National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-09

A marriage license has been issued to James d.
Clift and Mollie McKenney, of Alexandria, Va
The following were accepted to fill vacancies on
the petit jury yesterday: J. L. +. Carlin Charles j.
Wright, Thomas Martin, Baret Vanfeet and John
G. Prcinkcrt.
John Weeden for burglarzing Assistant District
Attorney Taggart's house last December was yes
terday sentence by Judge Wylie TO seven years In
the Auburn penitcntiary.
THE REPUBLICAN, Is requested TO state that no one
is authorized to collect subscriptions for the eman
clpAtion celebration until after the convention
shall meet next Tuesday, when collectors Will be
duly appointed.
The notorious Martin welch (alias Reddy
Welch) was convicted yesterday In the Criminal
Court of grand larceny in stealing $40 in gold from
DR.. Albert d. Hayden on the Goth of January last.
Sentence was suspended.
The forty-seventh regular meeting of the Serial
Savings and Building Association, being the fifth
monthly meeting OF the eighth series, was held
last night at els Seventh street northwest The
affairs of the association are in a hourshing con-
dilion, and money is flowing into the Golfers plen-
tifully.
A slight fire occurred at noon yesterday at the
residence of DR.. Chaplin, superintendent of repairs
of the District, on l, between Sixth and Seventh
streets, supposed to have originated from an over
heated latrobe. The fire was extinguished by En-
gine Company No without turning In an alarm,
after about $50 damage had been done.
Any one who casts eyes on a man who answers
to the following description would do we'll to hand
him over to the police: He is about twenty. five
years old, FIVE feet seven inches high of sallow
complexion dressed in dark suit, and wearing u
black derby hat The gentleman In question Is
roaming around the city beating hotels and board
ing house keepers and converting to his own use
anything he can lay hands on,
The writ of habeas corpus issued on General
Crocker, returnable yesterday in the case of John
Walters, a colored newsboy, came up before Judge
Wylie. Walters was committed to jail last May by
Judge Smell on a charge of having forged check
on the Sunday Herald and obtaining papers on It,
The District Attorney stated that he had doubts
| to whether the boy could be held on the charge
The Court ordered the boy discharged.
| The funeral of william G. Burgess, composior
formerly employed at the Government Printing
Office, but recently appointed to a position in the
House post office took place yesterday afternoon,
from the residence of his father in law, George IL.
Miller, esq, No. 1lS street northeast, The pail
| bearers were Messrs w. II. Towers, MRttingly.
| Hartman, McFadden, Higgins, and Mcdowell, OF
| Columbia Typographical Union, No. l0l. The re-
mains were Inferred at Congressional Cemetery.
The sad news has been received OF the death, on
Sunday last, at Albuquerque, N. NJ, of Mr.. George
| W. C. Waite of the Treasury Department, a gem
teman widely known and respected IN this city
| Mr. Waite was young man of fine character aud
attachments, and possessed of a never falling
courtesy and constituencies; warmth of hear
| aud genuine loyalty and nobility Of nature that
indeed linked his friends to him with hooks OF
steel. The suferings Of the last year of his life
were endured with characteristic cheerfulness and
| heTosm that, with the sad circumstance of his
| death in a strange land will render his place il
the memory of his friends secure and sacred for
| all time.