National Republican., 1882-07-14


for the WEEKLY so wide circulation.
Mount Vernon Park ha, now become one OF the
hanlsDmest of the city's reservations.
\ warrant has been procured against Annie
Geiger for selling liquor in retail quantities with.
Cat license.
John T. Callaghan and Byron c. Coon, of the
Post-Oficc Department, were examined by the
grand jury yesterday.
Mr.. Harold Forsberg, the well.known actor,
reached Washington yesterday, and will spend a
portion of the summer here
The fire alarm from box 73l, at 6 80 Yesterday
morning, was caused by slight accidental fire at
Paskoc's bake house, 1927 Jefferson avenue
The police should look after u gang of noisy
negroes who infest shepherds alley, between L
and aud Ninth and Tenth streets northwest
At a meeting ofth Concordia Church Associa.
ton, II. Doerner was elected TO represent the as.
sOciatiOn on the board of directors of the German
Orphan Asylum.
During the fiscal year ending June 30 last the
officers of the fifth precinct made a. lj3 arrests all
average of IL each day. For .orce of only twenty
nine men this Is an excellent showing,
The merchants living along Pennsylvania ave.
nue. east are asking why it is the strcet.swcepers
have not performed their functions on that
| thoroughtare for the past few weeks. Their SER
vices are badly needed.
The funeral of Harry c. Rawlings, the youth
who was drowned in the Eastern Branch Monday
last, took place from the residence of his uncle,
Henry j. Bright esq, at 43O o'clock last evening.
II was largely attended.
| A prominent member of Calvary Baptist Church
| sitively states that Mr.. Bgelow did not appro.
pirate any money belonging to the church or sun.
day school, and was not in position which would
have enabled him to do So
Coroner Patterson went to Uniontown TO look at
the corpse Of q colored infant which had been
found there and at once pronounced 1t to be O
| case OF oiinfauticide The child had evidently been
murdered by having Its head broken
John Ransell has been arrested by Officer Har.
low upon suspicion of having stolen two govern.
ment blankets, which were found in his posses
| sion. One of them is branded ~. s." They are
held at the fifth precinct station awaiting identi.
| hcation.
| Mr.. Waiter L. Dennis one of the most successful
| actors graduated from Washington, has returned
to the city and is visiting his parents during his
| summer vacation. Mr. Dennis is engaged for the
| great sensational drama La Belle Russe," for
| next season.
| A valuable surveyors steel tape, which was
stolen from Jacob Blatzheim while he was in
| l}ernheimer's rest t4urant has been recovered by
the officers of the fifth precinct. Several men were
| arrested on Saturday, but Blatzheim was unable
| to identity any Of them
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Francis Meagher, Little Rock, Ark, and Andro-
media q. Carter, Richmond, Va. William s. Clark
Lyuchburg Va, and Amelia Herbert, Washing.
ton, d. c., Spencer E. Craige and Martha Ages
George ". MINIS and Mary L. Douglass, of Wash.
| ington, d. G.
| The will of Charles Albert Davis was yesterday
| filed with the Register for probate. The entir,
estate, real and personal, is devised to Miss Leor
| Theresa Jones' q teacher in the colored schools o
| This city. These lequests are made on account o
the teslator's Indebtedness to Miss Jones, beinl
| $3.50 borrowed money.
| At $3.50 o'clock yesterday morning the horse at
tached TO Sanfords wagon ran away in the vicin'
| ity Of the Center Market and collided violently
| with a carriage driven by Mrs. Stewart on Ninth
street, between d and streets, demolishng the
| carriage, the lady narrowing escaping injury
| Sanford paid the damages.
Catterpillars are feeding at will upon the leaves
| of the trees in the streets of West Washing on
aud unless forthwith arrested will soon destro,
tue beautiful foliage Of these charming ornaments
of our streets, The officer appointed TO watch anC
preserve The trees will please without delay, apply
the remedy III every street.
| George Drivers electric lights were in operation
last night for the first time, and worked wonder
| fully well, there being very little nickerng o
irregularity, One light is placed outside the from
bar room, and third depens from the roof ridge
| over the pleasant garden, where 1t efectuail!
| paes into yellow insgnitcance the many ga
| lights around
| Mr.. Benjamin S, Magyar, an old and we'll known
Potomac pilot died at his residence, No. 5l9 Tenth
street, on Tuesday evening, Mr.. Magyar had beer
,ngaged Oh the river since his youth, and wa,
| pilot On many of the river steamers until within
The past few years, when failing health compelled
| him to retire from that business. His last service
| on the river was as pilot of the Mount Vernon
steamer Arrow,
There is one Independent cuss on the Avenu,
line of streetcars that must be large stock
holder in the road at least the owner of his car
| A gentleman hailed bobtail- -car No III about
| p. m. last Wednesday, and succeeded with some
| difficulty IN getting aboard, us the driver did not
| Observably slacken speed The passenger Wa
| not well, and when he walked forward TO pay hi
fare, quietly remarked to the driver that he woulc
| have fault found with him some day for not stop
| ping for passenger as lameness or illness nigh
| prevent jumping aboard safely. The man just a
had no business TO jump unless the car stopped or
in effect, that if he couldn't jump he had no bus
| neSs 10 try TO ride.