The evening times., 1896-12-24
City Brevities

The portico in front of Wizards Hotel
Is receiving n coat Of white paint.
The junior class of st. Johns College
| gave Christmas entertainment yesterday
| morning.
| All District employees on the annual roll
| received their salaries yesterday for the
month Of December.
| Inc finance committee reports that the
proceeds of the recent fair at ST. Angus
une's Church amount to $2,1OO.
As is usual in the week preceding the
christmas holidays, the hotel registers
snow very few strangers in town.
Cushing stetson. Of New York, will be a
| guest of Mr.. Frank Andrews, of Massachu-
setts avenue, during the holidays.
Lieut.. Commander .solman Vail, retired.
U. s. N, with his andy, is here for a
visit. He is stopping al the oxford.
Arrangements are being made to place
steam heating apparatus in ST. Cyprians
Church, Thirteenth and c streets southeast.
A lecture on Richard Brinsiey sheri-
dan" will be delivered by Mr.. John ].
Dolan in Carroll Institute Hall ON January
81.
Many janitors in the schools were remem-
bered by the children yesterday for Christ
mas. Some Of them received from So
to $40.
C. b. PrOuty, who succeeds Wheelock c.
NeaZey in the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, has gone To his home for the
holidays.
Madison whipple has bought the resi-
dence No. $50 New York avenue The
price paid was Sc, ,6U0, the sale being nis,ur
by trustees.
Contrary t. the impression that prevails.
there will be 10 midnight mass this year at
n. Il..I lsrrs
town College.
Sheriff Russell, of Montgomery county,
Nd, yesterday took charge OF George
Graham, who was arrested on Wednesday
by Detective Burrows.
The funeral Of Mrx. Elizabeth Sweeney,
who died at her hume, No. los street
northeast, last Tuesday, was held from st.
Aloysius' Church this morning.
Rev. NJ. Ross Fishburn, OF the Howard
Avenue Church, will return from his holi-
day vacation in PENNSYLVANIA in time to
occupy his pulpit Sunday.
Kit Carson Post,G A. R., held an open
camp fire and pound part y last evening, at
which Hon j. "A. Picker was the principal
speaker.
1he mandolin. banjo and giec clubs COM
hined, of Georgetown University, are ar
ranging for concerts to be given here and in
Baltimore during the latter part OF Jan
uary.
Lindley FoGg has been appointed assist
tant chief OF the bookkeeping and war
rant division in the Treasury Department
He has been clerk with the Postuffice
auditor Mr.. Fogg is an ohioan.
Willie Carter, white boy, living in
Georgetown, fell off the front porch of his
home on Prospect street yesterday after
noon, and dislocated his shoulder He was
fra., ,f..I at ha al
Tue Sunday school OF the New Church, at
the corner ofSixteentha thandGorcoran streets,
will hold a vespers service, with carols and
Christmas tree accompaniment, this after
noon at O'Clock.
AT all the Catholic churches here collec-
tons will be taken up at the masses and
vesperS tomorrow for the students OF this
archdiocese, who are pursuing their studies
at st. Mary's Seminary. This is by order
OF Rev. William A. Reardon, chancellor.
Postmaster Winet has stationed three
letter-carrirrs with large hampers in the
front corridor OF the postoffice, to weigh
and receive Christmas packages. They
were on duty until a late hour last night,
and were instrumental in facilitating the
rapid reception and dispatch of the larger
parcels.
The Christadelphian Sunday School chill
dren will give their Christmas entertain
ment onnext Tuesday evening. in the ch urch,
Eighth street, between and q streets.
northeast. There will be an illuminated
Christmas tree, recitations, singing. and
other festivities. No charge will be made
for admission.
Messrs. r. W. Goode, r. /. Geare and A.
N. Mel Lachlen, representing Lanier Heights
subdivision, have asked the Commissioners
for street improvements in their section,
and have expressed their approval of the
bill now before Congress TO extend the
Metropolitan Railway up Eighteenth street
through their subdiv isiOn.