Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-08
District Government Affairs.


District Government Affairs.
marriage certificate at the health Office shows
mat ReZin Gault colored SO years Old has married
Margaret Bell, 50 years OF age.
The owners OF property and residents on street
nave petltioned TO the Commissioners asking that
the pavement on that street be continued TO cath
street
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.
The aggregate collections OF taxes from August
1st TO 7th 1897 was 50 Sept LIST 10 9TH 1882
was s., 99279.
THE KIND OF SIDEWALK
TO be placed on the north side OF Pennsylvania av
enue, under the recent awards OF contracts, is
artificial stone made OF Portland cement sand
and broken stone, the foundation OF broken stone
ana cement, and surface OF Portland cement
| and sand.
SITE OF THE NEW PENSION OFFICE
The Commissioners to-day received a communi-
cation from Gen. NJ c. MelgS making inquiry I'm
relation to the reservation at the intersection OF
OHIO and Louisiana avenues and between 10th and
l2In streets northwest stating that the late Con-
greSs had designated this or some other reserva-
ton ana had made an appropriation for the erect
Jon thereon OF Pension office. He requests the
commissioners to forward him plat OF the res
ervatlon, showing its metes and bounds, hegth OF
the water In this neighborhood during the recent
ice flood In the Potomac, character of the wooden
structures upon Ii, ETC., etc.
REAL ESTATE MEN AS UNLICENSED BROKERS.
License Agent Raft proposes taking out warrants
against about one hundred real estate agents I'm
TINS city for being unlicensed brokers Mr.. Ran
charges they loan money on interest and are
therefore liable TO the law as brokers.
DANGEfoUs BUILDINGS.
The building inspector hos notified Mr. P. E. Dye,
agent, that the nine wooden buildings situated on
lot - square 81, are In such state OF dilapidation
that he has condemned them, and gives thirty
days In which to have them torn down. The in
specIor To-Day c0ndemned brick building on 18th
street, between Pennsylvania avenue and III street
northwest, OF which Mr.. Fred p. Stanton is agent.
lie has also notified Rev. Alexander Crummell
that the buttreSS stone at foot OF north side OF east
gable OF his church, on southeast corner OF Samson
and 18th streets, has been forced out OF position
by the stone coping, and is endangering the life
and limb OF the public In passing. He is notl-
fled to have 1t removed within ten days. and II
replaced to be secured to the satisfaction OF the
inspector.
BUILDING PERMITS
issued by Inspector Entwisle: Mrs. Brewerman
remodel brick on Bridge street, between High and
Cameron streets, Georgetown; 5000. B. III. War
and 10th streets northwest $500. j. II. MCGOWAN,
repair brick, 629 street northwest; 1900. Mrs.
Jos; Miller repair frame on Cottage Hili county;
Sp0 John Grinder, erect two two-story dwellings
ID, between LIST and I'd streets northeast; $4,000.
ARMY ORDERs.-FIrst Lieut. Edward S. Chaplin,
18th infantry, will proceed from Fort Warren,
Massachusetts,, to Jefferson barrack, Missouri, and
report to the superintendent mounted recruiting
service to conduct detachment OF recruits TO the
9th cavalry. First Lieut. James NJ. Ropes, adtu-
| tant Sth cavalry, now at Salem Massachusetts,
will report by letter to the superintendent mounted
recruiting service to conduct a detachment OF
| CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO ANIMAIs-James
Burk was charged by Agent King, of the Humane
society, In the Police Court, this morning, with
| cruelty to animals In overlooking and driving a
morse when overloaded. Mr. King testified that
| yesterday he discovered the defendant with a
horse hitched to a cart loaded with ton OF coal,
at the area leading TO the Post ONCE department,
driving him up an Incline OF Is or % degrees. The
court said that it was shown that the horse drew
the load up the grade, and IL was not shown that
there was any cruelty I'm the case, and he would
dismiss the charge. Andrew Banks, a colored cart
driver, was put on trial for the same ofrense. The
testimony showed that this horse fell down with
the load, and the defendant refused TO dump part
OF his load, when directed 10 do so by The agent
before going up the grade. fine or s. was I'm
posed In this case.
Sewell, colored girl, about thirteen years old,
was charged In the Police Court to-day with as
Saultlng an infant named James Brown. Elenora
Brown took the witness stand with her baby In
her arms, and stated To Judge Bundy that the de-
PENDANT was employed by her as a nurse, and yes
terday she left her In charge OF the baby, and
when she returned she found that the child had
been seriously injured. On questioning the girl
she admitted that She had bitten the child. The
mother partly disrobed her child, which Is a very
bright mulattO about eighteen months old, and
| showed the court several marks on its face and
neck and stated that lt had also been bitten badly
on the stomach. Henrietta took the stand and
| safd:-"She thought she must hab been crazy,
/ cause she thought she had 1T" The court sent
her to jail for twenty days.
SERIOUS AFFRAY BETWEEN WOMEN.-About three
O'Clock this afternoon serious cutting affray took
place between TWO notorious colOred women,
named Patty Randolph and Lizzie Moore, on 1917
street The girl Randolph cut Lizzie Moore with
a knife, infiicting a serious wound on the right
temple, seVering one OF the arteries.