National Republican., 1873-11-12
GENERAL CITY NEWS,

kidder kldt was yesterday appointed gauger
Tor the Second district Of Arkansas.
lecture was delivered BY Dr., ]. c. smith
evening IN ,he lecture room Of his church.
In consequence Of the death OF Mrs. Eliza.
beth c. sllcer, wife OF Rev. Henry sllcer, u, D.,
the store OF Mr.. John T. Mitchell will be closed
| to-'ay.
afternoon, from the front OF J. NJ Mays furni-
ture store, on High street Georgetown, q lounge,
and ran away with II.
Twenty-one hundred and nfty bushels Of whca,
town yesterday. Sales, q,ibO bushels OF wheat at
fl.6S to fi.G5t. per bushel.
Orders have been Issued TO pay the clerks Of
some Of the Departments on The 10Th Inst, IN
order 10 enable them to make suitable prepara-
tons for Thanksgiving day.
In the case Of the schooner Emma Taylor, OF
ueorgetown, arrested In Annapolis few days
since for violation oi the oyster law, Justice
thompson dismissed the same.
Margaret Burke was arrested yesterday morn.
igg by 0fiiccr Collins, Of the Fourth police pre-
cinct, on the charge OF obtaining goods from q
grocery store BY faise pretences. The case was
| sent 10 the grand Jury.
The Tsiana on leaving the navy yari wharf
yesterday afternoon with supplies for the phila-
depha yard, came IN collision with the shaw.
NUT, and carried away her top rigging nc. She
81. Matthews church, corner OF Fifteenth and
II streets, has donned q new costume OF pea
green, Trimmed with dark brown, 10 keep up
with the spirit Of the times.
The forty-seuond monthly meeting OF the
Franklin Cooperative Bnildlng Association was
held on Monday night, and tt,bO0 were sold, as
follows: $1,000 At $50 per cent, $1,000 at sos per
cent, 900 at 2s2 per cent, $50 At 2lO per cent,
q 900 at soi per cent, $500 at H5o per cent.
Detective Miller yesterday arrested J. II. Cos.
tee, II, Taylor and Root. Wade on the charge OF
committing an assault and robbery on Clement
Ford Sunday night, about 10 O'Clock, ou New
Jersey avenue. 6etWepn M and N The
Shell.
A meeting Of the Geru,sn. American commit.
%sr. ~, a.
was submitted and adopted. Messrs. II. Richter,
q. worch, Z. Piepen6riua Wagner and Henry
s SIsten wsre aPpolnsd nance COMMITTEES 70
mittce.
The "plack Crook band" presented fine ap-
pearance In its march through the principal
streets Of the city yesterday. Their uniform Of
buckskln 0reeches, cavalry boots and regimental
coats, all surmounted by the nerce.looklng nun
hats OF hear sk n, drew multitude OF boot
black followers.
MI. John wnkerson, an old resident of Wash.
inRtoD. died yesterday morning at his residence
on Massachusetts, avenue, near Seventh street,
aged elRhty-four years. The decessS4 was
ss eoSns, IN u ssiy & YssIs sso ss
the business OF carpenter and builder, and accu-
mulated considerable property.
The many friends Of John \. Gallagher, esq, q
veteran journalist will regret to learn that he Is
q. was Third Auditor OF the Treasury for three
years and half under Presidents Taylor and
Fillmore, and for the last twelve years has been
q prominent clerk 10 the Quartermaster Gen.
erals once. The present month will complete
his seventy. seventh year.
There Ia on exhibition at the Hamlln House
the stuffed skin of an immense rattlesnake with
seventeen rattles and a button, Indicating an
ago OF about nineteen years. HIS snakeshlp
Was Killed a few weeks since on the blue Ridge,
near Winchester, Va, with stick. II measures
ave feet three and ons hall inches In length and
two and one half inches through at the largest
part.
Messrs. LatImer 4 CIcary, auctioneers. sold
yesterday afternoon, for Z. ". Thorn, trustee,
the following property, situated on Myrtle street,
| between North Capitol and First streets east /:
| Lots ls5 and $50, In Gllbcrt's subdivision Of
square 6Is, improved by two two-story brick res.
licences, for 900 each, ss s0O also lots 100 and
l9i, with same improvements, at ti,sh1 each,
| %, i00-al to W. n. o. Scott. And for WIN. 4.
Holtzman, trustee, lot 81, In subdivision OF lots
10 square 23t, with improvements, on Boundary
street. near Fourth northeast, to VI. c. Lnttrel,
| for 81, 100.
the concert at Wizards hall last evening for
the benent OF the Memphis and Shreveport Suf-
| ferers was not ouly great triumph for the
amateur talent participating, but q financial
/ success. The proceeds will be about 500. Tho
large and fashionable audience present was
most nattering In Its applause, while the music
was choice and rendered with nne effect; that
OF Mira. Hastings, Mrs. Camp aud Mr.. Young
| being repeatedly eucOred. Mrs. Hastings has u
mezzo- soprano voice, nuely cultivated, fall and
| rich. II was her nrst appearance before The
public, and she achieved a triumph. The
| always responded TO objects Of this description
| 10 worthy OF the highest praise.