National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-30
District Brevities.
tina weather To-day.

District Brevit1eS.
THE Weather To-day.
| For The Middle Atlantic States, including
the District Of Columbia, cloudy ,ccGher, NTH snoU
in the northern and rain the southern part, easterty
shifting to colder northi0eerly acinds failing JoRo'eed
by rapidly rising barometer,
| The thermometric readings yesterday were as
follows: a. m 40; IL a. M, 49,; p m, $40; p
m $50; 9 p. m 4So: IL p. m, $50; maximum, 52'
minimum, 39o
Prominent Arrivals.
Wiiiard's.-H F. Newbury, New York; 4. ID
Brown New York: B. c.. Christy, Pittsburg; }. u.
Davis, New York; George Clifford. New York; Colo
mel G. Il. Balch, Saratoga Springs, N "; w. NJ Ia
Wis, New York; d. Sickles, New York; E H. chase
Wilkesbarre, Pa; A. Z. King. Baltimore; A M Han
cock Baltimore ]. Bigler Newburgh; A Mitchell
w. II. Richards New York; ]. II. Robertson, New
! York.
Ebbiff.-Knight Neltel New York; Andrew
| Clark, Atlanta, Ga; Herman HOllenth, New YORK
John R. Edwards. u. S. N. General Robertson, Cap
tain Burns. DR.. Whtefoot, Kentucky; E. Derrick
San Francisco; Dr.. Samuel Creadeck, Phiadephla;
Dr. NJ. Fairfax, Baltimore; Professor H. ID Potter,
| Cornell University; ID. s. Ezekiel, u b A; ID. I.
Anderson, Leadville, Col.
MctrOpolitan.-E. d. Clark, Vicksburg ~ L.
Waldron Memphis: E Davies, New York; w. III.
Bradford, Goshen Ind; c. C. Cole, De5 Moines Ind;
Il. NJ. AntiseH, San Francisco; Z. w warmed, 81.
Louis; L. $. McCracken, Philadelphia; H. e. MadduX,
Baltimore; II. W. Fowler, Chicago; NJ Delameter'
| New York.
Riggx.-E. B. Warren, W. II. Sutton, D. T. Conover.
Philadelphia; A. D. Shepard, D. Mclean, New YOrk
]. E. Borden Norfolk, Va; W. L. Clark, Virginia;
| w. Baumann, Switzerland; c. Smith, ]. B. Smith,
| Boston; C. T. Kibourne, New York; ]. c. Barr,
| Chicago; W. Williamson, Brooklyn.
ArIingtOn.-H. Howe, C. II. Wilcox, o. w.
Brennan. E. 2. Fabbri E. G. Fabbri, New York: A.
G. Page Bath. Me- s. Barton, ]. C. Collins, Philadel-
phia; L. B. Williams Massachusetts,; G. c. Goodwin,
Michigan; E. Beers, Brooklyn.
ST. James.-D. CAIRO Ray Columbus, o.; James
o. Merritt. Kingston; A. G. Page. Bath. Me-; G. w.
Pangburn, Ripley, O.: h Conklin, New York; A. j.
Macdonald. Baltimore, Md.
Wormiey's.-Mr. Bursley, w. Alexander, New
York.
Harry c. Ellis, of New York, is in town,
stopping at Wizards.
w. G. Crowley, of Forepaugh's show,
is stopping at the Imperial.
WV. Durand, agent of Barnums circus,
is in town, and is stopping at the Imperial.
The Georgetown Medical College will
commence" AT Lincoln Hall Thursday night.
The third quarterly examination of the
Washington Normal School will take place in the
franklin building next Friday morning.
ia permit was issued yesterday to
Charles w Butler to build a two story brick house
at 1il6 Thirty second street west, for $1,000.
The application of Richard W. Tyler,
student made Yesterday for admission to the Dis
trict bar, was referred to the examining commit
tee.
Edmund Payson Weston, the tramping
fiend, will walk for five days in this city in the
first week in May, to demonstrate what he can &C
cOmplish.
The offer of Mr.. B. HI: Warner, real es-
tate auctioneer to sell the property of the District
advertised for sale for S5 has been accepted by the
Commissioners.
John G. Ogle, of Somerset, Pa, candi-
date for collector of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania
district, and nephew of Charles Osle, of Gold
Spoon fame is in the city.
Ella Peterson, young colored girl, was
fined SIS or thirty days in Jail yesterday for keep
ing disorderly house on Maryland avenue. be-
tween Third and Four and half streets south
west.
Unsuccessful attempts were made by
burglars during Monday night to enter the house
of George H. Boyer, corner of Third and streets
northwest, and the restaurant of Jacob Wresner
corner of North Capitol and Boundary streets.
Lieutenant Green, of the Engineers
Department of the District, says that the work of
filling the old canal is progressing in satisfactory
manner, and will be completed this spring to NJ
street. The sewer will be constructed to the same
point.
The jury yesterday in the Circuit Court
gave Dennis Humphrey q verdict of s., 900 against
injuries received by his son from being run over
by one of the company's freight trains. The suit
was brought for $4,000 damages.
From Lee & Walker, Philadelphia, We
have received the following new songs, which
have been made popular by being sung with good
effect by the CarncrosS Ministries: " A Message
from Mother" song and chorus by C. r. Dock
| stader, and solid for Mulhooly.
a soldering-pot, i'll which some Goals
had been left set fire to E. E. Jackson's saw-mil
last evening. and but for the vigilance of Private
Waterman Ben HOPPER disastrous conhsgration
might have resulted. The members of No. 2 Com
pany were summoned and extinguished the flames
with d small loss.
The following District inventors were
awarded patents yesterday: Benjamin NJ. Beall,
hitching clamp; A. ]. Brust and w. Fl. Douglas,
double acting pump; E. J.De Smedt, insulating or
non conducting bituminous compound for electri-
cal purposes, and Willard S. Whitmore, paper pulp
mould for stereotyping.
Captain Donald McCathran, command
ing Company of the District Militia, in response
to his request forseventy rifles of cslibre forty
five with cartridge boxes and belts, has been in
formed that the District quota of arms is largely
overdrawn, and the Commissioners do not feel at
liberty to approve the requisition.
The Washington Sunday Item is the
name of a new colored weekly which is to make its
appearance on Sunday morning next, with S. S.
Lacey andJ. E. Bruce 1.-THE latter of whom is the
Washington correspondent of q Western paper as
editors and proprietors. 1t will be siX-cOlumn
folio, and will be served by carriers.
Arrangements are being made for
opening the Natatorium for the season on the 18th
instant. A new asphalt bottom is being put in the
tank, and other Improvements are being made.
DrOF off ir1na to he
scholars in the eighth grade grammar schools a
season ticket to the one taking the first prize.
Application has been made to the Com
missioners by Mr. C. F. E Richardson to have the
streets and avenues laid off and graded on Merid-
ian Hill, between Sixteenth and Nineteenth streets
northwest He wishes to build twenty houses on
Morgan avenue but does not want to commence the
erection Of them until the correct grade Is decided
upon.
Marriage licenses have been issued to
the following applicants: Samuel Salter, of Phila-
delphia, and Hortense Whiting, of this city; Will
lam E. Grady and Mary Murray, both of Alexan-
Amos; Jacob Yancey and Sarah Mason, both of
Montgomery County. Maryland; Henry McElfresh
ann Mary L. Mcdonald.
General E. w. Whitaker, one of the
youngest and bravest Union brgadiers of the war,
is candidate for the position of custodian of the
Treasury Department. General Whitaker was at
one time postmaster at Hartford Conn., but has
resided in this city for twelve years past. He is
the well known broker and real estate agent on
Four and a-half street.
$. s. Daish and Jennie MalIOrd.
The following startling intelligence was
communicated to this Office by telephone yester-
day:
Stop my1 paper. like it, but can't stand a
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