Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1873, Page 4

errenenes 2 WEDNESDAY.... November 12, is73- - LOCAL NEWS, Orchestrion MUP “4¢ 5 ayenus. 43 Peunsylvania ——s— densed Lacais American central commi beld a meeting | sation and by-laws ‘Wm. DP. Wise, exq., bas recently sold at pri- vate sale residence on 44 Street, to Dr ames R. Reiley. In yesterday's STAR onder the heading in General Term”, it was stated that F. meli had been appointed a constable. It been Theo. S$. Kimmel! e Trianaon leaving the navy-yard wharf Jetterday afternoon with supplies for ihe Philn- a yard, eging. f Oregon, who has be ite for the State de. Work on the improvements in progress for sometime past at Forts Washington and Fe been partially euspended and nearly all azged in consequence of th tions being almost entirely ¢ nt annual meeting ot Mo apter. No. 3, officers were elec Daniels, M. Be H. P.: M Kis $5 5.W.G i tary;ani ©. & ypotator to represent the Chapter in Hall Assoc: lsot John or, C89... vet- ist that he is <enfined to his house by disease. Mr. G. was Third Auditor of the Treas years and ab er President Filmore, anc @ last tweive y a clerk in uurtermaste The present month will com) seventh rear SS The Masonic Mutual Keticf Associa- tien. FICERS—INTERESTING 1 STATISTICS. The annnal meeting of the Masonic Mu Relief As-ociation took place last night Masonie Temple, Robert Ball, esq., in shair, and |. J. han secretary. The chair stated the object to he te ele twenty-two directors to represent the vari lodges in this District. 4 report of the finance committee was made, skewing the total amount in the hands of the BLECTION OF « treasurer during the year to be §: z the amount expended, including $15,5%7 paid to we heirs of fourteen deceased "meimbers, 149.55. The total membership during the ar has been 1,3, of which if died and 65 ‘were dropped for non-payment of dues, leaving etal membership of 1,24. The total me: bership from its organization has been 1, and the total number of deaths during the sa: hod of life insurance, stated that 1 records the death rates in pal cities of this coun ; London Liverpool, 28, Man- | Dublin, 9; Vienna, $1 averaging American aud 20), for the Ex Deduct one- for the one and presuming tha fore attaining 21 y: We have about 6 for America and $ for it will be perceived that the death r in both countries, America advantage. True there er | per 1,000. y established that our mole msurance should not cost, at a high es more than $1,500 per annum per members to meet all expenses for ail twenty-one years, and by simply rene mode of policy by risking a preminm of $1.5 per month we securea sure policy a: Of $1,000 pro rata. ‘The association elected the follow by ballot . Crump, Joon M. Jet Allison Nailor, . le D. Larner, « han, Jobn Evely, Benj. F. French. ——— A Man Eeaten Insensible and Robbed. ARREST OF THE ALLEGED HIGHWAYMEN on Saturday hight last, a man named ¢ ’. Godfrey, living in’ the northern portion of the city, waeon bis way hoe, and stepping to & low groggery on street, near 7th, north- est, met two colored rag-gatherers, named ard Clark and Alfred Hill, with whom he several drinks, displaying his money. There men asked Godtrey to give them some money. which he refused todo. The colored men then persuaded Godfrey to get into their | Fag wagon, and drove him off to another low | greggery on 7th street, between S and T streets, here they got some more drinks. By this time Godfrey was pretty well intoxicated. They then drove off around by Bonndary street in 4 northeasterly direction, and when in the neigh- berhood of St. Patrick's burial ground knocked him on the head, and beating him until he was. insensible, robbed him of ten dol- lars. and left ‘him laying on the ground. Later in the evening he so far recovered as to be able to tind his way to the nearest ecary shop, where bis wounds were od he was sent home. Lieut. Noonan, on being informed of the facts, put his men on the alert for the rag | and last night Officers Sul- livan and effner arrested them and turned | them in at headquarters, whete they will | be kept unti 1 Godtrey is able to appear to testify | mst them. After their arrest they were taken to Godfrey's house, when he at once ized them as his assailants. (ne of these men, Richard Clark, has been a jnryman of late on the criminal side of the court-house. The case will probably be heard to-morrow betore | the Police Court | ae ee ai Tae Fastery MARKer. locning To | ey.—This morning the new Fastern Market, im the square north of the Wallach school build- mg. was opened for business, There was a goodly attendance of sellers and purchasers, and the opinion was expressed that the first day ‘at least was asuccess. The butchersand others having produce for eale, had generally the very best commodities on their stands, and there was some competition among them as to who would make the best display ‘here are cighty ip the market, of which about fifty have sold, and these were to-da: the west side of the mark | been were some country — In the center of the market were the utter dealers, Oyster, Fearson, and | ethers. On the sides were the butcher stalls of | Carroll, Hoover. and others, making good dis- plays. The Holy Hill Band was present tor several hours, discoursing appropriate music, and during the morning they complimented Mr. Carroll (who, it will be recotlected, took an ac- tive part in’ the Legislature in securing the passage of the bill authorizing the establish- ment of the market) with a serenade, ‘‘Not for | sJoe” being the piece performed. It fs proposed toereet a shed west of the building asa market. Rear Les.—Messrs. Latimer & Cleary. auctioneer, sold yesterday atternoo! tor CW. Thorn, trustee, the following prop- erty, situ: rtle street, between N y situated Capitol and Ist streets east: Lots 185 and 135, in Gilbert's subdivision of square 675, improved by | ° {wo-story brick residences, for $1,989 each, Mid; also, lots 199 and 191.with same improve. ments, at $1.~0 each. $3.700-all to W. Wm. F. Holtyman, trustee, in subdivision ott a in square 2H, with im provements, on Boundary street, near 1ith, northwest, to M. ©. Luttrell, for ©i,700. —_$_.———— Memrus Cottrotions.—Judge Barbour Lewis announces that since the last ackni Jedgment of collections he bas received the fi lowing contributions for the :lestitute wiiows and orpbans in Memphis: Church of the Stran- re, S1i.7% 19th street Ba: me fag eh, 4 A Broortys MIRSING Max Accowxren m.— Leopold Kent street, Brooklyn, ten days turned on last 8: F night. He say remembers being in FE. menee pes York, with over $1,000 in = » the prop- 1 of Fjeischman & © ployers, a po ad other tty. Then he lost ington, D-O-, with bis money gone. He D.C, w is money ie was obliged, he says, to pawn his wateh to Fase Cash see the child, « trou ¢ and that wonderfal Baby Ben- _EVENING STAR. |. t night aud adopted a consti- | | | protection. | Dever bas time nor -nelination to attend to it, | and regulated by . | seldom hold a meeting, and on which are gen- >| | | | towns. | of these avenues would improve a Echees from the Capital AP REXOVATION OF WASHINGTON—TRODIG- 1OvE RECULTS OF TWO YEARS’ LADOg—THB BERD AND [ Werk. vaphic.} Wasnixerox, November %—Some of the newep we been filled with censorious accounts of ihe peasratis © Washingtun city or more than one year past. “lrbese critieismmm are 0 be ascribed in part to political resentment, partly to harmless sensa- tionalism, and in much to the over-sanguine, aggresstye character of the author of the im- ‘Fovement, who is the present governor of the Vistrict. } ‘The libel suit which Governor Shepherd in- stituted against Mr. Dana is generally regarded as aserious mistake, but it may be sald that the rasbness of h a suit scarcely looks like the work of a dishonest person. The Assistant Dis- trict Attorney, Harrington, told me after the failure of the suitthat Mr. Shepherd's motive om the beginning had been to force an inves- tion, 80 as to anticipate the assembling of congress and bave the condition of the District udicially proved. WASRINGTON A® AN ANOMALY. It is certain that no municipality in our cow try is mor fortunately situa than Wash- ington, both as to self: government and federal Ite position has always been anomaly—made subject to a Congress whi uple of committees which rally some members wiso are opposed even to the continuation of the city, and want to carry the pu buildings off to the west. When the site was chosen by General Washington, | the government went into partnership with | proprietors of the lanl, and hence the | waption that the federal treasury 1s _re- ~ponsible ultimately for the debt of the D' vrict has the warrant of eighty years’ occ pation to support it. Certainly no secondary city could ever have been expected to pave and improve such avenues as these, which were laid out by the extravagant L Enfant, and ich absolutely take up fifty-four and ut. of the whole area ol Washington, whereas the streets of New York are but th e per cent. of i} those of Paris less than twenty- ersections of these @ asto furnish spa It was expected that the Union which had been honored ve the exten: very sizeab * ese igtersec- tions, and even take charge of the sidewaiks and otherwise ornament them. Hut the whole vusiness of highway improvements, drainage, sewerage, water and gas, paving, and bridging, bas gone by default from the outset. Last year Congress was stimulated by the present ener- getic city government to vote three millions and abalf tothe city inpart payment of the work done round government property, and this 1 said to bave n double the aggregate Amount which preceding Congresses hail appro- priated for seventy years. At the same time stant cities, like Cairo and Utica, were carry- ing off about $15,000,008 for post-ottices, custom houses, and marine hospitals. 1 do not propose to inake any defence of the prodigality of — shown in this cit: s june 1,1871. The work is to be defend all, upon general civic example which had marked all other American cities, and upon the | desperate urgency ot finishing up Washington | every step to consult Congress, this town would | subject of pride to the be | work to show | any public work in our period, scarcely except- | | Gov. Shep | Meis a mechanic, an orthodox Presbyterian, a ' at | | | rarily in | im 1870, he retarned to t cor; | Washi while Congress was im the humor to let it be done, for if the authorities bere had waited at have lapsed for another quarter of a century into neglect, and been an eyesore instead of a ple. en the E-vangelical Alliance assembled tn this city, a fortnigut ago, I could not help teel- ing solace and satisfaction with the rejuvenated and monumental city, which has certainly more for the outlay and the time than ing the renovation of Paris or the rebuilding ot Chicago. a ‘The character of the new government in the lustrict has been of such gthietic, indomitable vigor that it could not well avoid giving offence amd encouraging opposition; but all the pro bilities are that in the coming century Gover Shepherd will be regarded ax the greatest « t in the lristrict, and classed above z E oran, and Seaton. The sentiment of | jotism which hi be said to have create: e, has not 0} ly lirted the city out of the mud and nol)ly embellished it, but the populace to which the Impulse has n communicated has shown a homogeneity, eerfulness, and civic individuality which might have been thought to be the last point itcoukd ever reach. Nor is it true that, wita all his exeess of vitality and com werd bears the least reseblance to Boss Tweed, or Bill Maun, or Jolin Wentworth, or any of the political rufians of other cities man of bearing. diplomacy, and generosity, and his social condition: of the best we have, while his friends, ike his enemies, are resolute and steadfast. A PEW FACTS. ‘The history of the rehabilitation of Was ton is almost wholly a mertal insight of Shep- herd’s wind When the war broke out he had the sagacity and spirit to throw himself against the current of disloyal sentiment of the rich citizens, and, ax a practical plamber and build- er, he raised, with the same celerity which he still shows, many of those capacious hos| which adorned this barrack city. In 1 J was elected to the City Council, and whilst speaker there distinguished himself by an ener- getic and successfal attack upon the gas com- pany’s operatives, who were in the habit of col- onizing and carrying the elections. For uine yeare this element has been consequently elimi- hated from Washington city politics. Between 154 and Iss Shepherd took the in!- | tiative in erecting dwellings tor the accom- modation of respectable clerks, and for that large class of northern visitors’ who pass the winter in the society and mild climate of the capital. While he was building rows of brick houses the rest of the town was nant, €x- cepting the government construi Ale though a conservative man and a moderate re- publican, Sb took the position that the inhabitants of the District ought to be in ac- cord with whatever admivistraton is teimpo- possession of the city. He has thus had the support of the executive even when, as politics and undertook theskilful and delicate enterprise of dividing the 9 vote ami running out the dema- ue Bowen, who hi ruled by means of it. His next essay was to break up ihe two governments which prevailed over jon and Georgetown, and were incon- sequential, inharmonious, and impotent. ‘This was achieved by getting the attention of Con- gress through its belly, which was the only to bring it up to its duty; and the serics of ex- guisite receptions, steamboat excursions, and | dinners given that winter were as notable for | point @apy occupied, while on | PTY | tion, misconduct, or mi Bisien, whe disappeared from | tions, their liberality as for their influence upon the i. Congress made the District territory, with a delegate and a lower house to be elected by a general suffrage, and @ gover- nor, upper council, board of public works to be appointed by the President and contirmed by the Senate. Henry D. Cooke was made governor. but Shepherd was the vice president of the board and ifs executive officer from the outset. But for him the whole acheme of im- vements here would bave been an impotent failure, and the new government would have rished one year ago under the malevolence oi its enemies. These enemies have uviformiy been the old unenterprising. and pro-slavery class, who are used to living tn squalor, shaving each other's notes, and subsisting upon the annual dribble of government bounty. While these remained in the background. they put forward to make the hue and cry a few local politicians who hat been left out of consideration and consultation in the new state of affairs. [t is these active and unserupnious runners who have got a part of the press to take an adverse position to the development of the District, and last year they started a public mvestigation which cost the government eight hundred pages of printing, apd was so contemptible in its results that fire out of -eyen membersof the committee reported that, while mistakes had been made, no corrup- ement had been proved. The same is the condition of things at nt, and the ition has never been able respectable showing at the polls, and at the last election fizzled out aliogether. In fact, the only opposition of any account comes from distant points, where the reduudant health and force of the District authorities have led them into Lal beng or bet boner ry oe: nor of sufficiently respecting can ifferences of opinion. The Senate of the United States bas given amongst ite best members encouragement to these improvements, regard to party; and Sumner, Morton, Conkling, Bayard, and Stockton hb: ressed generous ie jo make Ls appropriations in behal! of the District. s0 that ‘Senate stood on this issue at the last vote 40 to 11, and the House 152 to 60. hear some sensible a apoe the whole of the late lavish 9; to its further improvement is of no interest what- | ever. Columns of ities, all anon) mons writers, Ge = ‘main ise when bo J visit Washington feat that itis \ 'y of & state of the resources and enlight- ed come table, sewer: ty, it would have soon and Congress ner = | thi oon chest and malaria here. eae pez is the trump card of the Black | the seasonso: cna at Wall's Opera to » and nothing As to the work which has been done, there 13 more comical than his burlesques of the Im- | no controverting its extent and com- rial Japs, and of the Peace Jubilee and no city in America besides has as been seen here for a time. Theln- | ubjected to the same Png Gang oot | dians last night lau; y at his fac nd tation. The report of | making and neck ing, and greatly en- | the engineer, Adolf Cluss, has jast ' joyed the antics of ¥ Americaas *Dragoa- , sented in manuscri and I have had the first | pn.” Those who fail Hernandez cpportunlt to 1 it for the benett of your it bears done November 1, 1375. WHAT HAS LEBEN DONE. son,” will miss a great treat. } zuere eeee been a 155 miles eee curb- ALL taking feature of the | stone sid 208 mites of brick, Hag. aud concrete “Wie Pawn," now being performed at the | sitewalks, 10 eet ty" ‘Taere have been ‘Fhsster Comigue, aiid. attracts oxen ew i. | iatarbe, 53 miles of cobble’ Bhabeleasr soa er the perform- are introduced, and ances tive. ‘this week arevery evbble, jcadam road, 10 miles of Belgian and granite i Dock pavements, which will last for fitty years, and the almost incredible extent of 54 mites of | wood par: me all 32 feet in width. grand total of these gure: is 208 miles of new sidewalk, 119 miles of im- while previously there was not one foot road ontside the settled city. i This amount of work is equal to the building of any of the great trunk ratiroads of the Coun- try; and, when we come to consider the grading whieh has accompanied it, it may be said that no steam highway in the United States has had more impedimenta. In two and five months the enormous amount of 3,340,000 eabic is of earth and rock have been removed, some of which was hunled more than one mile. Inthe begipning the Board of ie Works undertook to respect the interests of individ- | uals, but soon found that the establishment of | permanent grades could not be done in that way, and hence a good many oe are wasp- ih because the city was not made to correspond to their private economies; but it ig noticeal)le that the property-hoiders have voluntariiy de manded, wherever a street hax been left out of the general plan, that the board return aud in- clude it im the general beneticence. ‘The impression bas been geught to be con- veyed by some opponents of these improve- ments that they have been done pell-mell and without system or forethought; but the investi- ation of ist 2 snows that the paving materials, les, &c.. were fully examined by a convention | ot the authorities of four cities—Mr. Mullett | Tepresentin in the District have been chemically treated to | the following extent:—Burnettized wood, 450,000 yards; ironized, 52,000 yards; Seeleyized, 1 di with the Robbins pr mss makes the following 8 report, to strengthen his opposition to macadamized streets, which he thiuke too dusty and too beavs tor the ¢ beneath. He says:—Imperial Hauss bugged the world fer a short space ef tim believing in macadam for city uses, oue and a feurth millions of yatds of t ment in the streets of the city of Paris. ruse bas, however, long been explod ve the stone blocks (the mat sand rey i supplant them rmiless m: proved roadway, and 39 miles of rara! bighway, good singular remark m. I may add the opinion of Governor Shepherd, that $250,000 a year will keep all the pavements in this city im repair. Mestof the concrete pavements in Washington are of four patents—the Evans, the Scharff, the \ alcanite, and the Nenfebatel rock. ‘The system ot parking the broad avenues of Washington was a stroke of genius; by making the sidewalks project, the area of roadway to be paved was reducell ‘by two-thirds, while the vista was not diminished, and the space bebind the sidewalks was sodded green and enclosed with chain and panel railings, which gave every fami front yard, and turned the whole city into a green garden. There have been 550,000 yards of parking done, with eight inches of rich soil under the sod. Eleven large Squares in different parts of the city have been redeemed from vagrant cows and goats, and ornamented with fountains or statuary, so that the pedestrian constautly encounters some ex- quisite prospect. | ‘To raixe and underpin houses affected by the new grades, and refit them with steps and railings, have cost about £290,000, aud wherever the grades left the residences’ sus- pended in the air, terraces were provided. Washington bad wo system of sewerage wor- thy ot the name until the Board ot Public Works took the matter in hand, and by three great sewers drained the table ground in the rear of the city, wiich had ofter subjected it to such inundations as make consternation in Bal- timore. At the same time healthy canal which the town, parallel wid 8, of which a large portion is intercepting sewerage, half a mile; secondary brick sewerage, miles; pipe sewerage, (0 miles, chiefly of glazed earthen- ware. The growth of private buildings in Washing- ton has fully kept pace with the public work. Last season 1,0)2 new houses went up, the ma- Jority built of brick or stone, and a large pro- portion rooted in the Mansard style. § While the Board of Public Works has thus been engaged in comprehensive, permanent constructions, the county authorities have built about a doven new bridges, of which four thrown across Kock Creck at the street grales, and thus makes Georgetown an integral part of Washington. The Commissioner of Public | Grounds has simultaneously pusied the work of beautitying the great reservations which per- meate the town plot. ‘There are now torty-two miles of street railway in the city, and more than forty miles of steam highway in the Dis- trict. Tie park around the Sokiiers’ Home has been extended by a costly addition, the gitt of the common soldiers of the regular army, and is now about five hundred acres in exten! ad represents above two millions of dollars. The Washington aqueduct, which is sixteen miles long, supplies thirty-six millions of gallons per diem, and includes eleven tunnels aud six bridges, one of which has the largestapan in the world. The new markets of Washington are not excelled in the world, and have bout one million dollars. The two new depots will cost halt a million. The population of the city is about 155,000, and the taxable real estate about $17 000,000, exclusive of personal and govern- ment property which amounts to nearly one hundred million more. The bonded debt of the District 18 a tritie under $10,000,000, of which nearly one-half was left over from the extinct corporations ot Washington and Georgetown. The total cost of all the work achieved here in the past two years and a half is probably about thirteen millions. The Board of Public Works occupies an intermp diate position between Con- ess and the District, and disburses mo: for th. The public schools of the District ‘have cost within ten years, for new buildings, about $1,060,000. The following are the debts of some of the leading cities of the country: New York, $156,000,000; Philadelphia, 56,000,000; Chicago, $21 ;, Boston, $29,000,000; Breoklyn, 000,600; Jersey City, $13,600,000; St. Louis, $4 000,000; Elizabeth, N. .j., €4,000,000; Washing- | ton, bonded and floating, $14,000,000. ‘The ful- lowing is the property valuation of the samme cities” New York, $1,12,000.000; Philadelphia, ———-; Chicago, $254,000,000, Boston, $694,000 000, Brooklyn, $298,000,60 000,000; St. Louis, $150,000,008; EXizal $15,500,600, Washington, 97,000,000; 100,000,000, government and personal. following is the rate of taxation: Chicago, ‘on, $1.28; B $3.59; Jersey City, St. Louis, $2. beth, $2.58; Washington cit iy, $2. In conclusion, the attempts male to drive this | city back to its rovitclalism and unpopularity, will not redound to the credit of the persons who have taken the contract. A patriotic generation will not be satisfied with an unwholegome, un- befriended, efete own, {ufecting the whole per- sonnel ot the government with its morai and social atmosphere, and retecting discredit upon - pasiona! Py ae. K inded posterity call to ac it the niggardiy spirit of prejudice whi rquartee ora century did little but hack at this city, until the crisis of the war set people meving, and they heaped forts round about it and awakened « civic spirit and raised up friends for it without. In another quarter ot a century it will possess the art and literary treasures, the streets, sur- round: , climate, abundance, population, and popularity ot Florence. LARRTES (George 4 ether will a high ed Turnsend.) i Boanp or Heatta—/ ing Lact Night-—At the regular meeting of the Board of Health tast night the report of the health officer was submitted, showing :—Nam- ber of nuisances since last report, 372, of which 244 were abated and 70 referred; dead animals removed, $1; animals impounded, 45; redeemed, died and killed, 27; umber ot boxes cleaned by the Odor- less Excavating company, 900, seven pamps having been employed. Marine products in- of dish and 18.550 bushels spected, 6,225 bunc' of oysters; condemnations, 175 bushels of oys- bunches of tish. A quantity of an- eedings at the Moet= ters ‘and 16 wholesome tood was condemned A communication was received fromthe health officer requesting that the channel around the dumping whart at the foot of 17th street be Gredged im order to admit of scows reaching the whart to receive their cargoes, which was re- ferred to @ committee consisting of Messrs. Langston and Verdi. Also, recommentting that the wharf be transferred to the custody of tue Odoriess Excavating company, which was re- ferred to the committee on ordinances, ‘The health officer also recommended that steps be taken to prevent the accumulation of ashes on private property tm alleys, which becomes the nucleus of «ris, and which might become poised to health. He stated tuat the Board ot Public Works formerly removed these ashes, but that now as that duty devolved upon ind:- viduals there Lary oye of neglecting its removal, which fact had prompted reqaest for action; referred to committee on ordinances. io — a 7 eager me < = cits cer lookin, ¢ strengthen! t- soil dumping wharves, the board sdjourneds —— Masonro ELECTION AND PRESENTATION.— At the annual convocation of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the District of Columbia, last night, officers were elected for the ensuing year 8s lollow: D. Larner, Grand L. Johnson, Deputy G. H. P.; ‘Wail, Grand King; G B. Clark, Grand Scribe: Season mith, Grand Treasurer; L. G. Bte- hens. Grand Secretary; George A. Abbott. Motmead rans Cunpatne kt tata ao 0) » Gr . N. D. Larner. esq., on behalf of the sal pate Chapters, costl ly jewels for Gravd Chapter, the cost contribution. On each is an em! | ted hi | sures which were adopted and rigtlly enforced. Washington. The woods laid down | THE WASHINGTON JAIL. sacar Te oe Gen. Crocker, warden of the jail, bas submit- ynnual report to the Attorney General. He say«:—' My experience in managing this prison has convinced my judgment that the | officers of such am institation sheuld possess a through knowledge of human acter, = Ngence, firmnere and © ne and conciliatory spirit; that shoald know men, and e=- pecially criminals, in order to enable them to | overcome the obstacles they will be sure to en- counter, and maintain such discipline as is necessary to answer the ends of justice and pro- mote the moral g-owth and physical condition | of prisoners, * * * Therefore I regard fre- quent changes among the body of the officers of & prison as extremely injadicious. TES BRALTH OF PRISONERS. A very satisfactory Condition of health hac prevailed amongst the inmates during the en- tire year. Notwithstanding the small pox ex'st- ed a8 an cpidemic thronghoul the city, it Quiy encroached upon the inmates of the j°4i 60 two ons, and then only to bé@ qulaxly banished | without having made any havoc or Caused se- | rious apprebension among Our numbers. I be- | lieve that the rate of health among the prison- has been greater than vmong the people at ge. This 1 attribute to strict sanitary mea- The jail has been visited daily as @ rule and of- } tener, by Dr. Noble Young, its physician, who has carefully and faithfuily attended the'sick, | and no death has occurred from nataral causes during the year. Itis a nofabie fact that a large proportion of | our prisoners of both sexes are persons under | twen | the aze of twenty one ba: a 15; Second, 1 | pupils suspended in first | prices charged were more than to the ofice tor witch itis imeonde they make altogether a conspicuous addition to the or disp) paraphernalia of this Dranch of the myatio ovder™ —_o———— Tae Witt or Mrs. Hewaterra Onitce.— In the Probate Court yesterday the last will Henrietta Oliteh was filed tor testator bequeaths ber estate to Sohwarz- ponte! forfolk, ane wen : yo ny x death to her children, Noble for life. Charles Schwar re Fe yc-five years of age; most of them entered pon & course of crime before they were sixtesn years of age. The cases are very tare, indeod where adults who have yged hone ti commen oterime. They usually comme dy petty offenses, and progress by degrees etimes <0 grave as to stock the sensibilities the community. So many children and y in our midsts, fer the want of proper calt 1 wholesome restrainst, pass by degrees from a condition of timid innocence through the va- rious grades of crime to extreme licentiousness, ‘THE JAIL BUILDING now in use has been faith: scribed in my former annual reports, and its defects and gen- eral upfitness for the purposes required of it distinctly specified. It bas been condemned repeatedly by grand juries of this District. The grand jury recently in session visited the jail, made # thorough examination of the same, and conderaned the building in unmeasured terms | as whol.y unfit for use, by reason of its fanity construction, Insufficient accommodations, anid decaying condition, Not a prisoner has escaped | during the year. THE NEW JAIL. But in this connection it is gratifying to be able to state that a new jail structure of ade- uate dimensions, and designed with care and skill is now being erected within the city limits by antbority of an act of Con, for such pur- pose, and it is hoped it will be completed and ready for use at an early da: RELIGIOUS SERVICES. The Young Men's Christian Association and reverend Fathers of the Catholic faith have given their attentionto the spiritual condition ofthe inmates. Religious services have been held every Sunday at the jail, and religions sentimates inculeated and Christian devotion enconraged. EXPENSES OF THE JAIL. | Annual salaries of the gnards. physician, and s) 73, Expense of transporting ers to Albany penitentiary and to the re- School, $1,099.20. The remaining expendi. tures on account of food, fuel, light, buil clothing, &c., amounted to = PRISONERS CONFINED. The daily average number of prisonors con- fined was 130. The total number in jail during the year was 1 of which 1,407 were mates and 179 females; 1,505 males and 156 females were received as prisoners daring the year. The report closes with a classitication of the grades of crime for which the inmates were sont to jail, and appended isthe report of Dic. N Young, the surgeo ° Our Pubite Scheols, tion of Corporal Punishmen ‘The Board ot Trastees ot Public Schools held their regular mouthly meeting at the Franklin school building last evening, Mr. Woodward in the chair. Applications for teacherships were received from Misses Mary D. Blalone and Mary W. Boggs. Applications tor the position of German teacher were received from Miss Annie K. Humphrey and H. Perabean. Mr. Hart nominated trom the tirst district, Catharine F. Maxwell as teacher of Primary School No. 6, of the fourth district, which nomi- | nation was contirmed. Mr. Hart nominated from the first district, Muss Maine, as teacher of Secondar school). Considerable ditcussi eral of the trustees contending that they ought to give all positions to graduates of the public schools of Washington. The nomination was confirmed. Mr. Kichards, from the committee on rules, reported back the rules to govern the Normal schools, heretofore reported in Pax Srar,which were adopted. Mr. Champlin, from the committee on text books, reported a series of text books to be used in the Normal schools. The report was agceed to. Superintendent Wilson submitted his report for October, which shows the number of pu; on the roll on the last day of the month, 7 whole number enrolled during the month, average number in daily atteadance during the month, 7,5%2; total number of applicants wait- ing admission to the schoole, 6%; percentage of attendance, 9; cases of corporal punishment in | the first district, 4; second, 1; third, 2; fourth, 19; total, 17; number of pupils dismissed in first dis- t, third, 6; fourth, 6; total, 41; district, second, 15; third, S; fourth, 25; total, 70. Mr. Hart, for the treasurer, submitted the annual report of that officer, which shows the amount disbursed from July 1 to September 30, isis), to be $19,764.45, and balance to the debt of the treasurer, $1,550.43; making a total of S21 SH4.88, The report was approved. He also presented several bills from Mr. Ger- mond Crandall, stating that in many cases the board had been charged with articles which they had never received, and that in othere the the contract prices. It was ordered that the bills be moditied and paid. The committee in this connectisn recommended that the board allow no more for goods furnished by Mr. Crandall than contract prices and the current market prices for goods a Sr ata for. The recommendation was pted. Mr. Harris offered a resolution, which was rejected, that the committee on German be authorized to employ two teachers of German, tasalary of not mére than $60) a year each, and that said committee ba authorized and di- rected to give said teachers the necessary in- structions as to their duties for the time béing; to prepare rules for the egy of said teachers in the conduct of the duties assigned them, and to submit a report at the next meet- ing of the board. Mr. Trustee Wilson offered the following amendment to the rules for the government of the schools, which was referred to the com- ly at GEORGETOWN, Tee Laviegs of the Union Benevolent society of Georgetown will give a the Home for Aged near Gay, Thurslay and Friday ovenings, ¢ Bh a Hu o'clock also each day tertainment are to defray the expenses new addition recently b S1srag ALEXANDRIA. ushels wheat by t nd 5.300 Dnvhels » Hartley, both consi gue: Bro., and 1,60 Dashel wheat by at Trundle for H. M. Talbott, and 2.300 Bash wheat for F. O. Seiimat, and },0 bushels do. and 100 bushels corn for HM. boat Monocacy. y bushels red wheat good to strictly B instants Launch pe —The The sale* {3. entertainment at The proceed« ot t High street, from 12 to Kitty canal bow ul ‘aibott by the | were 4,00) ALEXANDRIA ABD FPrepenicksmtne Ratr- | ROAD COMPANY.—The annual meeting of this company was held im this city to-day, F. L. | mith presidin, x | e | the ensuing year: G. B. Roberts, president; Al- bert Hewson, secretary and treasurer » John P. ¢ bert Hewson, N. G. Ordway, W. T. Wal S. Ferguson FE Prorracten Scott, W week a serie: held at the Col nat exer! mupity. Lapor Starke. on the Ale struck yesterda of their wage: Their places were immed - QITY ITEMS. Fens! Frrs!!—Ladies will find it to their at- vantage to examine the large and elegant assort ment of Furs at Stinemetz’s, avenue. nitied their intention ir ways and be goo Christians hereafter. The meetings were all wetl attended and ap- | peared to have J. How, «directors, protracted meet umbia Mr. A. isos, and good indinence xa in conse from $1 reduced rates — Gaze: Megtixe.—During the angs hool building, Artin ton, under the anspices of the Young Men's | Christian Assoc ington, being the principai leader in the devo: H a nomber of persons hay te forsake th: The track hands employed | ia and Washington ratiroad ence of a redaction to $1 Thomas een, Al- ters, amd | past | have been | Hall, of Wash | sof | 2 er over the com- er op, a0 Bho b up; awis very cha, yy ala Bata “| TRUSTEES. SALE OF |e te sale, at Publi on THURSDAY, th ig and A. Hewson secretary. A | is’s majority of the stock being represented b: Proxy, after the transaction of some routini Dusiness of no public interest. the following of- ficers of the company were elected to serve for | Title reserved until | Pennsyivan Rev. Ww. H. Ow arsan, pastor of the M. F. Church, Georgetown, D. 6., writes: had an opportanity ties of Dr. Bull’s to test the excellent «a Cough Syrup. I hesitate not to “Having Say, itis the best remedy I have ever used in my family.” New Goops at PORULAR Prices, Business Suits for $12, 10) pairs Cassimore Pants for $4 per pair; Knit Jackets trom $2 to Overcoate daily coming in. Woolen Under- Half-hose, Yarn and Skin Gloves, assortment. a clothing &c., in ful received at Prigg’s Dollar Jewelry 457 Pennsy! On and Wer nvy ork ALE of Wilson, Why? canse he suits the taste, pleases the eye, heips headache, stream of human happiness bubbles uncea. h and K streets north indigestion 410 7th street WELRY Fine Etruscan Jewelry, Fine Oxidyzed Jewelry. Fine Gilt Frames, lvania ave Reprerion iN Pre after Monday, th. the price o near 44 street. 2 Lut No. re. x instant, if HAVENNER’s Bukap 1 will be » Loo Cre and leaves no * hesitates Cavrion to purchasers of the Pernvian Syrap (a protected solution of the protoxide of iron.) genuine has Peravian Syrup ark) blown in the glass. Exami before purchasing. | Beware of being deceived by any of the prepa- | rations of Peruvian Bark, or Bark and Iron, - | which may be offered to you. Every bottle of ot Peruvian ne the bottle i THE SINGER SeWIXG MacHinE ealoe of 1872 ‘were $219,660. To rrev per bottle, ENT Fever 4,12-4,wur mi Acue there is no Sa like Dooley’s Calisaya Tonic. $1 eo Corme, Ero. se for healthon daily walks depen and sufferers from corns, bunions, club, or ingrowing nails, vascular ex- cascences, chilblains, or other feet find quick relief at Dr. White's establic' tments of th — No. 585 15th street, opposite the U. 8. ‘reasury. eee ee Powp’s Extract is for rale at wholesale by | Co., 480 Pennsyl: &nd by druggists everywhere. Chas. Stott ania avenue tw, tte ‘THERMOMETERS and Barometers are repaired And made to order by Hempler near 4 street se legac Tunco-Rvsstan Barus; iso, M: & Batha, for disease, E atreet. ‘THE COMMUNITY at lar; fulness of 8: all skin Sewing M inger’ ledicated Va. at Dr. Shea's, 20,6: appreciate the use- lachine. 15 CLOTHING AT PANIC PRICES. CLOTHING AT PANIC PRICES, UNPARA UNPARALLELED LLELED INDUCEMENTS. INDUC OVERCOATS. OVERCOATS, $5 OVERCOA’ gu OVERCOATS, 36 OVEBOO: » $15 OVEROOATS, $5 OVEROOATS, $16 OVERCOATS, $10 OVEROOATS, $11 OVEROOATS, $12 WINTER SUITS, WINTER SUITS, $10 | WINTER SUITS, €13 WINTER SUITS, 814 WINTER SUITS, $19 YOUTHS’ SUITS, YOUTHS’ SvUiTs, YOUTHS’ Suits, BOYS’ SUIT! BOYS’ SLITS, $9 mittee on rules:—Rule 28. Mild, conciliatary and firm discipline is enjoined on all teachers, witha due ey re to the necessity of obedience on the partof the pupil, but in no case shall corporal punishment be inflicted. arn THE COURTS. ORIMINAL COURT. Judge Cartier.—Yestarday, Randall Henson, convicted of assanit on Josopa Smith, wassentenced to 30 days in jail, ‘This morning Carolice West, con icted a few days since of grand larceny of jewelry anda bond from Mrs. Munroe, was sentenced to one year in the Albany peitentiary. ae E. Adams, c , charged with the forgery ef the nane of Perry J Brown to @receipt for back pay asa sollicr, was fonud guilty. ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL. Jeaso Burcher alias Batchor, indicted for an savit and battery with invent to kill “ Doct Alexander on the 6th of Augnat was tried. Tino evidence was that Alexander was lying on a cart shaft and Butcher threatened to vd ‘im with @ w 6 razor ard he ran off, but wasetruck wih aston: over the left ore by Batcher. fracturing the skrll. and after bis arrest ho «aid to the oficer that ho intended $9 kill him, ‘The sary feud e verdict of itty Jones, colored, charzed with the pocketbook containing over $5) from found guilty and sentenced to th- any pevitentiary for two years, jesse Butcher, ocnvictcd of assault ter: with intent to RiN* Doctor’ a aera tenced tothe Al Doctor” ficxenter. wae sen- iten* for ears, et if at Fours of scoundrel there was a fair Would have his peck stretched ears Sf age, aud in ender tijumaway {ore fow years: and thorctore, mn or afew years, jim passe nw eight years. rere POL: + Judse Sell —Te-day, Lowis wi ous cbaresd with protaaitye saaod. ga §° Mclitire, colored, turowing ‘on ths 5 testimony showed that this man was % of the te may ks ‘tare, whoa he stones aud. brick- iDg ® rar h ¢-mumeni bate: nev OME Geox, Ackers, ored, \arceny of several articies Serie ih how. ‘ai hareds a cooetients am organieed Oh of thieves, ties going into ‘Sows aod purtoinieg Prema makin 1 be or Pg aera nn Behvol sient Beiy.a he eLence;™ Naveral forte Meese 54 Daciery Om Lilito Mas O7-A 16-year-old i - invade renee boy in Lee county, Va., BOYS’ SUIT: BOX COATS. BOX COATS. u OVEROOATS, g1> OVERCOATS, $20 OVEBOOATS, $26 WINTER SUITS. ss WINTER SUITS, $16 | HOUSEKEEPERS, Rear in mind we ba WINTER SUITS, §15 WINTER SUITS, WINTER SUITS, WINTER SUITS, §25 0 2 YOUTHS SUITS. FOUTS’ SUITS, g12 YOUTHS’ SUITS, $15 YOUTAS’ SUITS, $15 BOYS’ SUITS. 8, $4 S87 BOX $5 s COATS. BOYS’ SULTS, $8 BOYS’ SUITS, 810 BOYS’ SUITS, gi2 BOX COATS, $10 BOX COATS, giz A. STRAUS, The Popular Clothier, 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Between J0th and lth streets, “onif-agia Open unti! 9 p. m., and on Satarday nati! p.m. novi-tr QPENI N. B.—These cash, and will NG $40 000 Werth of NEW AND FASHIONABLE READY-MADE CLOTASING AT PANIC PRICES. L. BOSENSERG's, 413 7th Street, between D and E. goods have lately be sold very low. been bought f. ‘sovelae T= ge oR ALL WHO HAVE TRIED KELLOGG’S ENGINE AND SPINDLE OILS bm Be ee Ly coer memagamaen tallow oils, | from gum handsome mn hills costing oo ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT. ‘tfenatre odor, Pies aor gets epTess reoch Be; ¢ Gabe he amd Cassimeres cheaper thas befor Flanvels, white and colored, rom 2c op javkets: cond yard wid Bleached Svirtine, Shectings; Androso Fa ant wide, 15 ; Oauton Flanu GRY THOMAS DOWLING, Anct’s Georgetown BRIDGE STRBET. G irtue of @ decree ofc y v the a86 District ~ erstened, as, Trast ‘Action, ta from Och day of Now oO o'clock p.m, a part of Lot N Holine ad's addition to Georget D.O., be ¢ ning for the same at the end of the feet of ground on the north side of B Ww leased by John Bolmesd to Robert But ber tb. iss, and running by @ud with of Bridge street east: : betongin berpy De Mt Mtgor= Bridge <reet 28 feet second Biter er nin Terme of ga third b nod twelve m with liberty t ge of the bet thence southerly para pet 96 fect to Bridge o Mon rile: and the the prreh: and WM DP CAssIN te THOS. DOWLING LAND WINTER 6000s. JOHN H. BMOOT & SON, No. 119 Beiooe S¥axer, Grore ow received from New York, “bought at the recent decline in prices, Sma offer to purchm. ‘ SS DISCOUNT FOR CASH, DISCOUN FOR CASH, } | DISCOUNT FOR Cuisit 9 PER CEN DI-torw @ PER CENT. DISCOUN 0 TER CENT DISCoU i | PROM | MONDAY, NOV. bork, THEOL OFC. Lee 4 | MONDAY. NOV. tor, TILE BE ter MONDAY, Nov. ioe, TILL DEC. Isr LOCKWOOD, HUFTY & TAYLOR, fers at the lowest posible oath prices 4 a ete aesertment of all the new m at reece oC gORe Stk Srades MO GG * ~ , SILKS; GENTLEMEN'S and EAR, La- G23 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TKS. GENTS BHILDREN DERWEAR LUV RY of every variety: SHAWLS and ATERIAL. TABLE LINEN and HOCSE-FURNISHING GOODS generally, CAR RUGS and BuANK with a’ full stock of NNBLS and 0: Will offer thelr entire stock of OODS. We are tn daily receipt of waditi G stock. a# the season advances, from th — houses, A call and examination « ¥ octa3-Im JOHN BH. SMOOT © SON. LADIES’ AND « ENTLEMEN’S EST as ica ® rush of Ladies and Gent's Apparel to be CLEANED aud D m for some time. With every bas not see! facility and « full corps of skilled workmen, we ar at it with a determination to do it good and fo clean Hired of livia, Sut beens by feel pect of living, bu! anse by dve we ox t live, while we know not how £0 live except weaye. W. H. WHEATLEY'S PREMIUM STEAM DYBING AND SCOUK ING ESTABLISHMENT, 49 Jefferson street, Georgetown, D. 0. Po ad open from7@.m. until susset, # — Sept-ly N'SHOns ELEGANT ICE CREAM AND OYSTER 89 High atrect, Qeorectown, DO rot that we ar DOLLAR! Tam enabled at present r UNPARALLELED PAR GAINS remarkably cl price Geut's Merino Shirts, Gent's Merino FINE FURNISHING GOODS AT DISCOUNT OF \¢ PEK CENT. FOR ay CASH FRO Monday, Ver. 10, 11! Monday, Bec. 1, MEET Ti OFFER OUR ENT. OF ELEGANT Children's hand-kuit L: < Ladies Back Gaunti: IMMENSE STOCK OF OUR ¢ Undies SEAMLESS KID GLOVES, at THE VER LIBERAL DISCOUNT OF ¥@ PER CEN Mews extro lune Chath or TO ALL CASH PURCHASERS. fens Lived Dorsain For-tp en's Caster, Buck atl Dri , ree ke shtuldren' St7iped Brown € Same WIS THE TIME TO MIKE Yorn or $1. iMéren's extra heavy spon fratie How, three | WARDROBES REPLETR wniee ov sir for 81 PLtiee Bleached Hose, 8 STOCK I$ IN ELEGANT CONDITION Ladies Bleached Hose, 3: conte a pai Ladies Bleached Mie, thses pair for 81 Ladies $0 and 4 B Iron frame Hoes, 0 -onts, OUR GOODS ARE ALL MARKED IX PLAIN Biyeand Men's Wool Seach 352 Beaty Senin es FIGURES, AND THE DISCOUNT Witt eave itis! el ’ CAS 4 heavy British Bike. ¢ MADE IN ALL CASES POR CaSit also ust opened the LATEST NOVELTIES IN JEWELRY, BANDEAUX, tv., and such a variety of other articles that it i+ futil to attempt enumerating them. Come and see for yourself, B. SILVERBERG, METROPOLITAN DOLLAR STORE, 312 SEVENTN STREET. nov7-tr Nean Pexvstvayrs Avey GREAT SALE CARPETS! CARPETS!!! CARPETS FOR THIS WINTER'S SEASON, AT GLEATLY REDUCED PRICES, Will commence at cur House, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1873 inthe city. HOUSEKEEPERS, Pear §; cheape: city. HOUSEKEEPERS, Bear Rivet er in Carpets, OUR DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT, on first floor. is stocked witha very lave and elegaut assortment of Goods in all the varied classes, INSPECT OUB_ PRICES BEFORE RC) - ING ELSEWHERE. Poon B7 REMEMBER THE ARCAUE WS WOLFORD &#& SHILBERG, 427 SEVENTH STREET, Between D and B, enurbweet. REMOVAL. povi-tr REMOVAL. DEVLIN&CoO., HAVE REMOVED TO THE SALOON PARLOR, the most Aitractive and choice Carpets ia mind we sell Carpets than avy hous inthe in mind we can sait the economical and fastidions Extraordinary Inducement« ie Te Gentlemen OFFERED EY LOCKWOOD, HUFTY & AYLOR, 6423 PENNSYLVABIA AVENUE We have determined that ovr Shirt be bept ronuing im fall force thie «inser, apd employed, ard have (uerefore conc! as an ludtcemens TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS WHO wiuL fa-* VOR US WITH THalk ORDERS xow! ON ALL SPECIAL ORDERS FOR SHIRTS WE WILL MAKE FOUR ALITIES OUR PRICES FOR IX SHIRTS ane $15.00, 815.00, $21.00, *24.00, ot odieneust of 10 per cent. will make six cost $13.50, $1620, g15 49, $21 60. This discount {* an iudscemect any manufacture op epecial orders. ever offered by opsider thy saving of $1.00, Sis, 8.10, suse On every one-half doren shirts, which ix sufficlen to purchase many other necessary articles. We make the celebrated PALMER’S PATENT DOUBLE-YOKE SACQUE SHIRTS,