National Republican., 1877-09-24
rnEnMoMErRIc nEApIsas ron YEsrERpAY.
CITY NOTES.

they arc now
10 is open to discussion whether oysters
are fresh or salt.
The scar and yellow leaf has put in its
appearance again.
Butter Is becoming Grmer as the cold
weather approaches.
The latest thing out for ornJ nenting
room Is artificial ivy.
Nineteen tramps lodged in the station
houses Saturday night.
White hats are disappearing from the
streets. The helmet is the rage of the day.
"A policeman found a man with his hat
lying in pile on Twelfth street last night.
The equinoxial storm is little behind
hand or else |. does not intend to come at all.
AS the 18th Of October approaches,
boarding -housekeepers are raising their prices
Fashionable women are threatening
their husbands with camel's hair ulsters this
winter.
Charles Williams has gone to the work
house, and will tramp no more for three
months.
The intimntion that the scissors editors
of our contemporaries arc cliptomaniacs Is
frightful.
The attempt to organize dime club
has proved u failure, a. nobody could be found
who had dime
Luther Crossman will linger in Jail for
thirty days as personal favor to Judge Mills
for stealing a coat.
The police made fortv-two arrests Sat
nrday and Saturday night. Eighteen were
booked as drunk"
Only one marriage license was granted
Saturday: Walker johnson and Charlotte
Morris, Of Louisa county, Va.
-"She is woman who has fought hard"
was said on Saturday, because she has been a
mOthor-in-law for many years"
This Is the cream city now" Mil
wsukcean said Saturday. who is patron of
the Alderney Dairy Association.
People are appearing on the streets
now, morning and evening, like durable cdi-
tions Of good books-heavily bound in cloth.
Henrietta Bruce and Eliza Jones dis
turbed the quiet Of Georgetown by fighting
on the street. and were fined s. each by Judge
Mills Saturday.
Our exchanges are bustlng with frost
items. No frost need be expected here
very soon, as the hot times will begin when
Congress meets.
Albert Great was more than usually
loud and boisterous on the streets. and was
fined SO by Judge Mills Saturday. Who
would be great?
That immense turtle at the Imperial
hotel will be served up for q free lunch to-
1880 q. IN. and 2p. IN.
The last rose of summer Is only suffer-
ing on account Of its own pertinacity, and
people are fools to waste any sympathy on It.
1t should have died with the other roses.
As the President has extended n gen
oral invitation along the line of his Southern
"trip, for everybody to come to Washington, 1t
is expected that there will be big crowd here
pretty soon.
The team of Mr. Sandy Audit, of Bla-
densbury. ran away at the corner of Seventh
and streets northwest Saturday morning,
and the wagon was upset on tho curb, and
damaged considerably.
Saturday afternoon Sergeant Trunnell
found dead female infant in the river, near
she outlet Of Rock Creek Coroner Patterson
usve y certificate Of burial.
! Through the efforts of Moses and John
Buckley, colorcd, James Young lost bottle of
.bccr and q cigar, but their enjoyment was
short, as Judge Mills on Saturday fined them
rs each or fifteen days in jail
y The recent decision by District Attor-
,ney Birnoy that q man can play poker for
r.noney in his own house, has furnished an
,-xcelont defense for everybody hereafter ar
l-ested for keeping pokcrroom.
During the confusion at the fire at
VIM. VI. Calf & Co.'S feed store Friday night
i.ames Carpenter seized upon a set Of horse
slast long aud Judge Mills fined him $40 or
thirty days for getting caught
Where can | find That Husband of
EMine?'" asked a lady Of bookseller 81
think vou would he most likoly to find him
over there" replied the clerk, pointing to a
lager beer saloon across the street, and not
understanding that the lady wanted tho book
with that title.
-"BesSie's Six Lovers" "That Girl of
Mine" and That Lover of Mine" are each in
tho press of T. u. Peterson 4 Brothers, Phila-
delphia, for immediate publication. As the
three books are written by the most popular
authors of the day they will, no doubt, com.
mand large sales.
-"Theo," love story, by Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett, author of That Lass o
Lowrie's" will be published on Saturday next
tby T. D. Peterson 4 Brothers, Philadelphia
'"Theo" will be in cloth and paper cover, and
Itho authors name must secure for II an extern
sivo and rapid sale.
EARLY yesterday morning Thomas Dun.
can, cook OF u schooner lying at Emery
wharf, foot Of sixth street, after quarrCluG
with Charles II. Stokes, sailor on y vessel
near by, attacked him with an AK. Partie,
tnterfered before any damage was done and
Duncan was arrested and locked up in tn,
Sirst precinct station.
saturday evening n little child named
6arrc Ray, one year old, daughter Of Pro
HeSSOr NaN, VINO ftslutS on tOur-hnu -n-nAl
Between \ and o streets northwest, in some
~ay got hold of Il bottle Of concentrated lye
of which 1t drank. Medical aid was soon OBJ
tained, and, although the child is very sick, II
is thought that II will recover.
A meeting of dozen men, represent
ing workingmcn's organizations, was held II
Brooklyn last Friday night, and was addresse,
by John Pope Hodnett in favor Of urging tn,
President to recognize the Irish element il
the country by appointing Michael scsnlar
surveyor of the port of New York, or confer
ring upon him some other position suitable t.
his rank among Irishmen.
Saturday night two brothers, name,
VIM. L. aud Abraham Smith, had trouble at
house In the northern part Of tho city, an,
William stabbed Abraham in the arm with
pair of scissors, inhcting quite a painful
wound. william WAS arrested by Office
Roderick and confined in the Second prtcinc
station. 1t appeared that William was quar-
roling with g.rl, when Abraham intcrfered
and was rewarded by being stabbed.
The National Grand Lodge Of tho In
dependent Order of Good Samaritans ant
Of Ganaria nj North ktnerirn hal,