National Republican., 1879-09-24
CITY NOTES.


Good 25-ccnt meals at the Holly Tree.
The only Turko-Rus,ian and sulphur bath
house in the city, 903 L street northwest.
The business Office Of the Alexand ria
Gazette was robbed of $50 Monday night
B. T. Queen, of the st. James news stand
sends the New York Clipper for the current
week.
The tramps are beginning to appreciate
the soft side of Il plank at the various station
houses.
-Twenty-seven thousand two-hundred and
ninty.one dollars Of the illegally assessed
water tax has been refunded.
The best Vienna bread in the city can be
obtained only at +. Freund's, 702 Ninth street
northwest; also confectionery.
-NIuldoon proved himself to be solid man
yesterday. lie made the home.run which
won the game for the New Bed(ords.
Bernard Jemison, II coored rough was ar
rested by Sergeants SatIe and Slattery Mt the
| circus last night for carrying slungshot.
Efforts are being made TO have q female
| deputy warden appointed, to have charge of
the womens department of the District iail.
The Willard Brothers have asked for the
| improvement of Fourteenth street between
Pennsylvania avenue and f streets northwest.
The application of Charles ii. Gallagher
| for liquor license for his restaurant at the
day.
In the case of William c. Chase, convicted
of petit larceny in the Police court Justice
Hagner has granted writ of ce,tio,ari as
prayed.
The grading and cutting Of the race. tracl,
| at Ivy City has been completed, and work men
were engaged yesterday in putting on the top
dressing.
-Two-thousand six-hundred ana forty.one
drawback certificates for revision of special
assessments, aggregating Sl6s, s,7s760, have been
issued to date.
The ladies of E.street Baptist church will
have social reunion on Friday night. An
excellent musical and literary programme has
been arranged for the occasion.
| The Commissioners yesterday notified
citizens that they will be liable TO i'm addition
Of 30 per cent, on their personal tax bills un.
less they make their returns before October l
james Perkins, who lives on Twenty.third
street, celebrated the event Of birth in his
family Monday night by shooting off gun i'm
his front yard, for which Judge Smell yester.
day fined him IS.
The old WOrden building at the corner o
Ninth street and New York avenue belonging
10 the District, and formally used as a station
house, has been ordered to be torn down. by
the Commissioners,
The Commissioners have declined to OK
| tend the public sewers into lie DrOit mark
on the ground that the streets in the park arc
private property aud must be improved ut the
expense Of the owners
Persons not paying their arrcaragos o
general taxes before the lst of October will
have to pay ten per cent upon the aggregate
amount of the taxes, penalties, cost of ad yer
! tising and auctoneers' fees.
; The Gracelsnd Cemetery Association In
elected DIR. o. +. Prcsbrey president; T.. {
Cate secretary and treasurer, aud Samuel Non
ment, Thomas l.. TullUck aud BENJAMIN FREQ
man directors, TO serve the ensuing year.
Henry Brown, who resides on tho cOrne
of q and Eleventh streets, in this city, ha
. shown US II ball of cotton which has bee,
Q grown at that locality, aud perfected since Tia
. 10Th Of July last. 1t is MS good cotton Us
9 grown in South Carolina or Alabama
Charles, George G. aud Henry G.. Bradlc
: entered suit yesterday against James c. AM
; James A. Griffin, w. W. Corco,an, Authon,
Hyde and Charles Nj. Matthews, to restrai
the sale, under deed of trust, OF six houses q
= ID street, between First aud Second southens
: "A delegation of citizens aud property
. holders visited the Commissioners yesterda
. and asked for the improvement of Sixth stree
a between NJ and Boundary streets nortlwcs
II new pavement cannot bo laid this ia
., they ask for the removal of the decaye
, wooden blocks before winter sets In.
. The initial part of series Of dramati
: performances, TO be followed by dancing, wi
be given Ht Talmadge Hall, Tu sduy, Outob,
r 81 under the management of A. b. Anderson
who 80 successfully managed similar entertain
ments last season. The series will number To
). or more. Some Of our best talent has been 81
/ cured, consisting in part of Mr., George "
/ Rice, w. +. Simons, Misses Leila Redd, Ell
| I and Eaupia Rgnnaft