National Republican., 1876-08-28
GENERAL NEWS OF THEclTY

AND WHEELER CAMPAIGN CLUB
Reragraphs Of Interest
jlities estimated at a. NJ
b Eastern States, rising, sue
Ter by slowly falling SSarome
,ationary temperature, northerly
Iinds. finally backing to south
northern portions and continued
weather.
ometric readings taken at the Signal
eugust 81, 1S76:7 a. m, $40; 7:35 a. m,
IL m, $50; 2 p. m, 100; 4:95 p. m,
p. m, $40; II p. m, $50; maximum,
minimum, $50.
5ehrend's Patent Catarrah Cigar, ,!sure cure.
Left-off 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.
Professor Sheldon, of the art terpsichore,
will inaugurate his twenty ninth season with
grand opening next Saturday night.
A fine orchestrion will perform every after
noon and evening at Henry schwarzenberg's
orchestrion Saloon. 405 Eleventh street:
Marriage licences have been issued to Bartol-
emes Brizzolari and Victoria Assta; Stephen
Hevins and Mary Tyler; Thomas Jones and
Alice E. Jenkins.
meeting OF representatives of the local
press will be held at the Critic Office at $50
o'clock this evening for the purpose of trans
acting important business.
Mr.. Larman. superintendent, has kept his
men working faithfully, and the laying of the
water main on the south side of Pennsylvania
avenue is nearly completed.
During Saturday and Sunday night sixty
nine arrests were made by the police of the
District. Twenty-one persons were locked up
for drunkenness in the streets.
The National College of Pharmacy held
special meeting last Saturday afternoon, and
passed suitable resolutions in regard to the
death of the late Robert P. Southall.
James Meredith, colored, a fugitive from the
workhouse, was captured Saturday night by
Oficer West, of the Second precinct, and
turned over to the proper authorities.
JH. SQuier & Co., bankers l416 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.
Last Saturday morning Officer Burgess found
the dead body OF a colored female infant
on L, between Twenty fourth and Twenty-ffth
streets northwest, and after taking it to Il e
Fourth precinct station notified the coroner.
Insure your real estate and personal prop
IN +ha oF
Washington and Georgetown, D. c.. (ofTice
over Bank of Washington.) Prompt payment
Of losses are guaranteed to all policy holders.
Two horses attached to a wagon took fright
at the corner of Seventh and B streets north.
west Saturday night, but did not proceed far
before they ran into the market house wall,
tnjuring themselves and breaking the wagon.
B. Il. Warner, real estate broker and auc-
tioneer, sold at public auction, for NJ P. Cal
Ian and Charles l. Davis, trustees, on Friday,
August 25, the west half of lot 81, square 200,
TO Morris Keim, at 81 Y cents per square foot.
The low wall Of stone inclosing the circles
in the grounds east of the Capitol has been
utilized, by being furnished with a wooden top
to accommodate sitters. On pleasant nights
two long semi-circles of lovers sit in silence
and stare at the Capitol.
Mr.. Reitzel, president of the Washington
Free Thinkers, left the city last Friday for a
abort lecture tour. On Friday night he ad-
dressed the Free Thinkers OF Philadelphia, and
from that city he proceeded TO Egg Harbor,
where he is to deliver an address in English.
Hon. Halb-rt E. Paine, well known prac-
titiOner before the bar of the Supreme Court
and the courts of this District, has accepted
the senior professorship in the Law School of
the Georgetown University, succeeding Judge
Paschal, who has resigned.
Saturday night, between 10 and II o'clock,
Reuben Norris and George Fisher, both COL
ored, got into a fight at the corner of Beall
and Monroe streets, Georgetown, which re-
suited in the former shooting the latter in the
calf of the leg. Officer Riley arrested the
shCotist and took him TO the Third precinct
station.
About O'Clock yesterday morning Officer
Mcmahon turned in an alarm of fire from box
126, caused by an explosion of a coal-oil lamp
in house No. 215 Ninth street northwest, set
ting fire to the clothing of servant girl which
was eXtipguished with slight damage. The
services of the FIRE department were not
needed.
A team attached to buggy containing three
young men, and driven by Charles Wright, ran
away on Pennsylvania avenue, near Lafayette
square, yesterday afternoon, and succeeded in
scattering the buggy along the street for two
squares, besides partly smashing another.
One OF the young men was thrown out and
slightly injured.
A communication has been received from a
boy suggesting that parents pay for the two
months schooling that will be lost on account
of the lack of appropriation, sustaining his ar
gument by suggesting it to be preferable to
having the unearthly yells Of the children dur
ing that time, and letting their minds 90 to
seed, also that it would pay expenses.
Considerable excitement was caused at the
corner of Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, between 10 and l O'Clock this morn
ing, by three shots fred in quick succession
An investigation was instituted and it was
found that one of a party of young men on
lark had fired the pistol for the purpose of
making little celebration.
Officers of the Fifth precinct, Saturday night,
raided an establishment in Temperance Hall
alley, presided over by dusky female named
Alice Gray. Two of the inmates, who were
anything but Dianas. were arrested with the
proprietress and locked up. This establish
ment was gradually becoming an intoIerable
nuisance and the raid was well-timed.
Saturday night three white men, named Wm.
Belt, Thomas Mantz ard John Pickering, en-
tered house on street between Twelfth and
Thirteenth, and caused considerable demorali-
Zation. They locked the door and assaulted
one of the colored female inmates, named
Hattie Cogswell, beating her quite badly. The
three were arrested by o ficer Smith,
Highway Robbery.
On Saturday night, man named Charles
Davis was assaulted and: beaten by Emanuel
Lacy, on o street, near the Corcoran square
market. After receiving severe beating he
wos robbed of $50. Sergeant Acton and OIL
Ger Smith arrested Lacy.