National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-27
TIE BREvITY BASKET.
RULED with BrIef Mention Of Many MI!


F'lied With Brief mention OF Many Minor
Events of Yesterday.
Forty-four dogs were killed at the pound
yesterday.
Arthur and Samuel Clayton, two small
jcplored boys, were committed to tho reform
school by Judge Smell yesterday for stealing
tneapples.
The q. NJ. d. club was handsomely enter.
tained Tuesday evening last by Miss Katie
Boyle, at her residence on Corcoran street
| northwest.
hITho graduating exercises Of the prepare.
tory department of Howard University, will
take place in the college chapel, Wednesday
evening, May 20, at 3 O'clock.
Mary Dykes has sued for divorce from
Francis Dykes. The papers having been
withdrawn from the clerks Office the grounds
OF complaint cannot DO given.
One of the attractive features at tho con
cert next Thursday night ut the Fifteenth
street Presbyterian church will be the piano
and violin duet by Profs. Fleet and Smith.
Postmaster Conger, ono of the delegates to
tho republican convention at Chicago, will
leave for that place on Thursday. Z. II.
| Carson, the other delegate, will 90 ON Friday.
George c. Smith yesterday entered suit
| against William H. Matthews to recover
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| and interest above that dcmandable in this
| district.
A certificate of the incorporation of st.
Paul's English Lutheran church has been
| filed with the recorder, with Mossrs. j. G..
| Parker, Isaac n. Kalb, aud NJ. NJ. RowLer as
| incorporators
John b. stoton, indicted in March last on
the charge of obtaining money uuder false
| pretenses from Henry A. T.. Carter, tho
Hawaiian minister, was arraighed in tho
criminal court yesterday and pleaded guilty
| Sentence was suspended.
by bill filed in equity yesterday by
| James McEvoy and wife against Alfred
Olarslaud and others, tho complainants ask
that the defendants DO Invested of title in
lots : and s, square 900 aud that it DO
invested in tho former.
Mr.. Fred st. John, foreman of the Chesa.
peako and Ohio Telephone company, states
that he was not arrested for assaulting
Francis Truudle, but voluntarily went to'the
police station and gave himself up, leaving
collateral for his appearance ut tho police
court.
The Washington Contineutals will hold o
uniform drill and inspection ut their arinory,
! corner Sixth and G streets, tomorrow even
ing. The corps will DO formed at the. armory
Mt o'clock, Friday morning, and will start
| for Fredericksburg OF 8, with the Union
Veteran corps, (1st company.
The well under the Washington monument
having become unclean, Col. Casey has re-
| quested the commissioners to furnish him
with fro engine with which to pump the
water out. The lightning flashes that strike
the iron work on top of the monument are
conveyed to this well by large copper wires.
| Tho building at $40 Louisiana avenue
northwest is occupied by lawyers. The firm
of Hewlett & Shea, the former colored, have
an office therein, and there seems TO pc con-
siderable trouble between this firm andothers,
the latter complaining of the clients who
infest tho formers office. There ia eaid to
have been a personal encounter between
member of the above firm and another tenant
| yesterday, and 1t was rumored that IL 1t had
not been in the house blows would have re-
| suited.