National Republican., 1884-03-31
THE BREvrTY BASKET.
Filled with Brief Mention OF Many MinO
Events OF Yesterday.

Events OF Yesterday.
The district employees, including the school
teachers, were paid Off Saturday.
The Spencerian Business college continues
open during the spring and summer, an adj
vantage which the community appreciates.
Under the provisions Of the Blair educa-
tional bill, now pending, the district will get
100000 for tho purpose Of advancing educa-
tion.
Messrs. Reginald Fendall and Campbell
Darlington have been appointed additional
priyates for duty as agents of tho Humane
society.
A delegation of farmers living on the
eastern side of the Eastern branch called at
the commissioners Saturday and asked that
the roads be repaired in that section.
The pastoral letter Of Archbishop Gibbons
was read in all the Catholic churches of the
| district yesterday, and comments from the
altar made by the priests.
Mr.. G. Schneider is tho lowest bidder for
furnishing electric annunciators for tho
treasury department building at S425. He
will be awarded tho contract when there IL
an appropriation available.
Mr.. Joseph Miller, who some time ago was
notified that the district could not grant him
| permission to use tho wharf at the foot Of
Third street southeast without compensa-
| ton, has signifed his readiness to pay for its
| use.
The funeral of w. T. Harwood, whose death
has been mentioned, son of Judge A. A. Har-
| wood, of Minnesota, took place yesterday
| from his residence 633 Rhode Island avenue.
| The services were conducted by DR.. j. E.
Rankin.
The report of tho inspector Of tho health
| department for Saturday shows that q sewer
on New Hampshire avenue, between r and
w streets, is obstructed, and that the alley
adjoining 2l3 Twelfth street southwest is in
q filthy condition.
There was q pleasant gathering yesterday
at the residence of Mr.. Joseph Hirzog, No
| 313 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. The
occasion was the christening and circumcision
of his nine-day-old boy. Most of the prom.
inent Jewish merchants of the city were
present.
A man named Smith, living on Eleventh
and Il streets, while at work at the gravel
bank on North Capitol street, near New York
avenue, was caught under a falling mass of
earth and narrowly escaped death. His
| injuries consist of compound fracture of the
right arm; besides some bruises on the body.
The certificate of incorporation of the I'm
mediate Fund association was fllod with the
recorder of deeds Saturday. 1t provides for
eight trustees, to serve for period of one
Jbhif lOLlONor t. ~ pbNtEuhCc, L. A. bOu-
son, John n. Ehle, Guy w. Wines, Thomas
L. Maddox, f. L. Woodward, NJ. p. Adams,
and Abram G. Heylmun.
The will of John Travers was filed satur-
day. He leaves to his sister, Catherine
Martin, thirty-fve shares in the Homestead
Building association of this city; to her sister,
Ellen Torney, and TO her brother-in- law,
James Penders, the balance of his real and
personal estate in equal portions. He appoints
1 (,nnrOp w Ranar and pafriplr II Damn hia
| sole executors.
Capt. Whitehead has telegraphed to the
commissary general of subsistence from New
Orleans, that the relief committees are gath
ering information on which to act, but thoy
do not believe there is any actual suffering
yet. He thinks the services of eight officers
will be needed, and will get the supplies off
soon. Secretary Lincoln has directed Gen.
Beckwith to dispatch boat loaded with pro-
visions from st. Louis for the destitute on tho
lower Mississippi, probably needed from
Vicksburg down.