Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-23
CITY AND DISTRICT.
Condensed Locals.


THE WEEKLY STAR eight large pages, cut past
ed and foliedl VIII be sent postpaid anywhere in
UG United states or canada Tor one dollar year.
run, and the business Will be continued in the in
terests of the estate OF the late Joseph G. Cooke.
In the case-in the special Criminal Court-of
Alfred Cannon, charged with larceny, q noIle pro
seoul was entered yesterday.
The will OF Elizabeth Decker, deceased was filed
yesterday for probate
Yesterday In the recorder of deeds Office the
Homeopathic Free Dspensary Association filed
association Will be TO furnish aid to all applicants
A Purim masquerade ball was given by Rebecca
Lodge ], d. OF l., at Abnsr's hall last night, a
l. B!out, III. Franc, A. Adler and Simon Wolf
formed the committee OF arrangements
petition Is being circulated asking the District
Commissioners to refuse further licenses to cir
CUSeS or other Ike exhibitions who desire to hold
performances within our city's limits or at least
10 prevent such exhibitions within settled local.
tiles.
Last Sabbath the children Of the Sunday school
class OF the Protestant Orphan ASYLUM presented
the superintendent, Dr. John ID. kellogg with A
g0d-headet cane IS a mark OF their appreciation
OF bis untrfng lab0rs In behalf OF the school.
The star route trial was adjourned Yesterday
until Monday, when the cross-eXa minatton OF w
!. Kellogg, ex-senator Dorseys former private
secretary nd 6O0akeeper, Will be continued
The Excelsior Will not leave on Saturday night
for Norfolk TIL Il 90 p. m.
The Linkins farm, N Montgomery county. Nd,
per acre.
a colorcd man, named Samuel Jackson, was
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cruelty to animals Officer Slack and several
farmers testified that day before yesterday the
prisoner brutality teat one of his horses on the
nesu With . heavy Swingle-tree While the team
Was stalled ON the Bladensburg road
AiyoEd vo$ie was taxed sl05 by Judge Smell to-
day Ter keeping an unlicensed bar.
Two large scows In tow OF tug are on their
way up the river, and are expected to reach here
THIS evening They VIII be used in the work OF
tie Improvement o. the river fats
At special meeting OF the Washington Iiyht
infantry CorPs last night, Col. VIM. C. Moore pre-
bers: VIM: +: Mattingly, NJ Ashford,J ames e. Sal
vile, b. L. KoyseT, Samuel Polkinhorn Bushrod
Eohinsnn, Giles G. C. Sinlms, Jno. w. Thompson,
At meeting IN the 2oth district last nicht d.
su!iyari, chairman, Robert Dorsey, secretary, d.
Stiliyar1 was elected marshal; Moses Bell and r.
Richardson were chosen aids, and j. W. L0max
r. Dorsey,D Stillyar!, X. Richardson, j. steward
steward, j. ii. Moore, Prof j. W.Fowler, a Lee,
Hsttce Oh finance.
TAs body u 2 man vas found this morning about
fococE. At Littlenelds wharf, brought to the sur
Iece ny agitation of the water by steamboat
The rUmor was set afioat that it was the body OF
young Herbert Collins, and his father, Mr.. JOS F.
collins, &C onapanied by policeman, visited the
place shortly afterwards and discovered that it
was the boy OF a eolored man, Frank Drew, aged
February. lie formerly worked ut Mulrkirk. on
the b. s o. railroad.
MARRIAGE IIcESsEs.-The clerk OF the court has
issned marriage licenses To Samuel Jones ana
Nellie Payne; w. II. L. Woofyard aud Carrie
Banks; Philip Whiting and Annie B. Bowie.
PLAYING POKER ON "NoAH's AHKn-Ltcanse
Agent B1f Officer Carter and a squad or police.
men yesterday afternoon visited en- old canal boa,
that Is lying at the foot OF 18th street. near the
Washington monument, and called "Noahs ark >
anu put the proprietor, WA. Ritter. under arrest
for setting up gaming table. They also put
four other men under arrest for being Migrants
Ritter IS yGIIg man about 30 years of age, and
IS said tC4lye the lie OF a hermit. Although he
has lived in his ark for a good many years. he has
net been 800 yards from IL In three years This
cabin of the oil bAat Is fitted up with carpet or
The ncor, cook stove. cooking utensils, g bed ant
liable and chlir.. When the officers made thu
raid they found game OF tpokern I'm full blast
In The Police Court this morning the defendant
was cairSed,u under the new gambling law, with set
ueS up gaming table on a vessel lie PLEADED
guilty, through his counsel, and paid fine of $40
Two or the other men arrested were sent down as
warrants, ana the others were released on thei
PERSONAL eonGiSL
2EsL Es-GTg SALEs.-Thornas Bowling sold res
teflay fer ". VI. Dsnenhower and WIN = Fo,tz
man, trustees, the following property: Lot g anf
., IN Thomas Tingiey's sub OF SQUARE GA wifi
improvements, on the north side or streer 10
tween fc.h ana llth streets, to VIM H. Carrie
Tor S. $50; lot %, In same square, to p Koong fo
~ cents per foot: LOT g. same square, for 6X cts
tpeame purchaser: lot Is, same square, to b.
Mccartney for IL cents per foot; lots 70 and 30
eeme square, to G. IL Wright for iof cents; ais.
east - feet front. on street south. by the Dept
q LOT Is, In square 97, being No. l0l7 street. t
.. A Richards for g,e:5.