Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-16
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Reported for THE EVENING srla
COMMERCE SrREEr.-The superintendent q
Ronoe Is now improving Commerce street
thoroughfares here that depart from uniform
right angles and slant like the avenues In wssh-
tngton- Both Commerce and peyton strests
are in the western section Of the CITY and sre
sne l iema u OF former country roads which,
made Decline for King street Houses were
built along them before the town line. q tended
so far, and when the streets were extended
these roadways were Incorporated among the
| streets Of the town. Commerce street was 90
named because at one time q great wagon
trade Of -four and other commodities oaue into
town that way. OF late years ii has been very
much neglected
CoRroRArIoN oouRr.-The corporation court,
Judge Stuart, this morning, called the case of
Jim Hill for cutting Frank Dawes, in Q DIM
Guilty between these two coiored BARRIERS nom
Washington. Dawes came down from washl
ington 70 testify, but the trial was postponed
until December court, and Hill was committed
TO jail, bail being refused The trial Of Ponnal
G. Poulson for forgery was then begun. and ocA
cupied the residue OF the session OF the court.
FIRE ALARMs.--Aboutl II o'clock this morning
nre alarm, occasioned by q slight ire az the
house Of MR. Kelly, on Gibbon street, Majors
hull, called out the fire department.
WASHINGTON CREDIroRs.-In the assignment
OF 9. S. Taylor, Of this city, the Washington
creditors are the Washington -four and feed
company, sl15; q. W. Cissel Il Co., S75; Q. II.
wilkins 4 Co., $50. and W. H. Tenney a Sons,
of Georgetown. None of these are preferred.
The PRAYER WEEK.-The union PRAYER meet
ing, with the music of Evangelist Satman, was
held at Trinity NJ. E. church last night and the
pastors OF the leading evangelical churches Of
the city participated in the services The In
terest in these meetings deepens, and IL In az
pected religious influences may be strengthened
and extended here by them.
notes. young girl, whose name is given
! as Blanche Gartrell, of Washington was found
here ON Thursday night, having taken an over
dose OF laudanum. She was cared for at the
house of Mr. Thomas Z. Beach, on Alfred
street, and carried 10 Washington by her friends
John i. Hill has bought the Callan prop
J erty, on King street, near Henry street. q two-
story brick dwelling and store with lot for
S5S5, from the building association trustees
Col. Edmund Berkeley, of this city, has car.
ried a bullet In the calf Of his leg since the bat
tie of South mountain. but yesterday the ball,
which has been working TO the surface, Tell ont
as he was walking.-Mr. @. S. Taylor, feed
dealer on King street, has made an assignment
| to Col L. l.. Smith for the benefit Of creditors
About $500 of his "a 900 debt is for borrowed
money from the First National bank and else
where.-The steam tug Potomac is under
repairs at Agnew's hip-yard.-Tbe fair for
the benefit of sisters OF the Holy Cross will
! open at st. Mary's hall next Monday.--An-
| drew Lomax, colored, has been sent to Jail for
thirty days for stealing a breastpin.
water company has declared a dividend q
| y. 80 per share for six months.