Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-14
Condensed Locals.


Street lamps will be lighted at $50 pn.. and
extinguished at 81 Is am.
The colored citizens of the eighth district
hall, j. 81. Mcdonald Chairman G. w stnars
secretary. Rev. Robt- Johnson was unanimous
~ elected marshal for that district for the
emancipation celebration.
Senator Edmunds took out permit yester-
day to erect residence on Massachusetts ave-
$4,000. The house will be four stories high.
with a cellar. The dimensions will be i /, feet
front by At feet deep. Geo. f. bearing is the
The spiritualists have removed to G. A. r.
nall 9TH and streets northwest, with Mrs.
At meeting OF the Washington Rifles at
ODD Fellows hall, East Washington, last night,
three new III ,mbers were elected
Messrs- e : Rheem and II. G. Dresel of the
smithsonian Institution, have just completed a
very clever adaptation OF Mosers German COM
copyrighted under the name of ..The Librarian
and hope 10 present IL sometime in the spring
Guards who were stationed in the north wing of
the War department building, desiring to tes-
lily their appreciation OF the kind attention
shown them by Dir. III. l.. Snyder, superintend-
emit of the building, have presented him with q
unique cigar stand, made OF anthracite coal.
which is both useful and ornamental.
Mr.. w. ID. Cassin, for the officers of the Tenley-
town Building Association, No. 3, and others
to-day filed bin against John Z. ChappeIl ct
al, for the correction OF certain deeds of trust
and 10 enloin g. Il. Dunlop, j. II. Davidson and
Robt- McDiyine from setting up their judg-
uienls a. prior hens on their property.
Rev. DIR. Newman, who had been in this city
en- route from California 10 New York To
see Gen. Grant, before he left here yesterday
made arrangements for the removal of the re-
mains of a faithful colored servant who died
here about the first OF the month"; to a burial
place in New York. The servant, an old col
ored woman known as Aunt Jane, had been in
the family OF DIR. Newman for about twenty-five
years.
j. Shlllington sends Dsmorests Monthly and
Frank Leslie's Popular Magazine for April.
Rev. John r. Paxton formerly the pastor of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian church In
tends TO make visit to this city in the latter
part OF this month, and during his stay here he
will deliver his lecture entitled "Shavings," for
the benefit OF the Y. NJ. c. A.
1T sometimes takes them ten minutes to
write their names. Their chirogophy shows
that their training has been in other directions
than in the clerical line" said hotel clerk of
the thousands of seekers Tor official positions
They need ira Dning In the Spencerian Business
College.
Copies OF THE STAR OF February 81 and March
Ing the full reports of the monument celebration
and the inauguration ceremonies and the ball
can be had at the counting room in any guam
tlty- Price two cents-not including postage.
THE SHORT LINE SoUTH.-The Virginia Mid
land railway and Piedmont Air Line compos-
the southwest, irons eighty to two hundred
miles shorter than any other line, running two
through trains daily with perfect Pullman Buff
let and sleeping car service, offers facilities to
the travelling public unequaled BY any other
line.