National Republican., 1877-09-28
RnAnINas roR YEsrHRpAY.
CITY NOTES.

The plum crop has been very large
this year.
The odor Of the cnamcled leather used
In covering baby carriages Is said to be
poisonous.
1t took millions Of years to evolve man
from the clam but II takes less than u minute
70 transfer the clam into man.
Most people have returned from the
watering places. some are detained by pitt.
le-s landlords on account Of unpaid board.
bills.
Pleasant little dancing and chatting
parties under the cloak Of "Pick.wick clubs"
Literary Associations" Evenings with
Shakspcarc' Nights with Dante" &c.
The Society for the Promotion Of
Church Work continued their session ut ~.
Johns church yesterday, and last evening
the society was addressed by Bishop Whipplc
Of Minnesota.
MIR Smith, who has to lug q scuttlc Of
coal mp stairs three times n day, reads with
prospective joy the announcement that the
coal fields Of the world will be exhausted In
two thousand years.
They all do IT," says the "Danbury
News Man." In humorous little hook pub
Bshcd by lee 4 shepard, Boston, and for sale
by WIN. Ballantyne, No. 42S Seventh street.
Pricc, cloth 81, paper 30 cents.
pihih Nipil'l1
altered from the style Of last year. will be
maintained this winter, but ulstcrs will also
BE- extensively worn. Some of those saved
over from last year will be worry much worn.
Daniel Long was tried in the Police
Court yesterday for an assault on John X.
Scott, q special watchman at the Baltimore
end Potomac depot, who had arrested him for
disordcrly conduct. He had quite fight with
tho officer, but as he had evidently gotten the
t.fit Gna nf AZ nnlx xraa tutnax.I
DIR. Joseph Il. Clark and John +. File
quarrclcd In Georgetown beer saloon We'd
nesalay night over some financial transaction,
end each had the other arrested for M assault
The cases wcro tried In the Police Court yes
icrday, and Judge Mills holding that they were
equally guilty Of the charge, fined them -
each.
The "Bon Nivants" Of this city are in
clover, owing 10 tho announcement made In
our columns that Wclckcr, the world renowned
gastronomic artist, is 10 reopen his famous
restaurant Mt No. ~ Fifteenth street north.
west, on Monday, October |. Long starving
deniEcns can now be filled up according to
their taste and appetite.
Fire was discovered in the cooper shop
Of James II. Ridgeway, on High street,
Gc0rgctown, about 9 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, aud M alarm turned IN from hox 72l.
The shop was saved, but tho stock was de.
wis no insurance. II is supposed that the
building was set on hrc. Mr., Ridgcway's shop
an Water street was also found To have been
opened.
--tongrcssmen are beginning TO arrive,
aud the boarding houses are raising their
prices. The unhappy clerks who have been
living IN the best parors during the summer
are now moving mp stairs, from floor to floor,
o. fast m the prices are raised, until they
finally reach the sky.parlos. This Is said by
. correspondent to be because CoLgrcssnicn
want rooms convenient to the street, 40 that
when they come home from q caucus they can
get tn bed without disturbing the whole
house.
VIM. Harrison, colorcd was charged in
the Police Court Yesterday with M assault ON
Emily Brooks, his sister. who tertihed that hr
pulled her OF loung. and crushed her 10 the
ground, aud then heat her numerically. biting
her shoulder and then tying her hands behind
her. The father and mother testified In de.
fcnse that the woman was perfect terinagant,
and that all William had done TO her was done
in sclf.dcfcnse. She struck him first, broke all
the windows In the honSr, and was 80 violent
In her treatment Of him that they had To tie
her hands behind her to keep her from killing
him. The prisoner was discharged.
A visiting EnVlishman, named Arthur
Frazier, thought Capitol policeman, named
ThOS. q, ingalls,, was exceeding his authority
In arrcst1rE negro whom he considered inno-
cent Of any ofrns". ~ he Shock the officer
from his prisoner, and held him until he cs.
capped. lie WAS then arrested himself, aud
appeared In tho Police Court yesterday to
answer for an assault on the officer. The
Court iinpos"d n fine Of $40, but II was reduced
n ~ upon his explaining that ha thought
Ingalls, was merely a porter aud not police.
man; that he was entirely ignorant Of the
laws of this country, and that he thought hc
wS right in succoring the oppressed.
AN INCIDENT or Tng FIRE.-hn artis,
Of Harprr's W,rtiv, when about faishing q
skctch Of the Patent Office fire, taken from
the printing Office window over Mr.. Bcliew,
book store. and when the flames from tb,
burning stable on u street threatened III,
stores on Srvrnih street, the knight Of III,
pencil thought he would render assistance Il
the proprietor Of the printing establishment
aud suiting the action 10 the Thought forth
with commenced tb empty caSr after ease 0l
the type into a sack which he found around
Having made ''pl'' Of the material In this way
che friendly artist In lowering IL frun tn,
window the haz brramo undone and tlr ron
tents were scattered on the pavement below.