National Republican., 1881-08-15

wall and South Pacific close on Saturday at 10 a.
m. The mails for Australia &C., close August 20
at 7;3o p. m. The mails for China and Japan close
August II at Q n. m.
You can publish three-line advertise
ment ofwant rent, for sale lost, three times for
twenty-five cents in THE REPUBLICAN,.
Nail down the hatchways;a a cold wave
10 coming
Edward Kelley was sent to the Insane
Asylum Saturday.
Miss Mary j. Dean is quite i'll at her
home in Philadelphia.
ID. B. Anger, postmaster will return to
Washington tomorrow.
Ten commitments to the Insane Asy-
lum were made from the sanitary police office.
One clam does not make chowder.
But very frequently that is about all you get in IT,
all the same)
Ex-Constable Joseph has sworn out q
warrant for assault against Officer Lotus, who ar
rested him for profanity a few days since.
Rev. William Downs, pastor of Waugh
Chapel, who has been away for some weeks, has
returned, and occupied his own pulpit yesterday.
Mr. Entwisle has notified the agent of
house No. 400 l. street northwest that It has been
condemned, and that thirty days is given to re-
move II.
The police made fifty-six arrests during
the twenty -four hours ending at eight o'clock yes
terday morning, eighteen of which were regis
tered MS drunk.
Still another burglary comes to light in
an attempt to force open the front door of the
house Of j. II. johnson, 20l9 Fourteenth street. The
thieves were frightened away.
The old wood pavement on Eighteenth
| street. south Of Pennsylvania avenue, has been
taken up. and 1t is probable that will be replaced
by smooth concrete in short time.
A blazing frame shanty at the corner of
First street and Virginia avenue southwest called
out the fire department yesterday afternoon, but
the damage was Of a triling character.
Miss Lima Anderson, of Savannah, Ga.
who has been visiting Miss Sallie Clarke, left
Washington yesterday afternoon, IN company with
her father, for Patapsco Institute, Maryland.
The clerks in the Interior Department
mourned the death of ex-Secretary Browning by
n holiday Saturday, The most of them wished an
ex.Secretary would die once aweek during the hot
weather
Two colored men were discovered on
the roof of the back building of s. ]. Bowen, No.
1il1 street, Saturday night, but were frightened
off by some one in all adjoining house before they
did anything.
Marriage licenses were issued Saturday
to the following applicants Charles G, Eisncr of
st. Louis NO., and Lille ]. Marsden, OF this city
John X. Martin, of Baltimore, Md, and Georgia
NlCnOlhOui Ol tnlS CITY,
In an affray on Capitol Hill Saturday
night Mike Mcdonald was set upon and badly
beaten by gang of roughs led by Tom o'Neal.
The police arrested several of the participants, but
| the ringeader, O'Neal, escaped.
Oli:er A. Daley has filed q bill in
equity against jeremiah Costello and others to set
aside deed oftrust alleged to be fraudulent and
| TO sell the real estate and divide the proceeds
among those entitled to receive H..
Louis Philip, keeper of a restaurant at
2l0l street northwest, was found dead in his bar
room on Saturday morning by his wife, The coro-
ner, after an examination gave certificate that
| death was caused by rheumatism of the heart
Vennor predicted the last hot blast, il
will be remembered. Still, il his cold snap accom-
panied by sharp fross arrives between the 18th aud
10Th, according TO promise, all will be forgiven
| Nothing short of this will conciliate parboiled
people.
The Commissioners have received a
petition from property holders in South Washing
ton asking that the alley bounded by Maine and
| Maryland avenues and Four. and a half and
| Sixth streets southwest be given the name oi
| Park street.
Justice Wylie passed an order Saturday
| in the divorce suit Of Sarah J. Thomas against
Johnson P, Thomas not to sanction or make regu-
lar any evidence taken on behalf of the defendant
between August and -, in the absence Of the
complainant. O.
John Warrington, colored man, EN-.
ployed at Jackson's mill, sustained compound
and commnuted fractrfe Of his len arm Saturday
| II becoming cninngled in the machinery. He was
| taken to the Emergency Hospital, and the arm
was set by Drs. Parsons and Markriter.
About fifteen hundred people went
own the river to Lower Cedar Point on the steam
ers Jane Moscey and ], w, Thompson yesterday
The surf was very high at the Point, and bathing
was enjoyed with more than usual zest. The
| Point has become the Coney Island Of the Poto-
mac.
The letter of the Commissioners to the
purchasing committee Of the Produce Exchange
who purchased the old Central Guard House prop.
erty in relation to the conveyance of the same
has been referred to General William Birney fol
an opinion as 10 the power of the Commissioner
10 convey title.
There is loud call for the garbage
man and the street-sweeper in Marion alley, be.
tween Sixth and Seventh streets and Q street and
Rhode Island avenue, in the rear of Wheatley's
lumber yard. Where is the Health Ollcer? Tho
alley is used MS dumping-ground for garbage
dead cats, fowls, &c
Building permits were issued Saturday
to Miss Celestine Eustis to build one three story
and basement brick house OH N street. between
Connecticut avenue and Nineteenth street north
west, for $500 and Mr. +. Parsons TO put 81 ,OOC
worth Of improvements ON a row of five houses al
Seventeenth and U streets northwest
Early Saturday morning dog was
killed ON X street, between Twenty-frst and
| IWeuty-stCOnu btIetlb HOIlnWcht. LUG nehltn
0ftcer was notified before seven o'clock a. M OF
carcass offended the sight and nostrs OF the pass
| ers-by. II is to be hoped that some step win be
taken to-day for It's removal.
A young man named b. f. Ellen left
the Western Market Saturday to &c to his home
on Rock Creek Chapel Road, but as he has moi
been seen by any of the family fears are enter
tained that he has been fonlly dealt with. He Il
described as being twenty eight years OF age, five
feet nine inches sandy hair and mustache, and
wore dark clothes and white straw hat.
The Law School Of Georgetown Uni
yersity is the rst in the field with Its announce
ment for lsso.'sl. These show thatin the regular
course Professor Morris will have the senior class
Professors Darlington and Dennis the junior In
the postgraduate course Hon; R, T, Merrick, Judge
Richardson, of the Court Of Claims and other gem
tlemen OF eminenoe In the profession Will lecture
The dean, Professor Holman law librarian ,o
Congress, Will conduct the moot court with the
assistance OF ~ +. B. Sands, esq, Of the District
bar, and OF other members Of the faculty. The
course Is well laid out, and thorough in all the
branches Of q legal education, aud fine school Ii