National Republican., 1877-12-20
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CITY NOTES.

--Roose sends New York papers In advance.
The old wooden shell Of house located
q the corner Of Twenty-second and X streets
should be torn down.
ncr of Tenth street and Pennsy lvania avenue wus
In progress yesterday.
Tho old tar.shed stu ated at the corner of
fwenty-third and streets is being repaired and
haed up generally for work.
Servants rolling baby carriages along the
street should be Instructed not TO stop paSsageways
BY siringing them four or five abreast across the
pavement
The latest advertising dodge is for a dress
maker TO send to the newspaper All account OF a
wedding in order to state thai the dress was made
~ her establishment
"A musical and literary concert will be
given at Mckendreo Church, Massachusetts ave
hue, between Ninth and Tenth streets tonight for
the benefit OF the Sunday-school.
Mr.. Henry Clay England, practitioner
kiisw ~ the Supreme Court OF Maryland and also
D this city, will lecture At Lincoln Hall tomorrow
night, In answer to Bob lngersOll.
Arrangements are being made In Lynch
burg TO run an excursion from that city to Wash
hgton over the Midland Railroad, leaving there
en the 2lth inst. aud returning on tho 26th.
The numerous holes in the street pave
ment at the corner Of Ninth aud streets were the
cause Of team being stalled aud the strcet-cars
delayed for at least quarter Of an hour.
The regular weekly spelling.match of the
lale Grammar School, Franklin building, will take
Interesting TO outsiders, who are invited TO Gi.end
When a young swell is seen going down the
street with big watch chain dangling down IL may
b Imagined that bunch ofkeys is sticking in his
pocket for the watch that has found its way to the
nearest pawn-shop.
The temperance cause seems to be pro.
gessing very iayorably In this city. In thres
nights two hundred and siI persons signed the
pledge at Union Chapel on Twentieth street. dur.
ing temperance msssmeeting.
| Yesterday afternoon O little colored girl,
whose name could not be ascertained, living on
clothes catching FIRE from the stove which she
was playing. Drs. Mauss and Bacon rendered med
teal assistance.
Postmaster Edmonds proposes to give the
alternate eoloTed safety steps. proposed by Mr.
fhe public will then be able to test and Judge foI
kself OF the value OF the invention.
AT the annual election Of the Columbis
Lodge, No. 8, +. and A. NJ, last evening Mr. A. X.
l. y. Mcmillan senior warden, DIR. T. =. Gibbs
junior warden. M N, A. Tnppan was reelected
secretary and Nj. J. r. Thompson treasurer.
Tho New York Tribune thinks that many
courts Of the District OF Columbia would certainly
Disgrace any sober jurist. Perhaps Ii Is Judge
Humphreys friends who are trying to establish
the fact that he IN chronic inebriate; but aftei
ing an injured reputation.
"A pleasant party of ladies and gentlemen
yn made up at the Y. II. C. A. rooms last evening
Pr the purpose Of making q visit to the National
Observatory 70 view Mars, Saturn, aud the lunal
party had the pleasure o2 viewing the SeSSsni, % nj,
bodies through one Of the larger telescopes. Afts
We visit to the Observatory the company REPAIRED
psnt the remainder Of the evening in social con
Gourse.