The daily republic., 1853-08-24
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LOCAL MATTERS.

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on the 18th of September, 1898. The order Of
architecture is Corinthian. Original design by
DIR. William Thornton, modified by B. H. La
trobe, architect, finished by C. Bulfnch, architect
in 1880. Length of building 352 feet, breadth in
centre 22l feet, at wings l2l feet. Height to top
of balustrade seventy feet; grounds enclosed and
improved, thirty acres. Total cost Of the build
ing and grounds, $3.50, ,459 81. Rotundo 96
feet diameter, Sc feet high. Total height to the
top of the great dome 140 feet. House Of Repre-
sentatives 80 feet long, 81 feet wide, and 60
feet high. Senate chamber IS feet long. As feet
wide, and As feet high. Congressional Library
room 80 feet long, "a feet wide, and 36 feet high.
Supreme Court room As feet diameter, and twenty
feet high.
1t is well known that two wings to the Capitol
leach 238 by l40 feet) in process Of erec-
tion but these are not included in the dimensions
above given. dN igi
Presidents Ho,sse.-Roman Ionic; cornerstone
laid September Is, 1893. James Hoban, archi-
tect Total cost of building and grounds $780,
600. Length $50 feet, breadth in centre 100 feet,
at ends 80 feet, height to top Of balustrade so
feet East or grand reception room 79.by 46 feet,
and % feet high. Hall Of entrance A by 80 feet
Treasury Building. .-Grecian Ionic; corner
stone laid September 7, 1885, Designed and
erected by Robert Mills, architect. Length Of
present building 336 feet, (when completed to be
5OO,) breadth at centre 100 feet, IS feet high,
lonnade 1876 feet long, Is feet wide, and 65 feet
high to top of balustrade. Cost $640,0O0.
Patent O6sce.-Grecan Doric; cornerstone laid
September 7, 1886; original design by Town and
Elliot, modified and erected by Robert Mills, ar
chitect Length of centre building 270 feet,
breadth in centre 1877 feet, at ends 10 feet, height
65 feet, grand portico IS feet front. Cost $417,-
600. Total dimensions of original plan 430 feet
by 300. Court in centre. Grand exhibition room
265 feet long, SO feet wide, and 80 feet high. Mo-
del room 70 by 63 feet, and 16 feet high.
In addition to the above is the east wing; length
275 feet, height 60 feet; model or grand exhibi-
ton room 270 by IS feet. The west wing, which
is now in process of erection, to be of the same
| dimensions.
| General Post O6ice.--Grecian Qtalian;) corner
stone laid May IS, 1889; designed and executed
| by Robert Mills, architect. Length of building
204 feet, breadth at wings 102 feet, at centre 60
feet, height 63 feet. Total cost $450,000. 1a.a
| RIDE IN AN OMNIBUS, though sometimes neccs-
sary is not to all persons particularly desirable,
especially when two loads Of passengersare crowd
ed into vehicle, to say nothing about the brace
Of over-worked horses staggering beneath the
weight imposed upon them. There is one comfort,
however, in such state of affairs-a 'real bless
ing to mothers," fathers, and all who patronize
smnibuses, namely: the horses cannot run away,
and cut capers like the animals attached to buggies
smashing the wagons" and endangering the lives
| of the occupants.
Whon fhar tnr r.a,,1oo f,o Nr;
vers of the one would occasionally get into diff
culties with those of the other, and we recollect
very we'll several collisions of both drivers and
| omnibuses; but there has been reform in this re-
spect, the business now being monopoly in the
hands of single firm.
| The omnibus line is, on an average, a safe one.
This has proved to be so, with few exceptions
the result Of over-crowding. Within the last two
years, a band Of musicians hired one of these ve-
hices for the purpose of driving round the city
serenading party, but, while in the full glory of
blast of brass instruments, there was break
down, and musicians and blowing apparatus were
promiscuously thrown into the street, to the injury
of the one and the destruction of the other.
We should not be surprised if, one of these days,
some policeman shall awake to a sense of duty,
and, seeing twenty passengers squeezed inside and
six or eight clinging to the top of omnibus,
rest the driver under the law prohibiting "cruelty
to animals, - and make him or his employer smart
for requiring two poor horses to draw SO large
load Of human freight.
The SUIT FOR MAINTENANCE, before Justice
Morsell, which was commenced on Monday, was
brought to conclusion yesterday Afternoon, SO far
as the magistrates court is concerned. AS we
have heretofore stated, Mrs. Maryman left her
husband account of ill-treatment, and her
father, Mr. Philip Arth, brought suit against H.
R. Maryman to recover the sum of forty five dol
lars being the amount due for her board during
three months maintenance by him. Some of the
evidence was extremely disgusting in its details.
Mr.. Radcliffe having addressed the jury for the
complainant, occupying two hours and half, he
was followed by Mr.. r. J. Brent for the defend
ant, and this gentleman spoke for nearly three
hours. Before the argument was quite finished,
Maryman 8 counsel procured writ of ceriorari,
thus removing the from the jury to the circuit
court, in which Maryman has fled bill in chan
Gerry, asking that his marriage be declared null
and void, on the ground of deception and fraud
by his wife and her relatives.
We learn that the jury had made up their
minds to render a verdict for the complainant, but
the certiora,i precluded them from SO doing.
The jurors, for their two days attendance, each
received the sum of twelve and half cents! that
being the legal amount for jurors attendance.
Music AT FuNERALs.-The Baltimore Patriot,
in an article on the "Public Taste, says:
''There is class who occasionally violate some
rule of decorum not to crafty any wful or ma
licious prompting, but entirely from inconsidera-
tiOn. To this class. we think belong some of the
military bands of our city, who, when there is
occasion for their services the Sabbath--either
to assist in dedicating church or bury the dead
profane that sacred day, and offend the taste of