The Washington critic., 1885-05-27
LOCAL BRIEFS.

A SWISS national festival will be held
at Guethler's Park on June 1.
EX-GovERNoR SHEPHERD will arrive in
this city between the ith and 18th of July.
REV. DIR. DoMER will attend the meet
ing of the general Lutheran synod to-mor-
row at Harrisburg.
g. w. MILLER was to-day excused for
the remainder of the term as juror in
the Criminal Court.
Hon j. RANDOLPH TUCKER qualified
yesterday as guardian of the children of
the late President Garfield.
HOUSE No. 1928 Nineteenth street was
yesterday sold by Mr.. C.. j. Bell to Mrs.
Gertrude II. Grossman for $4,000.
THE applications of Joseph Maynard
and Andrew f. Hillyer for admission to
the District bar have been referred.
COMMISSIONER WEST has sold his resi-
dcnce on Fifteenth street, above New
York avenue, to Mr.. Wash McLane.
THE Court in General Term has decided
q justice could attach for rent where the
amount involved was within his iurisdic-
ton.
THE American Evangelical Lutheran
Immigrant Missionary Society held its
concluding session last night. The next
convention will be held in Chicago in the
autumn.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS PAUL has re-
ouested the children of each school divi-
sion to bring flowers to the Franklin build
ing on Friday with which to decorate the
soldiers graves on memorial day.
ALBEIT JACKSON was held for the ac-
ton ofthe grand jury this morning in the
Police Court in default of $500 bail for as
sault with intent to kill his step-fathcr,
Benjamin Simpson, on the Sd instant.
PROFESSOR MARINI held his twenty-sixth
annual May festival last evening. The
event was characterized with the usual
large attendance and brilliant scene
Miss Helen Anderson was Queen of
May.
.THE annual inspection of the De Molay
Mounted Commandery, Knights Tenl-
plais, No. 4, will be held tomorrow at the
Athletic Park at 4 o'clock p. m. The in
speotion win be made by Sir Knight Pey-
ton S. Coles of Virginia.
In DEBATE last evening at the Y. NJ.
G. A. parlor between the Jefferson and the
Y. NJ. c. A. Literary societies on the ques-
ton of admitting Utah as State, the lat
ter society taking the negative, was adj
judged by the audience to have presented
the weighhest arguments.
MARRIAGE LICENSES have been issued as
follows; $. j. Watts and Cora Nichols
Leroy ID. Jonas and Eta G. Haner both
Of Nashville, Tenn; William III. Mills and
Annie L. Henning, ]. II. Foust and Rosa
Il. Mattngly, both OF Calvert County, Md;
Wexford Sorrell and Rosie W. Wood
A DEoREPID old colored woman named
Margaret Gaines who is apparently about
so years of age, charged an old colored man
named Frank Smith, this morning in the
Police Court, with brutally assaulting her
with a clab. Although their names are
different they claim to be man and wife
The old man was sentenced to sixty
days Imprisonment
RATHER a sensational case of domestic
nature was developed in the Police Court
this morning when Mrs. Emma 6. c. Alb
bott, q neatly-dressed, good-looking
woman, was called to answer the charge
of taking q letter from the Postofice adj.
dressed to DIR. George Gross of 81 East
Capitol street and opening II. DR.. j. s.
Palmer of Virginia testified that he had
written to DR.. Gross but had received nc
reply. He had, however, received a lettei
from Mrs. Abbott in which she said that
she could marry Dr. Gross, that he read
all Of her letters and she all of his. The
case was dismissed