National Republican., 1876-09-06
OF THE oARSNEN
Miscellaneous Paragraphs Of Interest

Weather probabilities estimated at l a. H.
For the New England and the Middle States
rising barometer, north and westerly winds,
cooler, followed by partly cloudy weather.
Thermometric readings taken at the Signal
Office Sept. 5, 1876: Ia. m, $50; 7:S5 a. m :,
$50; 70 m, 700; . p. m, 700; 4:35 p. m,
7Oo; p. m, 61O; II P. m, So; maximum,
no; minimum, $50.
Cool nights have come again.
Gold opened yesterday at 1O915.
Nature will soon put on her autumn suit.
Left-of clothing, watches, pistols, &C.,
bought at Herzog's, 917 D street. Orders at
tended to.
All kinds of trunks made to order, repaired
and covered at McMurray's, sos Pennsylvania
avenue, Market space.
"Goods for fall and winter wear" seen in
the store windows, remind one of the near ap-
proach of cold weather.
An excursion train on the Baltimore and
Ohio road brought 525 Centennial travellers
from Chicago to this city yesterday.
A fine orchestrion will perform every after
noon and evening at Henry Schwarzenberg's
6rchestrion Saloon, 405 Eleventh street:
Frank Cassidy, who is wanted in Cumber-
land to answer a charge of larceny, has been
arrested by Detectives Coomes and Miller, and
is now held for an officer from that city.
J.H. Squier & Co., bankers 1416 Pennsyl-
Vania avenue, pay six per cent. in: crest on de-
posts, payable on demand. Special rates on
time deposits. Interest paid January and
July, or credited.
The sub-contract for the laying Of the Neu-
chatel pavement on Pennsylvania avenue has
been awarded to the firm of Childs & VII
iams. Joseph Williams, Of the firm, will
sup rintend the work.
The alarm of fire from box 145 about II 80
O'Clock last night was caused by an incendiary
fire in a small frame house, No. 93} Fifteenth
street, occupied by Eliza beth Brown and owned
by W. W. Belknap. The loss was about $50.
About o'clock, yesterday afternoon, some
boys set fire to the straw in the Mission tent,
corner of Seventh and II streets southwest,
by throwing q Ignted match IN It. The fire
was extinguished by some citizens before any
damage was done.
The last excursion of the Lyceum Bureau
series takes place this evening. The manage
ment deserves to be well patronized for they
have been untiriDg in their energy and efforts
dependent Order of Good Templars, join with
the bureau tonight.
An essay by Samuel c. Busey, NJ. D., of this
city, on ''the gathering, packing, transporta-
tion and sale of fresh vegetables, their chemi-
cal constitution and nutritive value, competent
inspection, and free markets for produce
has been reprinted in pamphlet form from vol
ume Public Health Papers of the American
Public Health Association, and will prove OF
much interest and value to large class of the
American people.
A gentleman from Virginia, who is visiting
Washington, was struck in the head and
severe wound inflicted by a stone thrown by
one colored boy at another. This occurred on
one of our most frequentcd thoroughfares, F
street, near Thirteenth. OF course the police
cannot be present to make arrests at all times,
but arrests and punishment when the result is
not serious would soon put an end to the prac-
tice, and insure against serious results.
An art souvenir of Washington and the
Union has been designed by Captain j.
Goldsborough Bruff, of Washington, intended
as patriotic Centennial picture. 1t repre-
sents the important scenes of the Revolution
from Cambridge to Yorktown in the letters
composing the name of Washington, with a
chronological chat of the leading events of
his life: also views of Washington's birth
place, Mount Vernon and the old and new
tombs, the national arms, the old flag and the
independence Bell. As 2 patriotic memento
of the Centennial year the picture, which has
been heliotyped from the original design, will
doubtless have an extensive sale.
Last night the Womeu's Working Christian
Association Of the North Carolina avenue mis-
zion held the last of their festivals at the
Gospel lent Fruit, ice-cream and other deli
caCies were laid before those who were iortu-
nate enough to attend in most tempting
manner. The effort on the part Of the ladies
was a success. The tent was appropriately
decorated, while the wcll-filled tables showed
that the zeal of those who had charge of
them had been earnest. Financially, the
effort was all that could be desired. This en-
tertainment closes the teut meetings, and here.
after the revival that has been in progress
there will be continued in the chapel.