Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-10-10
Presbytery Of Washington CITY.

An adjourned meeting of this body was held i'm
the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church at 10
| O'Clock a. m. to-day, Rev. Dr. Wills. moderator
| in the chair. On motion of Chief Justice Drake
the following paper was adopted: ''In view Of
the probability that ar the ensuing session of the
synod of Baltimore, the question will come up
whether ii shall be proposed to the Presbyteries
| to make the synod delegated body as author
lied blythe recent amend ment ofthe constitution
of the PRESBYTERIAN church. the Presbytery of
Washington city deems il cXpedient TO make the
following expression: /. Presbytery is of opin-
Ion that it would be proper to make the Synod
delegated body, in order to give a fair
trial of system which has received
the constitutional sanction of a majority of all
the Presbyteries. 2. The adoption Of that
| system is not understood being irreyocable
| but it may be laid aside. and the previous and
now existing system may be returned to. when
| ever a majority of the Presbytcries COMPOSING
the synod shall so order. 3. I'm the event OF its
being decided that the synod shall be composed
OF equal delegations of bishops and elders elected
by the Presbyteries it would, in the Judgment Of
this Presbytery. be judicious and expedient that
the delegates should be elected on the basis Of
the number of communicates reported i'm the
minutes of the general assembly. 4. Until other
wise directed. it would. in the opinion of this
Presbytery. be eXpedient for each Presbytery to
elect one bishop and one elder for every GOO
communicates so reported and one of each for
any fraction more than one-half of that number
This would authorize. at first. asynod of Sc MEM
bers- III, after experiment. this number should
be deemed too small, the ratio could at any time
be diminished, and the number Of delegates con-
sequently increased.
AN UNKNOWN MAN FOUND DRowNED.-This
morning, about O'Clock, some boys discovered
the body of drowned man in the Potomac at
the end of the Long bridge. No one up to 12
O'Clock had identified the remains. which appear
TO be those of man about thirty years old five
feet eight inches high, with light hair and smooth
shayen face, wearing a blue blouse and vest.
and gray pants, and Masonic pin in his BOSOM
could be identified. His face is considerable
swollen showing that he has been in the water
for several hours. Coroner Patterson could find
no evidence of foul play. and gave an order for
the removal of the remains to the undertaking
establishment Of Mr.. w. s. Buchly. on Pennsyl-
vanla avenue. to prepare for identification and
burial by his friends.
In THE CRIMINAL Court to-day the following
summoned to fill vacancies on the petit jury. were
accepted:-John A. Van Doran, Frank p. May,
Thomas w. Phillips III. Clay Stewart. A. c.
Stevins was excused. The case of Martin j.
Casey, charged with assault with intent to kill
Mrs. Matte Z. Bergevin by shooting her. was
called Mcssrs. c. ID. Smith and Howard Clag-
EFT presented a continuance on the ground of
the absence Of a material witness. who. it lie
claimed, would swear to the defendant having in
1873, while in the navy received an injury which
affected his mind. The case was fixed for trial
Tomorrow. Thomas O'Neal, assault with in
tent to kill: continued. Vim. III. Harrison.
sault witfSintent to rape Effie Burnett recogni-
John O'Brien unlicensed bar; motion for new
trial filed. Philip Ruter, assault: continued.
The STAR ROUTE CASES were not taken up to-
day in any form, andno motion to quash the in
formation in the case of Brady ct al. had been