National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-06-23
MINOR LOCAL EVENTS.
The Smaller Happenings of Day Ii
and About the City.

and About the City.
Virginia VS.. Nationals to-day at $3.50. III
Henry Brock, Reese Roby, aud Patrick
Cronin have been granted liquor licenses.
Francis Miller has called attention to the bad
condition Of the alley In rear of his residence,
SOI Ninth street
Mrs J. X. Barnes, 1920 street, asks that the
telegraph pole I'm alley in rear Of her house
may be removed.
John S. lee, colored was sent to the grand
jury by Judge Smell yesterday for selling un.
labeled oleomargarine.
Clearing sale childs' suits. Eiseman, and Z.
James L. johnson, charged with exacting an
Illegal fee in n pension case, gave bail In $500
yesterday for q hearing Friday.
Charles Branson was sentenced to Jail for six
months yesterday by Judge Smell for stealing
whip from DIR. NOrton's carriage.
Justice Merrick, in consequence of the illness
Of his brother, r. I. Merrick, did not sit yester
day In the court In general term.
Intendant stoutonburg has recommended
the appointment Of DR.. Il. f. Henning as
physician at the asylum, Vice DR.. ii. 5. Harris
resigned.
Clearing sale boys suits. Eiseman Bros, 7 & Ej
Nose Chrisman, alias Henry Lancaster, was
sent to the grand jury yesterday by Judge Smell
Tor stealing lot of bones from the Center
market.
Charles King was yesterday sent To the Al
bany penitentiary by Justice Macarthur for
two years for breaking into the house Of Fritz
Herzog
Yesterday morning about dozen homlng
pigeons were loosed from Plney Point. They
belonged to the cote of Prof Caspd The birds
Will be used to carry dispatches TO Washington
Clearing sale boys suits. Eiseman Bros. & E
The will of the late Robert H. Graham has
been filed In the registers office. The testator
leaves all his property to his wife, for the BEN
cit Of herself and children, and names her ex-
ecurix
George. W. Hall and others have protested
against the gravel pavement now being laid
on Eighth street between G and Water streets
southwest, and ask that q concrete pavement
be laid instead.
Clearing sale Norfolk suits Eiseman, 7 and L.
Lieut.. ]. Il. Boteler, eighth precinct recon.
mends the removal Of the wagon stand from
east to North Carolina avenue between Fifth
and Sixth streets southeast
William King, 10il Thirty.frst street. reports
That on sunday evening $40 was stolen from
a chest in his rsom: Joseph Enthoifer, 6S I
street, reports that about 6 II. III. sunday $50
was stolen from his writing desk.
Maggie ]. smoot has applied to the court for
divorce from her husband, Samuel +. Smoot,
charging him with cruelty, drunkenness and
desertion She also asks permission to resume
her maiden name Of Maggie j. Burkhardt.
sitlc GU SUITS. IlSeHlun BFOS., 4 " Il
The prosecution in the criminal court yes.
terday in the case OF william Tippett, charged
with assault with intent to kill Lucretia
Tippett. his wife, was abandoned after the ex-
animation OF two witnesses aud the accused
acquitted
Edward Scott was given three months In jail
| by Judge Smell yesterday for ussaulting Oincer
Moore and also was fined 50 Tor dlsordcrly con.
| duct. John Murphy was fined s2j or seventy
five days for roughly handling Special Officer
Josiah Grant.
Capt. Cunningham has been granted a per.
| init to fire salute of twenty-one guns Mt 10 a.
| m. July 4, The permit requires that the salute
| must be fired at the terminus of Pennsylvania
| avenue southeast at such place as will be
| designated by the major of police.
Remember the ball game to-day $3.50.
| f. o. Graves, chief of the bureau of engrav.
| ing and printing, in a note to the commissioners
| doubts the capacity of tho sewer on the east
side of Fourteenth street to carry of the sewage
| from that building, and requests that an in-
| spectton be made by some competent official.
| Miss c. A. Van Doren gave an exhibition of
| paintings and drawings at residence 6i7 East
| Capitol street last week, The collection was
| composed mainly of studies in oil and crayon
executed by Miss Van Doren and her art class.
| The pictures called forth much praise from the
large number of visitors.
side of Lincoln park have had laid under the
| permit system q twelve-foot sidewalk and
| curb, and paved the gutter from Eleventh to
| Thirteenth streets northeast. The parking
commission has also set a row of maple trees
the whole length of the park.
William Mclean, for twenty-five years an ex.
| tensive dealer in lumber and building material
in this city, died at his residence. on Rhode
Island avenue. Sunday. MT Mclean was
native of Scotland. lie was associated first II
this city with Wilson Ager in conducting
planning mill on Ohio avenue, under the firm
name of Ager q Mclean, and subsequently
| succeeded to the business OF late years he hn
conducted an extensive lumber yard at the in
tersectiOn OF Thirteenand.a-half and ID streets
his son being associated with him.