National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-01
District Brevities.
Weather Indications.

| We0fher Indications.
For the Middle Atlantic States, including
The District Of Columbia light sao,c or rai fono,ced By
clearing tcedter colder noruesteIy Usds rising bd-
| rometer.
The thermometric readings yesterday were as
follows: a. M, go; IL a. m, $50; p. M, $50;
p. M, 49,: 9p. m, 400: IL p. m. 35o Maximum,
| SO; minimum, $50.
Mr.. Henry E. Meek, of the Hillsboro'
| Gazette is q guest ct Wizards.
Mr.. Charles Trohman, manager, and
j forty-two members of Harerly's troupe are at the
| Imperial.
Hon. s. r. Anderson, prominent
member of the Iowa Legislature, is guest at the
| Imperial.
Kate Van c. NJ. Clarke, through her at
torney Mr. j. c. sayille, has filed bill for divorce
from her husband, Peter G.. Clarke.
J. H. Raymond, of Chicago, the secre-
| taTy and treasurer of the Western Railroad Asso
| citation, is registered at Wormley's
J. Fl. Rutter, vice-president of the New
| York Central Railroad, and C. J. Ian gdon and
families will be found at Wizards.
The condition of ex-Mayor Wallach
was not improved yesterday. but was substantially
the same as for several days previous
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
| Company yesterday put force of men at work 10
Bridge.
Henry Deringer, esq, of Philadelphia,
was yesterday. on motion Of Senator Bayard, adj
mitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the
United States.
The grand jury yesterday testified their
respect and appreciation for the foreman of that
BODY by presenting him with very handsome
basket of flowers.
The painting of the battle of Chepulte-
| Az
head of the stairway on the east side of the Senate
Chamber, having been retouched and greatly i'm
proved il appearance
Ida Z. Evans was yesterday granted
divorce by Justice Cox from the bonds of matri
nony with Richard Evans, and given custody of
the infant child. They were married in February,
1873, and he deserted her in May. 1877.
The board of directors of the Arlington
Fire Insurance Company of the District has been
organized by electing Walter S. Cox president,
William King vice president, c. B. Maury treas
urer and Frank L. Rawlings secretary.
The cross-eXamination of the hackman
who carried n female to the st. James Hotel to
meet Giro was continued yesterday before the cX-
aminer, but not concluded. He has failed as yet
TO recognize Mrs Christancy as being the lady who
rode in his carriage.
Thomas J. Edwards, the supposed burg
lar, with whom Police Officer Breen had desper-
ate struggle corner of and Tenth streets, Satur-
day night was yesterday sent TO jail for six months
for larceny and for sixty days additional for as
saulting the officer.
Mrs. Emily Thornton Charles {" Emily
Hawthorne y has been invited by some fifty sena-
tors, members of Congress, heads of Departments,
and members of the press to give readings from
" Hawthorn Blossoms" and other of her poems,
in this city, which she has consented TO do on
the evening of March 5, at Lincoln Hall.
In the case of Sarah Mason, sueing for
divorce from Thomas Mason, the defendant has
EI,.l.> i
or cruel or that he ever drove her from the house
He charges that she unfaithful TO him, and
would repeatedly absent herself from the house,
being late as three o'clock in the morning,
and that she deserted him.
Mr.. Joseph S. Boss has been notified by
the Inspector of Buildings that all of the party and
division walls of the fire. house now in the course
of erection by him on New jersey avenue and K
street northwest are in violation of the building
and conditions of the permit, to the
extent that they nine instead of fourteen inches
i'll thickness. They have been condemned, and
ordered TO be taken down.
Mr.. John W. Waters, through his at
torney, Mr.. William F. Mattnsly, has filed bill
in equity against Justus I. McCarty T. c. Dickin-
son, and the Columbia Bank Note COMPANY for an
account, and for the first two named defendants to
show the disposition made of a certificate for
eighty shares of stock of the note company held
as collateral security for note of $780, and that
they be enJoined from parting with the stock.
Chester A. Arthur, jr., son of the Vice
President and Mr. Arthur Masten, ex-senator Dor
sey and family, ex-Police Commissioner Clint
Wheeler and family, Hon. J. b. butcher, director
of the New York Central Railroad; Hon. J: F.
Smythe and wife, Of Albany; Cornelius ]. Wander
bilt, General Lloyd Aspinwall, of New York; Col |
onel Joseph Howard, of the New York Herald, and |
wife; James w. Bosler, of Carlisle, Pa, and family
Postmaster James, of New York, and Mrs. James !
have secured quarters at Wizards.
Marriage licenses have been issued as
follows: George Wood and Mary Jane Long; John |
Thomhill and Eliza Jackson; Charles E. Coburn |
and Mary E. Shaley; Frank DieSte and Mary E. |
Derm ody; Hamilton Adams and Frances L. |
ROdier; Joseph Fenton and Helen Smith; Rich |
ard Warfield, OF Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
and Carrie Brown, of Laurel, Md; Reuben NJ |
Whitney, of Howard County, Maryland, and Mary |
NJ Wilcox. of this city; stephen B. Ellery and |
Eleanor E. Mclaughlin; Frank p. Somers and |
Helen N. Hill; Bernard Bailey and Emily B. |
Petit; Rudolph Gear and Mae Cooper.