National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-02-02
MINOR LOCAL EVENTS.
The Smaller Happenings OF bay in and
Abopt the city


SUNS At cut rates. Eiseman, seventh and Il.
The police made % arrests during the
twenty.four hours ending at n. m. yesterday.
The alumni A. +. Of the Michigan univer
sh, will give q banquet TO resident members
Mt Wizards on Feb II.
The employees Of the navy yard, numbering
about $50, who were f1rlOughed some time
ago, have resumed work.
Suit is to he Instituted to quiet the title OF
the United States to the ground reclaimed In
improving the Potomac Hats
The officers OF the I'd artillery have issued
invitations to ball TO be held at the Wash
ington barracks on the 9th instant
S. G. Conant. the missing editor OF Horpo's
Weekly, is said to have purchased n ticket in
Alexandria on Monday last for Jacksonville,
Fla
The District wheelmen elected the follow.
ing officers Saturday night President III. l.,
Collnmer; captain, j. IL. Seeley; secretary, Mr..
Morris.
Surgeon General Hamilton delivered a lee.
ture on sanitary science before the Master
Plumbers Association at German hall satur-
day evening.
Try three lines in THE REPUBLICANS "Want'
columns. Three times, 25 cents.
John C.. Henderson, OF 400 Ninth street
northwest, has reported that watch and
chain valued at $40 was stolen from him carly
ycsteruny morning.
James King, white man, was OIL trial in
the police court on saturday for assaultng his
lj-ycar old COlorcd daughter. lie was sent
down for thirty days.
William Hunt, street car transfer agent,
was knocked down by hack at the corner OF
Fifteenth street und New York avenue Satur.
day night and slightly injured
John c. Smith, young white man jumped
over the railing around Willard's Hotel satur-
day night, aud fell distance of thirty feet,
He was not injured in the least.
Chaplain Clarke Of the navy, preached Mt
the Fourth street NJ. f. church, Capitol HILL
yesterday morning In the afternoon meet
lug was held by the Young Peoples Gospel
| Temperance Society, which was addressed by
several prominent speakers.
on Saturday next the series of lectures un.
der the auspices of the AuthopOlogical and
| Biological Societies will be- inuugurated In the
! lecture room of the National Museum. The
| first lecture will be Results In England OF the
| surrender Of CORVALLIS" by Prof John Fiskc.
SUITS at cut rates. Eseman, Seventh and T..
The warm weather of the past three days
and the brisk wind yesterday have broken the
| ice, ANA the river and wharycs below Long
| bridge will soon be free of floating ice. Inc
| drcdgcrs opposite the arsenal are making
! preparations ~ resume operations on the hats
| to-day.
Sam Hoatling 10 years old, while playing
I Win companions on IOuT-hnu'u-nul street.,
| near Virginia avenue southwest, fell and broke
| his left leg last Saturday evening. He was
| carried to the residence OF his parents on Vir-
| ginla avenue, near Third street, where he re.
| cetved surgical treatment
Mrs. Jane Koontz has purchased those valu.
| able corner lots corner of Fourth and streets
! southeast, fronting the Metropolitan Presby-
| terrain Church, Capitol Hill, from Hon. Charles
| BeardSley, fourth auditor of the treasury, and
! Will erect in the spring two handsome three.
| story and basement houses, with bay windows
on both streets, and with all the modern i'm
| provements. The cost is estimated at SlO,O
" you want Help, Houses, or Rooms, fur.
nished or unfinished, read THE REPUBLICAN,
WANT columns. Three lines three times Tor
- cents.
Senator Morrill, visited the fourth precinct
station Saturday night and asked that an
officer be sent to his residence, No. l Thomas
circle, Immediately, as two men had threat
ened to kill his colOred servant. officer Haas
went to the house, but failed TO find the sup
posed assailants II seems that the troubl,
originated about a colored cook employed 10y
Senator Morrill,, and that the men hadhnadt
the threats through Jealousy. -
Prof Cleveland Able, of the United State
signal service, will delivera free lecture /,
young men this evening at the rooms of thu
Young Mems Christian Association on New
York avenue He will illustrate how tn,
signal service is enabled TO predict the weather
and also show how the weather maps ar
made,' The lecture promises TO be one OF th
mobt interesting Of this informal soirsc giveI
10 young men.