Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-02-03

artists,
MARRIAGE LICENSES have been issued 10 Wn.
g. Clt mt MS an1 Emma j. Hurley: YIN. Brtscoe
and Frances Morgan; George l.. Austin. OF Gre
NADIA, Miss, and Eleanor :. Burfori OF Mont
gomeTy county, Md: DR.. Vim. Ward ana Anna
J. Nebh; Jesse ID. Il. Peters, Of Georgeto W. d.
c., and Wiilianna Watson. or AcComac county
Va: John Irwin and Susie &. Noerr; john Top.
lett and Rachael Franklin; VIM. c. McMichael
OF Indiana and Armenia f. Roberts, OF Wash
ington, ID. C.; James Osborn ana Annie john
son; Ecea X. SweLmdn or Fairfax county. Va.
and Molle 7. Ford, OF Luray, Page county Va:
TboS. T. SHetmaD, OF Stafford county. Va and
Patty c. Ford, OF Fairfax county. Va; Wm.
Jones and Lucy Ann Carter. JAS. Johnson ana
Elizabeth Tyre: Lloyd Hill. OF Montgomery
county, Nd, and Catherine 3. LittiefOrd OF
Prince George county, Md.
JAPAsEsE PosCsLAINs AND BRoSzEs - The
sale by bowling. at corner OF 18th aud III, OF
japanese art treasures, IS now Ia progress AMI
parties Interested ia such works should not
Ial 10 attend as the prices brought will suit the
most impecunious. The sale Is under the di-
Tection or MIR. Thomas Bowling.
THE JEwISH TALMUD LECTURE.-A fine orator
teal treat was enjoy ed last night at the Mount
Vernon Place NJ. f. church. Rev. Dr. Browne,
editor H. chief OF the Jerish S,'th raooi or the
Atlanta. Ca, synagogue, on his way TO New
York, was invited by Rev. Dr. Harrison, chap
lain or the House, and a DuuDer or southern
senators and Representatives. 10 deliver his
lecture on The Talmud. an effort very popu-
lar already In Dixie. DIR. Browne was 10 be-
here Tuesday evening, but the train being de
laytd, reached here but Wednesday nOpn
heLce no notice OF the lecture whatever In our
ddilleS Besides the sudden cold snap came
ana OF course the attendance was COMPARATIVE
~ some 21O peTson5) small for the large build
ing. Bat The rabbi closely hello his au1ience
for TWO hours and half BY reason or MS inter
esiing subject. interspcr5ed wth the most deli
cate huInor OF the Talmud, which made the
lecture one or great enjoyment. We have
beard Mark Twain and Josh Billings but the
people had not laughed half as much on hear
ing them as they would hearing the Taimud
dry as the name OF The lecture Is. III We add
that DR.. Browne broke his ankle nine months
ago. aud that be lectured kneellng with his
rlght leg on cnair, then the audience can De
pardoned for growing enthusiastic over the
eloquence OF man who under such circurn.
stances could hold them from inst to last fnr
Two hours and half. The doctor has made
the Talmud specially, and Is The author OF a
work on the subject.
SALES or REAL EsrArE-Messrs. Duncanson
Bros. auctiOnecrs, sold yesterday afternoon
for John AIdeeser and Gustav Giesler, truS-
tees, the north Il feet front on Delaware ave-
nue. northeast. OF lot D In square IL. AMI hay-
Ing an average depth or 62 reet. improved by a
shall brick, 10 l. kissner, for s1Ie.
An ESTEEMED CITIZEN GONk-Dr. James IL.
stone, the druggist, corner eth and l. SIS. north
west. who dieu at his residence at 230 p. IN.
yesterday. or diphlherta, was an honored citl-
zen OF Washington, ID. c., for nearly half a
Century. lie was a loving, devoted husband, a
Il nder father, a kind. generous nelgho0r, a1d
prompt I'D assisting the unfortunat- and needy.
HIS mother. now seventy i've years OF age,
says, james never caused me an hours trouo e
| In NY life Or. Stone was born Aug. Ia, 1925
| on the PatUxent river, Montgomery eounty.
Md. In 1881 his faiher DIR. John Stone moved
! with his family 10 Georgetown. ID. {. James
| learned the drug business in his fathers drug
| store in Georgetown, and opened blsinc s. Tor
| himself la is5l on the southwest corner OF 18th
| and J. streets northwest Daring this year he
married Miss CathaIine Stevens. daughter OF
X, Yin stevens. esq, OF Georg-tosn. THIS lady
! Ole q FEB. Il. 1876, having lost three children
| and leaving one. In ISIS DIR. Stone put up The
I handsome building northwest corner Tth and l.
| streets. and conducted the business there. CIV
! log IL hts personal attention night and day
4 until his death. In November, 1850. he mar
| rIed Miss Sarah S. Greer, daughter OF Henry
Greer, esq, OF Washington, ID. G. His wldow
| and six ch1ldren-Sarah Catharine, Robert
| Pinkney, james Henry, Mary Louise William
| Ridgely and Lucy Stone-are living to mourn
| the loss OF one or the Doblest ana tenderest who
| ever blessed household. AS recently as Mon
| day morning, January cath, DIR. Stone WAS with
! his friend, W. W. Burdette, at police headQuar
| tiers, assisting him In the effort to recover bis
| goods hich had been stolen the Sunday night
| previous.