National Republican., 1877-09-12

CITY NOTES.

The wet weather Of yesterday was fatal
20 base ball.
There was an unusually large market
yesterday morning.
This Is the season when a man gets out
his last years rubbcB and looks mournfully
1t the holes.
The oyster-shuckers, who have been
pending the summer in idlencss, have re.
mmcd business.
No movement has yet been made to-
ward having running meeting at the Ben.
sings track this fall.
The board Of managers Of the Labor
Exchange will meet at Mr.. A. s. Solomon's
residence tomorrow evening.
The tramp Is buttoning his coat over
his bosom, and waiting patiently for the night
odging g-housc toopen for the season.
1t is sign of The times TO see forty
men with push carts crowding around depot
when there is only one trunk to lug away.
Charles Wallace and T. c. Caccachin,
Two jolly marines, were fucd IS each In the
Police Court yesterday for indecent exposure.
Hot scotches will soon be in season, and
he hundreds who have signed the pledge dur.
pg the summer will be exposed to sore tcmpta-
lion.
WHO'S that tapping at the garden
Iate 7" asked romantic Mr.. Smith. II guess
rs the swill man. replied the practical Mrs.
omith.
The city was rid of four vagrants by
Judge Mill. yesterday in tho persons of Isa-
BELLA johnson, Mary Lee, John McWiliiams
md Richard Monette.
The bodies Of still-born twins were
found in an alley between Ninth and Tenth
and and o streets northwest, yesterday af-
ternoon, and taken to the Sixth precinct station.
The society prophet looks forward over
along line Of pound parties, spelling matches,
yociables, gingerbread festivals and charity
Ialls 10 be given this winter In aid Of the
Labor Exchange.
Jeremiah Dismcr used profane Ian
Euage because q man would not let his horse
and wagon remain on his lot for little while,
md he paid s. TO the marshal of the Police
Court yesterday.
Jane Boston (col. beat Sarah Wilson
talso COL over the head with lamp because
the saw her husband go into Saliic's house
with her own two eyes" and had to pay Judge
Mills s. for her temper yesterday.
Walter Chase, an Ethiopian cyclop, was
arrested by Sergeant Acton and Officer Mere
aith for the larceny of an ovcrcoat and an
snibrella from Mr.. {. 4. Trevitt, and he was
yesterday sent to Jail for the grand jury.
Many OF the restaurants are exhibiting
mammoth watermelons in tho windows.
mammoth ham which has been suspended in
front Of q prominent grocery establishment
for q long time has been discovered to consist
Of sawdust.
The interest In Temperance in this city
has not abated. II Is fashionable now to 70
before q magistrate and swear of for six
montls or year without making any fuss
about it, or dancing around with stsrched re.
gala and red rosettc.
Two small boys, aged about fve and
ix years, were arraigned in the Police Court
Tor destroying private property, but the Court
holding them too young to come within the
meaning Of the law, dismissed them with q
seprimand. The complainant in the case was
Ar. T. @. Hoover.
In the Police Court yesterday Francis
Simpson, q colored boy, told how Mr. Francis
Iaighton had kicked and slapped him be-
cause he had whipped his son in 6ght Mr..
9aighton said the two boys were fighting and
-ie separated and slapped thom both. A fine
~ - was imposed.
Patrick ]. Murphy swore out q warrant
against Matthew Hogan for assaulting him,
and when the case was tried in the Police
Court yesterday, he was sorry he had done it,
and begged the court to let Hogan of. The
would not do it. A fine Of IS was imposed.
Lisped Willie TO his pop.
He gave, and Willie leized his hat
And went 10 play shortstop.
Papa now roaIns around the house.
And makes plasters Of mustard,
For Willies arm is In 4 splint
And three OF his ribs are busted
AT nine o'clock yesterday morning
John Mccarthy, q boy ten years Of age, was
thrown from horse, at the corner Of Ninth
street and Pennsylvania avenue, and had his
arm broken. Sergeant Hollinberger took him to
DIR. Cutters office, where the limb was set, and
the boy was afterwards taken to his home, at
the corner Of Sixth and X streets southwest.
William Balantyne, of No. 42s Seventh
street, supplies school books alike to dealers
and schools. He has for sale large assort-
are "Aoore's Forge" one Of the "Win aud Wear
series, published BY Robt. Carter, and the
Autobiography and Memoirs of Rev. William
Arnot," by his daughter, same publishers.
The case against Mrs. Annie E. Wood,
charged with loud and boisterous conduct was
dismissed in the Police Court yesterday. 1t
appears that she acted somewhat exctedly in
front Of Gen. Mussey's office upon his refusal
to pay her the alimony allowed by the court
during the pending Of her suit for divorce
from her husband. Gen. Mussey explained
that his action In the matter had been con-
trolled by the advice of the court.
Some two or three weeks ago Ralph
Bell, playful youth tapped colored woman
named Charlotte Bailey on tho back with a
cane. A week afterward she had a miscar.
riage and gave birth to twins. She had Bell
arrested, and attempted to prove in the Police
Court yesterday that the blow caused the pre-
mature childbirth. The Court failed to see
The connection, however, but fined Bell IS for
his undue familiarity with stranger,
The railroad company on Pennsylvania
Avcnue is now trying to ou;gencral the chariot
company and prevent the latter from, receiving
their tickets as fare, They issue ticket good
for six rides for twenty-five cents, instead o
six tickets, and the conductor punches tn,
card until the sixth time when he collects IL
This makes 1t bad for family man who want,
To distribute tickets among his family or EN-
ployees, and Il will be difficult to make tn,
Ian work.
The new building in course of erection
by the Washington Market Company is nearly
completed. 1t stands in the court Of the mar
ket, and the front is ON lipe with the north
ern fronts Of the two wings. Tho building /,
e70 feet long, 81 feet wide, and three st)rc,
high The lower story Is III Yi1cd into twelve