National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-18

man, New Brunswick: D. :. Davenport, Massachu
sets; w. G. Davis New York; T. Pinto, Chilli.
ImperiaI--J. NJ. Eddy, jr, Chicago, ILL.,. c.
Blakesee Pennsylvania; a. G. Sayles, Cleveland; \
| W. Brewster, New York.
wOrmfey's.-G, b. Blake, Boston; P. II. Mayo
| Richmond; C. McMichael, Philadelphia.
You can publish three-line advertise
ment fwant, rent for sale, lost three times fol
twenty-five cents in THE REPUBLICAN.
John I. Davenport is in the city, stop
ping at Wizards.
Clayton McMichael, editor of the Phila
delphia North american, is stopping at Wormley's
The opening of George w. Drivers
splendid summer garden has been postponed unit
tomorrow night.
John Martin, post-warden at San Fran,
cisco and P. J: Sicily, esq, ofSan Francisco, are
stopping at Wizards.
| Colonel J. A. Farden, editor of the New
Orleans Republican, who has been in the city some
months, leaves for home tonight
| An old frame house on North Fairfax
! street. Alexandria which was built about 1903, is
| being torn down TO make way for something more
modern
Mr.. Eugene P. Jewell will deliver a
lecture on astronomy at the Hillman House Oh
Friday night, which will be illustrated by sciop-
! ticon views.
George Brent and Doc Gross. the two
men arrested for running policy game at Third
street and Maine avenue, were fined $50 each in
| the Police Court yesterday.
4 man named John Hunchberger, liv-
ing on the Ridge Road one and half miles from
| Georgetown, was found dead in his bed yesterday
morning, having died suddenly of heart disease.
Building Inspector Entwisle has rec
commended that Mr.. c. Thomas the lowest bidder,
be awarded the contract for erecting the brick
| tage house for the Georgetown Industrial Home
| School.
Gideon s Palmer yesterday filed bill
| in equity against Walter and Jane Cooley to re-
move cloud from the title of lot 81 reservation A
and appoint receiver to collect rents, &c, pend
ing the suit.
The Commissioners have given public
notice of their intention to widen Fourteenth
street road from Boundary street to Whitney ave-
nue., taking in strip OF land on the east side
thirty feet wide.
Albert Brooke was committed for the
grand jury yesterday on the charge of passing a
check for $780, forged in the name offs. T. Suit and
drawn on the Humboldt County (Michigan) Bank
upon Z. VI. BurchaTd
Secretary Burch, of the Senate, received
dispatch last evening that the Office of The 1Raer
cdn his newspaper, was flooded with water in the
big fire in Nashville yesterday. The machinery,
issued this morning as usual.
The stockholders of the Alexandria
Canal Company yesterday adopted resolutions re-
fusing to accept the terms of the act of Congress
authorizing the construction of a bridge over the
Potomac River at or near Georgetown.
The District Commissioners yesterday
approved applications for liquor licenses as fol-
lows: Jacob Weiner, North Capitol, near Boundary
street; Alexander Adj, Clio Louisiana avenue, and
Mary McNally, Canal street, between Congress and
Jefferson streets, Georgetown.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company has
agreed to let the Georges Creek cross its track at
Cumberland at grade until a crossing below grade
can be constructed. An engineer will be sent TO
Cumberland day to fix the site of both the tenn
porary and permanent crossings
At the ST. Aloysius Fair at Gonzaga
Hall last night, the closing night the stand of silk
flags was voted 10 the FanchOn Club. One thou
sand one hundred and forty eight votes were cast
for this club and 80 for the Capital Pleasure Club
The fair wound up with hop by the FanchOns.
Among the awards at the Patent Office
yesterday were the following to District inventors
William d. Hughes, door knob: George W. King,
Georgetown, curry comb Frederick W. Ritter, jr.,
combined hand and stand mirror: Charles d. Sigs-
bee, hinge, and Frank Wright d Bro toilet wash.
The Maryland Annual Conference of
the 4. NJ. E. Church has made the following ap-
pointments for District churches: Union Bethel j.
W. stevenson: 81. pauI S. J. W. SnreeVeS:
John J. Herbert: Mount Pisgah, J. \. Valentine
Good Hope, John Il. Henry; Hillsdale, to be sup
piled.
The officers of the Cooperative Ice
Company state that the man, James Ropan re-
ported as having been injured by block of ice at
the company's wharf, was not injured there, but
was accidentally hurt while trying to get the
schooner Carroll of which he is master off al Cedar
Point, where he was grounded.
The sixty-first session of the General
Convention of the New Jerusalem will begin Fri
day at the temple of the Washington society, on
North Capitol street, but there viii be a prelimi-
nary meeting of the executive committee and the
committee on ecclesiastical affairs to-day and q
Sabbath school conference to morrow.
At the meeting Of the Anthropological
Society lastevening two papers were read and dis
cussed-one by DR.. J. Hoffman, entitled THE Ap-
plication ofGesturcs 10 the Interpretation of Pcto
graphs" and the other by Professor J. II Gore, on
The Methods and Results of Indian Fishing"
One new member was eiected-Mr. John Irwin.
Colonel George 3. Corkhill, United
States Attorney will deliver the Grafton at
the Soldiers Home Cemetery on Decoration Day
General Sherman will preside. All the regular
army soldiers now in the city will be present AT
ter the ceremonies over the speaker and guests
will so to Arlington to witness the ceremonies
there.
The entertainment of Miss Mary Tucker
town, last evening was highly enjoyable Miss
Magill is elocutiOnist of recognized ability who
never fails 10 interest an audience In her humor-
Gus selections she is heard 10 perhaps the best adj
vantage. She was assisted by Mr.. and Mrs. Doug
lass Webb.
Mr.. w. s. Mexican, who for the past
four years has been associated with Mr. C. D. Hess
as advance agent, and who was here with the
COrinne Company has been made treasurer of the
Acme OEyette Troupe. This will be gratifying to
the many friends of Mr.. Mexican i'll this city, and
his experience fidelity and strict integrity render
him peculiarly fitted for the position to which he
has been assigned.
Three of the Little Sisters of the Poor
entered their intention of becoming citizens of the
United States in the clerks Office at the City Hall
yesterday. They were Emile Armance Boussion
Sister OF "GeIInane de Ia CroiX,' from Anjou
France; Marie Caroline Schmitt, Sister of Pa
Clique lie St Joseph" from Alsace, Prussia, and
Sophie FraiSSc, Sister of the ''Hyacinth Thercsc"
from Dauphine, France.
The annual debate of the Philonomo-
sian Society of Georgetown College took place last
night, the question being Resolved, That the
system of agitation pursued by the Irish Land
Leaguemer;tS our appreciation, and the disputants
John II. Connolly, or Massachusetts, and Peter D.
Smith, OF Indiana, on the affirmative, and Frank
P Martin, jr., of pennsylvania, and Louis ID. Law
Ter, OF Wisconsin, in the negative.
Mrs. Mary II. Hunt, of Boston, the gifted
scientific lecturer, of the Woman's National Chris
tan Temperance Union, who delivered very en-
tertaining lecture at Lincoln Hall Sunday after
noon and again at the Congregational Church in
the evening, will leave Washington this morning
for Philadelphia. She is wholly devoted to her
work, having refused oft repeated requests to en-
gage in the Boston Lecture Bureau at large COM
penSation, but her unselfsh interest in the i'm
portance of the work of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union caused her to decline.