National Republican., 1882-12-06
The Interior Department on Tuesday issued

The Interior Department on Tuesday issued
ZIG pension certificates.
The number of chldren's subscriptions tc
the Longfcllow memorial exceeds $4,000.
Charles NJ. Carter, of the Oregon bar, was
yesterday admitted to practice on the motion
of JrThomas Turner.
Madame Jerome Bonaparte was resting a
| trifle BSber last night. Her condition still
causes the gravcst apprehension.
One of w. w. Kimball's upright cabinet or
| gans has been presented to Rev. Francis p
| Powers, of GOnzaga College, by G. w. Carter,
| senior partner of the Emerson Piano Com
| pany.
Colonel Thomas Snclbaker, proprietor OF
the Theatre Comiquc, was fined $500 for keep.
ing an unlicensed variety theater, but SEN
tence was suspended until the questions of
law involved can be argued.
The Washington Cadet Corps held its an.
nual election last evening with the following
result: Cap, C. a. Fleetwood; first lieut.,
James A. Perry; second licuts., L. j. Brock
enborough and Wilford Marshall secretary,
John Il. Brown; treasurer, James II. Payne.
An alarm was turned in from box PIT about
3 o'clock last evening, by the discovery
of fire in the second story of house No. 1928
| Twcnty-tirst street northwest occupied by
Evans Lewis, colored. The damage was about
| known.
The contract for the monument to the late
Father Boyle has been awarded to Mr. ID.
McMenamin, who has already commenced
the work. The amount raised by the ladies
OF st. Matthews is $500, and the monument
will be completed and in place by March, the
anniversary of the late priests death.
About 1890 yesterday morning colored
woman named Rachel johnson, aged "a years,
died at her home in Union alley, between Fif-
teenth and Sixteenth and l. and NJ streets
northwest, very suddenly. The coroner was
notified and gave certificate that the woman
came to her death from natural causes.
About 1890 o'clock yesterday shabbily-
dressed colOred man went to the house of Mr..
Daniel Beach, No. S21 New Jersey avenue
northwest, and asked if there were any ashes
to remove. A son of Mr.. Beach left the door
open and went to ask his mother, and upon
his return the coor6h man was gone, as also
was about $40 in money.
The officers of the Potomac Steamboat Com
pany here have received a telegram stating
that immediate efforts will be made to raise
the steamer Excelsior, which was sunk Mon
day. There was considerable excitement at the
wharves yesterday over the affair, and the
captain of the tug which sunk the steamer
was accused of reckless carelessness.
The troubles in the Mount Pisgah African
Methodist Church still continue, and the latest
development is the passage of series of pre-
ambles and resolutions by those opposed to
the deposed minister, charging him and his
adhcrents with destroying the peace of the
congregation, with embezzlement and larceny
of singing books and the communion service.
Patents were issued from the United States
Patent Office yesterday to the following
Washington inventors: Fred. G. Dieterick,
combined whip and rein holder; John G..
Myers, artificial stone; Frank Moore, ma
chine for filling marsh land; John T, Scott,
swinging fan; Sullivan {. Sweet. device for
suspending hats, caps, &C.; George d. War
ing, playing card. =
Capital Division, No. II, Sons of Temper
ance, has been instituted, and the following
officers installed: r. X. Mcintyre, worthy
patriarch; John II. Locke, worthy associate !;
w. j. Webb, recording scribe Ed. c. Bartlett,
assistant recording scribe L. p. Brown, fnan-
cial scribe; c. A. B. Boyd treasurer; Mrs.
II. S. Sayre, chaplain; L. R. Boyd, conductor !;
Mis- May Thompson, assistant conductor |;
Miss Alice Thompson, inside sentinel; E. r.
Martin, outside sentinel.