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MISCELLANEOUS Paragraphs Of Interest
= weather probabilities, estimated st O. m.-
1sE Saturday, in the South Atlantic states,
Ssrthvest winds, cooler, partly cloudy or clear
yeatneE and rising barometer Will prevail. sof
ssoler, northwest winds and clear or clearing
weather. 20
Tnernonetric readings taken April q, ls7e, at
the Signal Once: a. m, SO; TSS a. m, $50; II
no 2 m, re- AS p n, 9S; M, coo
For court proceedings see third page.
Behrend's Patent Catarrh cigar sure cure.
Safe, reliable, harmless and cheap, is DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup. Price only Is cents.
Try Marburg Bros. Seal Of North Carolina
Smoking Tobacco, 10 and 20 cent packages.
RIB. Ferguson, pharmacist, corner Second
street ana Pennsylvania avenue, Capitol Hill.
Trusses, q; also all the homeopathic medi-
etnes at Heller's drug store, under the National
hotel
An kinds OF trunks made to order, repaired and
covered at MeMurrsy's IS, sos Pennsylvania avenue,
Market Space.
Six per cent. paid on deposits, payable on de-
nand. Special rates on time deposits, ]. II.
Squier Co, bankers.
II. D. Cooke, j., & o. + street near the
Treasury, do general banking business and buy
and sell District securities, SC
The following marriage licenses were issued
yesterday: Geo. NJ. Pyle and Eliza a. Dorsey;
MAJOR Howard and Alice Boyd.
"A musical entertainment was given by the pu-
pills Of the Male school, which proved a pleasant
AFFAIR to those who attended.
Why is Georges celebrated BIG cigars the best
sutf Because each box contains a round trip
ticket to the Centennial Exhibition.
Yesterday in the FISH market r. A. Golden &
Brother fish agents, sold 5000 shad for sle6ls per
hundred; 5000 herrings for sl2913 per thou.
sand.
MiIhken's hotel, corner Tenth and streets
northwest. First-class board for regular or tran
sient guests. Easy of access from all the street
railroads.
Mr.. Howard Edmunds has accepted the posi-
tOn of basso Of the choir of the Church OF the IT,
earnation, which is now one Of the most efficient
choirs in the city.
The international Review" full Of the most
interesting literary and scientific Information has
been received from the publishers, A. S. Barnes
q Co., New York.
The eolored fair, now in progress at the Fiji.
teenth-street Presbyterian church. is largely at
tended each evening by many prominent persons
among the colered citizens.
Are we really to exchange Colonel wrfght's
clean streets for the dirty rOadways of Northern
cities, where the two-horse machines now simply
make the filth more apparent?
A Washingtonian, Just returned from trip TO
the West, reports that one of the most acc0mmo-
dating and enterprising ticket agents in the
great West is Mr.. Frank E MoOres, Omaha, Ne
Derby hats, in pearl, nutria and black colors;
tine nutria soft hats; youths and children's hats
IN felt and straw; silk umbrellas and walking
canes. STIEENETz,
Halter, 1857 Pennsylvania avense.
When people ask you where they can find the
best and cheapest, so and so, whatever it may be,
always refer them to the convenient and complete
Alphabetical Business Directory in the DAILY
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, to be found everywhere.
The ineorpOrators of the Georgetown and
TenallytOwn railroad, lately chartered by Con-
gress, have organized by electing Charles Becker
president and A. p. Pardon secretary. This road
is TO run from Bridge street, Georgetown, along
High street and the turnpike road to TenRll
town
Drunken Migrants upon the Avenue seem to be
on the increase. With shameless braVade, fall
grown men, clothed in creased and wrinkled gar
ments and redOlent with the fumes of beer, i'm
peri0usly beset quiet pedestrians for five cents
"a little help" Is there no protection from these
moral lepers? Are they the discharged witnesses
Of the Confederate HouseT
Mr.. Anthony Jones and Mrs. Jones, nee Syphax,
who were married at Asbury A. N. E. church on
the 10th instant, held q reception at their resi-
denee, 1914 Seventh street, Thursday evening, at
costly and beautiful articles, were exhibited.
The evening was enlivened by music, both vocal
and instrumental, and enjoyed by all.
"Those beautiful flowers,
' That in spring so fragrant are
Uan be had in every variety at the extensive
floral garden Of William FURNACE, on street. 4
between Sixth and Seventh streets northwest
mense trade by the cheapness Of his price and the
elegance Of his taste.
HThe following permits to build were issued yes
terday by Inspector Plowman: John H Lewis,
two twOstory frame dwellings on the east side OF
Boundary street, between Twelfth and Thir- |
teenth streets northeast; q, 500. r. E. Sinclair
brick dwelling on the west side Of Nineteenth
street, between Connecticut avenue and
Eighteenth street; $50.
Mr.. Richard Harvey, the well-known under |
takeT, under whose professional auspices Presi-
dent Lincoln, Vice President Wilson, Seereta- |
Ties Stanton and Rawlins and numbers of Sena-
tors and members Of Congress have passed out,
has purchased that elegant residence, No: 20
Grant row, on A, between Second and Third
streets southeast and is already domicied there.
little commotion was oeeasioned on street,
near Thirteenth street northwest, about $50 |
O'Clock yesterday morning, by vigorous cries of |
IRE. 1t was discovered that board partition in
longing to B. S. Dyer, had caught fire. The fire |
was extinguished before the flames spread by |
hose from No. engine house.
Messrs. Duncanson Bros, auctioneers, sold yes
terday afternoon, for Messrs. &. Ingle and n. |
Wilson, trustees lots q and 70 in Kibbey's sub
division Of square ST. fronting 20 feet each on
street, between First and Second streets north |
west, and running back los feet to an alley. Lot
q was purchased by J. H. McKeuney for 70 cents /
per square foot. and the adjoining lot for 74lL Il
cents by a. J. Whitaker.
A number OF prominent young ladies of this /
city have organized a temperance club, TO be /
known as the Young Ladies' Temperance Club. /
Saturday evening, and, as they all seem very |
earnest In the good work, no doubt success will |
Ss1s az their efforts The first meeting will be
AL interested in this work are invited.
The alarm Of FIRE at o'clock last evening from /
box Az, was caused by fire being discovered in /
the residence Of Mrs Smith, cOlored, rs Seventh /
street. The cause Of the tire should be warning
TO all who use cheap coal oil. 1t appears Miss /
Mary Cooper left lamp burning upon the table, /
which exploded during her absence doing slight |
the occupants Of the house.
A young man anxious to become welded en-. |
tered the clerks office yesterday afternoon and |
asked Mr. Meigs If he could procure the neces-
Ssry certificate. He was informed that 1t was |
possible. He then wanted to know il It could not
be kept from the reporters and displayed strong
desire 10 hide his proposed action from the public by
keeping the publication Of the issuing the license
out OF the newspapers. Mr.. Meigs suggested that Il
he might do that by going TO Baltimore and hav- /
ing the service performed. He skipped out, and Il
ere this he and the bride elect have probably Il
Hound contamination Of their hopes IN Baltf- Il
more without being so announced to the world
TBE CENTENNIAL SUITS for boys at
WI. WALLS, 81 Pennsylvania avenue
Sent Free.
Alex. rockingham & Co., bankers Z Wall
street, New York, will send free every week
Financial Report and Price Current Of the coadi.
ton of all the stocks dealt in at the New York