The Washington critic., 1889-06-28
CITY AND SUBURBAN.

The Anacostia roadways are being
repaired.
The Alexandria Sunday schools are
taking an excursion to River View to.
day.
The Alexandria Gcntlcmcn's Driving
Association will give trotting and run
ming meeting in July.
Ellen Quill has sued Jacob Russell
for $4,000 for being knocked down
and injured by one of his wagons last
April.
The manual training and cooking de.
parlmcnt In connection with the Ana.
costa schools will be opened in Sep
TENDER.
A colorcd boy named George Tucker
aged 10, was drowned near the Long
Bridge yesterday morning and his body
was not recovered.
Grays Hall, Anacostia, was the
scene of an entertainment for the bene
fiji of the local flood sufferers last night.
About $25 was realized.
George Hoffman, who keeps saloon
at 1904 Twentieth street, was taken to
Freedman $ Hospital yesterday suffer.
ing from deirium tremens.
The following appointments have
been made by the Commissioners: ID.
J. Howell, engineer; J. J. Coulehan.
rodman, and NJ. G. Hazcn, axcman.
Sixteen. year old Radcliff Copeland,
who lived at 1884 i street northwest,
was drowned while bathing at the foot
of Seventeenth street last night His
body was received.
Commissioners Douglass and Hine
drove to Takoma Park yesterday for the
purpose of inspecting the county thor
oughfarcs in that section. They were
entertained by Judge Miller.
Bids for the rcsurlacing of Pennsyl.
vania avenue will again be received.
Any bid offered by the Crawford Com.
pany will not affect the contract which
they now have with the District.
A party Of twenty young athletes of
the Southwark Turn Vercin of Phla.
dclpbia are stopping in the city, en-
route from Cincinnati, where they won
some prizes at the recent festival
The Cadet Corps of ST. Johns Mill.
tary Academy of Alexandria, having
returned from their encampmcnt Mt Vir-
ginia Beach, the closing exercises of the
academy will be held tomorrow.
A banquet was rendered last night
by the G. X. of A., of the District, to
Colonel j. F. Partridge, a representa-
tive TO the annual convention of the
knights OF st. John, recently in ses.
sion here.
The contract for supplying the Dis
trict with 1000 lS-inch square artif.
clal stone tiles at twenty cents
800 rectory artificial stone closure tiles
at twenty-five cents each was yesterday
awarded to George Richardson.
DR.. Townshcnd has recommended
That an inspector be appointed at 81 900
year to have charge of the garbage
service. He also recommends that the
balance of u SIS 900 appropriation be ex.
pended in necessary improvements.
George Henderson, slater at work
on the new building corner of Thirtieth
and o streets, was thrown to the ground
yesterday through the fall of the scat
fold and suffered broken jaw. Alfred
Fortune, colored hod carrier, was Sc.
riously hurt on Wednesday by falling
from the new school building on Tween.
ty-eighth street.
The old elm tree which stands in the
approach TO the south end of the Cap
itol, which has been known as Simon
Camcron's tree, will probably be cut
down. The tree has been allowed to
stand in the way for several years by
reason OF request from General CAM.
eron, when United States Senator,
that the tree be allowed to remain dur.
ing his life time.