National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-04

Babcock, Rochester; W. d. Weaver, L. S. A.
You can publish three-line advertise
ment of want rent for SALE or lost three times for
twenty-five cents in THE REPUBLICAN.
Detective McDevitt has returned to the
city from st. Louis.
L. A. Gobright, esq, the oldest jour
naIist in Washington, is very ill.
Charles A. Davis, business manager for
Colonel r. G. Ingersoll, is at Wizards.
l. S. Brown, Grdnt-cOuTetr of the Boston
Ideal Opera Company, is at the Imperial.
Frances Thurston yesterday entered
suit for divorce from Frederick Thurston on the
| ground of desertiOn.
Mr. Hugh Coyle, who formerly pub
lished the Daily Telegram in this city, is now one
of the press-agentS for Forepaughs circus
The court in general term yesterday
dismissed the appeal in the case of George Brown,
convicted of perjury last June, and affirmed the
judgment of the court below.
The Tourists Basel Ball Club, which won
many brilliant victories and caused many tender
heart to futter in various towns in Maryland last
season. will shortly be rcorganized.
Four Washington inventors were
awarded patents yesterday, as follows: Chauncey
| n. Dutton valve apparatus; George n. Saegmuller,
solar transit; Cyrus w. Saladee, road wagon, and
| Charles d. SigSbee, trunk-hinge and stay.
At directors meeting yesterday the
following named directors were elected officers of
the Great Falls Manufacturing Company: Presi-
dent, Henry S. Davis; vice president, John Trim
ble secretary, Charles r. Abel; treasurer, H. E.
Davis.
Messrs. Young & Caldwell, real estate
brokers' have sold for Mr.. c. n. Thorn part of lot
g. square 49, fronting 20 feet on S. between Thir-
| tenth and Fourteenth streets northwest, and i'm
proved by two story and mansard brick dwell
ing, to Miss C. A. Beall for So, $50 cash.
The John Dillon branch of the Irish
National Land League was organized last evening.
Felix Brannigan elected president; James
| Lackey, vice president; D. F. Moran secretary;
D. A. BrOSnan, treasurer; Colonel T. +. Quinn and
Thomas Smith, members of the executive commit
tee.
Franklin Park just now is radiantly
beautiful The emerald hue of the we'll kept turf
combined with the crimson white, pink, and pur-
pie blossoms of the shrubbery, make picture very
pleasing to the eye and rivaling the pretty rosy
faces OF the little ones whose merry voices fill the
place with music.
A large force of workmen have been
engaged in repairing the damage done by the
freshet to the railroad track the Long Bridge
and the road has been regarded and the bed raised
eight inches. The causeway of the bridge is now
being surfaced with rolled gravel, and is consider
ably improved In consequence.
interesting but.thulling paper of personal remi-
niscences of Abraham Lincoln before the les
thetical Culture Club" at Mrs. Lockwood's and
Miss Rixfords, No. 80 Twelfth street. last evening
To say that the club enjoyed his informal lecture
would be putting it very mild.
Colonel J. 0. P Burnside, CAPTAIN J. B. |
Tanner, Colonel J. R. Thompson, and Major H. D. |
Norton, of the National Veteran Club called by |
appointment at the Executive Mansion yesterday |
and returned to Mrs. Garfield the handsome pOr- |
trait of the President which has adorned the walls
of their club-room since his nomination.
Since the publication by THE REPUBLI-
CAN of the application of Mrs Belva A. Lockwood |
for the Brazilian mission, for which she was so |
unanimously Endorsed by the press of the country,
that lady has received lnnumerable letters of en-
couragement wishing her every success, and prof
tering aid in securing this mission for herself.
At a meeting of the Virginia Republi-
can Association, held last night, D. w. Lomax in
the chair Robert H. Morton was elected second
vice president, and Henry BEaglan Ross Hamil-
ton, J. B. SyphaX, w. II. Carter and William Rires
were appointed a committee to act with any COM
mittee of Readjusters that may be appointed at
any time.
Marriage licenses were issued vester
day to James H. Kealy and Mary ]. Mawdsey;
Welton Allen and Lydia Ann Van Pelt, both of
Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Va. John H.
Shortell and Emma E. Thompson; George Fitz-
gerald and Margaret NJ Ricketts, both of Balti-
more; A D. Jackson and Ellen Smith John Berry
and Della ODay; Andrew Brown and Frazier
Hill; John Thomas Payne and Laura Minor
The Knights of st. Augustine, Com
mandery No. q have elected the following officers
Willis ]. Smith, commander Ananias Herbert and
John F. Fletcher, deputy commanders; Lewis B..
Brown and Isaac Sundic, scribes Thomas W. In |
gram. captain general; John Mitchell, herald
John Middleton, warden; Charles Johnson stand
ard bearer: Daniel Clark, Charles H. Butler, Rob-
ert Goats, Henry A. Jackson, A. b. Thomas and
Horace Drys, board of governors
A delegation of ex-soldiers, each of
whom had lost one more limbs in the war
called on President Garfield and presented petit
ton asking the strict enforcement of sections 1852
1754, and 1853 of the Revised Statutes and section
) OF the Revised Statutes Large, relating to the
civil service, providing in the matter of Federal
appointments that preference be given to honor
ably discharged soldiers and sailors. The Presi-
dent said that he was heartily in sympathy with
the delegation in that matter and far as he was
concerned, would see that in cases of equal COM
potency preference would always be given to the
disabled veterans.
A colored delegation was at the White: ;
House representing the Virginia Republican Asso-
citation, and composed of Messrs C. F. Butler Ed
ward Brockenbrough, J. R. Drew and Scott Wood.
and presented the President petition asking that
Mr. John A. Moss be restored to his position in the
Capitol Library, from which, they stated he had !
been illegally removed by Librarian Spofford be-
cause he refused to allow Democratic employee
OF the library TO remove portrait of President |
Garfield from his (Moss) desk during the excite
ment OF the last campaign. Both Moss and the |
The latterwas afterward reinstated :