Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-08-14

the CO0Rtos
EQUITY CoURroJud0e Merrtck
YESTERDAY, Arlington Fire Insurance Company
| continued. Homiler agt. HOmiller; sale confirmed
son; sale decreed; c. N. Matthews appointed
trustee. Lamon agt. Mckee; application TO ex-
tend time denied d.; Aeell sst Abel; Ingle Or
legged lunatic; writ issued. Walton agt. Parrish;
referred TO Special Auditor +. BealL New Orleans
Base Ball Club agt. Washington Base Bali club;
application for Injunction denied; leave TO amend.
Briggs agt Combs; payment ordered. Knight agt
ton Of plaintiff for costs agt defendant overruled.
PROBATE CoURTcJudge Aerrick
Yesterday, Estate OF Philip Il. Sheridan; will
nled letters OF administration to Irene RI Sherf.
dan; bond g, 500. Estate Charles Rau: order Tor
sale OF stocks, &c. Estate Richard L Thompson;
order 1or payment In account OF distribution. rs
Estate Mary Mcknight; motion to rescind order.
Estate Charles Lyman; inventory Of money, &C.
EState Shave eoge W. sn0esey order appointing
Fetterman; letters Of administration to Charles
Haring; bond 81 $50. Estate VIM. Il. CoOmbs; or
Hester A. r. Landers; BOND 5000. Estate Robert
Moore; letters OF administration to A. p. Lacey !,
bond $1,000 Estate Daniel Mcmahon; order OF
stration TO Arthur W. Ferguson, bond $50, 600 Es-
tate VIM. Heine; account passed. Estate Eliza
beth ID. Muliiken; order of sale.
POLICE CoURr-Jud0e Mills, pro tenn.
cognizance. Isaac Watson, profanity; IS or Is
days Edwd Kent, VIM. brown, Henry Lee
Pium m Turner, Isaac Gibson, Edw'd Anderson,
JAS Iemple, Geo. Ford and Osborn Basey, disor-
wOrkhouse. Edw'd Kent and VIM. Brown, pro
iI SnaS s. JGnn Heller assault; g. VIM Rob
ko6t. Boz lie. do. s.. Wash. Fauntroy, disorderiy;
Si n 1onn OBrlen, vagrancy; bonds OF work.
$50. He..ry Johnson, Emanuel Wells and Frank
fayne' disorderiy; personal recognizance.
Affair." i'm West Washington.
CATTLE MARKET.-The following sales of live
stock at Drovers Rest yesterday ere reported: Ill
cattle up and sold-best, 44a4Ec.; good, 4a4kc C. /:
nSd sha4 sam%on 2sc ~ sheep
2Ha4c. III COWS anu calves, $2Oa$3O; market
BRISK.
BUILDING AssocIATIoN-At the sxty-fifth
montnls meeting OF the citizens Equitable Build
Ing Association, held at GOddards Hall last night,
II shares OF STOCK We're sold at s4,OO3 being an
average OF about $l91 per share There Is q
demand for the new SERIES $50 shares beng taken.
two.
ARRKsTED.-Edward Potter, white, and Rose
Ford. colored, were engaged in a lice tight on
Water street Yesterday, when they were arrested
by Officer WEIGH.
COMPLAINT was made at the police station yes
teruay by residents on Doth street, between K
street and the canal, that the garbage men had
Jailed 10 respond To requests for their services.
TEMPERATURE AND CONDITION OF WATER AT z
a. nL-GreaI Falls, temperature. rs; condition,
80; receiving reservoir, temperature. 81; cOndl-
ton at north connection. 20; condition at south
connection. %; distributing reservoir, tempera-
ture, 49, condition at 1nf1uent gatehOuSe IL; con-
dlti"n Ut effiuent gate-hOuse SO. High tide In the
river t0-uay at 1 :01 p m. low tide at 7:49 pm.
Alexandria Affairs.
Reported for The EVENING STAR.
GEORGE WAsuINGToN'S SURVEYS IN ALEXANDRIA.
1t mas always been GU isidered very probable that
Gen. Washington, when lad OF sixteen. took part
As surveyor in laying out this town, out no other
evidence than tradition has heretofore been avail.
able. few days ago DR.. j. NJ. Toner, II Washing
ton, whose researches into the writings OF WASH
ingtOn has been cUntiHu u for some tiine discov-
WertS Landing, or Fisntown, dated l14S, and
they show that the cove In front OF the town.
including now all below Lee street from Queen to
Duke streets was In ri surveyed by and laid out
by the Father or MS country.
POLrTICAL--Tne democratic district committee
has appointed Capt. Geo. A. Mushbdch and Frank
Hume congressional canvaS serS OF this city and
county. Mr. Leonard Marbury, OF this city Is
given In cnarge as executive committeeman, all
the dlstrlcJS OF Alexandria and Fairfax. The Office
OF the virginia state central committee, w. w.
Scott, secretary, has It's headquarters mere.
NOTES.-The funeral OF Mrs. Mildred r. GOode nee
Reardon, took place this afternoon from the resi-
dence OF her brother near Christ church.-Tne
Hydraulic Steam Fire Engine Co. IN de to-day an
excursion on the steamer Jane Moseey TO Gilt on
Beach. carrying large party OF AiexaudrIanS-
Dr. Arthur Snowden, son or the editor OIL the Alex
andria Gazette, has return q from course or sur
glcal lectures In London, and will locate in Wash
ingIon.-Policeman Price has recovered at a
Washington pawn shop watch stolen from Mr.
JAS. Patterson during the recent races here
The house OF Robert Jefferson, near Hunting
Creek was robbed Sunday night OF some $40 and q
gun.-El ven brick houses two OF them very
large aud a number OF frame dwellings are now
being erected here.-It Is said that Col ID, r
Windsor, OF this city, Is about to purchase Am
bier's copper mine in Fauquier County.