National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-05-13
TIE SMALL THINGS OF A DAY.
Minor Occurrences In and About the
CITY Briefly Put.

Minor Occurrences In and About the
City Briefly Put.
Tooth filling made painless by the use o.
cocaine Ivy 5. I. Mason, dentist 2l3 Four.and.
a.hai street northwest.
HOLLY TREE" 5ls Ninth street. Room and
board, so
Hermann Baumgarten. of this city, has b cen
awarded tho contract for furnishing the Dis
trlct with 5000 dog tags at s25 per 1000.
During the past week there wero 80 deaths
per qnnum-white, 1905; colored, 3O1j; total
population, 20s0. Births, IS; marriages. 10.
Nellie Forrest was fined $40 yesterday by
Judge Smell for driving a carriage over two
small children named Mary llcaley and Mary
Quiltcr on the Seventh street road sunday.
The members OF the Grand Army yesterday
received a request to sond delegation to Gull
pepper, Va, on Decoration day to decorate the
| graves OF the Union soldiers in the cemetery at
| that place.
E, p. Litz, 2il New Jersey avenue, report
| that about O'Clock yesterday morning thi ives
broke into his house by forcing open blck
door. a lot of bed linen and underwear of
the value of $40 were stolen.
Mr. f. A. Newman as solicitor for Lizzie p
Sawyer, has peiitioned for divorce from her
husband klncadc Sawyer, on the ground of
cruelty and desertion. Mrs Jane Augusta
COues also charged her husband, DR.. Elliott
Coues, with dcscrtion and applies fora divorce.
Alta meeting of the examiners in the patent
office held on Tuesday resolutions appropriate
TO the memory of the late Gen Albln Schoepf
were adopted Gen. Schoepf was one of the
oldest examiners in the office, having first en-
tered the service of the government ia 1861.
a countryman named Snyder has revived
the lavinnd mystery by putting into cireula-
ton story that he saw and talked with Hayi-
| land last saturday at farm house on the
| upper PatuNent In Howard county. Hayilanl
would only say that he had been In Frederick
| and Carroll counties since December. Havi-
lands neighbors don't take much stock In tho
| story.
Western Star Council, No. Q, Junior order
| United American Nicola lies, held n family
| reception on Tuesday evening at their hall,
| conner Thirty first and VI streets, which proved
most enjoyable occasion. The following
help,d to entertain the guest. by reetatlonss,
Floyd, james =. Wallace, Misses Clara Valettc,
Bertha Reynolds, and Brown
At the annual meeting of the Union Relief
Association ofthe G. |. o. of o. f. the follow
ING officers of the association we're elected
President Charles +. Murray; vice president,
| Henry W. Freeman; secretary, Frank r.
| Moore treasurer, Alfred D. Coleman; directors
Henry " JARVIS and and j. +. \. WilHinson; for Que
| year John A. Pierre, John w. Lee, Alex. Poy-
| ton, Vim. Beckett, aud A. b. Winslow.
| Charles Warner Harry Bunting, Thomas
| Moore and John Martin, ticket spectators at
| the circus grounds were tried in the police
| court yesterday for Obsructing the sidewalk.
| John Cooper, a detective in the employ OF the
circus, testified that the men sold tickets after
| the doors were closed They represented that
the tickets they sold at an advance entitled the
| purchaser 10 reserve seats The defendants
| denied that they swinlled Senator Riddle.
| berger in this manner, and the cases were
| dismissed.
"DAIsY soar DUST has become quite a by
| word in the last few days II Is u Washington
article, and is now In use In the leading hotels,
| Frank Wards diaries, &c. II certainly makes
| things shine. II Is for sale in all the grocery
| stores and seems to do better work than any
i Inn 90 or EnlEn nlnn Inn