Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-02-28
Condensed U0naDs.

Last Friday a countryman No. -, x,,,,,.
Jones white, got into disr ta ne m,,n mn anana
aad aaG RETURNING home
in the arm nflicting ss..a him. shooting n,m
one In passing the nsc o ;onr w1u oneI oo una
renderea medco u city, and DR.. j. B. Johnson
ball. ID a'o, Out couio hot extract the
NJ Wh,cs al meetings OF Grace M. E. Church,
c cre snH Rev. j. W. Smith ia pastor, are In
cce aSg In interest, and thus far over sixty
Gas been In progress since anuary 1st, and the
! health of the pastor had broken down under the
work, but he Is now improving
Inc Baltimore conference of the II. E.
| Church South meets at Harr1sonburE, Va, on
| "wednesday OF this week. This conference en-
| braces Maryland, except the lower part Of the
| peninsula, the District OF Columbia, portion
OF Virginia, embracing the Valley and small
| part OF West Virginia, and numbers 200 minis
ters and 80 lay delegates.
| The Dashaway reform club met at Odd Fell
| lows Hall last night Addresses were made by
Messrs- Thompson, Graham, Holloway, and
Mllllken, and the pledge was signed by twenty
Walter Wright, boy OF IA, was instantly
! killed On Saturday while attempting to jump
OF train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
| near Rockville.
The Arlington Fire Insurance company OF
| this District has reelected all the Old officers
| as follows: Dtrectors-Waiter S. Cox, president;
VIM. King, vice president; VIM. r. Riley. Chas.
| Eomonston, d. F. Robson, VIM. Gait, Dr.. j. W.
| Il. LoveJoy. s. Thos Brown, Dr. w. w. John
ston; c. B. Maury, treasurer; Frank It. Raw
| nnes, secretary.
The Queenston Baptist Church, D. c., was
publicly recognized yesterday by appropriate
| services. Hon. VIM. Stickney acted by remest
| as moderator. and James c. Dultn, esq, as
| secretary. The following churches In this City
were represented by delegates on this occasion,
| viz: Calvary Baptist Church, second Baptist
| Church, Fifth Baptist Church, Metropolitan
| Baptist Church, and the North Baptist Church.
| The clergymen present were Rev. G. G. MeadOr,
| Rev: s. Il. Greene, Rev. owen James, and Rev.
| DR.. T. G. Teasdale.
| Archbishop Gibbons preached yesterday at
| the Church OF the Immaculate Conception, and
| in the afternoon confirmed there about 200
children aid adults The Archbishop compll-
| mehted the par1sh1oners on the excellent
| schools attached to this church, and the large
| number OF children who received the sacra-
! ment OF continuation.
| The Roscoe Conkllng club, Boys In Blue, met
| Saturday evening In Chesapeake Hall, E. w,
| Oyster In the chair, and Ed Morgan secretary.
| A resolution was adopted directing the presi-
| dent to call the club out March 8, at two
| O'Clock, for the purpose OF eScorting a club OF
New Workers from the Baltimore and Potomac
| depot to their headquarters, and also to call
! the club out on the 4th Of March, provided If
was assigned to the first division.
The revival meetings In the Navy Yard Bap-
fist Church are still going on with constantly
increasing interest. Rev, DR.. Teasdale OF
Knoxville, Tenn, formerly the pastor of the
18th Street Baptist Church In this City. is as
sisting In these meetings.
MT. r. Graham: general secretary Of the
Church OF England Temperance society yester-
day afternoon spoke at the Memorial Lutheran
Church, and at night at the congregational
Ghurch on the subject OF the condition OF the
English working people as regards sobriety,
and the plans which his association approve
for the furtherapce of temperance principles.
To-day, John w. Waters filed a bill against
Justus |. McCarty, G. G. Dickinson and the
Columbia Bank Note Company for an account,