National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-29
LOCAL MISCELLANY.

For te Middle States and Eep England telling
barometer, northeast TO southeast iDiads, t0arRsT
ena tHcreesi1s4y et9teg 'eeotAer run retn IN tAe
Si9HGls continue az Dgluth, Margueffe EscdAGbG,
4lPeRG, MilicGUkse, Chicago, Grand HaBeR, PORT
Rochester and 0SlDegO.
The following was the range Of the Thermometer
q Hempler's yesterday: a. m, go; 10 a. m,
g; ~ m, ~; p. m, T5'; P. n, TS0; p. m,
The sun rises at s;l7 and sets at 5:Ia
The Contractors Association meets tonight.
Bananas eheap-MalAga Fruit Company, 4Os
A most agreeable amusement is offered at the
Comique tonight
Secure your seats early for the Geneva Gross"
tonight At the National
Tonight the Geneva Cross viii be 0eaun-
1nlly performed at the National
Local members Of Centennial committees should
remember that ell their duties are net executed.
This Is a good week for everybody doing bust
ness to advertise in TIE NATIONAL REPuLI-
BAD weather for the display Of overcoats Un-
Igrtunate gentlemen have not yet taken them out
Of pawn.
Thomas Law who once lived in this city, was
companion and friend Of Sheridan, who wrote
sfTbe School for Scandal"
The handsOmest and best dressed women on
earth are Washingtonians, and the new styles OF
dress are very becoming.
Six hundred extras Of TIE REPUBLICAN con-
tanning the repoT1gof MI. VOLTS lecture were
The rich colOring Of the autumn woods around
Washington is suggestive TO painters. Hudson
espied new and lovely tint yesterday.
ne white ehimneys on the new State Depart
ment are troubling the minds Of many, but per-
haps their color is not permanent one.
A large loW-pressure cylinder for one of the
compound engines now building at the navy yard
day. cast HI 'D' nun i0uhofs ABOUT p M S's''I-
Fred. Zimmerman, the good-IOOking agent Of
the Aimee opera troupe, is in the city, and was
enrdiallw urenfRd O1d Frfandg las
night.
The great lecture Of Mr.. Simon Wolf before
the Schillerbund has won for that gentleman an
eminent place in scholastic fame. Everybody is
prsising It.
The "SehooI for Scandal" will be played at
FOrd's tonight, A perfect and most enjoyable
rendition may be expected. The house will be
the largest Of the week.
At the meeting for the promotion Of holiness
last night in the Tabernacle" on the Sixth
street lot, the services were very interesting.
The audience numbered fully three thousand.
Send your advertisements to TIE REPUBLIcAN
early, so that they can be properly classified.
the public know about It in these columns.
Madam Cary, No. SCI Fourteenth street north
west, manufactures and sells the excelsior sheet
Ladies are invited to call and examine speci-
menS.
There ought to be four hltehing posts on every
principal square, especially those Of Pennsylva-
MIA avenue and Seventh street. 1t would be a
great convenience TO citizens and save many
runaway.
Sixty thousand salmon eggs have been safely
landed in Maryland, by express, from California,
and have been placed in the breeding ponds by
one Of the most successful eultiVatOrs OF fish in
the Eastern country.
grand art entertainment, with choice music
and graphic lecture, is TO be given at Lincoln
ing Monday night, November 2 See pro-
gramme in amusement column.
Two hne lectures will be given at Marini's hall,
Friday, at l;So a m ana p m n; by Prof Etienpe
No young lady or gentleman is qualified TO move
in modern polite society without knowledge Of
that language.
The following additional subscriptions have
been made TO the Washington Monument fund:
San Pablo Lodge No 43, %. o. F., Vallejo, Cal,
Johns Lodge No. II, F A. A. NJ, Washington,
D. G., 500.
A horse attached to the buggy Of DR.. Mass,
while standing in front Of 454 New York avenue
yesterday, became frightened and ran up Sixth
street, upsetttng the buggy, and continued on to
N street, where he was captured. Luckily, no
one was injured.
The Confederate soldiers and sailors composing
the Virginia division Of the army Of Northern
Virginia will hold their annual meeting at the
Capitol, IN Richmond, to-day. Col Charles Mar
shall, Of Baltimore, formerly private secretary to
Gen. Lee, viii deliver the annual address.
The girls in the New York Normal School pre-
fer the study Of German to that of French in the
proportion OF 9ls, who choose German, and 1s7
French, out Of $50 students. 1t needed not this
sew evidence to attest how much stronger is the
German element in this country than the French.
The sale Of seats for Aimee's splendid per-
fOrmRnces Of French opera BOufe commence this
morning at the National and at Brad Adams. 1t
Is her hrst appearance in Washington in two
years, and she comes with q new company
specially organized to present opera boufe on
grand scale.
A eolored woman named Margaret Smith. re-
siding on Congress street alley, Georgetown,
attempted yesterday morning to kindle her
IRE with coal oil, when the vessel containing
the oil burst and burnt her quite badly The
house took fire, but members " No. engine COM
pany exlmguished the flames without turning in
an alarm, Damage to the house slight.