the county; 100000. VIM. II. and Rob
ert II. Ward, trustees TO Geo. ID. Todd, lots 25
and 26 sub. So Isl, and lot 81. sub. pit. of Mt.
Pheasant: S3,525. Geo. Werth to Maria Prepen-
bring, pit. lot s. so. 1868: s.. Edward C. Car
rlngton jr.. to Edwin D. B. Porter, pit lot 10, So
265; 5000. John Ii. Wlmot to j. G. Harknesi
lr:, pt. lot d, SO. $50; s: Irving Williamson.
trustee, to Clarence Smallwood. lots 43, 45 Al
and 90, sub. tract OF land called ..Chichester'
$. John X. Major to Samuel J. Spearing.
lot ISL. OF A. K. Shepherds sub. 81. 62S 50, $50
Margaret Christmond to Bfyon Downing, lot
34l, In ln1ontown; $3.50. Mary c. Hne to Rich
ard o. Melton, pit. lot S, SO. 491; $4,000. Henry
Martin to Henry Noigt, property in the county;
$4,000. Valentine Hess TO G. A. Tavenner lot 5.
SO: loss; 81 600 John Pickrell ct al to A. L.
johnson CT al, lot l, 81. 526; 81 ,5S4