National Republican., 1885-01-15
MINOR LOCAL EVENTS.


HAVE you Rooms or Houses to Rent? Try the
"Rente columns OF THE REPuBLicAN. Three
lines three times for % cents.
The number of visitors to the Corcoran gal
lery last year was 7b,1i6
The Capital City Guard has received 800 |
from Mr.. Corcoran Tor uniforms.
New York capitalists are contemplating tho
revival of the skating rink at the E street
building.
on motion of Mr.. n. c. Williamson Mr.. s. A,
Provost was yesterday admitted to the bar OF
this District.
william Mason was sent to jail for six
months by Judge Smell yesterday for cutting
George Pinker ON New Years night.
An indictment was found yesterday by tho
grand Jury ngainst II. Drayden, charging MIN
with larceny of SIS from David 2. Smith.
Peter Mcpherson, the colored hackdriver
who assaulted Mr.. l.. q. Thompson, was held
in $1,000 for the grand jury by Judge Smell
yesterday.
The comptroller Of the currency yesterday
! appointed Richard G. Parsons national bank
examiner, but has not as yet assigned him any
| particular district.
The bill giving 20 per cent additional salary
| to members of the police force on the rolls rep
~, 1867, only awaits the signature of the Prosi.
/ dent to become law
! Tiny three lines in THE REPUBLICANS WANT
I columns Three times, - cents.
1t has been decided to give night exhibitions
! NJ the COrcOran gallery OF art on Thursunys
| In February and March. The gallery Is TO be
| closed on Christmas day
The female tramp who applied at the sev.
| enth precinct station for lodgings on Monday
| night was sentenced TO the workhouse by
Judge Smell yesterday for vagrancy.
The scholarship in the spenccrian business
| College competed for ut the recent National
Homeopathic Hospital fair was yesterday
awarded to Mrs Rachel Stelle-Floyd
Mr.. Frank ". Elkins, through his attorneys.
| Messrs. .. H. Herring and II. A. Burton,
brought an action yesterday against the Vapor
| Fuel Company, of this city for salary remain
ing unpaid.
J. W. Cromwell, a colorcd man. swore out
| warrant yesterday charging j. H. Williamson
| with violating the civil rights act in denying
| Cromwell the advantages and privileges OF the
steamer Lady ofthe Lake, of which William
son is purser
Mr.. John NJ Gait, who has been attached to
tlss Wyandotte died day before yesterday Of
typhoid fever. lie was resident of Norfolk,
where his remains have been sent. The de
ceased was n brother of Lieutenant and Engi-
neer Gait, of the navy.
The comptroller of the currency yesterday
extended the corporate existence of the First
National Bank Of Woburn, Mass; the First
| National Bank of Lexington, KY, and the
National City Bank of Cambridge, Cambridge
port Mass to July Is, 1905.
The 81. Johns German Evangelist Lutheran
Church Aid Society has elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: President, VIII
lam Zanner; vice president, George Schlcit;
secretary George Eckert: treasurer, II. Tripp;
executive committee, John Fcrbcr, Johu
Thomas, and +. Stinzing.
The will of the late Charles L. Hulse was
filed with the register yesterday for probate
aud record The deceased leaves his property
to his son. Norman c. Hulso, and names Mr..
III, A. Hall as guardian and executor. By the
Will OF Mary V. Cole, also filed, the tcstatriX
leaves her estate to her husband, Samuel j..
Cole, and names him as executor.
At the semimonthly meeting OF the Micro.
scopical Society two very interesting papers
were read-one on n case of cystino In the
yesical fluid, with specimens, by DIR. L. NJ.
SchaofIer, professor of microscopy in the
Georgetown Medical College, the other on the
morphology DEVELOPMENT, aud classification
Of schizomycetes, by DIR. X. A. Foster.
o. H. Herring esq, q fourth ciass clerk OF
the general land Office, has resigned his pos.
tion and gone into the practice of the Nv In
National Law School and has ailed various
positions in the land office with satisfaction to
the officials in charge; on his retirement
from the Office the Clerks Of the pre.emption
division, in whic,. he had been employed,
presented him with an elegantly bound copy
of Kents Jommentaries. as token of their
affection and esteem.
certificate of incorporation was filed yes.
| tcIday by the Cleveland Club object literary
tcrcourse, with the following persons named
us incorporators W. II. Leach Michael r.
Combs, George d. Douglas, Samuel A. Sat
ford, jr., Charles Davis, Cornelius Desmond,
Elias Davis, John English, and John A. Wheat.
ley. Also II certificate of the Nonpareil Club
object, literary Improvement, &c. with Charles
W. ThompsOuy John, L. Bepton, and Robert C.
McGill named as incorporators.
The Young Peoples Union OF the First Con
| n
ut the residence of Mrs. Seaman, No li2i
Eleventh street northwest, Tuesday evening
over fifty persons being present. During the
evening Mr. Elliott read an interesting paper
on Holiness and refreshments were served
= | Among those present were the Misses Bailey
= | Foltham, Robinson, Miss Mary Chupin, Misi
Catlin, Misses Lusk Patton, Whittlesey, Rich
ards, Caleph, Miss Louise Hopkins, Misse
Crane, and Miss Clarke; also Mcssrs. HaZen
Catlin, Whittlesey, Le Favour, Squires Clark
Seaman, and Rankin.