National Republican., 1875-07-24

Weather probabilities, estimated ct ] q. N: For
Middle and Eastern states, rising barometer,
southerly 10 westerly winds, warmer, clear or
The fcrmer, winds shifting to southeasteriy, with
possibly light rains.
Thermometric readings taken July q, 1876, at
the Signal Once: AIS m, 75o; 7:sS a. m, 700;
100; II D. m, 75o. Maximum, $50; minimum, 7So.
Try the B. U. cigars. They are the best Of all.
Smokers, read personal" in our advertising
columns.
See advertisement Of $50 reward FOR the return
of q lost pocket-book.
Neayes' food for infants, at the Homeopathic
Pharmacy, 9lI F street.
Sherman Grant, bankers-HIghest price paid
for se5 bonds and auditors certificates.
matinee this afternoon at O'Clock ct the
OOmique for ladies and children. The full pro-
gramme Of the evening VIII be given.
Six per cent. paid on deposits payable on de-
mand. Special rates on time deposits. J, Il.
Squire & Co.. bankers.
1t. Samuel BeIden, commanding the United
States steamer Fortune left the navy yard for
Pensacola, Fla, yesterday.
H. ID. Cooke, jr., Co., street, near the
Treasury, do general banking business, and
buy and sell District securities. etc.
From Brad Adams we have the latest numbers
Of the ATcadidn, Home Journal and the Clipper.
Mr.. Adams will mail papers to any one leaving
the city.
The carriage of Mr R. Roesner coIlided yester-
day afternoon with that of Samuel o. Robb, at
the corner Of Fifteenth street and Pennsylvanis
avenue.
The laborers' meeting, which was announced to
take place last night in front Of the City Hall,
was not held, as the weather was too uncertain 70
insure large sssemblage and q success.
Assistant Paymaster +. II. Clarke has been de-
tSched from the United States steamer Alarm and
ordered TO the FrOlic. He takes his clerk, Mr..
H. c. Richardson, who is well known In this city,
with him.
The WOmen's Temperance Union, of Washing
ton, will soon commence g series of public soci-
ables, which are mapped out with view to
making them specially attractive. Full an
nsuneement will be given hereafter.
The newly.elected board of directors of the
German American Fire Insurance Company has
organized by electing the following officers: John
HtZ. president: George F. Schsfer vice presi-
dent q. G. Lederer, treasurer, and E L.
Schmidt, secretary.
Yesterday evening" while some boys were play
ing in the branch between and p and First and
Third streets northwest, they found q dead female
infant, which was turned over to Oficer Heffuer,
who took tito the Second precnt station house
and notified the coroner.
The Sunday excursion Of the steamer Mary
Washington tomorrow, July 25, will be TO Mount
by their parents will be charged full price
twenty-five cents round "trip. Boat leaves Eighth
street wharf at l:30 ,. m.
james Cissel, 10 years Of age, fell out OF tree
at the cUrDer of Pennsylvania avenue and Thir-
teepth street east yesterday afternoon, and broke
his arm. He was taken TO the house Of his father,
corner of Kentucky and Georgia avenues, where
DR.. Mckim set the broken bones.
Thomas Geyer employed as q bricklayer's ap-
prentice on some buildings on Ninth street, on
Thursday Tell from ladder a distance of ten feet
and was badly cut about Che face, and had his
wrist and other portions Of his body injured. He
was taken to his home, No. $50 Ridge street.
Permits to build were issued yesterday as fol-
lows: James Burke, a tWo-story dwelling, south
side of II, between Sixth and Seventh streets
brick dwelling, Is by 81 feet south side of B.
between Thirteenth -and-a- half and Fourteenth
streets southwest; q, 500.
The Washington Schuetzen Verein have invited
In mid and pan Nluhf tn rforrn
the SchuetZenfest next week. With Q reticence
significant Of the name, the members have with
morning, when they will meet and finally con-
slider the matter and answer officially.
Prof Valentine gives another Of his select ex-
cursions to Marshall Hall, on the steamer Arrow,
next Friday night. The boat will leave the
Mount Vernon wharf at $50 p. m, sharp. Those
participating in the previous one will not fail to
Of 1t is also anticipated that many new faces
will be seen on this occasion.
About ten O'Clock yesterday morning Sergeant
carpenters tools, which were stolen on the 18Th
instant from house in course Of erection at the
corner Of Nineteenth and K streets northwest by
two small white boys. The tools, which were the
property Of Messrs. Briscoe and Scriyener, car
penters, were left in the house during the absence
on account of the yOuthfulness Of the young crimi
mails.
The regular exercises of the Reformed Episco-
pal Church will be conducted in Lincoln hall, Y.
NJ. @. A. building, corner Of Ninth aud y
streets, to-morrow morning ana night. the pastor,
Rev. William MCGUIRE officiating. The revised
Prayer-boOk Of the Reformed Episcopal Church
is in at these services and is furnished to all
wOrshipers. The public generally are cordially
invited.
On the 18th instant,las Mrs. Matthew Somers
talking with several other ladies at her resi-
dence, corner Of Twentieth and l. streets north
west, during thunder storm, she was struck or
stunned by lightning, and remained insensibIe
for nearly two hours. She has since been quite
Ill frsm the shock. 1t lie singular fact that this
1s the second time she has been stunned by light
ming.
A tug boat conveying two schooners, in passing
through the draw Of the Long bridge on Thurs
daY night, collided with the side OF the draw and
unshipped large port anchor with such force as
to throw It across the breakwater, though appa-
rently not doing much damage to either. the
tug cut loose from the damaged schooner, convey
ing the one to Georgetown, and returned to the
rescue Of the other.
A talkRtive Virginia countryman who visited
Washington for the first time yesterday diverted
q crowd of Post Once loafers by stepping up to
the stamp office and calling for lone Of them post
office cards that heered tell about, and three
post Office stamps" But the measure of laughter
was filled when, licking and placing a stamp on
the postal card, he scrawled a few hieroglyphics
that dehed translation. and remarked that
'them's mighty handy things for short letters"