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j. H. squier and family have returned from Oak
lIld, Md.
marriage license was issued yesterday to
Joseph C. Davidson and Ida L. Johnson, both of
this city.
| A rabid dog was killed on Maryland avenue,
near the eastern toll. cato, yesterday morning by
| two cOlOred boys.
| workmen are busy making improvements in
| and around the Capitol. The dome is being whit
| ened, grounds graded, &c.
Frank Taylor the colored man who had ter
rihlc fall from the top of the Washington Market,
| VIII recover from MS injuries.
Secretary Chandler is having all additional story
added to his house during the absence Of his fam
| lily. 1t Will be finished With Il mailsard roof.
At the picnic of the Excelsior Brass Band at
Ricks Park the prize for selling the highest num-
| Der of tickets was award I'd tJ Bernardine Smith.
DR.. John Parsons, the physician at the Elmer
| gency Hospital, has resigned the position to re-
sumo private practice, aud Dr. Markriter has as
| suined the duties.
| The collector of customs has imposed fine OF
A. ,Ix.t ,,lart
the steamboat laws OH the Ii instant in carrying
| an excess of passengers of 30.
| Dr. Dexter returned late last evening from Jer-
sey City, whore he has been for the past two weeks
| attending Hon. A. A. Hardenbergh. He Is happy
| to report his patient doing finely.
Colonel James l.. Riders sixty fifth birthday
was remembered by his friends in the shape of u
| handsome bouquet with the congratulations and
| best wishes for many happy returns.
| The laborers under the Commissioner OF Public
| Buildings and Grounds were yesterday paid the
| money due for the days lost on account Of the
| cessation of work during the Garfield Obseqnies
d. W. Jamowitz, tae genial and popular eastern
freight and passenger agent is in the city on n
short visit. The great Dan is looking well and
hearty, and the aiIroad boys are glad to see and
| welcome him.
Tie Young America and Wharf Rat mines will
play Il game of base ball this afternoon the old
gle grounds, and the Peabodys and East Ends
| will also contest honors ut 430 OH the grounds
| 1. OK of Lincoln Park.
Lisell Institute, No. 9D3 Sixteenth street north
| west, is spending her vacation in the New England
States, AMI will return September for the reopen
| ing, september 20, 1852.
Important improvements are soon to be made
in the public park facing Providence Hospital.
The situation of this park and its natural adupta-
ton, with some improvements, Will render 1t one
of the most beautiful in Washington.
Justice Wylie yesterday dismissed the citation
against Mrs. Frank p HILL executrix of her hus-
bands estate, to show cause why she should not
return inventory of the personal estate; also the
application for the sale of the properly.
Frances L. Quinn yesterday commenced suit for
divorce against William Quinn on the grounds of
deserion Tney were married hero February 20,
1878, and the de endant deserted her November II,
1878 She asks the custody Of her children.
Drs. Joseph I. johnson and James r. Riley have
successfully performed the rare and imp Jriant
surgical operation of ovariotomy at.the Providence
Hospital the patient beiug Susie Mater. of PENN
sylvania who had been sufferer for fifteen years.
Duncanson Bros, auctioneers, have sold for
Francis Miller, trustee, lot No. 6, in square 533
fronting 81 feet inches on street, between First
aud Third streets northwest, with a depth of 1876
feet uninproyed, to r. l.. Blaniord for eight cents
per square foot
MGlv.n Pierce, q colorsd boy, was charged with
a aulting small white boy named Malcolm
Wiensec. After hearing the testimony Judge
bundy continued the Gu for the arrest of the
river of the ice wagon On which Wiensee was
Etealing u ride when the assault TOOK place.
At meeting of the fifth district Republicans
William Hunter in the chair and W. 4. Smith Sec
retary, George Boston was unanimously indorsed
for tue position of fire commissioner Amoton to
declare the place Of Henry Timber as delegate to
the central committee vacant was laid over until
the next meeting.
The funeral services Of the late Joseph Harris,
prominent colored resident of the District, were
held at Mount Carmel Baptist Church yesterday
and was largely attended by the many friends oil
the deceased. Rev. H. V. plummer oiliCiated, and
the interment was ut Graceland Cemetery. There
| tIara hon m
employer aud other friends OF the deceased.
About one hundred ladies and gentlemen from
Kentucky were at the Capitol yesterday sight.
seeing They are part of the 800 eXcursionists whC
have been to Fortress Monroe. They were shown
all The objects Of interest and were anxious to sec
the desks occupied by their Senators and mem
Ders but could not be gratifed because the desks
have all been removed since Congress adjourned
DIR. w. j. Hoffman, of the Bureau of Ethnology
is at Los Angeles, Cal, with his wife and child
In crossing the Colorado Desert, August S, the
mercury stood at l07 to ll0o in the shade. AT Los
Angeles it stood u $50 III the day time, August 10
with cool nights. They expect TO leave for san
Francisco in about two weeks. All are in good
health. Marcus Baker, of the Coast Survey, and
his vile are at Los Angeles, where Mr.. Baker Is
establishing magnetic observatory.
As the Western train that stops at Washington
Grove, and is due in this city at o'clock, came
into the Baltimore and Ohio depot last night al
900, the engineer, new hand mscalculated the
distance ana the engine ran into the stop guard
knocking 1t over and damaging the platform aud
engine to n considerable extent. The engineer
when he saw he could not stop the train Jumped
, off, No one was injured beyond n little shaking
up, but serious consequences might have resulted
The interesting little three year old daughter o
Lieutenant and Mrs. Fitch, who was brought her,
sick from Oakland, where the family were spend
ing the summer, some eight days ago, has beer
| fat sinking during the past few days, and he
death was momentarily expected last night Th
| IS a sad bereavement to the family which but
| few days ago lost an infant child, and the man,
| fl ends of Lieutenant aud Mrs. Fitch will M
doubt receive the sad intelligence with genuiu
e sorrow and regret.
Captain Josiah W. White, of Toledo, Ohio,
gallant one armed We eran of the late war, and
| well known altache OF the House of Representa-
= tives, left here Monday night for home, via NeS
| York, Captain White Is somewhat famuu
| throughout the West as an Instructor in military
| tactics, he having organized and drilled the To
prize recently at Detroit for the best drilled militi
| command. A similar contest will take place a
the triStute fair at Toledo next month, where thu
first prize is 81 900, aud for which nearly hfty com
p mands have already entered, where Captain Whit,
| has been selected to command the encampment
Rev. J. A. shiveey, of Washington, d. c. whC
has been in South America for the past two year
assisting in the missionary work founded by Rev
\ William Taylor, Of the Methodist Church, has re
turned to the United States direct from Santiago
| Chill. Mr. Shiveley has many warm friends in thi
city. and also in Maryland, who will be glad &
= hear OF his safe arrival, after one months SCI
, voyage. The purpose of his return home is t
take course III Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Z,
warm friend of MIR. ShiYeey, and every adyantag
| will bp given him in liS Carlisle