National Republican., 1875-07-15
NEW PROPOSITION FOR LOCAL TRAVEL
LINEoF PATENT STAGES TO BE RUN.
work of the District Commissioner
Monthly Statement of Finances
Arrest of Notorious Characters
Extensive Fire for WASH
inEtOn - miscellaneous
Paragraphs of Lo.
cal Interes

Weather probabilities estimated at l O'Clock
a. m: For the Middle and Eastern States, fall
ing barometer, southeast to southwest winds,
warmer, PAL ely cloudy weather, and rain areas
from Western PennsylVan'a to middle Atlantic
coast.
Thermometric readings taken July lS, 1875, at
the Signal Once: at a. m, 73o; 7:S5 a. m, 100;
II m, SO; p. m $50; ass p. m. 500; p. m,
7go; II D. m, feo Maximum, $50; minimum, $50.
Sherman & Grant, bankers-Highest price paid
for 365 bonds and auditors certificates.
Six per cent. paid on deposits, payable on de-
mand. Special rates on time deposits J, II.
Squire & Co., bankers
The Potomac Boat Club failed to meet last
night for want OF quorum. The boys were all
boating on the Potomac.
The barge Calvert arrived at the navy yard
yesterday with a load Of coal for the bureau Of
equipment and recruiting.
H u. Cooke, jr., & Co., F street, hear the
Treasury, do q general banking business, and
buy and sell District securities. etc.
The erection Of the iron front on Shepherds
new building, at the corner Of Twelfth and the
Avenue, was commenced yesterday.
The six-feot man on l street, who persists IN
strsddling three-foot pony, and whisking around
the city, had better buy hobby horse.
T. N. Naudsin, TO9 Market space, has Just
opened 2 600 yards Pacific Percales at l215 cents,
and all other goods prOportionately cheap
At the sixty-third regular monthly meeting Of
The Franklin Cooperative Building Association
5000 was advanced at an average premium OF
IS per cent.
At the tenth regular monthly meeting of the
Jefferson Cooperative Building Association
SlU.oUO was duNhnCcQ az hu dNcTdBc Vi
33p per cent
When a woman has two or three bundles under
her arm and parasol TO manage, and has to stop
in the middle OF the street 10 tie herself back 1t
becomes very interesting.
H. 1. Gregory forgets the eternal fitness Of
things and adyertises patent heaters. Bounce"
him and his heaters to Alaska, where they may
be needed, and give US another lemonade ~ or
anything else cooling.
Those valuable remedies for cholera iHfantum,
published in our yesterday mornings REPUBLI-
N cOUiel from Mrs r = Miller'e
cookery book. I'm the Kitchen" by a subscriber
to our paper.
Last Tuesday morning, John Clark a small
boy, an inmate Of the Home Industrial school,
at the Georgetown aims house, tell from the top
Of the building to the ground, distance Of Is
feet, and dislocated his elbow and wrist DR..
APpleby attended him.
The cars of the Washington and Georgetown
railroad from tine navy yard commenced running
the south side Of the Capitol grounds yesterday.
The track for the cars coming from Georgetown
will be ready for travel in few days
On her trip this morning to Mount Vernon the
steamer Arrow will have on board the Rev. Uriel
Graves and his Bible class from the Third Eng
Iish Lutheran church Of Baltimore. Mr.. Graves
is a brilliant and eloquent orator and will de-
liver on this occasion an Grafton at the grave Of
the Father Of his Country.
The improvements about the post ONCE build
ing nearly completed. The new iron fence,
with its solid stone bedding, has been stretched
almost around the building, and the broad stone
steps in front Of the city Office are all COM
pleted except q small section at the eastern
end.
The Young Peoples Association of Waugh NJ
z. church will give moonlight excursion on Fri
day evening, on the favorite steamer Mary Wash
iDgton, leaving the Eighth street wharf, at
O'Clock ?. N, and returning at midnight. Vocal
music, Ice cream, Sc- with agreeable CON-
P2ny, will make this one Of the best excursions
Of the season
An irate correspondent wants to know why a
gate-keeper is stationed at the entrance to the
trains in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad depottO
whom your ticket must be shown, and by whom
il is punched. he calls II a foolish and unneces-
sary ordinance Give it up; but If any OF the off,
ciats Of the company wish TO enighten our growl-
ing friend they can do 50 through these columns.
Yesterday morning, about II O'Clock, horse
attached to a buggy, at the Baltimore aud Poto-
mac railroad, toOE fright and ran of, going up
street TO Seventh, thence to Louisiana avenue,
frightening several others on the way and nearly
causing a stampede among the hack horses on
the stand at that point. young man in the
buggy at the time, named I. d. Rosenberg, was
badly bruised.
The following prisoners left last night for AL
bany, having been sentenced TO the penitentisry
in that place: John Smith, burglary and lar
ceny three years; George Price, resisting an off,
Ger, one year: Charles Grandson, assault with
intent to kill, i've years; James Young, resisting
an officer one year; Charles Thornton, assault
with intent to kill, three years; Thomas Higgs
burglary, three years; Geo Lewis, robbery, three
years. The above seven prisoners are coIoreu,
with the exception Of ThOs. Higgs,