The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-03-28
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

IHPRoyRMRNrs-Gen Peter L. Bacon In hay
Ing Si sss snd tss
Z streets. u fronts % feet on street, by 70
There IL q fne parlor, dining and bath rooms on
the Arst floor In the second story there Is four
ans rooms. and three In the third. The. base
and 4 nns kitchen. There is front aud rear
stairs running from the hall on not floor to the
third story; There will bssas and water through.
Messrs. Entwislc Il Barron have the contract
for the building and are doing the carpenter
John KiisTi painter, N. I. Parker.
Fourth street, between Il and F. This is a very
Ing. with very heavy brown-stone trimmings and
French roof. II fronts a feet by 90 deep. There
q q hne laundry and cellar in the basement. On
north side, and library kitchen, sc, on the south
seven sS rooms each. There are continuing stairs
leading from the main hall to the attic. Mr.
Sss 20 psn x
alarge furnace In the cellar which heats the en-
tire front building, and a hne range IN the
water and gas in the various rooms, In many
Of the rooms there are beautiful marble mantles
shs saa W. s% NOTHING WANT
ing about the house for convenience.
Ths df sss "GEs
:: 'snS:; Sssts;s MS
;nsis,s WORK. p" NE: Mskinnsy, Of PhiiadO!
,daiphia; furnace litter, Mr., Charles Ball; brown
ston: work Mr. Nicholas Aker. This Job speaks
saa Rsas .sSs aPs
Tsifteenth and Thirteeh.snd.s hsif streets. II
Ttp te 10 feet high BY % feet deep, and will con
=, - Ssowp-stOne. When completed, we have no
Soal bat that this will make neat and com.
fo q. " HIS: and George II. Plant, esq, are
msii"g oreYaJsttops to erect twenty-five neat
Sriet bu, 'nings on Cercoran, street, between
Fourteenth . Fifteenth strssts vest. Coreoran
stpeet viii sh, 'riiy be graded and he foot-way
and earrisge-w " paved:
ov,so AWAY Az ENPIRK.sGongress has
given 70 the ds 'ss GoS ssTes
az lana. II has givtn to railroad apd wagon
roads altogether nearly one hundred apd ninety
four million acres OF land, OF which less than
twenty.one millions have been eItitea" 10 the
Now. cannot Congress extend its liberattg
and donate q few hundred thousand acres for
She benefit Of the public schools OF WasLipgtoD.
There is a great deal OF Government property i9
purposes and hence II would be nothing more
Than just that Congress should make an aPPro-
P Pass ssS Sd money We had our w mot %
acre Of the public lands should b. given for any
Hs than s%s,s ~ tSa pfs bill. have
introduced, both In the last aad present Con.
gress, donating public lands to he school trHs,
this riGhtsous measure appears to have no
frisndSin Congress 10 advocate Its passage.
FOURTH WAND JOHNSON q bNsgRvATIvg DEM
socRATIC Assoof ATIoN.-This club held meeting
at the Lichau House on Thursday evening, Mr..
George q. Wilson In the chair and MIR. John
M. Il. d. Owen moved to reconsider the vote
by which the five delegates, at former meeting,
were chosen to attend tho meeting OF the Central
0rEsatiration' Carried and the vote was recon
On motion OF Mr.. Owen, the following were
S Wsss. o%ss Thorn, Andrew Gleason, j. W.
On motion OF Mr.. Gleason, the club adjourned
TO meet on Monday evening next
TIE PoroNAS.--BusiRess 10 very dull on the
river, owing to the dsasrssable weather for the
~ stsss ,srs are making their resnlT trips, but
earry Wv limited number OF passengers. The
Ssfa. iSss All iHS
TO J %Sss !. War. Arrived sshr American
sSidso.a p'ssai oSyp FarSey With is
Ishad, 70 Mr.. Golden. sh>@ sold at an average OF
tst.I6 per hundred. rr,,,o,,
Nspt Barry, from Philadelphia, vii. 2sS tons of
ssot6. consigned to Mr.. II. q. Stewart.
Carr. STONE, under direction of Gen. How
ard, has a large force OF freedmen engaged IN
ileyelling MassaehuSett avenue from the weBt-
Ss, syy.ussn;S Vita aons ,sfsa
mstted that the appropriation is not suaieient
70 grade that avenue at once.
IsrERxsrINo CHURCH SgRyicSs.-Rev, d. A.
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