The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-13
IN AND ABOUT TOWN.
rhe excursion season bias opened.

The excursion season has opened.
Orders are being placed now for flowers
for Decoration Day.
There is said to be a scarcity of competent
labor to assist in house cleaning.
Fanny Thompson was found in q fit,
corner Ninth and ID streets, last night, by
Officer Culbert, and carried TO the Elmer
gency.
Joe Fielden, the pugilist and bicyclist,
has opened boxing school on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, near Seventeenth street.
He has q number of pupils.
A party of 200 young ladies from the
Academy of the Holy Cross, in charge of
the Sister Superior and corps of teachers,
visited lexington yesterday.
Hamilton Rozier, colored, fell from a
scaffold where he was working on new
house on Sixth street, between G and II
streets, yesterday and was seriously in
juTed internally.
Robert Coleman, colored man living
at 234 Thirteenth street northeast, wants
the police to find the mother of a colored
infant, month old, that was left on his
doorstep last night.
The will of Jane Farnham was filed to-
day. She gives lots and 9 in square 3l4
corner of Eleventh and NJ streets, to her
son, Robert Farnham. One third of the
remainder of the estate is given to Robert,
one-tbird TO Carrie Curtis and the re-
mainder among the other heirs.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Central Union Mission was held last eve
ming and reports read from the treasurer
showing the Mission and its various
branches to be in tlourishing condition.
1t was decided to have a Gospel-wagon
service on Monday night ON the Avenue,
near Tenth street, in addition to the regu-
lar Sunday evening service.
Suit for $4,000 has been entered by
Charles II. Javins against the Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad Company through
his attorneys, Birney & Birney. On the
24th of last April, while crossing the
tracks at Eleventh street southeast, a
wagon in which Mr.. Javins was seated
was struck by an engine and he sustained
injuries which are believed to be perma-
nent.
John +. Kelly has been elected second
lieutenant of Company Il, Fifth Battalion
of the District Militia and will enter upon
his duties in this crack company at once
Lieutenant Kelly takes deep interest in
the citizen soldiery and is himself one OF
the best soldiers in this ten-miles square
He has been identified during his career
as a volunteer with the Veteran Cadets
the Columbia Rifles and the Mercede;
Rifles. He has held commissions in all oil
these companies.
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ii. Donnelly, a well dressed man, praying
very fervently in the middle of Fifteenth
street yesterday afternoon. His strange
conduct attracted quite crowd of people
about him, and it was very evident tina
the man was mentally unbalanced. HI
was taken to the Twelfth street station
and DIR. Hall of the Emergency Hospita
was called in, who advised his removal tt
Freedman's Hospital. Mr.. Donnelly il
in the employ of George Lemon, 6l5 Fiji
tenth street.
At meeting of the National Fencible
last night it was decided to enter the com
pany at the drill contest to be held at In
dianapolis during the first week of July
The prize for which the Fencibles will
compete is that of the grand interstate
class, of which there are three prizes
first, $500; second. 81 900, and third
$500. The drill will be under the i'm
mediate control of the Indianapolis Ligh
Artillery, and many of the crack com
panies of the South and West will b
present.