National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-16

The National Rifles were out again for
a drill on the avenue last night
Judge III. A. Scudder, of Boston, class of
e, was at the Yale gathering Monday night.
alphabetical nuts: P-nuts and P-can
nuts.'-Nuscie (Ind) Times. Architectural nuts
Wal-nuts.
Two District inventors were awarded
patents yesterday-Harry King for cartridge, and
Charles Pfanne toy-doll
Another branch of the Irish Land
League was organized last night at meeting held
at No. 6SS street northwest.
The Potomac Boat Club has obtained a
permit to build an addition to the boat-house on
Water street, Georgetown, to cost 81 800.
Hon. George Chahoon, of the |. & J..
Rogers Iron Company, Ausable, \. Y, and for
merly mayor of Richmond, Va, is in the city.
AS redemptive, sin-scouring food it
a dismal and abject failure. Not single
plumber or gas man was drowned, so far as the
returns are in.
Two unoccupied frame houses, Nos. $500
and 1902 NJ street, Georgetown, owned by Mr.. Will
lam J. Dyer, were damaged by fire early yesterday
morning to the extent of 500.
The annual statement of the Washing
ton and Georgetown Street Railroad was presented
to Congress yesterday. 1t showed that the profits
OF the road during the past year amounted to
1880.
Congressman Pettibone, of Tennessee,
received intelligence yesterday that his sister died
in Milwaukee. Wis, on Monday last. Mr.. p. at
once left for Milwaukee to attend the funeral SER
vices.
The people in the northeastern quarter
of the city are complaining bitterly because the
street -SweepeTs are not preceded by sprinkler.
Through this culpable neglect their houses are
filled with dust, much to the discomfort of the in
mates.
G. Miner Douglass, through her coun-
sci, Mr.. S. C. Mills, has entered suit for divorce
from her husband, John V. Douglass, on the
grounds of intemperance, non-support, and aban
donmcnt.
Yesterday morning Sergeant Roadway
found the body of a white male infant in an alley
between and Madison and Sixteenth and Seven
teenth streets. The coroner gave certificate of
stfll-birth.
The graduates of Williams College re-
siding in this city have been invited to meet at
the residence of Rev. John G. Amos this evening
for the purpose, among other things. of organizing
Williams Alumni Association.
Alice Mills, a cOlored servant employed
by Mr. Philip H. Christman, No. 1905 Twenty sixth
street, plead guilty in the Police Court yesterday
to the charge of stealing 500 bill from her EN-
employer, and was committed for the grand jury.
The new board of directors of the Mutual
Protection Fire Insurance Company has organized
by re-elccting Hon. George Taylor president, Will
lam Ballantyne vice president, Charles F. Peck
and James Z. Fitch secretary and treas
urer.
The woman found drowned in the
canal at Georgetown has been identified as Caro-
line Cline, German, formerly of Baltimore Coro-
nGr Patterson did not deem an inquest necessary
and gave certificate of death by accidental
drowning.
In the case of William c. Johnson, col
ored, against the Potomac Ferry Company, for vio-
lation of the civil rights law in refusing to carry
him on an excursion forty miles down the river and
return, the jury yesterday returned verdict for
the defendant.
Marriage licenses have been issued as
follows: WestwoOd T. Paxson, of Loudoun County,
Virginia, and Carrie Skirving of this city; Gtstave
P Striim, of Norfolk Va, and jamie Naylor of this
city: H. H. Bradley and Laura A. Reed: Thomas
A. Weaver and Mary J. Buchanan; Robert Miles
and Julia Cline, both of Alexandria County Vir-
ginia.
The Chicago Standard says: "The
brief visit of Rev. A. F. Mason of Washington, D.
C., TO the first church in Milwaukee resulted in q
hearty call to Brother Mason to succeed DR.. Hodge
in the pastorate of this church. This is both
prompt and wise choice, and everybody ac-
Quainted with either Brother Mason or the field of
great usefulness TO which he is called will desire
his acceptance. Should he come. the East will
have given to the West another strong man, TO be-
come the pastor of one of our best churches"