Evening star., 1881-12-28
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REUNION OF HIGH SCHOOL BOYS


| Last night i'm the new hall of the Franklin
school building the "Class of '7s," the pioneer
class of the Boys High school, held their fourth
annual reunion. The meeting. ALWAYS interest,"
| Ing. was this year more especially SO on account
OF the return OF many of the wanderers. The
| Invited guests present were Messrs j. o. Will
| ton. h. G.. LOvejoy. Frank Angel. VIM f.
Ewing. ThOs f. Rochefort. C. B. Hanford and
WIN. Curtis Letters of regret for their inability
to be present were read from Representative p.
X. Cobb. the champion of the school in the
House; E. A. Paul. the principal of the school.
and Others, as well as from many absent mem-
berS of the class scattered i'm all parts of the
globe. Mr. b. b. Thompson read an exceed
lngly interesting paper, including contributions
from several members. At the banquet Super-
lntendent Wilson, i'm respone to a toast. THE
Public Schools, responded felcitously. rapidly
sketchlng the past and the future Of the high
school. Mr. LOvejOy responded very happily to
toast. 'The Board Of School Trustees" After
the feasting was over Mr.. Chas. A. Barker. the
orator Of the occasion, delivered an eloquent
address. This class, composed of rising young
men, does honor to its ''ama mater"
RIVER TRADE.-narbor Master Sutton reports
the arrivals at the river front as follows:
Schooners-POmerOy. MAMA. j. c. Vanname
Empire Chief. WIN. b. Coleman, and sloop B.
II. Lambert with 4, 400 bushels oysters for the
market; longboats Gettysburg, Greyhound and
Mary Jane, with cord-wood for dealers: schr
Brave, Goslee. $4,000 feet lumber for f. E.
jackson d Co.; schr. A. f. Moore Riley.
100000 feet lumber for johnson Co.: schr
Susan Ellen. Perry. 109 tons coal, j. c. Heis-
ter; schr. WcOmico and longboat Mary Ann
Shea with cord-wOod for dealers.
CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST AN OLD LADY
Observation-Disclosures Hide, white woman. 20
years old. living at the corner of 9th and q
streets, was charged i'm the Police Court this
afternoon with assaulting young white woman
named Mary Virginia Moore. who testified that
she has only been married a week to day. and q
few days after she got married this old lady,
who lives in the same house. came TO her room
and assaulted her. The old lady testified that
the young lady's husband owed her SIS and
she went to his room to ask him for the money
and the young lady and her husband were
drunk, and they assaulted her. The case was
dismissed.
A PLEASING CHRISTMAS INcIDENr.-Snce tho
meeting of Congress i'm December Hon. David
Davis. president pro TEN. of the Senate. hse
been in the habit Of purchasing The STAR from
q ragged little newsbOy who sells papers about
the Capitol On Saturday last, when the boy
came with his papers, the Senator called mes-
senger and directed him to go down In the city
and purchase him new outfit from capto boot1
which was done. He then took the boy to the
barber shop in the Capitol and directed the bar
Der to cut his hair and give him q bath. Whea
this was done he took the boy to his room ana
gave him some good fatherly advice sending
him away with an additional present in the way
OF small coin to spend Christmas. When the bow
returned to his mother he was scarcely reco9-
nized in his metamorphose. The story leakea
out through the barber, to the great disgust o(
the distinguished gentleman, whO as a frieua
remarked when this incident was related to hin.
lis constantly doing that sort of thing"
The FRIENDS OF EX-SENATOR PADDOCK are
working up quite boom for him for the post.
tion Of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to.
succeed Mr.. Upton. It can be stated, however.
that the place has not yet been offered to Mr..
Paddock.
An ALLEGED PANIC AMONG IcEMEN-There TO-
great anxiety i'm Montreal about the ice supply.
as not pound has vet been cut and no ides,
can he formed as ts when the harvest may ars-
rive. American dealers from both east and west
have made large contracts, and many have Sc.
cured warehouses here. an Ice famine being an
ticipated in the United States.
UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPH WIRES IN BOSTON.
The Boston board of aldermen last night
passed an order authorizing the
construction by private parties Of
continuous lines Of pipes i'm a large number Of
streets through which to conduct telegraph and
telephone wires, 1t being provided that all COM
panies in the city be granted reasonable accom-
modations In the pipes at rental not exceeding
the cost Of maintaining the wires overhead
In STREET DIFFICULTY at Eufaula. Indian
Territory, on Monday night, a carpenter named
Ware killed young man named Grayson, and
made his escape A Missouri Pacific section
hand who stood near the scene Of the tragedy,
became frightened and ran. He was ordered
to halt by the Indian police, and failing to stop
the latter fired on him, killing him, under tho
belief that he was one of the parties concezneG'
| in the shooting OF GraS6on.