Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-19
GEORGETOwN.
SHIPPING on TIE CANAL.

SHIPPING oS THE CANAL
Shipping on the canal has begun in dead ear
nest. Last week there not n day but that
some coal came down, was dumped on the
docks and sent away in schooners 20 distant
cities. The Georgetown merchants have also
been kept busy in supplying the demand along
the canal for hard coal One firm last Thursday
sent up TO Whites Ferry via this waterway over
zoo tons of anthracite and other orders are
booked for this week. Since the completion OF
the dam at the mouth of Rock creek the water
has been backed up and the muddy stream
made to assume the appearance it had before
the great freshet OF over two years ago. The
dredge is again at work near the canals west
ern terminus, keeping the bed free from Accu-
mutations
COFFEE ADULrERArIoS WITH MUD.
There were some little objects on exhibition
here last Saturday, and on first sight every ono
said they were genuine coffee grains but on
closer examination they proved 90 he only
clever limitations of the same and made of q
pure coffee-colored mud. IL is said that coffee
at present is being extensively adulterAted
with this stun, and only those well acquainted
with the business can detect the difference be-
tween the pure and impure article. This mud
is said 10 be made in Philadelphia.
AUGMENTED WOMAN IN CHURCH
A demonted woman went into the Catholic
church few days ago and entering the confes-
sional tore out the screen which separates the
priest from the penitent. and in several other
ways made her presence Objectionable. She
Was soon discovered and after q hard wrestle
was oyerpowered and turned over 10 Ofticer
Passan, who brought her TO the station. She
is described as fine-looking woman about
thirty years old. and u Belgian by birth She
was visiting friends on Prospect avenue and
had escaped their watchful eye ami gotten
into the church.
AFTSE RAILROAD BRIDGE
TIE bridge which the Metropolitan Southern,
Baltimore and Ohio. is constructing across its
upper creek promises TO be u very fine
structure "over $4,000 will be spent upon
IL, said a gentleman who liz in a position to
know. A Golfer dam has been built across the
stream to better enable the contractors TO lay
a solid foundation, ana, including the meutwho
are grading and otherwise working in the
neighborhood, nearly $40 are employed t
seems to be settled thing that the road viii.
as early as possible, approach Georgetown by
conn scting with the Washington and Western
road It the Chain bridge.
A WHOLESALE FIGHT.
Late Saturday night there wss . wholesale
fight on Water street, in which more than half
a dozen negroes, men and women, participated.
Adolphus Burden. George Weeks, Dick Phillips
and lille Brown were arrested, and when the
case called before Judge Miller this morn
ing Sadie Hurst was called witness. Tillie
Browns eve was hurt. Judge Miller asked the
women what they did for their living and they
said that they did odd jobs Of scrubbing and
staying at home
Just such women ms you," said the Judge,
sought to be Gagged every saturday at shutdown
and kept in until Monday morning. II is Just
such women as You that are getting working
men in trouble. You meet them when they are
through their work and before midnight their
money is gone and then the District has 20 feed