National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-30
LOCAL MISCELLANY.

gvsr fac Middle States and Eeuv York aOrih10est
winds, diminishing to fresh, !oVer temperature,
rising barometer, partly cloudy and clear t0eGther
The following was the range of the thermometer
At Hempler's yesterday: q. m, 60; 10 g. m,
&c; L m, 60; P m, go; Up. m, go; 6p. m,
so; s D. NJ, SO.
Yesterday great many overeOats we're to be
SSSn on the streets, but very few straw hats.
Two thousand i've hundred bushels Of wheat
sold yesterday in Georgetown for So per bUshel
Already the tsilOrs are receiving heavy OEders
SOr sEallOw-tSiled oSatS for the winter receptions
The owners Of the various yachts are putting
their crafts in good order fox the race On Monday
The District Commissioners have been Petf-
tioRed to locate street lamps on Maryland aYeBae
east
The citizens Of Georgetown are considerably
S1sitedOver the report that chlId-spealer rs In
their midst.
A movement is on foot to reorganlze the Dis
tEict militia and, If possible, to hEve complete
regiment, ii not battalion.
Tits reported that the desire for invitations to
1he Ffteh-Sherman wedding is SO great that they
aIeDeing sod at avery high figure.
Bishop CUmmins' remarks on the necessity OF
eIoTm in the Episcopal Church were the subject
oTmueh comment in Washington yesterday.
son of Mr.. Nordlinger, of Georgetown, cut
enc Of his fingers of Monday with a sewer trap.
DIS. Richie and Kleinschmidt attended him.
A butcher wagon, while passing down NJ street
yesterday, upset, and the contents-seVeral
banks Of beef-were spilled on the pavement.
Messrs. Jas H. Williams and Frank H. Finley,
Of the contractors association, started for New
York last night on business for the association.
Among the candidates for admission 70 the
ho renpOt1v naSsai salts
factory examinations is LleWellen V. Wilson, Of
the District Of Columbia.
Chief Engineer Cronin, of the District fire de-
PArtment, left here yesterday afternoon for st.
louis, to attend the National Convention of En-
1sers to be held there October S.
Mr.. Charles Lyman, for some time past chief o.
the dead letter division. Post Once Department,
has been notified that his services Will be no
longer required after the LIST proEimO.
The bellies Of the District are looking forward
1sr a great deal OF pleasure at the forthcoming
boat races between the Analostans and POtomses
Several pairs Of kid gloves are already bet.
Gov. ]. F. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, has ap
pointed Mr.. VIII A Short, of this city, q com
missioner for the State of Pennsylvania, to take
Acknowledgements of deeds, dispositions, &c.
Two weII-known citizens of Georgetown, one a
Methodist and the other Episeopalian, had
very spirited discussion in 6treet-car last night
ever the reform movement in the Episcopal
Church.
The result Of the yacht race to come of mex
Monday is the subject OF some speculation among
the nauticaIly inclined. The America s. one Of
the yachts entered, has gone TO Alexandria to be
oTerhauled.
Senator Morrill,, Architect CLARK, General
Babcock, Commissioner Dennison ard Engineer
Eoxie met Monday, and the plans prepared By
Mr.. F. Law OImsJead for the extension Of the
Capitol grounds were approved.
The six-Oared gig of the Potomac boat club was
seriously injured Monday afternoon in the river
by coming in contact with q swell made by the
steamer Express. The crew escaped in small
boats sent from I he boat house.
Bids were opened yesterday at the rooms Of the
Board Of Health for the removal Of night soil
rom the OdOrless Excavating Company, Jerome
Bradley & Co, Sawyer Hobbs and Scharf &
Co., but no award was made. Two Of the bidders
propose doing the work by the pneumatic process
while the others adopted the system now in use.
an take a glass of your divine nectar said a
young man in a lager beer saloon the other day.
''Vat eest dot?'' asked the waiter. Il would
EobIet drain of the-extract of the sOmniferous
hop" 1--WE ton't gOts heem," answered the
waiter. "Numskull, bring me glass Of lager"
The waiter went TO the bar-keeper and informed
him that crazy man wanted glass of beer.
Prof. Valentine reopeped his academy last
Aight at the Masonic Temple, and, despite the in
Iement weather, was greeted by many OF his old
pupils and several new faces. The school starts
for the winter campaign under the most suspicious
circumstances, and undoubtedly the popular
young master Of Terpschore will meet with that
Hattering success that has heretofore attended
his academy.
A meeting was held at st. Aloysius' school
house, on First street, between and K, Monday
evening, to organise a Carroll Building Associn-
ton" The following officers were appointed
pro tenn: John F. ReardOn, president; John Con-
nor, vice president: J. L BlinkhOrn, secretary.
The meeting adjourned to meet on Thursday, sth
Broximo, when permanent Oficers will be elected
and a constitution adopted.
Subscriptions to the Washington monument
were received yesterday as follows: Jerusalem
Temple Lodge, No. -, F. and A. NJ. Cornwall
n. Y $40; David and Jonathan Lodge, No. lO2,
10. o. F, UniOnville, Nd, $40. The subscrip
tions to this noble object come to the secre-
tary Of the monument society from all sections Of
abe country almost daily, which is a most encOur
aging indication Of the general interest that has
been aroused to the enc of completing the monu-
nent at the earliest possible day,
The following distinguished guests arrived in
the city yesterday TO attend the Sherman Fitch
wedding, and are stopping at the Arlington hotel:
Archbishop Purcell, Cincinnati; Bishop Wood
Philadelphia; Rev. F. Y. DuttOn, Rev. Aug.
Quatman, Cincinnati: Rev. John J. Kean, Rev.
Father Mooney. New York; 5. 5. L'HOmmedieu,
General L. II. Dayton and family, Cincinnati:
General r. b. Marcy. New York; General T.
KiIby Smith, Ohio; Colonel and Mrs. J. e.
Audenried, Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs ". A
Dougherty, Columbus, Ohio Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
T. Fitch, New York.