The Washington times., 1895-04-19
WEST END NEWS AND GOSSIP

The last OF the cOnfiscated goods at the
Georgetown custom house were sold at
auction yesterday. There were among
other articles. thirty safety bicycles of all
makes and sizes, which went under the ham
mer for about $40 to S15 each. A mass
of machinery was sold at the rate OF one
cent per pound, and pilos and bales OF
clothing brought low figures.
The sale wasDot without itE EcomicfeatuTes
An old colored man bid on huckskin rid
ing suit and at the laat call it went TO him
for 81. The old follow carried the habit
home, and in the course of an hour bobhed
up dressed in the affair. Tho trousers,
which were of a Knick0Tbecker pattern,
ended at his kneea and we're about five
sizes too small for him, while the lower
edge of the coat, came to his waist,
Another colored resident Of the Heights
became owner of a SNAIL caEse. A friend
asked him what disposition he intended to
make of the craft
wall, said the old man, with a Perplsxed
couRtenance, Il won dar' go on de ribber
wild it, but g long 5 Use got it and it was so
low, reckon I'll uss it fur chicken coop"
The small boy OF medaling fame stops at
nothing. The cable line slots and horsecar
platforms are his hobby in the West End,
and his mischeVousnesS has no bounds.
But the trolley railway has heretofore es-
capped his hand, with the exception of a few
cartridges on the track, or a stray stone or
pebble.
Yesterday forenoon three urchins on
vandalism bent walked out Thirty-Sec-
ond street. and after stoning few dogs and
cats, became tired of their daily sport, and
yearned for variation Of play and for nov
city IN mis- chieyio iouSness. Suddenly
Thomas Linkins, one Of the youngsters,
spied length of old telegraph line wire
laViup poilad near a mole
Boys be said, lets fling this onter
tn electric car wire"
No sooner said than done, and the string
of metal thrown high in the air dropped
on the trolley. A flare and flash, and the
small boy, who forgot to drop the other
end, was knocked ten feet, while the iron
wire became heated to redness, and then
melted.
Thomas picked himself up, and looking
around in a dazed sort of fashion, said:
Say, fellers, what's happened?"
The boys then went home Last evening
the father of the Limkins boy called in Dr..
GlaZeburke, who examined Tommy and said
he would be ill for several days from the
electric shock, and seemed surprised that
the boy had not been killed outright. The
boys hands were terribly burned.
The following barges loaded with Cum
berland coal and assigned to Meredith,
Winship & Co., are en- route to Georgetown
via the Chesapeake & Ohio canal: George
c. French, 1897; j. K. Mclean, 124. lie;
c. Weagley, 1902; No 1o2, 1901; No.
lis, 1854; No 10S, 121.13; No. 145,
120.0S; No. 1876, 1904; and Consolida-
ton No. 1, 116.17.
Boats clearing Georgetown are the j. j.
Alexander, Shapsburg. Consolidation No. Z,
W. S. Jacques, j. c. Poor, J. j. Williams,
and Cuba.
Potomac Commandery No. 2, K. t.,
will give hop on May at Linthicum Hall.
The receipts will go for the enlargement of
the fund of the commandery to be used in
defraying the expenses of their proposed
trip to the Knights Templar encampment at
Boston this summer.
The Bal Poudre cotillion will take place
at Liuchicum Hall tonight. Only those
having rdsofinvitationwillbea beadmitted
John j. Harrington is erecting a large
stone building on High street near N. A
spacious hall in the second story will be
used by the colored associations of George
town.
The horses attached to one of Smoot's
large milk wagons ran away on Loudoun
road late Wednesday night, and about mid
way of the Chain Bridge upset the vehicle,
spilling upward of forty gallons of milk.
Rev. Joseph Stitt. of the Dumbarton
M. e. Church, is much better.