National Republican., 1884-08-15
THE BnEVIrY BASKET.
Filled With Brief Mention OF Many Minor
Events or Yesterday.

Eiscman Bros. are having extensive improve.
| menls made to their store corner OF Seventh
and f. streets
Missouri avenue IS torn up preparatory to
| laying down stone block pavement In place
| oi the old rotten wood.
John Saunders found dead white male
| infant on \ lot on New Jersey avenue south
east yesterday morning.
A suit of clothes were stolen from tho wagon
OF f.. ~. Briggs at the Tyson house yard corner
seventh and streets yesterday afternoon
One of the Great Falls ice wagons ran over
sOrrcl horse on Maryland avenuc southwest
| wednesday, breaking It's leg The horse was
shot.
Samuel vodney was sent to the workhouse
for ninety lays by Judge Mills yesterday on
suspicion Of having stolen II knife from the Ma.
! tlOnal hotel.
Edward Browning, n jcwcler, is locked up
at the iiith precinct station, charged with as.
snulting Frederick Friedman, Jcnth'street
restaurant keeper
The base ball mines of the surgeon generals
Office and luud OlC1 will play game NJ Cap
itol park this afternoon ut i3O. There is no
admission charged,
The police are looking for bay mare four
years old ana gray horse owned ny J. q.
Nultck, of atatau, Stafford county, Md, which
were stolen ON Thursday.
large brown horse attached TO n light
spring Carringc was stolen from j. II. jenkins,
OF Puttison IH., on Wednesday, and the police
here arc looking for them.
The Coggswell fountain is still dry,owiug to
the failure Of the commissioners und the
donor agent to agree on u plan for making II
oil any practicable service.
The Florida Republican association meets
this evening at 3iS PENNSYLVANIA avenue for
the purpose of clCCting officers aud thoroughly
organizing for the campaign.
Frank Guy was held in srpl for the grand
jury In the police court yesterday fior stealing
pockctho0k Containing So and some jewelry
rom b. H. Sr.fns oil June 81 lSSi.
The BGSi6w Il Wilson minstrel party passed
thIgu"i Washington yesterday en- route to
RIliGnond. They will return here and open
We season nt FOrd's Opera house on Sept. l.
In the contract division of the postolicc de-
plruncnt yesterday Mcssrs Joseph G. Williams,
+. l.. Frederick and Mrs. Bessie Hull were
promoted Ia third, second, aud first class clerk.
ships respectively
Judge Mills took the personal bonds of
number Of frlit vcndcrs charged with Obstruct-
lug The street In thu police court yesterday,
aid told them not to stand in one place longer
than ~ make u sale
The Rosednlcs ofsouth Washington engaged
thc Maryland Avenue Juniors In game OF
bnsc ball yesterday but the game had to be
called ut the ninth inning, when the score
stood IL to in favor OF the ROsgdales
Tho district commissioners yesterday OK.
tended the same privileges Of experimental
| lighting OF II limited number of streets to the
United states Electric Lighting company that
mas been granted To the Brllsh.Swan company.
William Lytlc clerk in the bureau of navi-
gntun, treasury department and two Curpcn-
tcrs named Whitney and Ryan, were badly
cut and bruised about their heads yesterday
by the fan ot a bookcase which they were
moving in the bureau.
A pplnrp1 thinr gnotnI,nJ &, nootou, or ,t,t.
cts from the hands OF n member of the District
lodge of Chuldcans ut the Baltimore aud pOtO.
mac depot yesterday while the lodge was wait
lhS 10 embark Tor Richmond, which was ut.
tended by about loo persons
The John Wesley lyceum met in the church
on Maryland avenue, between l. and VI streets.
last night, and listened to Il paper entitled
Tho Negro Must Remain on American soil"
by Mr.. c. C. Freeman This was discussed by
McNsrs. sherlock COwles, Il. W. Stewart, G. l..
JOY, and others
The nose.making and unsightly Seneca
stone block pavement which has so long dis.
figured II street from Fourteenth to Fifteenth,
has at last been removed, and workmen are
now preparing TO lay an asphalt pavement.
The grade has been corrected so that the
street railway track is being lowered from six
to eight inches.
The funeral of Arthur d. Mcknight. who
died of bowel complaint on Monday last took
place yesterday from the residence of his
IIOlHtT-lu-luW, Mfs f.skCW, columbia street,
In the presence of large nsscmbagc of rein.
tivcs and friends. The minister in charge de.
livcred n feeling panegyric. The floral offer.
ings were numerous. Mr.. Mcknight served
in the regular arlny and for the past five wears
has been connected with the departments in
this city.
The following marriage licenses have been
issued John King and Maggie Turner, LLOYD
T. Davis, of Montgomery county, and Winnie
Thomas, of Tcnnallytown, ID. c.; Cephus Rice
and Mary Ashton, James Lucas and Julia
Walter, George A. Fian2 and Mary NJ. A. Vogt,
both of Georgetown, d. c.; Isaac Montgomery
and Susan Carter, Manning lie PreuX and
Edith French, James Duckott and Virginia
Fairfax, Toliver Logan and Sarah Brooks, Wm
j. sullivan and Alice V. Nash.
Building permits were issued Yesterday TO
II. W. and L. j. Carpenter erect two two.,tory-
and-basement dwellings, North Carolina ave.
nue., between Sixth and seventh streets south
Cnst, 5000; Miss NJ. j. Ewcll repair brick 1915
Eighth street, 500; W, IL. Ruplcy, repair Ma.
tional theater, S4ll Ed Kubcl, repair frame
100 | street northeast, $3.50; Mrs A. V. Key.
worth, erect a thrce-story and.bGsemcnt dwell
ing Rhode Island avenue, between seven.
teenth street and Connecticut avenue, sl5, 900;
James Il. Goddard, repair brick 1901 T street,
slJl; James II. Payne, erect a two.stOry dwell.
| ing seventeenth, between q and Il streets,
$500.