National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-07-25
LOCAL MISCELLANY.


| weather probabilities estimated at l a. m
| For the New England, the Middle States
| and lower lake region, clear or fair weather
and slight rise in temperature, with westerly
| to sOuthcFly winds and rising followed by fall
| ing barometer. For the South Atlantic aud
| Gulf STATES, rain near the coast, AMI partly
| cloudy and coO'er weather in the interior east
Of the Lower Mississippi, with northeast to
southeast winds and slowly rising barometer.
Thermometric readings taken at the Signal
Office July 81, 1876: Ia. m, $40; 7:35 a. m,
Csc; I2 m, 72o; 2p.m no; 4;35 p. m, $50;
9p. m, O.; IL P. NJ, 64o; maximum, 74o;
minimum $50.
Behrend's Patent Catarrh Cigar sure cure.
The Board C. Health met yesterday, but
transacted no business Of p,%hhc interest
Left-of clothing, watches, pistols. &c.
bought at Herzog's, OH D street. Orders at
tended to.
Mosquito canopies as low as 1915; window
screens so cents each, at L. +. Clark's, 1928
Pennsylvania avenue.
All kinds of trunks made to order, repaired
and covered at McMurray's, sos Pennsylvania
avenue, Market space.
A fine orchestrion will perform every after
noon and evening at Henry schwarzenberg's
Orchestrion Saloon, 4o5 Eleventh street:
The county Commissioners of Charles county,
Nd, have offered an additional reward OF
$500 for the arrest Of the murderers of Everett
at a store near Glymont.
Floor mattings very low, next to cost, and
gold band window shades at greatly-reduced
prices, from IS cents up, at L. F. Clark's paper
hanging store, 1928 Pennsylvania avenue.
Metropolitan NJ. E. church is down for an
extensive excursion and picnic down the lrver
ne>t Saturday. This will be one Of ,nc. solect
and joyable affairs of the ses..son, See adyer-
tisement.
P. A Da-neille, auctioneef, has sold, for R.
s. JAWS, trustee, east half of lot SO, square
517, improved by a small brick house, situated
on Massachusetts, avenue, between Fourth and
Fifth streets northwest, to w. I'll. A. Wormley,
for 81 CPS.
]. II. Squier & Co., bankers, 14l6 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, pay six per cent. interest on de-
posits. payable on demand. Special rates on
time deposits. Interest paid January and July,
or credited.
Catarrh discharges from the head and all
chronic diseases cured. DR.. Hartley demands
no fee until the best evidence of success has
been realized from his treatment. Office, 800
Ninth street.
There has arrived by the Baltimore aad Ohio
railroad consignment of cars for the Anacos-
tia street railroad. The cars are handsome,
and were built hy Messrs. Bowers & Dure,
Wilmington, Delaware.
The missing son OF Rev. Joseph Wheeler,
pastor of Wesley chapel, has returned home.
He left Alexandria one week ago in the
throne n train with the int pntiOD of returning
to this city, but went on with the train to Bal
timorc.
"a beautiful crayon portrait of our next
Vice President, Mr.. Wheeler, by Mr.. Fassett,
in the show-window of MeSsrs. Solomons "
Chapman's bookstore is attracting great
deal of attention.
A very carefully painted and truthful like
ness of the lamented Mrs. William A. Wheeler
can be seen to-day at Mr.. Fassett's studio, No.
925 Pennsylvania avenue. 1t will be sent to
Malone, New York, tomorrow.
Cecilia Sicgcl, the servant in the house OF
Leonard Zeller, of Bennfng's bridge, who stole
a large amount of clothing and jewelry from
her employer Saturday night, was arrested in
Cincinnati Sunday night. Detective McEfresh
left for Cincinnati yesterday morning to bring
the fugitive to this city.
About 1915 o'clock this morning an alarm
of fire was turned in from box II, caused by
the burning of shed and fence in the rear of
house No. GO Cav street, Georgetown, owned
and occupied by Mrs. Hawkins. The fire was
eNtiDguished by the officers and citizens with
out the fire department going into service.
Loss about SO.
Tie popular professor z. L. Valentine has
Just completed his arrangements for one of
his popular moonlight excursions on the Po-
tomac. The steamer Arrow, Captain Frank
Hollingshead, will leave Seyenth-street wharf
at ESQ O'Clock p. m. on Tuesday, August 1,
aid return by 2 o'clock a. IN. Marshall Hall
will be the objective point, and all who attend
the ninth excursion will return well satisfied
| with the trip.
For some time past the admirers of both
animals have been .endeavoring to get up a
match between Mr.. Bnswell's bay horse and
Mr.. Galagher's brown mare. They finally
succeeded and the race came off yesterday
afternoon for purse of 500, on the National
track, across the Eastern branch. The mare
won the two first heats and race. Time, 81 and
IS minutes. About 400 people witnessed the
contest.