Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-01-18
Resolved to Resist.
REAL ESTATE BROKERS DETERMINED TO TEST THE
VALIDITY OF THE Law REQUIRING THEM TO GIVE
RONnS-A MEETING HELL THIS MnpH1HC

REAL ESTATE BROKERS DETERMINED TO TEST THE
VALIDITY OF THE Law REQUIRING THEM TO GIVE
BoNDs-A MEETING HELD THIS MORNING.
Warrants returnabe at the Police Court to-mor-
row have been served on twenty-five or thirty Of
the real estate brokers, charging them with doing
business without license. meeting of the real
estate brokers held at the Office of Mt Thos E.
"aggannan this morning. Among those present
were 'iessrs. B. Ii. Warner. L. NJ. Saunders. II. ID.
Mcintyre. NJ. NJ. Parker, w. E. Burford, Duvall d
MARI, John Sherman and ether prominent real es-
tate dealers and brokers. 1t was unanimously de-
ciGed TO test the validity OF the existing regula-
tons requiring the brokers to give bonds In 5000
customers, as well as the payment OF the
TAX on their receipts to the District. Last
year s the Tax S OF one per n cent was paid and
claim additional restrictions have been i'm
posed. "tMl OF the brokers' said one OF the gen
1lenen. 'at the meeting havetendere their license
tax and are ready TO pay II at any time The hard
ship they complain OF chiefly Is the regulation
requiring them to give bonds. A broker has to
give two SuretieS. Now these bOndSmen are held
responsible Tor all the business transacted by the
broker II a broker sells or buys for customer
ana the customer IS for any reason FANCY disSat-
isfied with the figures he enters suit not only
against the broker, but against his SuretieS The
boadsmen are subject to annoyances at any time,
and consequently no one careS to serve in that
capacity There are commission merchants here
who handle other peoples goods and money, but
bond Is required OF Them" The brokers say this
regulation is founded on a clause in all old statute
which was amended, but by clerical error the
amendment was not inserted in its proper place In
the bill as nnally approved
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MARRIAGE LICENSES have been issued by the
clerk OF the court to John ". Odrich, OF Fairfax
county, Va, and Ellen L. Green Matthias ArtWser
and Mary A. Leem; Miles Simmons and Ellen Burk
AN EFPECTIvE SDOT.-Wm. ]. Delphi, prominent
farmer living near Augusta, Ga, was aroused
"Wednesday night by a noise in his potatoe patch
He took his gun and went out to investigate: being
N
Delphi tired woundng the negro, whose name was
Alexander BrunsOn, SO seriously that he died yes
terday.
TERRIBLE DEATH OF MRS. STICKNRY-Concern-
Ing the fatal burning OF Mrs. Charles Z. St1ckney.
al FAN River, Mass, Wednesday night IL is stated
that during the day she had saturated a carpet
with naphtha preparatory TO laying it over another
one. While laying down the carpet the stove leg
came Oil, and She procured naphtha lamp to ind
IL. There was an explosion, and she was immedi-
ately enyeloped in flames. She ran from one room
10 another and fell at the head OF the stairs dead
from lnhallng the flames. She was terribly burned
ali over her body. Mr Stickney's hands are terri
bly, burned, and he may lose the use OF them.
The WAR ON GAMBLING IN LONDON CLUBs-A
summons has been issued against the Park club of
London, for permitting baccarar in its rooms for
high stakes The club has employed eminent
counsel and maintain that the prosecution is
I'm the principal London clubs which win be at
fected by the decision OF the case.
DID Nor CHEAT HM.-Yves Guyot, the Paris
Journalist. tells how King Louis XVIII when he re-
turned from exile, asked Fouche II his movements
had been watched by spies FOuche admitted that
the Due de BlacaS had been 50 employed. ~And
how much did you give him?" asked Louis "Two
said the monarch, II ind he did not cheat me. We
went halves"