Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-21
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
George Washington Disgraces Respected
and Honored Ancestry.
Gets Arrested for Loud and Bofsteroua
Conduct Other Notes of
General Interest

Geo. Washington and other colored men
bearing historic names engaged in fight
Saturday night at that point on Q street
where the Presbyterian graveyard and the
Twenty Buildings meet. The affair de-
veloped into a wholesale battery. Shouts
loud and coarse went up, and thumps were
rained in upon all the participants. The
women gathered round and made the COM
motion more thrilling. The officers broke
In upon the scene while it was at its height
and secured George Washington. He was
charged with having assaulted Edward
Massey. The prisoner, though, seems not
to have escaped chastisement. His face 10
a mass of cuts, bruises and gashes. and
his neck was SO sore this morning that he
could not hold his head erect.
Both complainant and defendant are old
acquaintance of the police. Both have
served Jail time.
Chevy Chase Hunters.
This morning at 10 o'clock the Chevy
Chase hunters let from confinement 1--we
fox He instigated excited enjoyment.
On Saturday the Chevy Chase riders fol-
loved the anise seed scent for miles about
their country quarters. All made big
jumps. What accidents resulted were
trifling in their nature, amounting to an
easy fall here and there. The field was a
large one, and embraced the best hunters
| in the club.
Revival Services.
Not only the main church but the GAL
| leries and aisles at the Gay street house Of
| worship were packed last night. The
series of REVEALS being conducted there
under Rev. Percy Elsom is exciting general
comment. Old members of the church
state that last nights crowd was the
largest in the church's history. Many
| ccmers were turned away for want OF
room.
The sermon last night was based upon
the subject, Weighed in the Balances
| weighed the doubling disciple. the -'croak-
err the drinking member Of the church.
the dancing member, the card player, the
gossiper. the Indifferent member and the
covetous one.
He showed the defects of each. They
| came up to the salvation notch, he said.
| yet were wanting in power. The remedy
| was to put Christ in the scales. The
| speaker also weighed the unconverted in
| the light of the Ten Commandments. He
showed them absolutely wanting. The
remedy was to believe in Christ and con-
| fess Him.
| Mr.. Elsom closed with an illustration de-
| signed to show the danger Of postponing
conversion-an incident OF his revival in
Newbern, North Carolina. There Were a
number OF conversions yesterday. The
revival will continue.
Dr. Church of the Southern New England
| Conference preached last night at the Dunn
1
| there was a reception of four members.
| The Dumbarton avenue revivals are keep
ing up the interest of the congregation
we'll. The attendance nightly is large and
| increasing.
| Notes.
John Parker was taken in yesterday for
| stealing a bologna sausage from Mr.. F. +.
| Davis a storekeeper.
| John Burk INDUCED in fast driving in
| the county yesterday and the police in
| dulged in an arrest.
Mrs. Rosa Cameron, an inmate of the
| Home for Incurables, died yesterday, in her
| Seventy-Seventh year.
Last evening the services at the NJ. p.
| Church, Congress street, were made brief
| by Rev. DIR. Graham in order to permit tie
| attendance of nearly one hundred of his
| congregation at the closing meeting of the
Y P. S. c. E., whose members have been
| in convention in various churches of Wash
| ingtcn.
Chicken thieves are doing a wholesale
business in the country 20 the west Of
town. Mr.. J. J. Lightfoot has had two
visits paid him. The first cost him twenty
chickens and half dozen ducks, the sec
ond only his sleep, the dogs spying the
thief and chasing him of with loud canine
wells. Various colored families have had
all their feathery wealth taken from them