National Republican., 1877-12-17
HOME AFFAIRS.
CITY NOTES.

-Roose sends New York papers In advance.
-Fifty-seyen tramps lodged in the station
houses Saturday night,
A new line Of gas-pipe has been put down
on street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
-Thirty-eight applicants for teachers posi-
lions were examined at the franklin School Build
ing Saturday.
The Downing Dramatic Club will give an
entertainment tonight at Odd Fellows Hall, OH
Seventh street
Forty -four arrests were made by the police
dnring the twenty -four hours ending at eight clock
yesterday morning. Fifteen were drunk.
--Liuie's Liring Age Is at hand for December
Is II has q sketch Of N. Shiers" from an English
pen. which is highly entertaining.
The pump on PENNSYLVANIA avenue, at the
corner Of Twenty fourth street. needs considerable
repairing The people In its neighborhood cannot
gel any water nom IT,
"A queer case of poisoning from wearing Of
striped kings is reported from st. Louis, the al
little girls died.
The young ladies' class of Hamline Church
will give parlor fair on Wednesday evening, the
HI Ninth street.
TEXAS Jack" and the peerless Morlacchi"
viii do the hOnorE Of the Opera House this week In
a"buiislo hunt" Let all the boys and girls go and
see the spectacle.
--Penccjumpers entered the yard of Mr..
James NJ Wright, 424 Massachusetts avenue, on
Friday night, and stole thereirom considerable
quantity OF poultry.
-Penny-a-line reporters, with sanguinary
expectations, will be dogging the steps Of Senators
ConkliDg and Gordon until IL is definitely an.
nounccd that no blood Is TO be shed.
The weather yesterday was mild and
pleasant At two o'clock the thermometer stood at
sSsh m SIy FoE he 20 mdd S pe
eomber the weather is remarkable.
A foul chimney in house No. 1923 New
Hampshire avenue northwest caught fire about
and Marshall succeeded In putting the fire out
without turning In nh alarm. No damage.
Saturday night, between seven and eight
o'clock an unknown colorcd man went into
bartered for pair Of shoes. While the proprie-
tors back was turned the seized three pair of
shoes ran out into the street. aud made his escape
IN the darkness.
The Sunday Herald says: Somebody who
has had the good fortune TO lose parro.-'a green
parrof-instcad of thanking Heaven nnd being
psstilenl bird.' The Herdids averon 10 parrots is
hot surprising. Even "a grace before meat re.
minds II of the pestilent bird and has tendency
10 take away the appetite.
About two o'clock Saturday afternoon the
son Of Mr. John Van Horn, residingnt the corner Of
Ninth street and South Carolina avenue southeast,
was run over by beer wagon, driven by Otto Dire
bold, and was injured quite severely. Dreboid was
arrested by Sergeant Arnold and lock ell up In the
Eighth Precinct station, on the charge OF assault
and battery, TO be tried to-day.
-LippiEoOtfs Mdgd=ine for January, 1878
beginning the new volume Is now ready and is an
exceedingly fine number. "Odd Corners In Aus
triR." being some account of the people of those
provinces bordering Oh Turkey now made dOubly
Interesting by the RussoTurksh conflict, Is All arti
Gle full Of interest while the continuation OF "Fo
Percval," Illustrated and various other contribu
uons serve TO show that the enterprise IL sure u
progress during the ensuing gear.
We have the Eclectic magazine for Jan
nary, 1873 from the publisher, J.. II. Pclton, New
York. II Is All excellent number and reflect
II
tAins an admirable likeness of Rev. Joseph Cook
with brief sketch Of the great lecturer scienc
and religion, by the editUr; an article, THE Scienc
Of Electricity Russians Turks, and Bulgarian
at the Theatre OF War" The Murder of Thona
Rocket" by Froude Ia Grand Dance de rAncei
Regiene," by Lady Augusta Cadogan, and other,
Price, So per annum.