National Republican., 1881-08-12
DR.. Garnett has returned to the city.

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Why is an important event like peev-
ish girl7 Because It's a crisis.
Health Officer Townshend has returned
from brief visit to ocean View.
When does q young lady resemble
spoon2 When she is in. resting Qn tea resting).
James T. Callahan, David Crouch, and
c. W. Okey have been reappointed special police
men for duty at the navy yard.
1t cost Florence O'Donohue $40 in the
Police Court yesterday for knocking tooth out of
Mrs Mary Driscoll at q Georgetown wake.
The various bureaus of the District gov
eminent have been notified to submit their esti-
mates for the next fiscal year by September 10.
Captain John Mullan, land agent for
California, Nevada, and oregon, left last evening
for California, with the expectation OF returning
November next.
Major King, agent, &C., has recently
had FIVE glandered horses killed. the last being one
belonging TO Hamilton Wilson, who escaped pun.
ishment In the Police Court by promising to kill It.
Mrs. Mary Randolph Mcmahon, mother
of Professor Richard Randolph Mcmahon, is lying
seriously i'll at her home In Charles County, Mary
land. Mrs McMahon is fifty one years of age, and
is suffering with quick consumption.
Fifteen hundred bushels of wheat for
Hartley Bros. and $50 bushels of wheat and 200
bushels of corn for J.. G. g. J. NJ. Waters arrived
sold at prices ranging from sl25 to sl,31M
Twenty-eight boats, carrying ,ll0 tons
OF coal, left Cumberland follows: Consolidation
Company, 1858 tons; Burden Company, 572 tons;
Maryland Company, bQ3 tons; New Central COM
pany, 101 tons for Alexandria-AmericRn Com
pany, 2S2 tons.
The new plumbers register was re-
ceived at the Health ofice yesterday, and notices
were sent to all plumbers to get their bonds and
register; This book will show an alphabetically ar,
ranged list of plumbers, place Of business, date OF
A suit has been fled by the Trinity
tcatholic) Church, of Georgetown, the Provincial
OF the Society of Jesus, N A. Parker ct al. against
Joshua and Lewis Richie, executors Of Richard
| LEFT plaintiffs by the will Of the deceased.
The following patents have been issued
to Washington inventors: James W. Graydon,
| method of heating railroad cars: Frank J. Lip
pelt, trunk h9sp; Nv. \. Rowe, button; Edgar + !;
Duyall, apparatus for feeding roller mills.
A shower of sparks from the chimney
of the frame house No 500 Twentieth street set fire
to the roof yesterday morning. and before tn G
flames were extinguished. by the department they
Both roofs were partially burned OF, the damage
| being about $500.
A colored man named Thomas Granger
had his LEFT leg broken above the ankle yesterday
morning, at the corner Of Twenty second and r
| streets northwest, by falling from wagon, He
his home, No 1870 b street northwest, where DR..
| Sothoron attended him.
The many friends of Colonel ]. F. Cake,
whose connection with wnllard's and the Metro
politan Hotels Is well remembered, will be glad to
know that ne is successfully showing the people
In Santa Fe, New Mexico how 20 run hotel.
Mrs; Cake and TIVE Of her t CHILDREN yesterday
| started 10 pay the Colonel visit.
The schooner William Allen, Captain
Martin striebman, from Philadelphia for Wash
ington with COAL has been wrecked at Wacha-
preague Inlet north of Cape Charles, Eastern
Shore Of virginia The schooner was SlS tons reg,
was valued at 81 900 No lives are reported lost
Mr.. A. G. Allison, one of the numerous
Adonises for which THE REPUBLICANS force is
noted departs this morning for Waynesburg, Pa
in the interest Of whose harbor he has long and
faithfully labored, to rusticate and revive old
consumption OF which waynesburg is justly ia
nous.
An elderly white man named James R.
Thompson was brought to the Emergency Hospital
next to the Fifth Precinct Station, last evening
suffering from confusion OF the lett groin received
by being knocked down by wagon in Armory
Square. DR.. John Markriter attended to his In
iuries, after which he was sent to Providence Hos
pital in the ambulance.
Benjamin Hilton, whose arrest upon
the charge of robbing his stepfather was men,
toned in yesterdays REPUBLICAN,, was before the
Police Court but Mr.. Carroll, the stepfather, de.
clined to appear against him. Judge Bundy sent
the case to the grand Jury under 81 600 bonds
Hilton was also committed to jail for sixty day;
in default of fine s2j for carrying pistol
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
to james II. Kelton and Mittie Collins, District O
Columbia; George W. Hall and Emma Brown
Montgomery County, Md Robert Story aud Eliza
, beth Walsh, Richmond, Va; George Hall ane
Sarah A. Ware, District OF Columbia William @
Mellin and Annie Ellis, District Of Columbia
, Abraham Hawkins and Elizabeth MeEntee, Dis
Daggs. District of Columbia
, Israel Grand Tabernacle, No. ], Crane
United Order of Galilean Fishermen at its thir
teenth annual session yesterday, elected the fol
lowing officers TO serve during the ensuing year
Thomas Smith, district grand ruler; James Hicks
district associate ruler Jesse Harris district chap
Ster, district secretary; George ingraham distric
treasurer Hillary Jackson, district marshall Pete
4 Taylor, district outside guard, and Addison Day
district inside guard
Building permits have been granted al
follows: Charles +, Reed Eleventh street. betweeI
@ and r northwest one two-story brick dwelling
$1,000; Elizabeth Kohler, Howardtown, one two
story frame dwelling, 500 W. II, Ward estate, 90
' Park street northwest, make general alteration
and repairs, $500; X. 8. 7. Cissell. ll0i Nintl
street northwest, repairs to dwelling $500 Herman
I Ewnd 7l0 Seventh street northwest alteration
and repairs, $500, and Daniel Linkns, Third street
) near High GEORGETOWN repairs TO WOOD once, W
RsunIon OF Confederatea Ia Texas.
=, GALVESTON TEX, Aug. 1.-THE New
4 special from Dallas says; 1.-THE reunion OF OK
confederates living in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis-
: souri,, and Texas, was held yesterday to exten'
g through to day About 500 arrived in the cit
b during the day and large number at night. TIL
procession was headed by local military compA
}. | nles and the fire deDartmeut and q brass ban