National Republican., 1882-07-19
DISTRICT BREYITIEs.
Tho Vyenthcr To.nny

DISTRICT BREVITIES.
Tho weather To-Day.
For he Middle Atlantic States, partly cloudy tcedthcr
local rains minds mostly souihocserly, stationary
temperature, stationary or iorer pressure.
For Washington from a. m. 10 nidntoht-
Party c'Oudy ipCathCr, uih rain
Thermometric readings.-7a. M, 7i.7o; II q. M,
500; p. M, S50o p. M, 1850; II y. M, 7i5o
maximum, 5000; minimum, 6S3o.
Prominent Arrivals.
JOHN IT, FSss SSw YORK 81 f. MSdde2 bSshShy ShMGy
ton y. N.J W. Albright, Fort Madison Iowa; 4.
New Orleans T. Gilmore, iHU' 'Gisyeiand Ohio; j. F.
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ea%a Brooklyn SS"N ~ 4yS hSadsS S Monianq %sfss Z
Sh2 Iiyri 1 T. ySynods " oh IL Abbott New York; F.
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land 9SS Sb6s H Spw her"e nSSR '" nerk''' Eng
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Virginia
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WELCKER's.-R w. Wolley, Louisville Ky.
WoRMLEYs -osgood Welsh, New York
WANTED, For Rent" "For Sale" or Lost"
three times for twenty-five cents in THE RErUB-
LICAN.
THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN, with its full amount
of interesting reading matter will be issued to-
morrow. Copies in wrappers ready for mailing
may be had at the business Office.
The Plumbers Unon of this city, was formally
iyH1 into. tl,n nj nf InIp 1ngf ,iylt
1t is rumo ed about that number of men will
s1on bo taken back in the boer.shop of the navy
yard.
Colonel Amos Web ter, adjutant- general of the
District militia, called and paid his respects to
Commissioners West and kydGcker yesterday.
Gertrude +. Ashield was yesterday granted a
divorce from John NJ. Ashfeld-married July 2,
1877, in Washington; des 1rted her May 10, 1879.
Ellen Gallagher yesterday filed u suit for an in
junction to restrain william $. Ballard from
ObstruCtiDg alley between Nos 43l and 1873 street
on part of lot in square 5l3.
BY the will of the late Theodore B. Snmo, of
Georgetown, filed yesterday the entire estate,
real persUnal and mixed, is left to his wife, who
Is also constituted sole eXecuriX.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Alexander Ausle McMichael and r ,oie st. Clair
Jackson, of st. Johns, New Brunswick: John
Thomas Simmons and Josephine Boston, OF
Washington, ID. &.
A number of the gentlemen of the Analostan
Frances Hoieson Burnett. They went up the
river to the Landing, and there enjoyed music
and gypsy lunch.
In the divorce suit of Evelyn NJ Lynham VS..
Waddy ID. Lynhlm, now pending Justice Hagner
yesterday passed an order decreeing defendant to
pay the plaintiff $50 for counsel fees and costs and
~ month main enance
Louise Joachim yesterday filed an equity suit
,ainst John Henry Click and Conrad Kaufman
to compel them to answer as executors of her
husbands estate rs to the disposition made of the
same and to return an account.
Mrs NJ ID. Lincoln, secretary of the Womens
Press Club, writes to say that letters expressing
kindly interest in the movement have been re.
crived rom Mrs. Mary A. Dcnnison and Mrs. Juan
Lewis, but none from Mrs. Mary Clemmer.
valuable Newfoundland puppy belonging to
Mr.. Wixom the grocer, was run over and severely
injured by car No. 80 yesterday evening on Ninth
street, near L northwest. The driver of the car
made no attempt 10 stop, Notwithstanding the
dogs pitiful ycls.
An attempt made by thieves to rob the
house of Sergeant George w. Nokes, of the eighth
police precinct. The thieves entered through the
pack window and gathereda a quantity Of things
together, hut We're frightened oil by Nokess step.
son, who fired TWO shots at them.
In the case of the three men, Cunningham Rob-
inson, and Ball, whose arrest for passing raised
bank-note was mentioned in yesterdays REPUB-
LlCAE, Ball has been committed until to morrow
to answer to the charge of forgery, and the other
two have been released on their personal bonds
Letters of admins ration were yesterday issued
to James L. Norris on the estate of the late Sir
William Palliser, of Kcnsington, England and
bond given in sum OF 1000 The object of ad-
ministratiOn on the estate is to secure the patent
OF the Celebrated Palliser guns and shells in this
country.
The Washington Light Guards are now very
comfortably quarered in their new armory, cor
ner of Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest, The hall is nicely decorated with flags
pictures, and military devices, and presents a
sOldierly appearance. About thirty. five men are
now borne upon the rolls, and Major Norton says
he expects to recruit up to fifty young men from
the West End by winter
Ernest is still missing" is the dispatch re-
ceived last night by the Spencer brothers, of
Washington, from their Oldest brother Professor
r. C. Spencer, of Milwaukee, whose little son
Ernest disappeared on Sunday morning. A line
dropped out OF an Associated Press dispatch made
il read: Ernest Spencer the author of Spence
rim penmanship." The little boy is grandson
of Plat r. Spencer the author of SpenCerian pen
manship.
Dr. William H. Colesberry, for many years q
clerk in the Treasury Department, died in Ebens-
burg, Pa, on Saturday last, after an illness of
some months of consumption. The Doctor was
graduate of Georgetown College, and was well
and tuyOrably known by the medical profession
and had relatives and many warm friends in the
city who Will be panied to hear of his death. His
remains were accompanied TO his native city,
PRINCETON, ILL.,. by his widowed mother and sister
OH Monday last.