National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-13
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Megud dear mother" answered he,
But left II with my uncle"
A petition for divorce, on the ground of
adultery, has been filed by p p Bcrgevln against
Martha +. Bergeyin, the plaintiff in the Bergevin-
Casey trial. which was concluded yesterday.
A special meeting of Columbia Com
mandery, No. Q, will be held in Masonic Temple
this evening at six o'clock for the purpose of con-
sidering the details of the proposed trip to York
town.
Some of the new styles of hats for men
are perched on the very top Of the head, and look
as If they were going to blow OIL. And the longer
you view them the more you wish that they would
blow OFF,
A meeting of the Republican Central
Committee of the District is to be held soon to fill
the vacancy In the craftsmanship caused by the
death of W. b. Reed. Among those mentioned as
candidates are Messrs. A. NJ Clapp and T.. w.
Whitaker.
The Casey-Bergevin trial occupied the
session of the Criminal Court yesterday, and was
concluded shortly after two o'clock In the after
noon. The jury retired, but were only out few
minutes, when they returned with q verdict Of
guilty as indicted.
The number of deaths recorded in the
District during last week was q, being IL less than
2S white males, "a white females II colored males
and coorcd females. There were 10 births aud
20 marriages reported.
Colonel S. Willard Saxton, of Mount
Pleasant. who has been spending his vacation in
delightful ramblc to West Point and John Bur.
rough's charming villa on the Hudson, Saratoga,
Deeriield, and Boston, has returned to his post in
the First Comptroller's Onlce.
The sale of tickets for the concert by
the celebrated Dodsworths Band, which is to
take place at Ford's Opera House next Sunday
night, will commence to-day at Ellis music store
This band has II national reputation, and will
bring its full force of eighty-threo men.
In reply to n number of requests that
some more effective means be adopted for compel.
ling persons along Pennsylvania avenue east to
4, n,,1
ton, the Health officer states that the places COM
plained of will be putin good sanitary order.
District-Attorney Corkhill has selected
Mr. Hugh 4. Tnggart rs his assistant to succeed
Mr. Tasgarl, who has had considerable experience
In criminal practice, has accepted the position
rendered him, and Will enter at once upon the dis.
| charge of his duties.
Colonel Irish, chief of the Bureau of
Engraving and. Printing, yesterday gave permits
sion for the of the steam power Of that Bureau
for the electric light illumination Tomorrow night.
Colonel Irish has two engines one of 175 and the
other of GO.horse power, which will be ample for
| the purposes desired.
The Coroner has decided that an in
| quest Is unnecessary and would be unavaling in
| the case of the Young man washed ashore ut the
| Long Bridge on Monday. A certificate of death
caused by accidental drowning will be given and
Mr. hSh ass KfHphnS .hs nsans one week
A suit for divorce was instituted yester-
day by James Barnes against Margaret Barnes OH the
ground of abandonment and dcsertion. III his
paper the complainant states that the parties have
| been married fifteen years and that the 18th OF
April, 1878, without any cause, the defendant left
his house and has continued to remain absent
Hon. J. II. Rainey, candidate for the
Clerk OF the House in the organization of the
| ton rendered him by Mrs Nettie Sanford, the ac-
Complshed newspaper correspondent, 10 meet q
number of correspondents mt her residence, on
Capitol Hill, on tie evening of the 10th instant.
Sevelaluccident have recently occurred
by the upsettng of wagons and injury to their &C.
cupants on New Jersey avenue, between II and S
streets northwest rms Is dangerous locality fol-
vehicles the grade of the street being nearly three
feet above the sidewalk. No carrag. can approach
the latter without danger of being overturned by
the steep dcscenls.
Mr.. Chaplin Brown, of the committee
OH teachers lad an interview yesterday with Audi
tor vinsOn IN relation To the pay.rolls Of The
teachers which were not approved by the Auditor
The result of the consultation was nm agreement
as to how tho rolls should be amended to max,
them comply with the law MS near rs possible |
is thought that by Saturday the teachers will b
paid.
Marriage licenses were issued yester
nay TO Henry Hammond and Annie Parker
Tobias Hutchinson and Mary H. Coggin, james
W. Webb aud Hattie Edmunds, Lewis q. DenhaI
and Irene A. Kelly, James II. Foster AMI Mary ]
linda Iiarker, Poolesyiilc, Md. and John W Son
der Prince Georges County Nd, and Fannie NJ
MANY Veterans" send a communica
ton to The REPUBLICAN, complaining of the acton
OF the Committee on Parade ON Friday IN placnI
the Union Veteran Corps near the head OF the pro
ceSson and tho Grand Army Of the Republic o
which they are II part and parcel, to bring up th'
rear. They think the Union Veteran Corps shout,
be Mt the right Of the Grand Army OF the Republic
near the head OfIhc procession.
The following building permits wer,
Issued yesterday. q. Hills, TO build addition ant
make repairs to house corner of Seventeenth anI
X streets, $4,000; Anthony Hanon, TO build three
story brick warehouse corner of Third aud Higl
streets, Georgetown 5000; Gray & Page for ID
W. V.NlarmOn to build brick dwelling on Eigh
teenth and | streets northwest $4,000; l, n
Miller to build brio. dwelling on Fifth aud Eas
Capitol streets 5000
The Official Programme of the York
town Centennial Celebration" has been receive
from the compiler, Mr. IT, T. Wilson. This boo
gives also complete programme of the varion
anticlpatOry ceremonies attending tho receptio
of the French and German guests, besides a arg
amount of historic and statistical information
that evidences great care, labor and research o.
, the part Of the author IL will be Invaluable as
work ofintcrost and reference
The announcement in an afternoon
paper that Malor.Geno W. S, Hancock wou
arrive here last night drew number flhc friend
: of that officer TO WOrmey's TO welcome him
: When the late train from New York failed to brin
, the General or any information concerning hi
, movements those waiting became convinced tina
hawould proceed TO Yorktown from Baltimore
I that route being perhaps the most pleasant on
at present. and having also the additional attrac
the same way TO Yorktown.