National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-19

ADMINISTRATION S. n. Petts, W. L. Elder, ]. H
Cummings, Pennsylvania H. P. Morgan, \. v
Blake, Brooklyn; V. D. Groner, Virginia.
WormleJ's.-W. Carpenter, New York.
You can publish three-line advertise
ment of want, rent for SALE or lost three times for
twenty-five cents in THE REPUBLICAN,.
The total mortality in the District dur
ing the week ending with Saturday last was 81.
There were II births and 5 marriages reported.
Frank Pelouze was seriously injured
by falling from his bicycle at the corner of
| Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue Monday
evening.
The Commissioners have informed Mr.
N. D. Peek that no pavement will be laid on
! Rhode Island avenue from Iowa Circle to Ninth
| street this year.
Justice Wylie, in The Equity Court, yes
| terday granted divorce to Belle F. Barnes from
! her husband, William Barnes, the charge being
cruelty and abuse
Captain Nathan F. Mathes, of Ports
mouth, y. H, is guest at the Imperial
! The Captain is one of the most StalWart Republic
! cans i'll the Granite State.
| John Monkey, a white boy, fell off
an Avenue car, at the corner of Twenty second
| street and Pennsylvania avenue, yesterday after
noon, and cut his head badly.
| The new train which leaves New York
at midnight, via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
arriving here at 7:i5 m will be literally patron
| lied, as 1t affords convenience long needed.
In reply toa request from George r.
Herrick to have the alley in rear of lots and D.
square SO, improved, the Commissioners reply
that there are no funds available for the grading
and improvement of alleys.
Messrs. Young & Caldwell, real estate
brokers, have sold for Mr.. c. y. Thorn lots IS and
49, in square %, fronting 40 feet OIL New Hampshire
avenue by depth of Ill feet, to Mrs. Admiral R.
y. Stembel at seventy-hve cents per foot.
John Bell, a well-known colOred man.
mourns the loss of a wife and baby the wife hay
ing away with the baby and given him the
slip at the depot where he was Watching for her,
by disgusting herself in another womans dress.
Lawrence Cavanaugh was thrown from
his wagon yesterday morning, his horse having
run away while coming down Capitol HILL He
received a bad cut on the head and cOlOred man
who was riding with him was slightly injured.
4 large number of citizens residing in
the neighborhood of Mount Vernon Place have
mcmOriaized the District Commissioners against
the erection of police station and free dispensary
at the corner of Ninth street and Massachusetts,
avenue.
The Commissioners have informed
Hon. NJ. G. Emery that it Will be necessary TO
secure the authority of Congress to enable the
Commissioners to annul the condemnation of that
part OF the alley which passes through lots and /
in square go.
TWAS the Manchon Club that won the
stand of silk flags at st. Aloysius fair, Gonzaga
Hall, and not the Fanchon Club. The word was
written with big NJ but the Intelligent" COM
positor, who is great lover of Maggie MitcheIS
fdvOrite play, changed the letter N TO an T.
Mrs. VI. Kaufman, of East Washington,
who has so successfully managed the fair which
has been in progress for the past ten days at the
Masonic Temple, received ,65l votes for the gold
watch and received the prize. Mrs Kaufman was
the recipient of many congratulations last night.
Fanny Banks, colored woman, fell in |
a fit at the corner of New Hampshire avenue, be-
tween y and o street northwest last evening |
causing some excitement in the streets. She was |
taken TO HanscnS drug store. where DIR. Lowe at |
tended her, and was afteTward taken to her home |
No. 1872 Twentieth street.
John Harris, colored, was charged in |
the Police Court yesterday with stealing some
clothing and other articles from a white woman |
named May Hall, with whom he said he was liv-
ing as her husband. He said he removed the
goods to another house, where he intended to take
her The affair was fixed up by sending an officer
with him to get the goods for her.
Sergeant Saffel and Officer HineIein
gave chase 10 a suspicious character whom they
encountered at the corner OF Ninth and French
streets, early yesterday morning, and recovered a
bundle CT table-linen which he dropped i'll his
flight: 1t was afterward recognized aS belonging
to j. W est Wagner. whose house, No. 170f Ninth |
street, had been entered and robbed during the
night.
The Commissioners yesterday replied
to a communication from F. C. Dickinson asking
that concrete pavement may be laid on streets
from Thirteenth street to Vermont avenue The
Commissioners say that many residents have re-
queSted that this space should be made into
parking, among others the First Comptroller of the
| treasury. There being no special appropriation
for this street ii cannot be paved at present.
Marriage licenses were issued yester-
day 10 Horace Hawkins and Matilda Tucker of
This city; William W. Chase and Mary " Goodus,
Of this city; B. L. Tucker of this city and NJ Con-
away, OF Anne Arundel County. Maryland; Francis
city; Paul Stith and Ida Farmer of Richmond
IA; John Smith and Annie Berry, of this CITY:
Charles White and Annie Faunllcroy of this citv.
a Convention OF Ministers at Hand
Delegates from all portions of the
United States and Canada to the sixty-frst gem
'ral convention of the New Jerusalem, which
meets in the temple North Capitol street. near
street, tomorrow morning, are arriving rapidly,
md the prospects that the attendance will be
arger than at any previous meeting. Two of the
principal committees the executive and ecclesias-
ical, met yesterday morning for the purpose of
reports to be submitted to the conven-
ion, but transacted no business of public interest
The object of the convention is TO organize for
uture efforts in behalf of the Swedenborgian
ath, and the sessions promise to be very inter-