National Republican., 1875-11-01
RIGHT OF CREWS IN NEUTRAL WATERS
RlGEs this week 1T WASHINGTON PARK
Local Miscellany Surveys, Arrests,
Fires, Sales, Fights, Accidents, Dam,
ages, Warnings and Announcements.

Weather probabilities, estimated at j q. m.-Fo
the lower lakes and the Atlantic States, rising
barometer, northwest TO southwest winds, low
temperature, clearing and clear weather, fol
lowed by falling barometer on the lower lakes.
Thermometric readings taken October 81
1s76, at the Signal Once: a. m, $50; 7:35 e.. m
400; u H. 43o; p. H. 43o; 4S5 p. m, 40; p. m,
$50; II p, m. IS. Maximum. $50; minimum, SO.
Secure bargains ct Hempler's, optician.
Oxygenized air for Catarrh, at 61s F street.
Try the B. O. cigars. They are the best Of all.
Hempler, the optician, has the best opera
glasses.
Sherman & Grant, bankers-highest price paid
for Se5 bonds and auditors certificates.
Highest price paid for left-of clothing, boots,
shoes, &C., at Herzog's, elT D street northwest.
H. D. Cooke, jr., & Co., street, near the
Treasury, do a general banking business and buy
and sell District securities sc.
Aladdin Security OIL is safe under all cIrcum-
stances. 1t will burn in ali kerosene or coal oil
lamps. Ask for 1t, and take no other.
After the heavy rain Saturday a large break
was made in the Shad run sewer main on N
street, between Twenty, second and Twenty-third
streets.
In the Police Court, Saturday, Patsey Morgan
was fined thirty dollars, sixty days in jail, for
the brutal assault made on Rose Atkinson Friday
night.
Oficers Mitchell and Burgess early yesterday
morning arrested Myles Gibbons, charged with
assaultiDg, with intent to KILL William Reed last
Friday night
Oficer Hess Saturday arrested q colored boy
named Jones for taking advantage Of the conf
dence reposed in him by his mother, and relieving
her bureau drawer Of IS.
During Saturday and Saturday night there
were sixty.hve arrests made in the various pre-
TNsz8 oFr ruhN oh hnr furar
~ were made in the Fourth or First waEq pre-
einet.
The sale Of diamonds, watches, Sc, by S. Gold
stein & Co will be continued Monday evening at
7o'cIoek at the auction rooms Of Duncanson Bros,
corner Of Ninth and d streets. large collection
remain to be sold.
Everybody In want of Welton, Brussels, three
ply or ingram carpets should examine the
numerous new and choice patterns from w. and
r SIoane,s, broadway, New York, on exhibition
at J. W. Mcknight Co.'s, No. 1427 PenAsylYa-
MIA avenue.
There was another affray at the corner of Elev-
enth street and the Avenue last evening, in which
two men, named Lyons and Parkinson, were en-;
gagged. These sffrays about that corner seem all
10 emanate from a restaurant on Eleventh street,
near the Avenue
A woman named Margaret Castle is missing,
and it is supposed that she fell from the boat F.
Ensinger into the canal, above GeorgetoWn, near
vas OiS last seen but her body has not yet been
found if she did fall into the canal
A coIored woman named Angelina Jones died
very suddenly last night st her home on Della
ware avenue, near D street southwest, after hav
ing apparently been in the best OF health all day
IoIg The cause of her decease is not known, but
The coroner Will hold an examination to day.
A lady named Mrs Mitchell was attacked with
\ sudden illness Saturday evening at the corner
Of Tenth and streets, and, falling to the pave
head. She was taken to her homo, on Nineteenth
street. by Oticer Smith, and physicians ser
vices secured.
George Sharp, a colored boy, Saturday moro
ing, fell from beer wagon while crossing the
railroad track Cd @ street, near New Jersey ave
nue. and, striking his head violently agains: the
pavement, was quite severely injured. He was
conveyed to his home, near the navy yard, by
Oficer Janiter.
Geo. Simms, slias Brown, stole pair OF shoes
from Mrs. Patsey Matthews Patsey is two
hundred and. ninety y-pounder, and Simms easily
made his escape from her clutches, but she re-
lated her grievances to the officers Of the Fourth
precinct, and the unprincipled Simms was a.
rested by officer HGney.
Mr.. Forsyth, the surveyor Of the District, has
finished survey of the west line of the Potomac
from street, Arsenal grounds to Fourteenth
street. Long bridge, as ordered some time since by
the Commissioners. This survey will show the
line Of the wharves as now existing, as also the
wharf sites as laid down on the map Of Major FL
lott.
About o'clock Saturday evening a number Of
weIlknOwn roughs engaged in a free fight at the
cOrIer Of Eleventh street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue., and Officer BTeen succeeded in Rrresting two
Of the number, "Bub' Eagleston aud Dennis
Shea, with the assistance OF one of the witnesses
ofthe afiray who was the only one who responded
10 his call TOR assistance.
The Chief Signal Ohcer's meteorological sum-
mary for the month Of October shows that during
the month there were 10 clear, 2 cloudy, 10 fair
and days on which rain or snow fell. Daily
mean barometer, 30.030; highest barometer,
3O.554. Daily mean temperature, 54.1o; highest
temperature, 100. Prevailing direction of the
wind, south greatest velocity 30 miles per hour,
On 3lst.
''It is often darkest just before day" is saying
which the attaches Of a morning journal can now
easily attest the truth Of without prevaricatIon.
The butchers and hucksters will also JOIN in the
testimony. The gsslights in the streets are usu.
ally turned of from thirty minutes to an hour
before day, especially in stormy weather This
practice is right in the hands OF burglars and
highWsymen. Whose fault is it?