National Republican., 1881-07-15

tWenty.nNe cents III 1HE REPUBLICAN,
The Liquor Dealers Association will
meet at Cosmopolitan Hail this afternoon nt two
o'clock.
Mr.. Montague ID. Jacobs, accompanied
by his mother, left for Cape May yesterday, where
he has engaged apartments at Congress Hail.
A man named Thomas Handy was
found sick at 1865 P street northwest yesterday
afternoon and sent to the Freedmen's Hospital
Two mad dogs were killed yesterday
one by DR.. Boyd, at the corner of First street and
Virginia avenue southwest, and one by Officer
Golfer, on First street southwest.
Mr.. l.. E. Cannon yesterday entered
suit against the District claiming 5000 for injuries
received by being thrown from his carriage, the
wheel of which caught in man-trap.
The committee on buildings and repairs
of the School Board have approved and returned to
the Commissioners the plans and specifications for
the high school buildings prepared by Architect
Clark.
The following have been elected Off
GERS Of the Germania Maennerchor: q. L. Clauss,
presidents +. Klotz, vice president; w. Leigwart,
secretary; g. Binkenburg librarian, and II. Gross,
collector.
Congress at its last session appropri-
ated 5000 for dredging out the James Creek Canal
On account of the smallness of the amount no
work will be commenced until fall, when 1t can be
better done than now.
ESThe regular Thursday afternoon mill
tary rifle match at Benning's, which was post
poned yesterday on account of the moonlight ex-
cursion of the National Rifles will be shot this
evening at the usual hour
Harrison II. Mason, Company ii, First
New York Dragons, is recommended for public
employment by General William Gregg and Gen.
erals Sherman and Sheridan, but has failed to Sc
cure place. He lost leg in the service.
John Zarimbo, an old soldier and in
mate of the Soldiers Home at Hampton is locked
up mt Police Headquarters ON suspicion Of having
robbed the residence of the Russian Minister,
whore he was formerly employed as steward.
The carriage and wagon shop of James
Corcoran, No. 2lG Eleventh street northwest, was
discovered TO be on fire yesterday by members OF
NO, Engine Company, who extinguished the
lames, with trifing loss, without turning in an
alarm.
Lee Lawrence, little boy twelve years
old while playing near the swingsi in Beyers Park
yesterday was struck on the head and knocked
senseless. He was conveyed to his home, No. 1919
Thirteenth street northwest, and with proper at
tenuon, soon recovered.
The body of an unknown white man
was found yesterday afternoon under n tree at the
corner of Nineteenth street and Virginia avenue
northwest. Officers Cunningham and Connolly
removed II to the Fourth Precinct Station, where
an inquest will be held to-day
Mary Owens, a domestic in the employ
Of DR.. Duke, living at 7l5 Fourteenth street north
west, died suddenly last evening Of congestion oi
the brain. Deceased was only fifteen years of age
and had been sick but two days. Deputy Coroner
lIartigan will hold an inquest this morning.
The Columbia Fishing Club returned
here yesterday morning after two weeks stay
about mile from Point Lookout, ON the pay side
They laid nearly all the time off "Scotts Cove
where Mrs. Edgar Adams house. being filled will
Washingtonians, was their favorite resort, TheN
report fish and oysters in abundance.
The work of eXcavating the mud anc
debris of the Washington and Georgetown chan
nels has been awarded as follows The former t
John o. Evans, representing the National Dredging
Machine Company, at twenty four cents per cubit
yard and the latter to Thomas p. Morgan, jr.. Il
s2s per cubic yard Of rock. The work will be don't
under the supervision of Colonel s. T. Albert
United States Engineers
Officer Oliver last evening arrested
Ephraim Duckett a well-known colored sneak
thief on a charge of robbing Miss Lizzie Cobb o
| q pockctb book containing ST. The accused wa
employed to do scrubbing at 637 street northwest
the pockct.book and ran Off with II, Duckelt wa
locked up at the Fifth Precinct Station until th
| morning, when he will renew his acquaintanc,
with Judge Snell
The frame building on the corner o
Delaware avenue and North street, so long usec
as the Office Of the engineer in charge Of the Capt.
tol grounds, Is being removed to the corner o
South Capitol and B streets, Just below Genera
Buffers houses This It viii be remembered, 1
the site of the old Israel Bethel Church. which wa
purchased by the Government and has lately beer
ornamented with trees and surrounded with
neat board fence.
The equine race continues to suffer from
the heat Yesterday three horses died from tn,
effects of the summer solStice one belonging to th
Great Falls Ice Company dropping down at Bright
wood, one on Seventh street near Howard Uniyer
sity and the third out by the quarries. The horse
attached TO the different street. cars suffer greatly
| but everything is done to render them comforta
| BILE. The Metropolitan Railroad Company onl.
run their horses on half trips. Major King, of th
| Prevention of Cruelty, &c, Society, cared for
number of horses that were overcome with tn,
h eat, but after careful attention revived SO tha
th ey win probably be fit for duty to-day