National Republican., 1875-06-29

The Eastern and Middle States, rising barometer,
northeast to east winds, cooler, clear and partly
Atlantic coast.
Thermometric readings taken June q, 1875 at
the Signal Once: At 9. m, 80; 1885 m, SO;
80; Ii p. m. FSo Maximum. $50; minimum, $50.
Sherman Grant, bankers-Highest price paid
for 365 bonds and auditors certificates.
Cream punches at Gautier's, 81 PennsylvHniA
aTenue. Opens every morning at O'Clock.
Forty-three dead fish were found in the trap n
the engineers once of the Treasury yesterday.
1t is rumOred that work will be resumed in the
cOpperrolling mill at the navy yard after the LIST
efJulV.
From sunshine to shade Only seven hours
ride to Rock Enon Springs on the Great North
Mountain range.
n8nd. Special rates on time deposits. ]. Il.
Squire Co., bankers.
John Cherry, who brutally assaulted his WIre'
was committed to jail yesterday, to await the re-
suit of the injuries he inflicted.
H ID. Cooke, IT., Co., F street, near the
Treasury, do a general banking business, and
buy and sell District securities etc.
The house occupied by Mr.. Davis at Mount
Pleasant was struck by lightning, Saturday
afternoon, and the roof partially burned.
The steamer MARY G" has arrived at the navy
yard, and is now loading with old iron taken from
of the ircn-clad torpedo boats PiscstaQua and
Hero.
Twenty, 25, So 100 and $50 pound packages of
the hnest butter received daily at Spicers butter
store, southwest corner Ninth and E streets. The
25-pound pals very fine. Prices low.
Yesterday, while ]. H. Peerce- shipkeeper at
the navy yard, was going from the United states
steamer Wyoming to the monitor CAtskill he fell
from the gang plank and sprained his ankle.
The receipts of coal by the canal for the week
ending Saturday amounted TO 26, 600 tons, and the
shipments during the same time to &,SGO tons.
This is the largest transaction in coal of any
week during the present seas n.
Yesterday Collector Cooks office was continu-
ally thrOnged with persons anxious to pay their
taxes but It was impossible for the clerks to make
out the bills and furnish receipts to all applicants
who wish TO save their property from the tax sale
to-day.
Mr. BENJAMIN F. Hunt, a we'll known butcher,
died at his residence, above Georgetown, yester-
day afternoon. suddenly, Of cholera msrbus. The
deceased was we'll known and possessed many
friends. who sympathiZe with the fsmilyin their
aftiiction.
DR.. John NJ. Woodwork, supervising surgeon
general of the Marine hospital service, returned
TO Washington this morning. He has been ab-
sent about six weeks to formally open the new
United States Marine hospital at San Francisco
California.
new organization is about to be raised in
St Stephens parish, West End, to be known
the Knights Of st. Stephen. Some twenty-five
or thirty young men of the parish have signifed
their intention to become members, thus forming
good nucleus.
Messrs Young Middleton, auetioneers, real
estate and insurance agents, sold at auction on
Saturday afternoon, for Mr.. John F. Hanna,
trustee, Captain John F. Mafht's life estate in
the three-st story brick house No 1914 K street
northwest, to Mr.. E. J. Martin, for sS,2OO
Yesterday morning force Of men were started
at work laying the track for the new North
STREET and South Washington Railroad Company,
q street, between New Jersey avenue and
Four and-a-half, under Mr.. QusckenbOss. This
company have already contrasted for the iron,
timber, &c, and the cars, the most approved one
horse vehicles, are being built.
Worthy Master Dudley W. Adams, of the Ma
tional Grange Patrons Of Husbandry, arrived in
this city yesterday to attend the meetings of the
board OF appeal and Of the executive committee of
the National Grange. The board meets to-day
and the committee on Thursday. 1t is the prov
ince of the board to decide all appeals from State
Oranges to the National Grange. The executive
committee have several important questions to
claim their consideration.
Scotch pIaids are used new as color for paper
and envelopes, and they the nobbiest article in
the writing line. The idea originated by
Brad Adams, and he received the first assort-
ment last Saturday. They put up in neat
boxes and sold for seventy five cents. Parties
stock up in the stationery line at the popular sta
tionery store, corner of Ninth and streets
French note paper seventy-five cents per quarter
Team, and everything cOrrespondingly low. He
also will take your address and mail any publica-
lion or all the new novels to any address during
the summer months. Don't forget to buy box of
the Scotch giEghams, as they are selling rapidly.
Rocky Point Hotel, Narragansett Bay,
will open for the reception of guests July l. This
pleasant summer resort is still under the man
agement OF Nr. L. h. Humphreys, its we'll l-kn0wn
proprietor. Eight steamboats, daily from PrOvi-
deuce and Newport land at Rocky Point.