National Republican., 1877-08-06
rhcrmomctr,o Readings For Yesterday.
CITY NOTES.

CITY NOTES.
George Phillips, George Heath and A.
X. Belt raised a row in schwartz's.
The farmers and gardeners about Alex
andria are complaining Of corn thieves.
A little boy was seen buying dollar
pistol Saturday. Notice Of funeral hereafter
Sixteen tramps, male and female, found
lodgings in the station-houses Saturday
night.
Sixty seven arrests were made by the
police Saturday night. OF these fifteen were
drunk.
The Schuetzen-fest will be continued
to-day and tomorrow, both afternoon and
evening.
The Equity Court will meet at 10 o'clock
tAis morning aud the Probate Court at II q. m.
Tomorrow.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany are now running freight and passenger
trains on schedule time.
The annual agricultural fair at Rock
Vile, Md, takes place next month"; and extra
Inducements arc TO be offered for the appear
ance Of fast trotters.
A permit has been issued to Robert
Cohen 10 construct a thrcc-story brick dwell
ing on + street, between Fifth and Sixth
northwest, for $,loo.
--Rumor has IL that Captain e. Ledyard
Phelps, one Of the District Commissioners,
eontcmplates rcsigning, but tho gentleman
himself does not confirm 1t.
Mrs. Ellen g. Clark, through her attor-
ncy, Mr.. q. T. Hamilton, has filed hill for
divorce from her husband, John W. Clark, on
the ground Of bad treatment.
james Robinson, confined in the work.
house for disor,icrIy Conduct, has bcen par
aoncd by the District Commissioners on con-
eitiou that he leaves the city.
Marriage licenses haye been issued 10
The following parties: Samuel Triplt and
Mary J. Young; Paul Finch aud Mary J.
THICKER; +. Breslaner and Clara Gross.
Joseph NJ. Bell, a colored man, was
picked up by Officers Cooper aud Heffncr, Of
the Sixth precinct. late Saturday night suffer
ing from insanity. He was sent u his home
On l. street,
About 9 o'clock Saturday night boy
named Fenton Nolan, seventeen years of ago,
shot himself through the hand with pistol, on
Eighteenth street, between X and l.. DR..
Hagner attended him.
The District Commissioners on Satur-
day granted permit to the Washington hsy-
lum hospital to Louis Cooper, u sick and dcsti-
tute pauper, and a permit to the Insane Asy-
hm to Louis c. Jones.
If you have not read "Nimport," now
Il the time TO do 30. 1t will then be in or,ler
for you to guess who wrote II. The profess
ssonal critics have tried almost the whole
range Of human possibilities.
The new Riggs market, established by
butchers and other dealers on p. between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth street northwest, was
Soened for the first time Saturday, and the
s.alls were all well patroniEed.
Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights
~emplar, will have parade tomorrow after
,oon At Judiciary Square and inspection by
:frsnd Captain General Schultz, Of the Grand
Encampment Of the United States.
Officer Felt found dead white infant
Saturday morning in an alleyway, between
Fourth and Fifth and @ and WsshingtoI
i,emains were buried ut the expense Of the
District.
Officers Sutton and Lawler, early yester
day morning pulled gang Of five colored
Migrants, from ten TO fifteen years Of age
Their names were John Jones, Frauk Jones
Henry Williams, viii Thomas aud Fentou
psckson.
One Of the deck hands Of the steamer
Charlotte Vanderbilt fell overheard while th,
steamer was lying at her wharf at AleIAndris
ast Saturday. He very nearly drowned before
kaycock.
"a colored boy named Alfred Powell
found . gold, open face watch and plated
chain at the corner of Seventeenth and
street northwest and turned II over 10 tn,
police Of the Fifth precinct. Such honesty i
Eefreshing.
u,-Saturday evening Officer Barry found {
live new born white female infant wrappc'
PIP In some old clothes, in an alley betweel
-Four and a. Half And Sixth aud N and o street
southwcst. The foundling was deposited a
6t. AIMS Infant Asylum.
. The case of Lewis Williams, Mari
Hawkins and Patrick Wells, charged witt
breaking into the residence Of Andrew Lang
don at Le Droit Park, and stealing about so
worth of clothing, was partially heard in tn
Police Court on Saturday, and continued.
Edward Howard was fined ten dollar
Saturday morning for stealing pocket boo
from George Carmon. II would have heel
Dcheaper TO buy one. lI9 WAS also fined te
siollars or thirty days In Jail for stealing som
lslothing and money from James Curtin.
"A number of the fraters of Columbi
Commandery K. T., No. 2, are perfecting a
70 Cape May, N. J. These trips are alway
largely patronizcd by the Templars and the
friends and good time is assured to tho
who make the journey.
The Balti more and Ohio Railroad Con
pany Is beginning to realize what bonani
exists in the express business, and how mn'
money they have lost by not having II und
their control instead OF transferring 1t to on
side parties. Their arrangements are all col
plete and working admirably.
1t Is reported that parties in this ci
are negotiating for the purchase Of the Mar
land ferry steamer Virginia, plying hetwc'
Alexandria and the Maryland shore. for u
/: purpose Of running IL To the lower ferry, u
land and riparian rights for wharf at tn
point having been offered 10 them.
"A paragraph was printed Saturdi
evening that Mr.. Moody had concluded
hold meetings In Baltimore aud this city III
season, spending about three months In ca
place. No such information has been receiv
by the committee who wrote the invitation
Mr.. Moody, aud they believe that the stat
ment is unfounded.
The Michigan Republican Associati,