National Republican., 1876-09-13
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coo; - m, $50; . p. m, $50; ass p. M,
$50; minimum. 60s.
Straw hats are disappearing.
The Rockville fair opens to-day with rainy
prospects.
DR., D. W. Bliss left last night for brief
visit to Michigan.
Buffers stove exchange, corner of Fifth and
K streets northwest.
Prof. Marini has put in Q new front to his
hall which greatly improves its appearance.
The police will again be disappointed today
in receiving no pay. The situation is hard on
the men.
Left-of clothing, watches, pistols, &C..
bought at Herzog's, 917 D street. Orders at
tended to.
There are a thousand more pupils in the
public schools now than at the close of the
last school year.
AL kinds of trunks made TO order, repaired
and covered at McMurray's, sos Pennsylvania
avenue, Market space.
The Associate Survivors of the War of 1919
did not celebrate the anniversary of the battle
of North Point yesterday.
The New Loan-H. D. Cooke, jr., & Co.
have the new AZ per cent. bonds for sale; F
street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth.
A fine orchestrion will perform every after
noon and evening at Henry schwarzenberg's
Orchestrion Saloon, 4S5 Eleventh street.
Washington Commandery, No. 1, Knights
Templar, will reconvene tonight, after their
summer vacation, for the usual Templar work.
Catarrh and offensive discharges from the
head-no fee demanded by DR.. Hartley until
perfect satisfaction is rendered to the patient.
Office and residence No. 6 Grant place.
Prof. ]. n. Langston has returned home
from the Eastern campaigns in Vermont and
Maine, and speaks very positive of the sue
cess of Hayes and Wheeler in that section.
An excursion party of colored people, about
five hundred strong, from Staunton and Char
lottesville, Va, arrived in this city yesterday
morning, and visited the points of interest.
Repairing, painting and fixing up for the
winter has commenced among our citizens'
1t is but short time now to the meeting of
Congress, and soon all will be hurry and
hustle.
In New Haven when there is to be, on ac-
count of inclement weather, but one session of
the public schools, teachers, parents and pupils
are notified by striking twenty-five on the fire
alarm bells.
J. 81. Squier & Co., bankers 1416 Pennsyl-
yania avenue, pay six per cent. in crest on de-
Posits, payable on demand. Special rates on
time deposits. Interest paid January and
July, or credited.
Mr. Geo HINT epoinaar OF +ba CoIr~b;o
Bank Note Company's building, was knocked
down and badly injured on the Avenue Tues
day afternoon by collision with the horses at
taehed to carriage.
The trustees of the Mutual Protective Fire
Insurance Company of the District have unan-
imously elected John T. Given, esq, as trus-
tee, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Mr.. Augustus E. Perry.
VIM. Clary, boy aged about eight years,
while playing on the woodshed of his parents,
on street, near Third southwest, yesterday
fell and fractured bis right arm. The limb
was set by DR.. Il. E. Leach.
DR.. Francis S. Gather, a well-known drug
gist of this city, died suddenly of hemmorhage,
about 1880 O'Clock last night in his store, at
the corner of Ninth and II streets northwest,
DR.. Gather was in his fiftieth year.
On the night of the 7th instant a valuable
working horse belonging to Mr.. Francis Carter
was stolen from the stable at the corner of
Thirteen and-a-half and B streets northwest
A reward of s25 for its recovery is offered.
The commission to prepare a government
for the District of Columbia begin their ses-
sions to day at the Arlington hotel. The CON-
mission consists of Senators Spencer, Window
and White, and Representatives Clymer, Hun
ton and Hendee.
The Maryland Gazette, of Annapolis, saws
that Widen Painter, of Bridesburg, Penna.,
one of the candidates awaiting examination
for admission to the naval academy, is accused
Of stealing money from his friends in that
;ity, and has suddenly disappeared.
We call attention to the advertisement in
mother column of Smith, Blrge & Co., 1O14
Pennsylvania avenue. Their facilities for
'team and warm-air heating, manufacturing
is they DO their own apparatus, are perhaps |
superior to those of any other house in this |
.ommunity.
Officers Block and Shilling yesterday made "a |
aid on the policy dealers that infest the Fifth |
precinct, and arrested John Van Slyck, VIM. |
i. Williamson, French Simpson, Uriah Hilton, |
md Thomas Rutherford, against whom Alex |
nder Ross appears as complainant. The |
prisoners were released on security.
A dead female colored infant was found in a
ewer-trap, at the corner of Eleventh aud NJ |
treets, about O'Clock yesterday morning, BY
wo colored women. Officer Slater had the |
emains taken to the Sixth precinct station,
where certificate of burial was issued by |
Ioroner Patterson.
The following marriage licenses were issued |
esterday: William II. White and Laura V. |
Bradley; Thos. B. Goodwin and Clarissa Good |
nan; Rich. J. Earnshaw and Alice K. Harold: |
rhos. Smith and Ella n. Updike; Douglass
Topper and Eleanor NJ. Warning; J. Dixon
Doyle and Anna Bestor.
The Miner Normal school, formerly located !
It Howard University, but under separate and
Iistinct management, has been transferred to |
70. 1913 street northwest, and will reopen i
or the winter today. A competent teacher
as been secured, and the prospects Of bril- |
liant scholastic year are excellent.
The handsome clerk at Piney Point, whose
initials are the same, has had his hands full, it |
would seem. In fact It is currently reported |
hat he has gained the affections of decidedly |
lever and pretty girl near the Point, and /
verything indicates that they will be one soon,
Inless the little drunkard-maker has gotten /
head.
At the regular meeting of the Hayes and !
Wheeler Club Of Alexandria county, Va, held |
n Monday evening, a resolution was adopted |
eartily iDdorsing and ratifying the nomina-
ions of Hon. 1. c. O'Neal for Congress and |
Ion. Samson P. Bayly for Presidential elector,
nd pledging them the support and entire Re- |
'ublican strength of the county.
This evening, as will be seen In the adver-
isiDg columns, William Adams, ESQ.,, F. r. C. |
J., London, England, will deliver lecture in
he hall of the Georgetown Medical College.
Ar. Adams is one ofthe eminent surgeons who |
anne to our country to attend the Interna-
ional Medical Congress, which met in Phila-
elphia last week. He holds some original
Jews as to certain advantages to be gained BY |
surgical operations. The pro-,
ession here are indebted to the trustees of the |
Toner fund for the opportunity of hearing Mr..
ADAMS views and learning what advances 1
urgery has made in this direction. The lee
ure is free to the profession and the public. |
ientlemen's Youths Children's |
rock Coats, Derbys, kits,
'antaloons Frocks, d. B. Sacks,
nd Vests, Sacks HarneyI
'lack English and Jackets,