National Republican., 1882-03-06


m. The mails for Newfoundland, via Halifax
close on Thursday at $50 p. M, The mails for As
plnwall and South Pacific, by steamship Acapulco
close on Saturday at 10 q. m. The mails for Brazil
by steamship GlensannOx, close on Saturday at
p. m. The mails for Cuba and Porto Rico, by
The mails for Honduras and Livingston, via New
Orleans, close on Saturday at 1880 p. M The mails
$3.50 p IN. The mails for Australia, &c, via san
Francisco close March II at p. m. Thomails for
China and Japan, via San Francisco, close on
You can publish a three.ine advertisement of
" Wanted" For Rent" For Sale" or "Lost,"
throo times for twenty five cents in THE REruB.
LICAN.
Frank L. McKenna, a young Baltimore mer-
chant in the city Saturday. visiting friends.
sixty-:wo arrests were made by the police Sat.
urday This number is slightly in excess of the
last three Saturdays.
The monthly meeting of st. Johns Mite Assocla-
tion will be held at 02l Pennsylvania avenue Sat
urday evening next
The body of coored female infant was found
Saturday morning in BNum's woodward. The
Coroner ordered its burial.
Professor Philip Lawrence and his talented pu
pill, Miss Marguerite L. Saxton have been rendered
benefit, which will take place at Tallmadge Hall,
Thursday, March IL.
Charles Matthews, coored, was committed to Jail
Saturday for the theft of twenty pounds of tobacco
and quantity of cigars from Michael Meidel, No
400 ii street northeast
Baltimore is going to have celebration upon
the anniversary Of Lees surrender at Appomattox
April Q, and the Union Veteran Corps of this city
will attend upon the occasion.
Professor j. II. siddons to.m night will lec-
turc at Marini's Hail. His subject will be Eng
land and America ContraSted,' and it will without
doubt prove very great interest.
To-day is "ladies' diamond day" with the I'm
Tno A ctln oh fnr
some ladies', Mt least, 70 get diamonds very cheap
Read the advertisement elsewhere.
young alligator was received at the general
postoilice Saturday fromFlorida for Second Assist
ant Postmaster General Elmer, who turned IL over
to Chief Dallas, of the Dcud-Le Office.
Oficer Duvnll, of the Fifth Precinct, reports that
about four p. m. Saturday, as Annie Loan was
standing in front of the Importers Tea Company
on Market Space, her pocket was picked OF 81.
The Columbia Turn-Ne closes this seasons
programme of entertainments by an exhibition of
the acrObatic, calisthenc, and other muscular
skill ofits members aud pupils at Abners Hall this
evening
The alarm at G:2O o'clock Saturday morning from
box 1872 was for fire in the hay loft of John A. and
Charles f. Schneider, Ohio avenue, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets northwest damage
about $50.
At five D. IN. Saturday evening lace curtain at
the residence ofDr. Eggleston, ll6 street north:
west, caught fire. The flames were eXtinguished
by the inmates of the house. The damage was
about S2j,
The coroner was notified Saturday of tho sud
den death of Mr.. AbSalom Kramer, a we'll known
citizen of South Washington, and father of Officer
Kramer, ut his residence, 09 Sixth street southwest,
Friday evening
The visitations by the officers of the Grand
Lodge l, o, o. f., will take place this week as fol-
lows Excelsior Lodge, No. II, Central Hall, this
evening, and Oriental Lodge, No. 10, same hall,
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Powell who has been member of the
choir of the Congregational Church. has accepted
position in the choir of the Church of the Taber-
nacle. Miss MCGrew takes her place for the time
at the former church.
Phillips, the stage carpenter of the National,
who was stabbed by one Kurtz, was out Saturday
for the first time since the accident. The attack
on Phillips was entirely without cause, and he Is
to be congratulated upon his escape.
Mr.. Duncan Thompson takes pleasure in re-
turning thanks to the members of the fire depart
ment. police, and others who so efficiently aided
in the suppression of the fire and in guarding the
premises on Saturday night at athisresidenee No, l2
Grant Place,
on Saturday night about seven p. m. a white
man named George Ameling fell on rough side
walk on Seventh street, near Boundary northwest
and broke his ankle bone. He was conveyed tC
the Second Precinct where DR.. Adams set the
broken bone.
The carriage of the private secretary OF the Pres
ident, driving along street northeast, between
First and Second, met with breakdown at ten
and almost impossible holes for which said street
Is becoming known.
II. Humphrey Brooke's letter in the Sunday
Chronicle Of yesterday was unusually interesting
Among other subjects he pays deserved tribute
to Adiutant. General Drum, and cOmmends his an
nual report to the Secretary of War to the earnest
attention of Congress-
Union Bethel Historic and Literary Association
meets in Bethel Hall to morrow (Tuesday) even.
ing, j. II. smyth, ex-Minister to Liberia, will
ny nFin In lnn
discussion will be furnished by Mr. 4. j. Minton
entitled "Tho Negro and the Tenth Census"
Except the Criminal Court the Circuit Court wal
the only mill grinding Saturday Nothing of inn
pOranCe was done. In the case of the United
| States VS.. The National Bank Of the Republic tho
demurrer was sustained. In the contested viii case
Of Stewart vs. Elliott the motion fora new trial wa
oycrTuled
The burning of shed on the aleyway between
Grant place and II street caused an alarm of fire tC
be turned In about one o'clock yesterday morning
| The department. promptly responded, and The
| fumes were eNtinguished before much damag,
| was done. The fire is supposed TO have been thC
| work of an inCendiHry,
John Hoffman, an intoxicated white man, fell II
the gutter at Sixth and Pennsylvania avenue abou
| five o'clock Saturday evening, striking his heat
against the CurbstOne in his fall, and receiving
very severe scalp wound. Onicer Byrnes took hin
| to Police Headquarters, where his injuries were
attended to by Dr. Townshend,
a large meeting of the Indiana Republican
| ut which Colonel W. w. Dudley presided and viii
liam NJ. Bass acted rs secretary. Extensive prepara
| tions were made for the proposed reception tC
ScnntoT Harrison and the Republican members o
Congress ut Mnrnis Hall, next Thursday, the Oh
| instant. This affair promises to be the most ele
CANT had this season.
Major King has fastened his prevention. Of
cruelty to animals hand upon William II. CLARK
lcolored) for driving n horse that looked as r hC
could hardly drag himself, to say nothing of In,
hack to which he was attached and for assaultinl
the aforesaid majuS who endcavorei to argue hin
| into Kindness, William SSas before the Poic,
Court Saturday, but the case was postponed to give
| him an opportunity TO secure witnesses,
The Hebrew Festival Of Purim began saturda!
evening ut nightmll, and continued for twenty
four hours. The feast is held in commemoratloi
| OF the death of llamHn, who had plotted agHus
| the Jews to destroy them. On the feast Of purlu
| tho Book of Esther and the McgiilOth are read II
| the synngOgueS, Purlm Is one OF the few holiday
| upon which business is not suspended, II beiugob
| served purely In merry making, which general
takes place on the eve and also ON the pight OF III
| Ia tWl