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National Republican., 1873-09-16

EoR sALE-BRICK HOUSE, NO. 400 O
II street northwest; sir rooms. hail. cellar water
and gas Butt by days work, and handsomely
Mnninueu 'nroushout frict. 1t.up Inquire on the
prenlsoh hnib gtAwlms
National Republican., 1873-09-16
For SALE AND RENT.

FOK SALE AND KENT.
TOR sALEnTwo BRICK HOUSES, NO. 200
ao,. ,xpply At No ss East CAPITOL street
L,oR sALE--LoT ON X STREET, BETWEEN
'fe's % Tass sGS .4ss ss;tS:s Sss, fS5sas BSsas:
sIsa = DuspANsos. BOWLING co.
EoR sALgrFoUR NEW BRICK HOUSES,
.a' f Second iSSs
scisa is :" DUNcANsoN, BOWLING co.
EoR sALR-Two NEW FRAMES ON r
street between North Capitol street and New
'f.'ss seisss s''n''' pfS&ScASsos. pfS&ScASsos BOWLING co.
E,oR sALE-A FINE BUILDING LOT ON 4
II street, between First and Second northwest,
%sTSs'd asiss Oy BtTcassoS. %f BOWLING co.
IToR SALE lot ON N STREET, BETWEEN
II nsyenth and Eighth streets northwest.
tenth. containing s6out S,ao square fset ' ''
sstsa DuNoANsoS. BOWLING co.
ITO LET-A FIRsT-CLAss RESIDENCE, FUR
nish'd Of nnfurn.hsd co6taninE % mine CHI cham
library IN tle main house: two ,erysIis, rooms.
BoWains hSsss and iSdslns house Keeper, need
not Apply. Address I. o, hos iii. .el6u
EoR sALE--A LOT OF LAND IN RENO, AND
IT near Tenalytown, containing about two
acres, inclosed by substantial fence, and on
which there are well-selccted number Of fruit
tree. and the best grape. royn IN this bisttict
vegetables in the neiEhboIhogd, There - on the
land good and well built Dwelling, suitable for q
small family; an excellent pump Of pure water. and
- situated about two and half miles from George
4 further description 10 deemed unnecessary, as
Il Is presumed persons dcsirops of purcha.ing will
n n he pl.s Agpy " & III S II:
Office, No 6i3 Fifteenth street, Washington city.
COMFORTABLE PARLoR AND ADJOINING
~ CHAMBER, In rma private family, csn be
had at go pcr month. Location, " street be.
tween Ninth and Tenth. References required. Ad
drcss b. T., At this office. reib
EoR sALE-HoUsEs AND LoTs-A- DE
II sirAble lot on Delaware avenue, betwcen North
Csritol street and North 2 street, IS cents, well
enth and Eishth streets, sl DO, Nos, 100 and 72s
eis.OD and ela.00 No. lipq Fourth street, 100
| Comfortable home, situated on Ninth street, be
tween q and II streets northeast, sb.0p, Fine lol
New Jersey avenue. between First & and second
between Thirteen. anda half and Fourtee1tt
streets. ea,a5o. ThOs. y, WAdGAMAN,.
| seibN bia Seventh street.
| EoR sALE-CuOICE LOT IN MOUNT PLEAS
| It ANT-rhe finest lot, without excel ton In th
railway will soon be continued 80 as 10 double IN,
price now ask, Long time and small casn Ray
sepisa n. III. wARNER, 7za Seventh street.
National Republican., 1873-09-16
EMpHArIcAppEA ron AID.


The yellow fever continues at Shreveport
with unsbatcd malignity. The suffering OF
the tcrribly.strickcn inhabitants Is beyond
the power Of language TO describe. Those
who have escaped the attacks Of the plague
are 20 thoroughly demoralzed with terror, or
90 exhausted physically and pccunlarily In
minlstering to their suffering neighbors, a. to
be Of little service In this trying situation.
Tho case OF the people Of Shreveport appeals
with extraordinary emphasis to the charita-
blo liberality Of the people Of the en-
tire country. Their cry for aid Is re-
tolyinR ntting response from New
Orleans, st. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville,
New York, and other places. Cannot some
thing be done for them In Washington The
case Is ono Of the greatest urgency, and
should bc met promptly. Let meeting DO
called and an opportunity offered our people
TO contribute their offering. The case Ia 40
urgent as to warrant the calling Of q town
meeting by tho Governor Of the District, and
we suggest that this be done. In tho mean.
time such Of our citizens rs desire to con.
tribute to this fund may leave their subscrip-
tlons at the Office Of tho REPUBLICAN. Tn,
amounts received will bo acknowledged IL
these columns, and promptly forwarded I,
Shreveport.
National Republican., 1873-09-16

The Richmond Dispatch admits that the
table Of Southern State debts recently printed
In the REPUBLICAN ''shows difference In
deed In the aggregate debt of Virginia from
1890 to 1872, and adds that this 'result Ia
from accrued interest" Now, let 1t explain
why the sham Conservative administration
which has had control of the State so long
allowed this Interest to accrue. The public
Is In possession Of Governor Walkers estI-
mate that the resources Of the State amounted
to s25, 900, 900 per annum. win the Dispatch
icll us what became Of these assets In other
words, we want TO know what disposition has
Ueen made of the slOO, 00O, 900, which Is the
sum of the resources of the State accruing
during Governor Walkers administration.
Further, let the Dtspdtch tell us, II II can
what State North or South under Republican
rule has squandered like sum. These ques-
tons arc pertinent issues In the pending cam
paign, and 1t Is to be hoped that the Dispatch
will not as usual with 1t, ignore them. They
are Of more Importance than the discussion
which II $50 gleefully began over an un-
founded rimor that some one had n,lfused an
official postage stamp.
National Republican., 1873-09-16

The Wilmington Journal abiding to the
return OF Captain X. A. Shotw ell, . member
Of the Ku-Kiux Klan, pardoned out of the
penitentiary by President Grant, speaks Of
him as ''much prosecuted gentleman, "
who has been held as political prisoner"
In the opinion Of tho jury and court before
which shotwell was tried he was the asso-
ciate and accomplicc Of murdcrcrs. The
gratitude which the Journal and the people
who sympathize with 1t would be expected to
feel toward the President for this pardon Is
expressed by II as;;follows:
1--WE are pleased, too, at the action Of the
President In this matter; not because, .as We
said before, we are grateful to him as for an act
of magnanimity and clemency, for this the re-
membrance OF Captain Sh0twells long imprison-
ment utterly f0rbids; but because IL Is a further
Indication that, IN the opinion of the President
and those who control his action. the time mas
gone BY when resort 10 prosecutions and PROSE
cutions In the Federal courts Ia expedient as a
measure OF party policy. All that our people
nave ever asked has been that they should be
permitted TO attend to their own Legitimate
Affairs without let or hindrance save that which
q Just and impartial administration OF the laws
OF the land may require. To this category the
Ku.klux prosecutions did not belong, having
been gotten up In the interests OF the Radical
party and carried on with all the yigor that par.
tisan zeal and personal hate and maiignity could
infuse into men,"
National Republican., 1873-09-16

The New York Times discusses a subject
which has been, Is, or will be, of interest to
most OF us some time or another, namcly
Boarding va. Housekeeping" The journal
makes an estimate Of the comparative cost
Of boarding and housekeeping, and believes
that housekeeping Is the more economical
Its figures, based upon Brooklyn and New
Jersey market and other rates, arc rs follows
Board for two zone comfortable room) at sas per
Washing % per week. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ios
National Republican., 1873-09-16

IVY CITY
Is on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. adjoining
the grounds Of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, only
twelve minutes walk from the street cars at
Ninth street east Lots containing $500 feet for
only ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, on
easy terms. Any one can buy lot
Apply to
GEO. NJ. LANCKTON,
Auls-u bi3 Seventh street. opposite p O.
National Republican., 1873-09-16
HATS.

u II: srINEMETZ, HALTER, 1881 PENN
customers and the pu Jiic that he Ia now receiving
new patterns Of Hats expressly for autumn wear,
Also prepared TO furnish the -
BROADWAY FALL STYLE
q sentlew,sM9,s n Dress hat. silk and auanIco Um.
National Republican., 1873-09-16
LOST AND FOUND.
BOARDING.

ohhDlNS.-soAhp, WIN Oh WTIuouT
Executive Departments, Apply ct sis Twelftb
street. between and X streets northwest serxau
National Republican., 1873-09-16

ZINE CuT-hTONh fOsT OFFlCh,
on Buads street, Is q figure Of a dog, carved
In stone and gilded, under which Ia an In
scription In French. This figure Is known
as the Chen Or or Golden Dog, to which On
interesting legend attaches. 1t was formerly
inserted In the front Of . house which, until
lately, occupied the site Of tho present post
office, and which was built by Nicolas
Joaquin Philibert, merchant Of Quebec,
who had erected II August 20, 1875, In the
time OF the Intendant Bgot, at whom the
lampoon contained In the inscription was
aimed by VI. Philibert, who had suffered
wrong from him. Much has been written
about the old building in Buade street, which
was bought by the Government for a post
office, and for long time known as Free
masonb' hall. II was demolished In 1871, to
make room for the present handsome cdlhce,
the new post Office. The figure Of n rather
tame-looking stone dog gnawlng bone,
which used TO be over the principal door OF
the old building, Ia, as l have stated, seen
over the side door OF the new edince, having
been preserved, gilded and placed there TO
keep alive the legend II Is said 10 represent,
National Republican., 1873-09-16

The inscription on the famous tablet read, as
follows
"Je suis IN chien qui ronre los;
10 10 rongeant je prend mon repos.
Un temps viendra qui nest pas venu
Quo 10 mordrals qui m'aurs mordu."
II an dog gnawing bone;
While Rnaw I take my repose.
Tho time will come, Though not yet,
When I will bite him who now bites me-"
National Republican., 1873-09-16

ENoR sALE-TwO BRICK HOUSES, NO. 20
II and 2s East CAPITOL street, orposiie Grant
Ro, Apply ct No. sS East CAPITOL street
National Republican., 1873-09-16
NOTES OF TRAVEL.
TOUR IN AND AROUND QUgBsC,

Pecs,isrisiss ssd language or
tho hePsepis-Ths Past ssd rressst Of tho
Aucisss City-Psists Of Histeric Ia
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The Forrest.Macready Riot.

The editor of Appleton's Journal gives the
following account of the events i'm the tleater
building which preceded the famous riot in the
Aston place:
We were among those gathered at the theater
on that occasion and shall never forget its ex-
citing incidents. The house was crowded. The
play was Macbeth. When Macready appeared
there was frightful storm of Kisses and denun-
Citations from one faction, and tumultuous ap-
plause from the other actors friends. No mis-
siles were thrown, but groups Of people stood up
in different parts OF the house shouting and vio-
lently gesticulating. The play proceeded but
not a word could be heard. Presently groups
OF policemen could be seen gathering at diff
on the rioters, and many arrests made.
This device was repeated until all the
rioters were in custody or silenced.
The play had now reached the third act, and
went on without interruption. But by this time
the building was undergoing a regular siege,
vast mob in the streets without. The windows
had been boarded up, and against them the
rioters outside were hurting brOadsdes of stones
and brickbats. Occasionally board would
yield to well-drected stone and the missile
would come crushing into the auditorium. One
stone struck the central chandelier and fell
with mass of broken glass, into the parquet.
In the lobbies were gathered numerous police
and military. The doors were barri-
caded with heavy beams. The play continued
to the end amid these exciting conditions
In the last act, it will be remembered, Macbeth
is shut up in beseged castle. The mimic
scene copied the real one. ''Our castles
strength will laugh this siege to scOrn )" is one of
Macbeth's lines; upon its utterance there was a
whirlwind of applause from the excited specta-
tors. After the play the audience left the
theatre at Eighth street entrance, between
files OF soldiers. In five minutes after their
dispersiOn-we were some three squares dis
tant-the firing upon the mob began, with
what fatal results we all know. 1t was the first
time we ever listened to play when in a state
of siege; 1t was exciting enough, but we little
dreamed of the fearful tragedy so soon to be
enacted In bloody earnest in the streets without.
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A Monster Anvil.

Vulcan himself, with all the smart giants who
worked at the gods smithies under Etna neyc
owned such an anvil as will soon be In use in
new rolling mills in WOolwich, England For a
long time past the engineers have been busy at
the royal gun factories of the arsenal i'm con-
structing this Titanic piece Of iron mongery.
and they are now depOsting in its place the
the anvil block. This plate weighs of
itself one hundred and seven TONS and had
to be cast Of necessity in an open mould.
The surface which is to receive the anvil block
lay, therefore, downward, and when, after
many weeks, the colossal casting grew cool, it
was needful to turn the huge mass completely
over. At the appointed time an army OF sturdy
smiths undertook this task with h hydraulic lacks
and combination of the strongest tackle. Be-
fore night they had lifted the mOnstrous lump
of solid metal, twenty-five feet square, and
since then they have laid 1t on its bed upon the
r0ck-hke structure Of concrete and piles made
to receive it.
The anvil block to be mounted on the huge
plate will weigh only trihe short of two hun
dred tons, and the steam hammer which will
strike upon it Is made OF thirty i've tons of solid
metal, the blow at full force being, of course
tremendous. In fact, IL Is rather doubtful
what will happen to WOOlwich and its vicinity
when the mighty piece Of mechanism gets to
work. That the earth around will shake and
the air will roll with measured thunder seems
probable; for nothing like this stupendous
forge has ever been set to work since the bolts
pom was a mere driver Of tin tacks contrasted
with it; and indeed, the old Nsrse god for all
his huge strength, would be puzzled to throw
this WoOlwich tOOl-which, taking all its metal
work together, weighs hard upon five hundred
tOns.-EOstOn Globe.
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WoMAN's LovB.-The Vallejo (Cal) Chron-
lcle says there Is much sympathy in Coiusa
county fer the young man, Labrie, recently ar
rested for horse stealing under peculiar circum-
stances. The grand jury have ignored the bill
against him. The sentiment Of the people in
his favor is shown by the facts that after his
Imprisonment he was admitted to bail in the
sum OF $50, and that fund was raised by the
people for his defense. His wife is described as
charming and lovely woman, displaying the
deepest attachment to her husband Her
parents are wealthy, and made every effort to
break on the marriage. When Labrie was in
carcerated, with wOman's de yotiop, she wished
to 60 to him in Jail and be married Her parents
then made last endeavor to wean her from
her attachment, and for this purpose succeeded
in getting her consent to pay visit to the East,
hoping that time and absence would have the
effect Of curing her love. Her trunks were we'll
packed, and she was placed in q stage at the
commencement of the journey, when Labrie
was released from prison on bail. He met the
object Of his affections, and forgetting every
thing but their love, the two fastened to q min
lister and the nuptial not was tied. The parents
OF the young bride have cast out their daughter
from their affections, and refuse to have any
communication with her.
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WARNING TO UMBRELLA CARRIERS. - The
man VINO walks the street, carrying an umbrella
under his arm, was at the corner Of Fourteenth
street and Fourth avenue. He stopped sudden
~ to speak with a friend, and a man behind
him nearly broke the point OF the umbrella off
by running his eye against it. The man swore,
and the umbrella chap wheeled suddenly.
tearing OF young ladys back hair. He turned
TO apologize, and jabbed the end of the UNI
brella into very tail policeman's stomach.
Policeman administered a jerk, and the um-
brella point tore off portion of a small bows
ear, and Immediately after carried the star
board corner of mans mouth up into his front
hair. Stepping back in dsmay at what he had
done, he rammed the umbrella down bystan-
der's throat, and at the same time he fastened
the hook handie-the probabilities are that the
handle was not only hooked, but that he hooked
the entire umbrella-into a colOred citizens
weol. In. his efforts to get his umbrella loose,
the unfortunate owner of it upset a fruit and
candy stand, and plunged head foremost into
a plate glass window. In the excitement and
confusion that ensued, the umbrella was nut
into hack and driven to the hospital and the
man was taken to an umbrella store to undergo
repairs.-NeW York paper.
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NOn.COmbustibIe Theatres.

Is 1T POSSIBLE TO ERECT Such BUILDINGS?
Professor e. P. Duryea writes in the Indus
trlal Monthly: ''We could have fireproof con-
structlOn, seeing that we have the advantage
of manufactured iron to do the same which
brick and stone were forced to perform in those
days OF less intelligence. Iron might almost ex-
clude wood in all our places OF entertainment;
aud, as the tubular form is the strongest, all
girders and breast-summers might be tubular;
and here we would have at once a means of dis
semiDating hot air in winter and cold air in
summer. All jOsts might be of boiler-plate.
Hanged. The floors of boxes and galleries
should lie first sheeted with plate iron, and the
boarding be laid over it. The fronts of all
the circles should be ornamented metal
The roof should be of iron trussed, covered
with iron plate. There should be passages of
arched brickwOrk on every floor. into which As
many doors should open as possible, and all
these passages should open into general hall on
each floor, from which capacious stairs should
give easy egress to the streets around, each
floor being in connection with a street. The
auditorium being thus protected, it remains TO
make the stage and its surroundings safe. And
here the greatest amount of precaution is called
for, because here the principal and most active
source of danger exists. First of all, the stage
should be permanently built on brick arches
having the squandrills formed into circular
fues for the conveyance OF hot air to warm ID
by registers, furnace of sufficient capacity
being constructed near the center for the pur-
pose. The dressing rooms should be all of sheet
iron, and the framing and sides for the scenery
should he of iron; the canvas on which the
scenes are painted should be prepared SO as to
make them fire-proOf; the rigging, usually
of ropes, should be OF wire, unless where il is
absolutely necessary to have hempen cords or
ropes for certain purposes. The roof over the
stage should be OF ir0n and, a. it never is amiss
TO make assurance dOubiy sure, an iron water
tank of large dimensions might be placed over
the stage, which, in the event OF any possible
accident by fire, could instantly furnish a good
supply of water to local hose and pipe This
tank might, on occasions OF grand spectacular
presentations-such, for instance, as "Cherry
and Fair Star"-be lowered upon the stage, and
add real water TO the effects. Balconies should
surround the auditorium on each floor, and the
windows opening on to them should be made to
act as sash-d0o All the external doors should
open Outwards, for il was owing to the neglect
Of this precautiOn that the burning OF the the
alter at Richmond, Va, some years ago, proved
81 fearfulIv fatal -
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Ocean PATHWAYS.

Eleven Steamship lines use the same path.
with nearly the same degree of latitude and
longitude, between the old world and the new,
and it it, seldom that a Steamer crossing the
Atlantic is not within q few miles of another
vessel bound in the same or in a precisely oppo-
site direction. The number of craft plying this
path is increasing almost daily; their proximity
to one another Is consequently more marked,
and that collisions are not more frequent is the
result of chance. From the masthead of each
steamer watch is supposed to be kept and in
foggy weather the whistle is sounded about
every fifteen seconds; but when a vessel is roll
ing heavily 1T il almost impossible to see the
lights of another steamship at night time, and,
except when on dangerous coast, the engines
are continued at full speed. 1t is strange there
fore that so few disasters like that in which the
United States mail steamer Arctic ran into
another steamer, in October, 1851, and went
down, occur at the present time. A code regu-
lating the passages is believed by some persons,
however, to be absolutely necessary.
The interest in the matter has been renewed
from the fact that a company running four
steamships a week between this city, Boston.
and Liverpool. has adopted plan known as
by Professor nj. F. Maury. This contemplates
the designation OF one strip of ocean through
which vessels bound east shall pass and another
for those bound west. 1t is claimed that thereby
not only will the liability of collision between
steamer and steamer be lessened, but that
new resource will be afforded to those in dis
tress on the high seas. Fogs and Gains often
occur together, and ships moved by canvass are
not likely to run into another, but they are
placed in peril by the steamers. 1t is added
that If the masters knew the track of the steam
ships they would carefully keep out OF it. and
that the more sailing vessels win agree to keep
out of the lanes the more it will concern
steamers to kseHfn them.
The part of the ocean t-avcrsed by the steam
ship lines in their voyages is about 80 or 200
miles broad, and it is proposed in the new plan
to mark out lane from this - or % miles
broad, which will at least reduce the present
risks. 1t is further claimed that the lane to
the west will be 80 miles shorter than the route
generally taken, and some delays from fogs
will be avoided, as 1t passes 100 miles south OF
Cape Race. Another advantage claimed for
the lane system is that one way 1t lies along the
n, rthern edge of the Gulf stream, where there
is an eddy setting westward often at the rate of
knot an hour. The close of the argument i'm
favor OF the system is that the distance from
Cape Clear to Sandy Hook will be practically
shortened 80 miles, and that while it prOlongs
the distance to Europe IS miles, compensation
will be found in the greater security and the
advantages OF the Gulf stream and fewer fogs