National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-09

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| Utica, n. Y; r. H. Williams, West Virginia.
Hon. O. B. Mateson, of Utica, N. Y,
| is stopping at the Imperial.
A man who cannot swear at a gas COM
| pany must have very weak lungs.
A burning chimney at No. Ills street
| northwest caused an alarm of fire from box 13l
| last night, butdid no damage.
A clam-opener, an oyster-rake, fish
ing rod, and bob and sinker are always included
in South Washington bridal outfit.
Mr.. John W. Thompson has been elected
president of the Inland and Seaboard COastine
Company, vice Colonel Lowell, deceased.
My sons" said pious and cheerful
plumber, "eat, drink, and be merry, for it will
! freeze like old Greenland to- morrow night"
I A. K. Williams secondhand bookstore
No. 52S Seventh street, was broken in during~Mon-
day night, and the mOney-drawer robbed of So.
At meeting of the medical board OF
Providence Hospital yesterday DR.. S. A. II. McKim
was chosen vice president, and DR.. T. F. Mallan
resident physician.
Captain Charles E. Joyce, of the Post
Office Department left the city last night for New
ark, n. j., as custodian of some official papers re-
quired in a law suit now pending in that city.
The people in the northern and eastern
parts of the city, as soon as thaw sets in, intend
to go fishing in the mud to see if they find any
of the lost sweeping machines and their engi-
neerS.
Marriage licenses have been issued as
follows: Henry C. Barnes and Corneiia NARROW
jeremiah Ebert and Maggie Wood; George r.
Herbert and Annie F. Berkeley; Claton E. Sims and
Amy E. Woodiey.
A meeting of the Yorktown Centen-
nial Association will be held at the Ebbitt House
on the 22d instant. Colonel Peyton, who has just
returned to the city, reports that the interest in
the Centennial is booming.
James Luckily stole pair of shoes from
thest0re of Mr. Brock on Seventh street. last night
for which he arrested by Officer Horne, after a
long chase When searched at the Fifth Precinct
Station loaded revolver was found in his pocket.
The District Commissioners, in COM
pliance with Senate resolution, have transmitted
to that body list of all the applications made for
liquor licenses since November l, $780, together
with the names of the signers, property holders,
and residents.
The elegant residence of Senator Don
Cameron, situated the corner of Sixteenth street
and Massachusetts avenue, has been completed
and turned over to the owner. The Senator will
probably move in and be snugly Quartered by in
auguration day.
The last will of Andrew Wilson was
filed with the Register yesterday. Everything is
bequeathed TO the widow. The will of Elizabeth
H. Travers was also filed for probate. All the
estate both real and personal Is left to the sister
of the deceased, Mary Darnel.
The grand jury yesterday heard the
testimony in the case of Charles Shaw charged
with killing his sister, Martha Carter This is the
homicide that occurred recently beyond Union
town, where the woman was found badly beaten,
and lying insenSible in the road.
Mr. f. A. Newman yesterday filed a
bill in equity for William H Conkle against Ida
2. Scaggs, to charge the separate estate of mar
ried woman martha A. Conkle, deceased) for the
payment of her two notes, amounting to s. 000 rep
resenting money advanced to her for the support
and maintenance her children.
Mr.. William P. Bell, as solicitor for the
plaintiff yesterday filed bill in equity for Evans
against the unknown heirs of Smith, for the substi
tuition of trustee, the title of the property in
volved having become clouded, the original trus-
tee being dead, and, so far as known, leaving no
children or heirs i'll this country.
The bill for divorce brought by Ella L.
Floyd against her husband, John B. Floyd, has
been dismissed at the request of Mrs. Floyd, who
states in her communication that az have this day
February A. renewed my marriage relations with
him. The clerk of the court will therefore please
enter the said suit dismissed and release him of
all payment of alimonY."
The grand demonstration under the
auspices of the Clan ma Gael Association to cele-
brate the anniversary of Robert Emmetts birth
which occurs ON March Inauguration day)-and
to express sympathy with the Irish people and
indignation at the attempt of the British govern
ment to crush them by coercion, will be held at
Lincoln Hall On that evening.