National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-03
Prominent Arrivals.

Prominent Arrivals.
Ariington-C. E. johnson, Howard Carroll, New
! York; w. II. Moulton, Portland, Maine; I. ID.
Lincoln, Hon. Amos Townsend, Ohio. Worm
P LaMOntaign Davies New iorR Ro MS
Hon. A G. Porter, Indiana D. C. Ely, New York;
| Cyrus Turner, St. Louis; ]. W. Bryan, Kentucky
c. Tidbaii, J. c. Veder, U. s. A.. W. Il. W Jones H.
| c. Wright, Colonel W. B. Lane, Richard j. Dodge,
U. S. A.; Governor Lew Wallace, New Mexico; NJ.
Henry overstoiz, Leyerett Bell, St. Louis; Rufus
| Randell, New York; ]. NJ. Randell, New YORK;
GhaFss LYMAN Mass New sey
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The extra large edition of THE REPUB-
LIcAN's illustrated New Years greeting and inter
esting supplement issued on Saturday under the
new management of the paper having been ex-
hausted, a new edition will be ready this morning
and can be had at the business Office.
at is an i'll wind that blows snow
good"
The Michigan State Association holds
meeting this evening in odeGn Hall
Mr.. Vennor will please understand that
we are fully satisfied and accept this as notice to
| quit.
The new timetable of the Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad, printed elsewhere, goes
into effect to-day.
The police made fifty-one arrests DUR
| ing Saturday and Saturday night-a good begin
ming for the New Year
Mary Trout, the supposed victim of the
| alleged outrage in the Smithsonian grounds last
June, has left for Boston.
| Forty gallons of milk, contributed by
Mr.. William Smith, were distributed to the guests
at the night lodging house Saturday.
| Ben. Cooley's hack, stolen Friday night,
from the cornerof Sixth and Pennsylvania avenue,
was recovered by the police Saturday.
Officer Townsend R. Hobbies, of the
Metropolitan police force, died Saturday morning
| after lingering illness of consumption.
| Some wealthy people act as if they
think that as long the poor have food for refec
/ ton that is enough to keep them from starving.
| Only twenty-three arrests for drunken
| ness were made by the police Saturday, but Ii is
not believed that everybody who was drunk was
| arrested.
E. d. Price, for ten years dramatic critic
of the Detroit Post and Tribune, and now business
manager for John Mccullough, the tragedian, is at
the Imperial
A colored man named Jesse Meeks
found colored male infant in the Capitol grounds
Saturday night and took it to the Seventh precinct
police station.
We have not seen a lightning-calcula-
tor or an adhesive glue man Grating to q street.
crowd for several days. What is the matter? Are
| they afraid of sunstroke?
The gas metres have taken to explod-
ing. One burst in the Baltimore and Ohio passe1-
but luckily did little damage.
The ice was broken at Occoquan last
Friday while the thermometer registered 14o
below zero, and Mr.. J. w. Davis baptized into
the Primitive Baptist Church.
Thomas McMirch, miller employed
at Herr & Cissel's mill, in Georgetown, was Sc
yerely injured Saturday morning by having his
right arm caught in the machinery.
In consequence of DIR. Domer's sickness
the pulpit of St Paul's English Lutheran Church
was Yesterday morning filled by, Rev. Mr.. Denni-
son. There was no service there last night.
Suppose some of these coal dealers who
have run prices up should die while the thermom
eter is at zero, who doubts but that they would
find hotter climate? The thought is very con-
selling.
The horse-car drivers are entitled to
the sympathy of everybody this horribly cold
weather. Their suferings are extreme Every
man of them finishes his trips in halffrozen con-
dition.
The Georgetown Gas Company declines
to furnish gas for the street lamps at the price
fixed by the Commissioners, so, unless the matter
is adjusted, Georgetown may be enveloped here
after in dense darkness.
Saturday morning a portable range in
Mrs Wallace's house, No. 1405 L street. exploded,
injuring Mrs. Wallace severely besides knocking
a servant over. The servants clothing caught on
fire but was quickly extinguished.
A white woman named Lulu B. EaSton,
arrayed in a white satin reception dress was
picked up in the streets by the police Saturday
night for being drunk and diSOrderly and locked
up in the Fifth precinct station.
A defective flue in William I. Wander
bps house, No. 2100 II street northwest, caused
fire about nine o'clock Saturday night, which
damaged the property to the amount of S25. An
alarm was turned i'll from box 80.
A shed or wooden awning in front of P.
P. Little's store, corner of Eighth and streets
OF snow under it and did much damage TO the
windows and goods stored therein.
A horse attached to sleigh belonging
TO Mr.. T. T. Woods ran away on Pennsylvania ave
nue. about halfpaSt four o'clock Saturday evening,
and Mr.. Woods was thrown out in the snow at the
corner of Eleventh street, but not greatly injured
Men don't stand around the corners
these days leaning against lamp-poStS, gazing at
the street=Sights or gosSiping with acquaintanceS,
talking politics religion, discussing any other
topic. The police are saved the trouble TO order
loafers to Move on!"
At a number of the churches yesterday
it was announced that on next Sunday there would
be special collection taken up for the poor of the
District, whose present condition was set forth in
brief statement calculated to move the hearts of
those to sweet charity inclined.
A colored man named Bob McKenny
chased Cornelius Irvine (colored) on Thirteenth
street with pistol Saturday night, for which hos
tile demonstration McKcnny was locked up in the
Fifth precinct station. McKenny had been gam
Irvine.
Assistant District Attorney Perry gave
the four young men accused of the Trout outrage
some good advice as to their future behavior when
they were released. John Rocca one OF the young
men, was arrested for drunkenness Saturday night
showing how deep all impression the advice made
upon him.
Yesterday afternoon, while Miss Lily
Ingle was enjoying a sleigh-ride on the Avenue,
near the Circle, she became frightened at the APP
proach of runaway morse and jumped out of the
sleigh and fell heavily to the ground, dislOcatng
her left shoulder. She was taken to Dr.. Newmans
Office, where she was attended TO and sent home.
A detachment OF the District of CO.
lumbia Artillery. under command of Orderly Ser
gcant Meagher, fired salute of twenty-one shots
New Years Day in the yard of the Quartermasters
corral. as it was found impossible to remove the
guns to any other position on account of the
snow, no transportation being furnished by the
Commissioners or Government.
There is a good deal of talk about what
"army circles" think There are two kinds Of
army circles. One kind talks in the warm lobby
of a Washington hotel, precise to button and
tie SOUP while its members hold their fingers over
a register heater and the other kind fights cold
Indians and is far away from home, Washington.
and lobby.-Nelg York Herald
Elizabeth Brown and her husband. a
colored couple residing on Eighteenth street, near
D northwest engaged in a dispute Saturday after
noon over some family matters, and in the heat of
the discussion the woman seized carving knife
and made vicious lunge at her husbands head
He ducked to avoid the blow, but WAS not quite
quick enough, as the point touched his head, in
ficting slight scalp wound. Officer Baxter pre-
vented any further hOStiliteS by disarming the
belligerent Mrs. Brown and taking her to the
Fourth precipct station
Sudden Death at the Navy Yard.
The many friends of Surgeon c. J. Stuart Wells
T. s. NJ will be panied to learn that he died quite
suddenly about ten o'clock on Saturday of rheuma
tism of the heart at the surgeon quarters in the
navy yard. Dr.. Wells had been complaining of be-
ing unwell i'll the past few days, but nothing seri-
Gus was feared by his wife. She was busily pre-
pairing to make the callers of the New Years Day