Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-04

To the Editor of the THE EVENING STAR.
In looking over the resources of this District,
it seems that there are nearly million dollars
of unpaid taxes. which ought to be in the Treas
ury for use OF the city and county and which
might be easily collected. If Congress would
only pass an enabling act authorizing the Conn
missioners TO give good title To property which
Is now farcici,lly sold ut great expense tn the
District each year for delinquent taxes. Have
our Commissioners asked Congress for such an
act? OLD SUBSCRIBER
WAsEISGToN CATTLE MAEKET.-Held every
Wednesday at Queenstown on the Metropolitan
branch Il. & y. X. r.. three miles from the
cattle OF he market this week and sold: Best,
mTdinn, q. 10 3d.: ordinary, il, fo3' 39i sheep
and laint1s up and sold. Old sheep g to 31.a:
yearllnss ;ssst 10 AZ; lamhs to 81. Veal calves.
per head State OF the market brisk.
THE NIGHT LODGING HOUSE, FUND.-THE
STAR has received the following contributions
To the night lodging house fund: VIM NJ. Gait.
s1o' Dr. H. \. Wadsworth. 81.
A FEMALE IMPosTEH.-A woman has been
going about the city telling pitifu story OF a
money W buy her inllk and other articles of
food sine calls ut private residences and i'm
telling her story weeps eopiously and appeals
STRONGLY To The SEIH5I.lleS Of her hearers and
i'm this obtains considerable money. Iadv
becalhe 30 much interested the case that She
Went Ia the street mentioned by the woman as
her place Of residence, i'm order to visit the
afflicted family. but could find no house of the
nur1tef given: Upon inquiry at the office of
me ! 4c.:iftG Charities she told that the
woman was a professional beggar. and had been
Ply M; her vocation here 10. some time.
RoBBERIES observation-disclosures Carroll of
Alexandria, rep rtS that .is he was sitting in
his wagon about noon yesterday in front of
Geyers stable, T. street. between IL, and 9th
streets. he was robbed OF his peck t-bOOk con-
tanning some $50 or SiO.--Emily D. LOvett
K;ilorama reports that about $50 O'clock ON
robbed OF SO worth of cutlery.-John Hill
yard. 436 1th street, reports stolen two seal
S31 9TH street REPORTS the loss of a blanket
worth S5.-CIeOrge Goldberg, 9l5 street re-
ports r,, stolen from in front Of store two coats
stolen rom warehouse quantity Of TOOLS
4 BABE IN THE WOoDs.-Two colored men,
W lillian Miles and George Riley, while cunning
in the woods near Meridian hill yesterday,
found a colored female infant lying naked In
the woods, and removed 1t to the house of Ellen
Webster, on 10th street extended. who cared
1T. Ann infant asylum.
THE OPENING OF NIGHT SCHOOLS IN THE
DIsrRICr--The superintendent OF the colOred.,
schools has arranged to open the night schools
Tor cOlored boys at The Sumner school building
on MONDAY evening next. ut halEpast O'clock
Monday and W ednesday evenings of each week
Will be devoted 10 the classes for men and BOYS
Inc night schools for women and girls will be
heid on tuesday and Thursday evenings. at the
saHfe hour and place. The arrangements for
opening classes In the Franklin building are
notice MS soon as the alterations In the rooms
are made which are necessary to fit them tor
use IN the evening.
CLOSING SALE OF PAINrINGs.-The CLOSING
sale OF fine paintings will take place this even
ing ut the sa,esrOom of Walter b. Williams q
Co., at 3 o'clock. Some works of great merit
will be offered. This is the last opportunitv ot
obtaining good pictures at the competition of q
public sale.
vEERHoFfs ATrRACrIoNs.-A full line of
engravlngs, etchings, photographs water colors
and pastels can be found at Veerhoff's stores
916 and All 9TH street.
AN ATTRACTIVE SALE AT DowLING's To-
MoRRow.-Tnere will be an unusually fine col
lection Of household appointments at Dow
ling's. 1lth street and Pennsylvania avenue
Tomorrow, embracing tine Bull and Mar.
quetry work in cabinets, tables and pedestals,
genuine bronzes, fine gilt furniture mantei
sets, parior and chamber furniture and many
other articles of value. In the collection is q
magnificent imported breech-loading shotgun
that cost $500.
The LECTURE To-NIGHr.-The second lee.
ture of the South Washington lecture course
will be given this evening by San-ah-B rah, @
native of Burmah, at the Tabernacle South
nd inn ,Se m Of Inds
who have heard him speak well Of him. and
the lecture bureaus say that he Is the best at
traction they will have. The Tabernacle will
doubtless be packed, as many tickets have been
sold and reserved.
THREArENIFG TO KILL HIS WIFE.-Mary
smith, N young colored woman, who resides at
sos Virginia avenue southeast, in the neigh
borhood where Lee killed his wife a few DAYS
ago, appeared in the Police Court to-day and
| testified that when she went home Wednesday
night, her husband, "Dck Smith," with whom
she had not lived for two years, was there
under the Influence OF liquor, and said he
drew a knife from his pocket and was about to
use IL when Henrietta Ridgely came up and
separated them. Henrietta Ridgely, cOlored
testified that she heard the defendant say he.
was going To do some dirty work tonight ana
| did his work. smith denied the charue The
judge sentenced him to give bonds in the sum
of $500, in default, TO stand committed tor six
monthsin jail. He took the six months. Smith
| has already served q term in Jail for the same