The evening times., 1897-03-08
City Brevities

Commissioner Ross returned TO the city
this morning after an absence OF several
days.
MIR Walter G Fisher, of Dayton. Ohio, is
stopping in this city while ON a business
and pleasure tour of.the East.
Acting District Attorney II. E. Davis re-
turned 10 his desk today after spending
Saturday and Sunda vat Old Point Comfort.
new sned has been erected az the end
Of the Soldiers Home branch OF the Bright
wood Railway for the shelter OF passengers
from the weather.
Despite the cool weather of yesterday
the street railroads carried hundreds OF
strangers into the beautiful suburban dis
tricts around the city.
On St Patrick's Day, March IL, Rev.
John T Murphy, of Pitbsburg. Pa, will de-
liver a lecture in new Gonzaga Hall on
Daniel O'Connell and Emancipation"
Dr. Peter Smith. formerly medical stu
dent in this city and head surgeon at Emer-
gency Hospital, bit now practicing physi-
cian in Boston, is making brief visit among
friends here.
Congressman DOvener and National Com
mitteeman n. b Scotthave gone TO Wheel
ing. W. Va, TO attend the funeral of Gens
F. p. Dobbins, who was killed in a railroad
accident near Cincinnati.
An all-day meeting OF the womens Pres
byterian Home Mission Society will be held
in the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church on Thursday. Sessions VIII begin
at 10 a. m. and p. M
Several of the special policemen on duty
last week were suspended and their badges
and batons taken from them by the lieu
tenants of the precincts in which they
were serving because they appeared at the
station house in an intoxicated conditiC n. .
Rev. George \. Luccock, ID. D., pastor Of
the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, ex-
poets to be absent from his charge for two
weeks, assisting DR. McCurdy. of Whining
ton, Del, in special meetings. His pulpit
will be occupied next Sabbath by DR.. Me
Curdy.
A small boy who gave his name as Ed
ward Mays, and said he lives in East
washington. fell overheard yesterday after
noon at the Twelfth-street wharf while
playing in q rowboat. He was rescued by
two colored men, who were attracted by
his shouts for help.
Atthe Lenten mass, 1 O'Clock yesterday
forenoon, at st. Aloysius' Church, Rev j.
Havens Richards, s. J.. of Georgetown
University, delivered an interesting sermon
from the text, Throw thyself down" AT
vespers Rev John A Conway, s. J., spoke
on the theme, Il thirst"
The little daughter of Mr.. Patrick Con-
molly, living on the Bladensburg road, was
run over by an unknown wheelman, near
Mount olivet Cemetery, yesterday after
noon. and taken to nearby house, where
it was found that she was badly bruised
and frightened. The rider did not stop.
A Perpetual Alteration Society is being
organized 10y the fathers of st. Aloysius
Church, the object being to secure a suffi-
cient number of members willing to spend
an hour a day, week or month, according G
to their leisure, in the church, So that the
blessed sacrament may never be without a
guard Of honor.
The mounds of greens and other worthless
decorations beneath the windows of the
Pension office on the Fourth street side
attracted large number of boys and old
women who rooted among the debris all
Saturday afternoon, and were at 1t again
early this morning, in the hope OF finding
lost valuables.
A small colored boy had narrow es-
cape frem being run dot by Metropolitan
electric train No. 2s about O'Clock this
morning On Ninth street, between d and E
streets. He sprang backward in the nick
of time, but was struck on the arm by the
edge OF the motor car and painfully injured.
The accident was due to gross careiessness
on the boys part.