Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-06
CITY AND DISTRICT.
District Government Affairs.

| I'll AMI DIS hlCl.
District Government Affairs.
In compliance with petition from residents
OF Anacostla and Uniontown, who complain that
they have been annoyed by disorderiy assem-
plies at Douglass hall. on the Asylum road. the
District commissioners have directed that no
further permits be given for entertainments In
| that hall.
Nine persons were admitted to the govern
ment Hospital for the Insane during the month
OF september upon the order Of the District
| C0mmissiOners-siX white and three coiored
Inspector Entwisle has condemned as unsafe
two wooden buildings-Nos. $40 and 9o2 cath
street northwest-owned by J. c. Foertsch.
and has ordered their removal within thirty
days.
The total mortality in the District of Columbia
Ior the week ending Saturday. October l. was
~ There were 50 births and seven marriages
reported.
Building permits issued by Inspector Entwisle:
Bridget Leonard, erect two story dwelling,
w, between 14th and 18th streets northwest:
S2,UOO. Martha H. Powell. erect three story
dwelling. N, between 4th and 5th streets north
west; ~ 500. Mrs. A. Kelly, repair brick S32
b street southwest; S40O.
| INsTALLATIoN.-Court Washington. No. Q.
| United Order Of FOrresters, has installed the
| following officers: C.R.. ThOs. E. Trazzare; V.
| Ok, W. F. CisseI Secretary. H. p. Cattell:
Treasurer, George Brown; s;W, H. L. Clarke;
| al.
j. 1: kethley; Instructor, VIM. Mex Moulden.
>. L. Sothoron, M. d.. was unanimously re-
elected court physician for the ensuing year.
The CHRIsrrANcY DIVORCE CAsE.-In this
| case yesterday the father of Mrs. Christiancy
| (Mr j. w. LugenbeeD testified before Exam
liner Lovejoy that his daughter had been reared
delcately and tenderly and that she had refused
twenty-five offers of marriage before she met
Mr.. Christiancy. The prosecution objected to
the admission of such testimony as irrelevant to
Whlch an exception was noted and certified to
Justice Wylie.
To-day, in the Court in General Term the case
of Chrstiancy agt. Christiancy was called This
came up on the appeal of defendant from the
order of Judge Cox in Overruling the motion to
strike out the deposition OF Edil Giro who it will
| be remembered, testified to adultery at the St.
James. The counsel having made q brief state
| ment, the court declined to act on the motion.
| stating that the motion to suppress remained
alive until the final disposition of the case.
THE OLDEST INHABITANTS ASSOCIATION met
| yesterday afternoon, DR.. John B. Blake i'm the
| chair, and Nicholas Callan esq., secretary The
! death of Mr. Zebulon w. Denham was announced
and euloges were pronounced. The chair
alluded to the death of President Garfield and
asultable resolution was passed also one COM
| mendng to the nation the patriotism and wisdom
OF President Arthur. The invitation of the
1OrktOWn reception committee was declined
with thanks, for the reason tnat the members of
the association are generally too enfeebled by
age to march in the procession.
BRUTAL ASSAULT ON JOHN WHITEFORD-About
II o'clock last night, young white man named
Patrick Sullivan, who lives on III street. near
Delaware avenue northeast went to John White
fOrds emission for the helpless and fororn" cor
r2d and streets northeast, and disturbed the
meeting, and was put out. He came back and
raped on the door, and when Mr.. Whiteford
went to the door he threw a large paving stone
nh.Arrf f,x-p
pounds, and struck him on the forehead. making
fearful cash. Strange to say, he did not faint,
but dashed after his assailant and caught him,
and held him until help came and he was taken
into the mission and tied with a rope until an
officer came and took him to the station-house
While being taken from the 7th precinct sta
tiOn-hOuse to the ''black Maria this morning he
escaped. Mr.. WhitefOrd appeared at the Police
Court this morning with his head cut and his
clothing spattered with blood from his head to
the feet and swOre out a warrant against Sulli-
van.
CHARGES AGAINST AN UNDERTAKER.-Aco colored
undertaken, named John West was charged in
the Police Court yesterday with violating the
health ordinances in burying and dsposing of
the dead body of the infant son of one Abraham
Johnson, cOlOred, in Beckett's cemetery in the
eastern section of this city, without procuring
the necessary permit from the health officer of
the District of Columbia. West, it appears. pro-
cured permit from the health officer to bury
the child at Mount Olivet. but took the body to
Becketts cemetery. He left the body there, say
ing that he would get permit. He did not
return, and the body laid at the cemetery
three days before it was buried. The Police
Court to-day entered judgment of guilty
against the undertaken, and imposed fine of
$50 and suspended execution OF sentence.
CUMBERLAND, WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK
X. R.-The certificate of Incorporation of the
Cumberland, Washington and New York rail-
road was filed at the executive department ia
Annapolis yesterday. The termini are at Cum
berland, in Allegany county. and at Washington
and Point Lookout. The capital stock is fixed
at five million dollars. The incOrpOrators are S.
Taylor Suit, Sidney S. Wales and George w.
Dimmock, of Prince Georges county, and VIM.
j. Muntagle and James Read of New York.
The COLD wAvE-The thermometer i'm the
suburbs of the city stood at 30o this morning
and ice was formed around the pools of water
and water courses The frost has done much
damage to sweet potatoes, tobacco and the fall
fodder.
SUIT ENTERED.-The American Baptist So
ciety, of New York, has entered suit In this CITY
for 1449 against Emily Wanstall-the claim
being for balance due on five prOmissory notes
given in 1875.
Two FIRES TO-DAY.-The alarm of fire at 9:55
O'Clock this morning from box 141 was for the
discovery of fire in house No. lib Vermont
avenue, owned by VIM. Dennison, and occupied
by j. Douglass; damage, $15.. The alarm at
1910, this afternoon, from box AZ was for the
the burning Of three sheds in rear of Nos 4S3.
485 and 4S7 6 street southwest: loss, $4OO
The MARCH TO YORK c. Sd o.
8. artillery. on the way to Yorktown, proceeded
below Alexandria yesterday, went into camp
near the telegraph road, and resumed their
march this morning. Company A, I'd U.S. ar
tillery, arrived at Fredericksburg, Va. on its
march to Yorktown, and encamped on Mavre's
Heights The officers were entertained by the
Fredericksburg Guards.
In THE CRIMINAL Court to-day, John Cooney.
unncensed bar; forfeiture set aside. Lawrence
Clark, Sunday bar; pleaded guilty. fined $40 and
costs. John Frawley, do; guilty. Lewis ].
Gill, unlicensed bar; not guilty.
RIVER TRADE.-Harbor Master Sutton reports |
arrivals at the river front to-day follows Long
hoa Is,