National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-20
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John Houston, of Ontario, is stopping
at the Imperial.
Mr.. Barclay White, of Mount Holly, n
j., is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel
The District Commissioners have ap
| proved the application of William Boswell, 100
| Sixth street, for liquor license.
Samuel Bray, colored, was committed
for the grand jury yesterday for shooting George
! Piper, III Blagdens alley, last Saturday night.
The Commissioners yesterday awarded
the contract for building the cottage house for the
/ Georgetown Industrial School to Z. C. Thomas.
The residence of Mr. j. J. Brooks, No
"Wednesday night, and the lower part of the house
ransacked.
Recorder Douglass said yesterday that
he proposed to retain the present deputy, Colonel
Schayer, who has proved himself most capable
and efficient officer.
Mr.. l.. l.. House, a grocer, No. 1909 II
street n% Mt, Yesterday entered suit against
legged to be due for groceries.
The sale of the Arlington estate, which
was advertised in our columns to have taken place
yesterday, was postponed on account of the
weather, and will take place next Tuesday, the
2ith.
H. P Bulge, comptroller of the city of
Detroit has written to the District Commissioners
asking how many street railways there are in this
city, and other information regarding street rail
ways.
Emma NJ Butcher, alias frankie Mid
dleton pleaded guilty in the Police Court yesterday
to keeping a disrepptable house on Thirteenth
street, south of Pennsylvania avenue, and was
fined $50.
Commodore Pattison, of the navy
yard, in compliance with notification from the
police authorities, has ordered the practice among
sailors of bathing in the Eastern Branch TO be dis
continued for the present
The bids for granite paving-blocks are
much higher than the last lot contracted for by
the District Commissioners. While it has cost the
District only Sl.75 per yard to lay granite block
pavements heretofore it is estimated that the cost
under the new contract will be about %.
Oliver Hambleton, the alleged three-card
monte man, had an examination at the Alexandria
jail on Wednesday evening, before Justice Mills,
and was further committed till Monday next,
when, it is expected, John Houston, the man
alleged to have been Swindled, will put in an ap-
pearance.
The fair at Masonic Temple for the
benefit of the Anacostia Lodge building closed
last night and despite the diluted state of the
weather there was q good attendance and some
very lively and pretty scenes in the hall. 1t is
timated that neat little sum has been realized by
AnacOstia Lodge.
w. H. Douglass, alias Red Syn, was con-
victed in the Criminal Court yesterday of assault
ing Health Officer Townshend, on an appeal from
the Police Court, where Douglass was fined $50
Douglass was cloquently defended by J.Webb Rog-
ers, the dramatic author. Judge Cox deferred
passing sentence until day.
The military rife match at Benning's,
fixed for Thursday of each week, was not shot
yesterday, owing to the rain. If the weather is
more propitious to-day quite a number of the
crack marksmen of the Washington Light Infantry
and National Rifles will go out i'll the 4:i0 p. m.
train and shoot the postponed match.
A water main, running parallel with
the new sewer now in course of construction on
New York avenue, was washed out by the rain
yesterday afternoon and in a few minutes the en-
tire excavation was filed with water. The only
damage done was the washing out of the supports
to the sewer walls, and work will be resumed to-
day.
The French Literary Society {" Cerc1e
des Precienses Ridicules") will hold its closing
(card) reunion this evening at Willard Hall. The
programme includes comedetta, Les Erreurs de
JEAN" by VercOnsin, solo by Miss Simms, a reel
tatiOn, 4" La Vision du TaSSe" (Vanauld), by NJ.
Collin, and an operetta, Les NOces de Jeannette,'
by Victor MaSse.
Mr.. J. Ledyard Hodge, in behalf of the
Mutual Union Telegraph Company, has requested
permission of the District Commissioners to run a
line of telegraph poles and wires from Thirteenth
and streets, along to Boundary avenue, thence
to North Capitol street, to New York avenue, the
object being to run branch wire to the Capitol
through the large sewer at North Capitol street.
George Mantz, of this city, who went
to New York several days ago to fight his bull dog
" Goodie" against Boston pup struck bad lead,
according to dispatch received here last night.
His dog was badly whipped in fifty three minutes,
and when he endeavored to retrieve his fallen for
tunes in chicken-main the police put in an ap-
pearance and captured the principals and spec
tatOrs and locked them up in Jail.
A little colored boy named James
Gather was arrested by the police of the Fifth
Precinct Wednesday night while endeavoring to
sell twelve pounds of plug tobacco of which he
could not give a satisfactory account. Mr.. Lea
hey, restaurant keeper doing business on G
street. near Eleventh. called at the station yeSter-
day and identified the tobacco his property and
stated that it had been stolen from his place by
party of colored hoodlums.