National Republican., 1875-05-29

States clear or partly clear weather, slightly
hGner temPetatu[e, " F ~ a.L
west and southeast.
Buy your groceries of Van Ness & 90.
A marriage license was granted yesterday to
| John A. Steele and Laura A. Cart.
Sherman Grant, bankers-Highest price paid
| for sos bonds and auditors certificates.
H. d. Cooke, IT., Co., street, near the
Treasury, do a general banking business, and
buy and sell District securities, etc.
Buy your railroad tickets to New York, Phfla-
delphia and other places at the Scalp ef1ce, at
the Continental hotel, thereby save nifty cents.
If you haven't bought your new hat yet young
woman, shroud your old one in Erenadine veil
look as distinguished as you can, and no one will
know the difference.
Hester DfEgs, colored, died yesterday at the
advanced age Of one hundred and ten years. She
resided in the alley between N and y and Ninth
and Tenth streets northwest.
Such achance will never occur again to secure
fine opera or field class, or an excellent barOms-
er, or thermometer, and many other articles,
than at the auction sale at Hemplers opticisn
store. ...r .... 80
Knife plating is very tastefulIy used TO trim
baSques. 1t is made as nne as crimping, and is
afterwards placed in rows across the front. Four
or Eve rows Of plating trim the wrist Of each
sleeve.
A large lot of lemons, fresh from the Mediter-
ranean, expected by the Malaga Fruit Company,
4Os Ninth street, today which will be sold low by
the box, hundred or doZen-in any quantity
wanted.
New necklaces are of small gold beads, strung
on q fine gold chain. They are intended to go
twice around the throat and hang down on the
breast. These necklaces were fashionable about
thirty years ago.
The constitution OF the Capitol Hill Oo-opera-
tive Building Association has been pu5lished,
and can be obtained Of the secretary, Mr.. R. b.
K street. Capitol Hill.
Yesterday at noon Mr.. Mark Latimer, the we'll
known salesman for Thos. bowling, auclOneer,
sold in the rear of the Treasury building among
other articles the plates, tools, &c OF Thomas
Ballard, the we'll known counterfeiter. This
trash brought S3l.
yesterday at auction for Jno. II. Goddard trustee,
the south half Of lot in square lS3 fronting thir
teen feet ten and half inches on Seventeenth
street northwest, between L and NJ, with i'm
proTements, for q, ,l25
The regular services Of the Reformed Episcopal
Church will be conducted in Lincoln hall to-mor-
Guire rector, otacisting. Attention is respect
fully called to the change Of hour for the night
service, which is now eight o'clock, instead OF
7:3O
The Astoria and Active base ball clubs played
. match game yesterday afternoon on the grounds
Of the ActiVes, at which, after game Of SIX In
oT37 to 9. The game was for Q dollsr-and-a-half
ball and fifty cents in cash, but the vanquished
failed TO give up either.
An awning attached to one Of the windows Of
the Fifth Auditors once took fire yesterday az
terpoon abont o'clock-probably by some one
throwing lighted cigar upon it-and was entirely
among the employees in the building, but beysnd
the destruction OF the awning no damage was
done.
Thursday night about o'clock, while crossing
at the corner Of @ and Thirteenth streets north
west, Mrs. Margaret Aylmer was knocked down
and run over by horse and wagon driven by one
John Buckley. Mrs. A. was assisted to her home,
lbs Fourteenth street, by Sergeant johnson and
Ofhcer Mulloy, and physician called. Ohcer
Collins arrested the driver, but the lady declined
to prosecute, and he was released.
Croquet parties can be seen every evening on
the numerous lawns around the city these pleas
ant afternoons, and in most every instance the
croquet set was bought Of Brad Adams, as he
has q fine assortment to select from. He has
filled orders from the pleasure resorts Of Virginia,
Maryland, and elsewhere, and those wishing a
good set can get them from 81 to S12-
On Saturday next Decoration Day, the steamer
Arrow, Captain Frank Hollingshead, will make
her usual trip to Mount Vernon, starting at 10
g. m. Instead of returning at p. m, as on ordi-
nary occasions, she will remain at Mount Vernon
during the afternoon and arrive at her wharf
about O'Clock, making the sail up in the cool Of
the evening.
A young lady in this city has made her appear
ance in shoes made of pink silk, with bands Of
faint blue running across the uppers, whereon
sprigs of lilies Of the valley were delicately
painted, while over the lower portion Of the beau
tiful marvels the brush Of an artist touched rose
buds and violets into almost fragrant realities,
while tiny humming- birds and gay-tinted butter
flies seemed to hover in trembling delight over
the dainty sweets hidden within the chalice cups
of the flowers