National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-16

The National Rifles have been invited
to visit Cape May during the summer
About fifty coloped people were bap-
TIED in the Potomac, near the Long Bridge, yes
terday.
Policemen are stationed in the Alex
andria cemeteries Sunday evenings to prevent acts
of vandalism.
The Nationals will strengthen their
nine in New York by the addition of Cronin, a
well-knOwn player.
The police made forty-seven arrests
during Saturday and Saturday night sixteen be-
ing registered as drunk"
Bud Eagleston held two services at
his temperance tent, on Capitol Hill, yesterday,
both of WHICH were well attended.
4 man named Patrick Ncale was Sc
riOusy injured by falling off an elevator at the
Washington gas-wOrkS Saturday morning.
Mr.. Brooke Saunders, an Ohio man, is
congratulating himself in having escaped pocket
whole from the clutches of the three-card monte
men.
A permit was issued Saturday to Mrs.
Lucy J. Maynard to erect handsome residence, to
cost $1,000 at the corner of Nineteenth street and
Jefferson Place
A cOlored boy named George Jackson
accidentally shot himself with shotgun at Jones'
Point, Alexandria, Saturday, the contents of the
gun entering his right breast and inicting serious
injury.
A man named Thomas O'Neill, while
Intoxicated Saturday evening, fell at the corner
of Third and streets southeast and cut his head
badly. DR.. McKim dressed the injury at the
Eighth Precinct Station.
Every little while Washington suffers q
pleasant invasion from some female seminary.
The last was the Western Female High School, of
Baltimore, which sent over a large delegation of
beauties to do the city last Saturday.
Captain Henry, nominated for marshal
of the District, arrived in the city last evening
The court authorities are anxious that he should
be confirmed to day. in order that he may qualify
and enter upon the discharge of his duties imme-
diately.
A colOred woman named Martha Green
fell in fit on Seventh street. near Pomeroy. about
midnight Saturday and was taken to the Second
Precinct Station by two colored men. When she
recovered she was sent to her home ON Pomeroy,
near Four and half street.
Miss Magill, assisted by Mr.. and Mrs
Douglass Webb, will give musical and literary
entertainment at st. Johns Church, Georgetown
tomorrow evening. Miss Magll's Evolutionary
powers are well known, and most attractive pro-
gramme may be anticipated
The bids sent in for erecting the first
cottage-house for the Georgetown Industrial
School were as follows: Augustus Davis S45S5;
D. ]. McCarty, 5000; Hurliby & Wade, s5,775;
Humphrey & Co., $3.50; Il. Downing, 800.
Saturday evening there was collision
at the corner of Ninth and streets northwest be-
tween one of DIR. Bates beer wagons and Dr.
Prentiss buggy. The beer wagon came out all
right, but the buggy was sadly damaged. Dr.
Prentiss and his wife were in it at the time, but
neither of them was injured.
A motley crowd assembled at the cor
ncr of Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue
loo Dow 7 II T;ab
preacher, was the attraction. His subject was
Free Masonry, a False Religion" He argued
against Masonry on the ground that Jesus Christ
was left out of the creed and ritual of the Masonic
order.
The " Five Minute Thought Exchange
is now called the Give Cent Thought Ex-
changed" as an admission fee of nickel is
charged all persons who want to exercise the
blessed privilege of free speech Sunday afternoons
The place of meeting has been removed to 233
Pennsylvania avenue, and two sessions are held
each Sunday.
Marriage licenses were issued Saturday
to Edward Riley and Ellen Radey, Benjamin
Snowden and Margaret Johnson, Robert Tree, of
Montgomery County, Maryland, and Susie Barnes,
of this city; Paul Hiser, jr and Kate Wanderlick.
William J.: Stone, Detroit, Mich, and Nellie N.
Bates, of this city; James A. Murray and jean
nette NJ. Cage, both of Prince Georges County,
Maryland.
As Campanini ceased singing that
glorious aria from Verdi's Force of Destiny" on
Saturday night, and just as the audience burst
into whirlwind of applause, lady in the dress
circle, in a spasm of enthusiasm, snatched from
her breast beautiful cluster of rosebuds that had
nestled there tinging her delicate throat with q
ruddy glow, and threw them upon the stage. They
fell just at the great tenors feet who picked them
up and placed them to his lips smiling in graceful
acknowledgment of the admiration of the fair
enthusiast