National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-06-16
CITY BREGITIES.

The Marine Rand has enriched It's repertoire
With number Of new and saehAduiIred selections,
Tie United States tug Fortuhe Is undergoing
Slight pIalrs at the navy yard.
A prominent millinery and dIrssmaking
establishment Of this city will remove 10 Saratoga for
ths season.
The court has passed au order that hereafter
% o,,tio'Uri will be granted except upon snidRvlt
upon merits.
A new political organization, imrcno.rahly
mysterious In its secrecy, la, unmtrous member
ship In this city.
DE Molay Com,nandery, No. 4, Knights
T'mplar will give moonlight excursion down the
sivsr about July H. .
Hari times and increased activity in the
temperance movement have greatly dcmOra lac,l The
retail IirTOT business
David s. McCurly was fined SO by Judge
Smell yesterday hr assanlting benjamin D. IiaiIeck.
81 hi, store on Pennsylvania avenue last Thursday.
Many are the vicissit,ldcs Of human life, blu /
they seem trivial enough when compared with the
sIS ami downs In the career OF hill horse street
railway.
II is expected that Dis hop Simpson will
preach In The Metropolitan church tomorrow morn.
Ing, and al night Dr. Newman will give his second
srTmon on tho Turks
The court in J,,ac yesterday, In the case Of
TAlbuTy the Metropolitan Street railroad Com
psny, affirmed the Judyiacui below, which Eives the
psainun damages fur vs.
Little Jimmy Hair, colored youth Of tbrco
summers, was brought intn the POcr Court yestcr-
ny on warrant sworn out by Edward Motor, before
Justice o. =. H. Wall. Tor assault and nattery.
A coal.oil lamp exploded In house kept by
awoman named Judy Williams on Third street. H..
10 o'clock iait night. The flames were eItnguished
~ the Inmates before any damage war done.
81 have a father In the promised land, "
eaily sang the Jolly school boy. well, then" re-
piled q discharged and disgruntied Treasury clerk
shat GIes YOU you can keep out Of the promised
Ind I'LL the old man gets through only one Of q
hmny!"
On Monday the Patriot base ball club played
the Actives, whom they defeated by score Of u to IL
On Thursday the Our Boys, defeating them also by
score OF Is to TO- To-day they will play their first
game for the championship with the AsiOrias, al
SoPm.
Rev Clay McCaulcy will deliver, in Willard
ball, at O'Clock sunday evening, his lecture tn,
great Unitarian divine and Christian Teiormer Or
Ghanning discussing DR.. Chanung's character an,
bis thought and showing the plac" he Occupe, In tn,
development Of religion in America.
Yesterday morning Officer McIIenry took
10 Providence hospital man named John Wallace. Ui
Ivy CITY Whose shoulder was d.siOcai.d, Wallace
was struck by q locomotive N the Baltimore and
Ohio road IN Thursday night and thrown MY yard
nom the track.
number OF gentlemen who have long
boon on the list NJ employees Uf the Washington nav!
yard are considering for the Establishment Of
s,srIn Of relief for those whom old age
sccdentnl injury cUmpels to retire and for the hnl
hes or employees killed by accidents occurring in III,
line Of duty.
The seventy seventh complimentary mu
sic,l reception Of the Washington Conservatory u
Music was given last evening At Music hail No ~
Ninth street under direction Of Professor o Is Bul
IAI,L A very fine programme Of music was presented
and the eNrCutiun the hest sort ot reCOmme Hda
Gcn for the Instruction. sNcd at the CONSERVATORY
Seymour W. Tullock Of this city, graduated
~ the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute. AT Troy n
" on "wednesday, the I2th instant. His theses was
.Revcw Of the new wrUush iron lattice bridge OF III,
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company over the ITud
son river at Troy" lie Is the son Of Hon Thomas
TuIIock, ant graduate Of the Emerson Institute, .
tLi- city before entering the institution at Troy,
Mr.. J. II. Staiicy, late chief clerk Of th,
Dead Letter Office, Post Office Department died sud
denly TheaTt disease nt his residence on u street
IsDltoI Hill, Thursday afternoon, about . O'Clock
Nj g. WAS one Of the organizers OF The Republican
marty IN Indiana, and edited u Republican paper a
aoaIn lend Ind for many yeATL His funeral vii
laka niacs tomorrow, nj Pm