National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-02
District Brevities.
weather Indications.

Weather Indications.
For the Middle atlantic States, including
the District Of OaaJia, fair ,realier. higher teuperd-
ture nOrthceerly leiadS possibly becoming rdridbtc
! rising barometer.
The thermometric readings yesterday were as
follows: a. m., 2S0; IL a. m, SO; p. m, $50;
p. m, $50; sp. m, 20; IL p. m, 30 Maximum,
$50; minimum, 20.
The Boys in Blue of the Sixth Audi
tors Office have disbanded.
Judge I. c. Sears, a prominent lawyer
Of Parsons, Kan, is at the Riggs
The work of repairing the Navy lard
Bridge will be commenced next Monday.
| heSumner Guards, of Georgetown, will
hold their first evee at Fishers Hail. Georgetown,
| next Tuesday evening.
Pat, reading poster of elan-na-gael-
Howly Moses, if the bloody Indians arn't coomin'
to the Naggeration, too"
Hon. j. S. Wheelwright and wife, of
Bangor, Ne, are guests of Major W. H. Mills, 1918
l. street, during Inauguration week
The Post-Office employees Clipped in
yesterday and raised the means whercwith TO
decorate the Department building for the 18th.
Everett Wroe, was fined $50 and costs,
sixty days in jail yesterday, for an assault with
intent to kill Ferd. Lambreght, restaurant
keeper.
Mr.. Strohm, of Pennsylvania, formerly
q clerk in the House of Representatives, has been
given temporary clerkship in the Post Office De-
partment.
Treasurer Gilfillan will receive pro-
posals up to noon of Thursday, March TO- to sell for
the District sinking fund $4,000 of the District
water stock bonds.
Jackson's Woods camp ground, On the
Baltimore and Potomac railroad, has been sold at
private sale to the Methodist Protestant Church of
this city for $500.
The vacancy in the board of trustees of
the Coreoran Gallery. of Art, oeeasioned by the
death OF Ex-Governor Cooke, has been filed by
the election Of Mr.. s. ii. Kaufman.
Mrs. Humphreys, wife of the late Judge
D: c., Humphreys, OF the Supreme Court of this
District, died at her residence in Fairfax County
near Alexandria. Va, yesterday, about noon.
DR.. Charles ii. Bowen, Col Massachu-
sets avenue, wants his friends to understand that
ne Is not the Bowen reported as having entered
suit against some one for defamation of character
Justice Cox yesterday granted Mary
Bowden divorce from William Bowden The
parties were married by Rev. Robert Johnson
April, 1915. The charges were cruelty and de-
sertiOn.
I. Buckley Taylor, formerly of this city,
and his son, John Taylor, publishers OF the Cum
beriand tMd) Times, have been arrested for print
ing an advertisement of the Kentucky Lottery
Company, and are out on bail.
Marriage licenses have been issued as
follows: John Douglass and Anna Parker: James
Matthews and Eliza Lee, both of BrghtwOod, ID.
c.. William H. Washington and Fannie Y Colston:
William \. Walls and Margaret Statesman.
The contractor on the post-route be-
tween this city and GeorgetoHii-nay Washing
toI-has been ordered by the Department to an
additional trip daily on that route thus doubling
the postal facilities of our ancient nGighbOr.
The House Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds yesterday agreed to report ad-
yersely ON the bill to pay Henry Himber and An
drew Gleason 5000, claim for extra labor in
constructing the brick work of the new National
Museum.
The application for an injunction made
by Kate v C. NJ. Clarke in her suit of divorce from
her husband, Peter G. Clarke, was set for hearing
yesterday. The defendant appeared with his !
counsel and answer TO the bill, but the case was
postponed until to-day.
At a meeting of the National Veteran |
Club, held last evening at their rooms, No Cor
cUran Building Vice President J. b. Tanner in the
chair. appropriations were made for the decora- |
ton of the room and the front of the building. !
The treasurer made his regular report showing |
the receipts TO be 81 ,0JS.49.
In the case of John Silas Marshall |
Johnson. convicted Of manSlaughter in killing !
James Z. Johnson, Justice James yesterday over |
ruled the motion for O new trial and to suspend !
sentence. He will be brought up to the court for |
sentence to-day. The case will probably go 10 the |
General Term on exceptions.
A correspondent suggests that it would |
be money in the pockets of the Avenue and H |
street car lines if they TO adopt transfer at
the Fifteenth street terminus of the latter. The !
idea is good one, for it would lead hundreds OF
people in the northeast portion OF the city to take
the cars instead Of walking across lots" as they
Haverly's s. Minstrel arenaded General
Garfield last night at thes SS,.gs House. 1t was an
mpronptu affair, quie:l5 j effectively managed,
not by an employed bante ut By solo instrument
lliSts and singers, who were glad to volunteer to
welcome the President elect on his first evening
Is such i'll Washington with music of the highest
order
Captain Jack" well-known colored
character, was put on trial in the Criminal Court
yesterday on the charge of second O1ense of
1etit larceny. MeSsrS. John A. Clark and Charles
,. MoOre defended the man, and so completely es-
ablished his demented condition that the Jury !
acquitted him on the ground of insanity. He viii !
'e committed to the insane asylum.
Fee hundred boys arGnted to sell THE Ma