National Republican., 1875-06-22
PAYMENT OF SCHOOL TEACHERS
THE BLOODY WORK OF A SUICIDE.
The COurts Yesterday-A Fatal Aeei-
denf-ROIIy Tree DedicatiOn-The
Georgetown Female Semi
nary Local Miscellany
and Current News.

Weather probabilities forthe Atlantic States,
estimated at a. m, were stationary or falling
clear and partly cloudy weather.
Thermometric readings taken June n, 1875, at
the Signal Once: At 8. m, Geo; 1856 a. m, $50;
y 72o mi Il S E s aS p $50 % I p 80
DR.. A. Pratt, dentist, has removed his rooms to
the northeast corner Seventh and D streets.
Cream punches at Gautier's, SST Pennsylvania
aveDCe. Opens every morning at O'Clock.
Sherman * Grant, bankers-Highest price paid
for 3-65 bonds and auditors certificates.
Six per cent. paid on deposits, payable on de.
mand. Special rates on time deposits. ], II.
Squire Co., bankers.
The body of young Conrad Kremb who was
drowned while bathing in the Potomac river last
Sunday, has not yet been recovered.
From sunshine TO shade. Only seven hours
Tide to Rock EnOn Springs on the Great North
Mountain range.
H. d. Cooke, jr., & Co., F street, near the
Treasury, do a general banking business, and
buy and sell District securities, etc.
The iron-clad torpedo-boat Hero is now lying at
the navy-yard wharf, ready for the sledges and
wedges Of the destruction corps.
The work Of extending the track Of the Wash
ingtOn and Georgetown railroad along First street
west to street SOUTH and up B to the curve on
the hill, is nearly completed.
Ton, the bellringer at the navy yard, is q father
He sold all his chickens to one Of the officers of
the yard yesterday, so that he could devote his
entire attention to his son and heir.
Twenty, 25, so, 100 and $50 pound packages of
store, southwest corner Ninth and streets. The
25-pOund pals very tne. Prices low.
George Duvall, cOlored, residing at No. 1442
Sampson street, died suddenly on Saturday after
neon. DIR. Hartigan made post mOTtem exam
inatiOn, and 8scertained that death was caused
by congestion Of the brain.
AS the first Of July approaches the anxiety
among the clerks and other employees of the Gov
eminent increases 1t is their distribution day
distribution Of yellow covers" with an inclosure
that usually informs the recipient that his SER
vices are no longer necessary.
EYesterGay afternoon an alarm was turned in
from box 60. caused by tlre being discovered in
house No. 636 North Capitol street, owned and
occupied by jeremiah U'COnnOr. 1t originated
in q closet among some old papers. Damage,
$lOO; covered by insurance.
John Ryan, a one-armed man, was driving Q
cart along Pennsylvania avenue yesterday after
noon, and when near Third street accidentally
He was removed to his home on Half street, near
southeast. The coroner was notified, and will
hold an inquest at 10 O'Clock this morning.
Among the many improvements on Capitol Hill
is one now being made in the lower story of the
house No. 3O3 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, by
thoroughly rettted, q handsome walnut counter
and set Of shelves put IN, and when the painters,
who are now at work, get through the place will
be opened as a sample-room.
Sunday evening, as the Southern bound mail
train on the Baltimore and Potomac railroad was
rounding q curve approaching Odenton, man
was discovered sitting on the end OF crOss-tie.
Before the train could be stopped the engine had
knocked the man OF the track. He was found to
have been struck between the shoulders, but was
ascertained to be Dennis LoWman, residing in the
neighbOrhOod Of OdentOn, and it is believed that
he sat on the end Of the cross-tie and went to
sleep. Some Of his friends took charge Of him.