The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-08-23
Dietrich Government Notes.

Nearly 1900 dog tags have been issued.
j. r. Hutchinson, produce dealer, was
licensed to-day.
w. III. Dunkhurst will build two brick
dwellings on X, near Fifth street northwest,
to cost $1,000.
Two hundred and twenty permits for
improvements have been granted since June
/, and nearly all improvements are now in
progress. kohl,
Capt. Il. Il. Vernon will build two two
story brick dwellings on + street, between
Four-and- a.half and Sixth streets, TO cost
$4,000. a"
The long-boats ii. Dickson, Annie
Mason, w. ID. Clark and Mary Ann Shea,
and the schooner Kensett have arrived at
the wharves.
"A petition has been received by the
Commissioners, asking that NJ street north
west from Fourth to Eighth be put in bet
ter condition. 100
Col. S. Sitgraves received permit to-
day for buildinga $4,000 brick residence
at Thirteenth and n streets northwest.
Charles Edmonston is tho architect and
builder. TFlifr t,. fr
The Commissioners have been requested
to order that several dilapidated buildings
on G street, between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets northwest, be examined, ia
determine their safety.
"A question as to the formality of the
bid of c. Thomas, the lowest bidder for the
tractors to day, but was finally settled in
favor of Thon as.
The Commissioners to-day approved a
proposition from the School Board for the
rent of three rooms in the first division for
school purposes, one to be in the Lucas
building and two in the Memorial Church.
The Commissioners to-day issued an
order that Thirty first street. from to p,
and N street, between Twenty-e!ghth and
Thirtieth streets, be paved with asphalt
blocks. Both these streets are in George
town.
The request that Collector Cooks list
Ofdelinquent Taxpayers should be furnished
to the printer in portions has been COM
piled with and large instalment was sent
yesterday afternoon, of which five hundred
copies will be printed. The remainder of
the list may be expected on Thursday or
Friday.
Fred White, 604 b southwest, j. G..
Butler 1907 Eleventh street northwest,
Joseph A. Gill, Thirteenth, near Il south
west, and John +. Miller, for the Quaker
Church, on /, near Nineteenth street. re-
ceived permits to-day for repairs to build
ings. The total expense is estimated at
$3.50
The Commissioners to-day, in answer
to the numerous petitions against the pes
tiferous asphalt works, sent to all the pro-
prietors to-day a copy of Lieut.. Greenes
report, suggesting ways in which the odors
could be consumed, and added the follow
ing: "Arrangements have now been made
with the Health Officer to have daily in
spection of the works BY his inspectors, to
see that these orders are complied with. II
is hoped in this way to prevent any ground
of complaint as to noxious vapors.'
The Great Methodist Conference.
The London Times says the Ecumenical
Methodist Conference, which is to meet in
that city next week, promises TO be one OF
the most interesting and important religious
gatherings held since the days of the
Wesleys. Ii adds:
= THE yarioiis denominations of Methodisrn
number over 4,000,00O actual communi-
cants, and the Methodist population is COM
puted at 100000.
The members of the conference number
400, half of whom represent British and
Continental MethOdism and half the
churches in the United States and Canada.
The conference is composed of lay and
clerical delegates IN equal proportion. Its
main objects will be 10 devise means for
prosecuting home and foreign work so as to
result in the greatest economy and efii-
cheney, to increase the moral and evangelical
power of common Methodism, and to secure
the speedy conversion Of the world"