National Republican., 1882-07-24

During the tw, nty -four hours ending at s q. m.
yesterday the police made sixty-seyen arrests.
Margaret Miles, colUred, was arrested Saturd y
night by Officer Clinton for disorderly conduct in
East Washington.
A marriage license was issued Saturday to Will
lam II. Clarke, of Owensboro, KY, and Margaret
HawGs, OF this city.
Henrietta MARSHALL was arrested and lodged in
the Eighth Precinct station on Saturday night,
charged with stealing 81 note.
james Clinton aud Walter Jones, juvenile
Africans were pulled Saturday night OIL Capitol
Hill for indulging in II street fight.
The semi-Hnuual session of the Grand Lodge
Knights of pythias will be hcld at the hall, corner
OF Ninth aud ID streets, to- morrow evening.
The cIlored Odd Fellows will hold ceebra
ton Mt Warren,ou, Va, o.day, to which excur.
sions will run from Alexandria and this city and
GicSOoro
There is In Ellis window on the Avenue star
tling bronze star OH which is medallion portrait
said to represent Mr.. c. b. liauord ofthe Lawrence
Barrett Amateur Dramatic Club. What HaniOrd
has done to be treated in this way is not known.
The proposed Columbia College building, which
is to he elec cd on street, near Fourteenth, will
cost $4,000. The Fourth Baptist church, colored,
intend erecting building, to cost about $4,000,
at thvcJrnor of Twc.fth aud streets northwest.
tipSy Virginia office seeker, named Joseph C.
Beckman, was saturday sent to Jail for thirty
days for obtaining an cntrlnce into the house of
Jane, Leonard, driver of tho Jail van, At No. 3l0
Fourth street, Friday night, aud appropriating it
us Il lodging. house.
Officer Howe of the Fifth Precinc', reports that
about ll:S0 Saturday night collision occurred at
the corner of hrtecuth street and PENNSYLVANIA
avenue, between phaeton driven by MIS-, Hill.
larry and Collector Cooks wagon. The only
damage done was the breaking OF the front wheel
of the phaeton
The alarm of fire turned in from box 2l5 on Sat-
urday night was caused by the explosion of coal
oil lamp i'll the house of Mrs. T. James, 1926 Four
teenth street northwest No damage done. The
fire department responded with their usual
prumptitude, but their services were not called
INTO rCquisitiOn.
The proprietors of the steamer W. w. Corcoran,
Keyport, Mary Washington, Mattano, Arrow
smith, Lady of the Lake, and George Leary have
been fined sl05 apiece and held for the Supreme
Court for having unlicensed bars upon the boats.
The propretors of the Jane Moseley were fined
Sl05, but not held
A large cargo of granite for the Washington
Monument has arrived in this city from Rockland,
Me-, and as soon ms 1t can be cut into blocks work
on the monument will be resumed. The section
which was unfinished when the work on the last
Course was stopped Will then be completed, giving
the monument height OF go feet.
The Smithsonian Institution has received from,
Professor FOeratcr, of Berlin, the announcement OF
the discovery by J. PaliS at Pola, Austria Oh the
Goth of July, 1852, of planetod of the twelfth
magnitude In y hours minutes and second
right ascension, IL degrees Z minutes OF south
dcclinalion, with daily motion Of iour minutes
South.
About o'clock Saturday night officer Clark ar
rested Richard Bell, colored, for beating his wife
When the officer appeared upon the scene Bell
was about to brain his wife with a club and upon
being arrested made Il desperate resistance, but
was overpowe'ed and brought to the Central sta =
ton, where he was locked up on the charge of dis.
orderly conduct.
Noteley Fletcher, colored female crank OF
heavy avordupois was arrested late Saturday
night by Sergeant Hamilton for creating disorder
in the Eastern Market. She imagined that some
man had "piZened" her sister, and was accord
ingly seeking to revenge herself upon every indi-
viduGl ofthe male persuasion she chanced 10 meet
when the officer uabbed her
Mr.. Zalmou Richards, the veteran Washington
educator, who has been in attendance at the Ma
| tional Education Convention at Saratoga, has jus
received the prize of $50 for the best essay on The
| True oder OF Studies Tor Elementary Schools ant
the Time for Each" The prize was offered to the
| educators OF one country. There were thireer
| competitTs. Two essays were deene worthy oil
prize, and Mr.. Richards received the pre- ference.
| W. D. Lockerty, New York passenger agent OF
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and
| j. W. Pickel, transportation agent of the same
| road, were in town Saturday, both in excellent
| health. They combined pleasure with business
taking occasion TO see the city while looking afer
| the Interests of the road. Mr.. John y Laughlin
| who is the efficient agent here for the road, nae
| the party in charge and made their visit u mos
| office dozen japanese fans bearing the adver.
| tsement OF the c., b. and Q. road and upon tria
they proved to be fully as breezy us the generous
| donor.