National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-08-26
LOCAL MISCELLANY.

Or,y Ne,D England and the Middle States high
karonster, stationary to rising temperature,
,giyds DaoFtEV from northeast to southeast, and
clear or partly cloudy heather.
The following was the range ofthe thermom-
eter at Hempler's yesterday At a. m, $50;
at 10 a. m, 72O; at - m, 74o; at 2 p. m, 12O;
at Pm, 100; at 8 p. m. 800; at p. m,
$50.
The receipts in the Office Of the tax collector
for the past two days aggregated nearly twenty
thousand dollars.
Mr.. &. N. Barrett has been elected cashier
Of the Georgetown Savings Bank, vice JAS.
Dickson, esq, deceased.
Special attention is called TO the sale OF fine
household effects at III Fourteenth street
northwest this morning, at 10 O'Clock, BY Lat
liner & Cleary, auctiOneers.
The Washington Society Of New Jerusalem
have elected the following trustees for the en-
suing year: John HitZ, JabeB Fox, X. B. Don
ALLISON, Il. c. Spencer and J. W. Hunt.
Tbs contract for hauling sewer pipe, curb
ing, &C, from the several property yards TO
sixth street yard and G street wharf, was yes
terday awarded 70 Richard Fitzmorris, the
lowest bidder.
Aswil be seen b. thesaEertisement, Messrs.
James L. Kervand and W. LenOG Towers have
dissolved copartnsrship by mutual consent
and the business will be continued by M heF-
wand in his OWL name.
The scbooper Fllwood Doron, from Phila-
delphia, With load of Lehigh lump coal, and
one canal barge, with Cumberland coal ior the
department Of steam engineering, arrived at
the navy yard yesterday.
In another column will be found an adver-
tisement inviting proposals for furnishing
school books for the public schools Of the
district, for doing the job printing and supply
ing the stationery for the same.
H. Toea1b n nrodlav II WIN has bnen
very III at his residence in Georgetown for
several weeks past, is no better, and is not ex-
pected 10 survive. His disease is pneumonia,
and this morning he was very low.
Yesterday morning Officer Clements found q
thief leaving o CHECKED house OF Mr.. johnson
SimoDds, on Sixth street, near A southeast,
and gave chase, but the thief dropped the
swRg, six chickens, and made his escape
Thirty-two hundred bushels Of wheat were
received in Georgetown yesterday. Sales
5000 bushels Of wheat at SIPS to 81 49, 500
bushels at 81 BIZ TO S1.33; 1850 bushels ct
&l8OJs; and / 900 bushels at 81 .35 10 Sl.S1.
The United States steamer Gettysburg,
after towing the irOD-clad Amphitrite rom
Annapolis 70 Philadelphia, sailed for New
York, and from there she will proceed 10
Portsmouth, n. B., WhSr9 she Will be on or
before the LIST Of September.
p The new monthly magazine whica viz pc
Issued next month In Washington Is receiving
mary subscribers. Tho National" is to be
devoted to music, literature, fashion and art
at the national capital. The field is ample
and tbs enterprise should be 8 success.
iith and re classics Z h5a bein5 organized In
Inc city by Prof. Harley Newcomb with most
fatterinR prospects. The novelty Of this en-
terprise consists In the specially Of vocal and
instrumental music as the leading feature.
Mr.. Thomas Lewis, the contractor foT erect-
ing the market-h house On Cortoran square,
Seventh street, between and northwest,
under q recent agreement with committee OF
citizens, Yesterday morning commenced the ex-
cavation for the foundations Of the building.
A Charles-county team, on its way to mar
ket with bushel Of potatoes and pair OF lean
chickens, broke down coming around the south
side Of the Capitol yesterday morning. The
shadow of that building must have done it, for
both the animals and the wagon looked very
weak.
The flthy gutter on the east side Of Seventh
street. between E street and the centre OF the
square between G and streets southeast, has
not been cleaned. The people residing in that
locality would Ike to sec the health officer or
some Of his representatives make an inspec-
ton of the gutter and order its cleansing.
Messrs. Russell & Meissick, proprietors Of
the Central hotel, about three weeks ago had
stolen from their stables, By one Joseph a
HotF, two horses, a buggy aud harness. The
property was recovered above Frederick, Nd,
about q week since, and Hof is now under
arrest at Philadelphia, and will be brought to
this city,
Rev. T. A Davis, of the Drew Mission chapel,
Capitol Hill, is about calling upon the business
men Of the District for aid IN the construction
of his new church. Ex-Governor Shepherd
and Mr.. George W. Riggs have started him on
with excellent examples, which he hopes viii
be followed by large numbers Of other public
spirited citizens.
The attention of Lieut.. Kelly and his officers
is called to "stone battles" that take place be-
tween white and colored bows in the neighbor-
hood Of the Government printing office, and in
fact all along h street, from Third street west
to Second street east, Whenever procession
or funeral, headed BY band Of music, passes
that way. Yesterday afternoon, while lodge
Of Knights Of Pythias were returning from
buryfng q deceased brother, one Of these
battles took place near the Government print
ing Office, and for few minutes stones few IN
all directions. Several children were on the
street at the time, attracted, no doubt, by the
music, and It is q wonder that several Of them
were not seriously injured. This bad practice
should be stopped at once, as the lives and
property of laW-abiding citizens are eDdan-
gered on every occasion II is INDUCED in.