Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-10-29

Beau Hickman will 20 with the Cuban eGpe-
dltiOn as chief Of scouts
Rlark lin, the champion whistler, attracts
much attention on our streets.
The butter dealers Of the city rival the ex.
press companies 10 their handsome wagons.
Old cavalry trumpets arc greatly In demand
by the oyster brigade Of this city.
Eleven cases Of smallpox were reported to the
health officer yesterday.
Messrs. Harvey Il Holden have itted up their
fAvOTite establishment very nicely
"They arc not blue" was the exclamation Of a
lady friend, speaking Oi-late peaches.
The vacant street corners are being rapidly
taken up by the enterprlsing chestnut mer-
chants.
The stock Of overcONts deposited by the fast
ones with our accommodating Uncle" during
the summer are now being withdrawn.
Whenever Young America relates the expert.
ence Of his hrst drunk he Invariably says he did
Il on champagne.
Excelsior Lodge, No. I, l. q. q. T, Of Alex.
Rndria, Va, can boast Of as many handsome
young ladies as any other lodge In Virginia.
Billy ROoso will have beautiful cigar stand
IN Willard's hotel. II Is the neatest piece Of
wood work In the city. Bully Is going to stock
1t with the best cigars In the market.
Detectives Coomes and McEfresh yesterday
recovered two hne OvercOats aud returned them
to the owners. twas guolday for such kindly
offices
Coroner Patterson deemed an inquest unne.
cessary upon tho body Of James Watson, who
died suddenly on Sunday Rt the Elass.woTks.
Watson died from lntemperance and exposure.
A dog fight will take place on next Monday
between Dan. OhrismAn's Hnll" and Patsy
Morgah's Colonel" for purse Of my dollars.
The sports are anxlously awaiting the iun.
News must he dull-else why two columns Of
baldeTdash Ia our evening cOtempOTaTy about
Cuban expeditions, &c That long haired
youth Is sweet talkrr, but poor hllIbuster
Bah
The following was the range OF the theTmOu-
eter yesterday at HempleT's Optcian store, No
458 Pennsylvania avenue, corner Of Four and
hall street a. IN, 81; 10 u. IN 81; ~ m 81; ?
p. IN, 90; \. IN, 55i p. IN, o. s p. IN, 81.
Sunday nlghr, about 1880 o'clock, a young
| cOlOred girl named Rachael Montague was
| badly burned by the explosion OF u coal oil lnmp
| In her house on 7 street, between Eighteenth
and Nineteenth streets.
The Squire has become perfectly reconcIled TO
| his newly accumulated sonIn.laW. They are
| now happy; hut the Squire says no hopes the
| next one that makes up his mind To yet mar
| ned will ask his consent before he gets In the
| buggy.
II ever there was God f1rsaken town in this
| world, Annapolis, Maryland, Is that place. Busl.
ness Is dead, the city isdead, all the oysters are
dead In TACT, from the appearance Of the streets
dead.
| The sdit0FOf tho Washington Chronicle NAV
have stolen nothing from the GuveThtnent " hills
Secretary Of the Interior, but the singular Gcil.
| icy with which be steals from these culutnn s
shows that he could have done It II no would
| LOuNviHe t0urier-JOuTHGi. What's he been
doing nuWg
A meeting Of the clergy and Sunday school
| teachers Of the Episcopal churches in the Dis,
trct Is 10 bo held at Trinity church next
wednesday, At o p m to take into consliera.
ilon various matters OF interest," especially the
one looking to the formation OF a Sunday school
association, The meeting will he presided over
by Right Reverend Bishop Plncknoy.