National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-18

S. McRae and wife, of Montreal, are
stopping at the Imperial
NJ. w. Tobin, agent of Emma Abbott's
Opera Company, is guest at the Imperial.
Professor William T. Weber's new uni
form band has been selected as the band of the
National Rifles.
In view of the food the river and har-
Dor bill should contain an item for the improve
ment of navigation on Pennsylvania avenue.
About five hundred applications have
been received for appointments as extra naugu-
ration policemen though the bill has not yet passed
the House.
The proposition of Mr.. John H. Clark
to remove night soil and garbage has been de-
ciined, as the Health Officer has already completed
arrangements for the performance of the work.
The rest of the jewelry stolen from Cap
tain ellis, of Capitol Hill, was found yesterday
buried in the yard of shanty No. 216 C street
southeast, where George HalloWell, who is under
arrest for the robbery, lived.
Adolphus Burgess, well-known COL
ored thief, arrested by Officer Breen Wednesday
night, was committed for the grand jury yesterday
on charge of robbing MacMahon's restaurant on
Fifteenth street on the 9Th instant.
Erasmus J. Middleton, jr., formerly of
the firm of Middleton Young, real estate brok-
er, and son of E. J. Middleton, the venerable
clerk of the Criminal Court, died at his home near
the Soldiers Home yesterday morning.
A well-known arlington guide" said
last night, speaking of the bill which has been
pending in the Senate for a long time to suppress
three-card monte swindling, " We have arranged
the bill in the Senate so that it can't pass
Mrs. Ellen Ogden, residing at No. 922
Twenty second street. was dangerously burned
yesterday afternoon while endeavoring to kindle
fire with coal oil From her waist down she was
horribly burned, the skin peeling off in several
places.
L. W. B. Hutchins, chief of construction
ofthe st. Mary's division Of the Washington City
and Point Lookout Railroad, died at the Marshall
House day before yesterday OF typhoid pneumonia.
He was fifty eight years of age. His remains were
taken to Charlotte Hall for interment.
Ellsworth Hogan, colored, was yester-
day sentenced to Jail for sixty days by Judge Smell
for cozening a countryman nameI Philip Boston
out of calf Hogan offered to trade horse for
Bostons mule and calf and while Boston was
speeding the horse Hogan sold the calf
The concert at the Assembly's (Presby-
terian) Church on Tuesday evening last was one
of the most successful ever given in this city by
either amateurs or professionals The house was
literally jammed with people, who went home
perfectly satisfied with the evenings entertain
ment.
About 1870 o'clock last night young
man named William Knight fell in spasm at the
corner of Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest. Officer Middleton, of the Seventh Pre-
cinct, procured carriage and sent him to his
home on Ninth street, between II and l streets
northwest.
Company A, Washington Light In
fantry, have been invited by the Alexandria Light
Infantry to participate in the parade to take place
in that city on the 22d instant but have been com
PEELED to decline, as on that date they will be
called out themselves for parade and target prac
uce at the arsenal.
H. F. n. Stamp yesterday filed bill in
equity against George W. Balloch and his sons,
Georges. and z. A. Baloch, praying an Injunction
to prevent the transfer of certain stock, and that
the transfers recently made be declared void they
having been made as the plaintiff claims, to defeat
judgments obtained by him.
Marriage licenses have been issued as
follows David l. Towers and Mollie E. Waters,
Joseph S. Fitzhugh and Louisa Page, Peter Will
Jams and Susie Parker Benjamin T. Walker and
L. J. Money, Francis NJ. Brown and Adele Webster
both of Bladensburg, Md: Robert W. Digs, of
Prince Georges County, Maryland, and II. Y. Rob
inson, of Fauquier County, Virginia.