Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-14
GEORGETOWN.
DESCENT ON A GAMBLING PLACE

DAS,LNA VN a oAhbLlNo fLACE
Having received information that gambling
was nightly going on in the old unoccupied
Chambers school building, situate on East
street between P and @ and 25th and 26th,
Sergt. Robey, assisted by Officers Upperman
and Seymour, on Saturday night made a sud-
den descent upon the place and captured Eli
Moore, "Tuggy" Gray and Jos. Graham all Of
whom were interested In little game Of cards
Scattered around the room were other groups
engaged in games Of chance. but owing to the
uncertain light they succeeded in making their
escape. One man seeing that all other avenues
wero cut off made a dive for a window and
jumped to the ground twenty feet below. The
officers, when they had secured the three prin-
cipals, went round to pick up what they
thought would be dead man, but to their sur
prise the jump had been a safe and the
jumper had gone. The cards. money and dice
used in the games were left behind and taken
possession of by the police.
CUSTOM HOUSE ENTRIES.
Entries Of merchandise received at tho
Georgetown custom house for the week ending
November ~. 1892, were follows: Decorated
earthenware, value 80. $40; gloves. ss4s; house.
hold and personal effects, SITS; bronzes, &c.
S542; paintings, S4S7; encaustic tiles, $3.50;
manufactures Of metal, S299; miscellaneous,
Sl53; total, Sc. l03.
LECTURE on ALASKA.
At the boys club at Peck Memorial Chapel
2sth and NJ streets, Friday evening, Miss Ball
of Georgetown delivered an interesting and in
structive lecture on Alaska, one of the features
of the occasion being a large exhibition of
curios from that wonderful country, likewise
specimens Of the ore mined there
REAL ESTATE DEALS.
Friday there was q big deal in the property
Of the Palisades of the Potomac Company. j.
P. Clark and E. P. Cathell, trustees, decided to
W. E. Lewis for a consideration of SS4, 900 lots
to 81. in block 1: lots l to 49, block 2; lots 1
to A. block 8: lots to 10 and % to 81, block T.
and lots to 4, in block 8.
Then Lewis transferred the above to Clark
in whose name it now stands.
Isabella Thompson has sold to Joseph H.
Bradley for 5000 house No. 3O06 street.
situated on parts Of lots col and 202 in Beall's
addition.
In consideration of 81. 500 VIM. Goodrich has
decided within the past two days to L. n. Good
rick parts Of lots "a and Us of square q in Old
Georgetown.
Thomas Hyde has transferred to Thomas
Hyde, jr., that part Of the subdivided Linthi-
cum estate known as part Of lot 4.
THE wooDLEY FOX HUNT.
So many Of the members and their friends
have signifed their intention to ride in the
Woodley fox hunt on the 25th that it is thought
the largest number of riders that have ever left
start for Fairfax Court House on the evening Of
the oath The night preceding the chase will
be spent at the court house Hotel and at the
private residences around. The hounds to be
used on the occasion are being daily put on the
scent thai they may be In familiar trim by the
eyentful morning. The start from the court
house will be made at sunrise and the chase
will last all day it Is probable that the riders
will not return to town until the following
morning.
had TO GIVE BONDS.
Charles Barnes and Charles Tingstrum are
not on pleasant terms just now for the reason
that the former paid a visit to the latter at his
boat on the canal A report was
circulated about Georgetown concerning
wife, and he called upon the husband
for an explanation and some threatening Ian
guage was INDUCED in. knife and pistol
were to take part in the next conflict, accord
ing to the threat. but before there was time for
another meeting an arrest made and Judge
Miller settled the affair by taking the personal
bonds of the defendant. Barnes. and warned
him to keep away from Tingstrum's boat.
NOTES.
The old High street market house, which was
purchasedb by the Enrich Beef Company a short
time ago, has been handsomely improved on
the interior and will soon be thrown open as
the finest market store that Georgetown has
ever had.
All the mills along the Georgetown level of
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal are in daily
operation and doing a good business Wheat
Is coming down from the region to the west in
large quantities and all the flour made is meet
ing with a ready sale.
Mr.. Albert Miller Of 1925 High street. who for
some time has been at deaths door, died yester-
day afternoon. The remains will be buried
with those Of his wife. who, since her death
about two weeks ago, has been in the vault at
Oak Hill