Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-05
SUBURBAN NEWS
ANACOSTIA.


his resignation of his charge there, he hav-
ing decided TO accept a professorship which
has been rendered to him in college near
Boston. The announcement of Father
Hughes determination has caused wide
spread regret among the entire member
ship. During the fourteen years of his So
journ in Anacostia he has been a most de-
voted as well as faithful pastor, and has
succeeded in attracting TO st. Teresa's
Church large congregation.
In 1881, when Father Hughes came to
Anacostia. he found only a handful Of
parishioners, but he retires from his pres
ent responsibilities with the knowledge
that the few have increased nightly
that the congregation is now in excess of
LOO persons, and that the attendants COM
prise residents not only CT AnacoStia, but
Southeast Washington, Garfield, 1illsdale,
Congress Heights, and the entire surround
Ing country. The church has also attached
to it the usual societies such as are to be
found in prosperous Catholic churches and
a large growing Sunday school, 1t is not
vet known who Father Hughes successor
VIII be- The selection viii be made by Car
dinal Gibbons. The date for the departure
OF Father Hughes has not been determined
upon.
observed among the Catholics of this vicini-
ty Monday. The celebrant took two liz mt ed
candles, which had been melted together
IN the form of a cross and passed them
beneath the Threats of the persons to be
blessed, at the same time repeating a pray
er- ST Blaise is generally represented
as bisnop OF Sebaste, in Armenia, no
suffered martyrdom in the year BIG A. D.
In the early days of the church it was said
tnat by charm in the name of the saint a
cone could be removed from the throat or
thorn from the foot Later the custom of
gan. o
Douglass Hall, Hillsdale. has been on
sasea py the carson and Gleason Club of
fhrr
LOT the purpose of holding a monster ratifi-
cation meeting. MIR. West has apnointed a
committee of leading members Of the club
10 make all the necessary arrangements
The five boys who escaped from the rs
1ormatory at Cheltenham, Md, a few DAYS
ago are all back at the institution Three
800 go captured soon after their escape, the
tIuIth became weary of tramping and sur
rendered himself, while the fifth whose
naLhe - "llIlam Upton. and who is serving
q Term iof robbing post office in Tennes-
see was arrested in Anacostia by Officer
MARI and taken back to Cheltenham
a peculiar accident occurred to the day
Ielegrapn operator at Alexandria Junction
on the, baltimore ard Ohio railroad a few
miles from Anacos.ia, Monday resulting in
tHe dlsiocaticn of his shoulder He vas
Pa biaeilg bucket of water in his office when
IT. e, III s!ipps from wi2dow sill on which
~ was reSung, causing the dislocation
huch interest is felt Throughout Prince
Of ~ county Nd, IN the appointment
o. u tIie successor to Gen. Henry Kyd Dong.
% and
committee of the best known res;J.rt 80 &c
me county will, it is said, ask Governor
A u TO appoint Col. J.. Allison Wiimsr
soverIslir ieS county to the position The
SoverhGr mas expressed himself as very
iatoraniy Impressed with Col W;In,ar
IT, ,.. IS widespread impression thai
lie natter viii be the fortunate man
Ihe residents of Anacostia who have no
ZONE aware of the Incident are havfno .
quiet iauSh occasionally at the exnansa ot
60 nedS worthy lady living in the town be-
VIII, s ab IaIied TO recognize her own SON.
Mnoin she mad not seen during the prece1i
ing SIX years The latter upon ratnrn;na,
10 Anacostia after an absence since 1s,x,
causd at MS mothers home after she had
ca. fIinslng the door bell the mother
responded. but she refused to omen the go,
hithout knowing who it was that dasirsd
aslGUnlt.anee- To her repeated inquiries of
no Ihere? he replied, You know"
ne mother informed him two or three
tnes that she did not, and as he stitI DO
cilheu 10 enliShten her as he wished -,
surprise her with seeing him, she went
The man kept up the ringing and ono ~
MS sisters, who was at home, this time an.
swered the bell. She asked the same o,,as
uons as her mother and received the same
LSphsS, OUT after some little DELAY recoo
nlzed her brothers voice and admitted him
10 the house. Both mother and dauabter
were over1oyed to greet the Iong-absent
one, put Inc former said she could not CEN
sure herself because she could NOT idantif,
the voice as belonging to her son.
spencer Monroe Grayson of Prince
Seorses county Md, whose home is not
Tar from the District line. has been elected
assistant secretary of Franklin BucbanaD
camp, United Confederate Veterans. whose
headquarters will be in Baltimore The
camp IS named in honor of Admiral Franz
lin Buchanan, who commanded the ran,
Merrlnac in the fight with the Monitor
and who was afterward the senior admiral
OF the confederate navy and the command
ing officer in the fight with Admiral F,arra-
CUTS fleet in Mobile bay and who died in
Ialbot county, Md. in 1874
Inc other officers of the camp, all of
Nhon gained distinguished honor on the
southern side during the late unpleasant
ness, are: Commander, H. Ashton Ram
say; hfst lieutenant commander John GILL.
second lieutenant commander, Charles Mar
snau; third lieutenant commander Ran
dolph Barton; adjutant. Winfield Peters:
surgeon, Francis T. Miles: treasurer, Sam
uel IL Buck; sergeant major and secretary
John McWilliamS.
OF these officers Commander Ramsay VIZ g
the chief engineer of the Merrimac, and az
terward lieutenant colonel in command of
the naval battalion in the confederate
army. Lieut.. Commander Gill was signal
sergeant in Fitzhugh Lees division of cav
AIRY Lieut. Commander Marshall is well
known as assistant adjutant general and
military secretary on the staff of Gen
Robert E. Lee. Lieut.. Commander Rarton
was assistant adjutant general In the
famous Stonewan brigade Adjutant
Peters served lieutenant, commanding
soldiers IN the ambulance corps in the
Army OF Northern Virginia Treasurer
BUCK was on the staff of Lieut. Gen
Holmes Secretary McWilliams was a SER
geant major in A. p. Hilps thirteenth Vir-
ginfa Infantry, and Assistant Secretary
Grayson was a private in the second Mary
land infantry.
The camp comprises some of the leading
citizens of Maryland and the members
have announced their Intention of taking
an active part In the collection of funds
for a grand confederate memorial hall or
battle abbey, for which Mr.. Charles RroaA-
way Rouss recently offered a contribution
of 100000. May 1 has been set aside as
Memorial Festival day. and the 800 camps
VIII then unite with the Daughters of the
Confederacy and similar organiza lions 10
raise $4,000 as an additional sum- The
following year another $4,000 is proposed
to be collected I'm order to have s2OO,0OO in
hand before the building Is begun