National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-05-11
SPECIALTIES, 81. $3.50 AND S. PANTS TC
ORDER. ElsEMAN BROS, CORNER 7rH AND Z
CITT NOTES.

Turkish baths at Dr.. shedd'S, sos street. near
Ninth GO &C nts
-Hanlan Riley and Captain Boytou occupied n
box at Ford's opeta-house last evening.
The Horticultural society will open their nm
nuOl exhibition on the lst Of September
Tho only Turkish bath in the city, JO9 f street
near judiciary Square. Best shampooer this side
of New York. DR.. BoYee.
The annual parade aud review of the District
fire department Will lake place on the afternoon OF
the 2lst inst OH the plaza east oil the capitol.
Turkish. Russian and Sulphur Baths at the
well-known place g03 + street. near Ninth. The
only reliable place in the city for genuine baths
The counsel for George Brown yesterday filed
their motion for & new trial. II Is merely bill Of
exceptions, based upon the rulings of the court
at the trial.
Headquarters for disposal of second hand
clothing, &c. Call or address S. Guggenhemer
2s7 Seventh street southwest. Orders by mail
promptly attended TO.
Laura Turner and Elizabeth Smith, two col
ored shopliiters arrested in J. L. Goodwin's store,
on Seventh street, Saturday night, were yesterday
| fined sl0 or thirty days each.
The junk store of Mr.. s. Benzinger, on Louis.
ana avenue, was robbed yesterday morning OF
| seventy-iive calf-skins. The wagon used by the
| tn ieves was Traced to Alexandria
The house committee:on postoffices and post
roads at its yesterdays session instructed MI Stone
to repor. to the house bin fixing the salary of the
postmaster at Washington at $1,000 per annum.
| At n recent meeting of the board OF manage
ment OF Providence hospital Dr.. G. NJ Ford was
elected consulting surgeon, Or. j. $. Beale visiting
surgeon ana ~ w lISlltlCb NlslllHb physician.
The grand jury yesterday brought in an IN
dictment against Albert Brooks for forging the
name of s. II. suit tot posa money order for sS7.50
from the postmaster OF Ripley, Miss, and dated
March 5, 1880.
The centennial finance committee of Phila-
dclphia composed OF such men as General Joseph
| Patterson and John Nnnanaker, the famous
clJthcr arrived IN the city yesterday and took
rooms ut the Riggs house.
The contract for supplying the 100000 paving
blocks, for which bids were recently opened has
minis havs
required the bidders TO furlish evidence to theiI
ability to fulfill the contract.
A two-story frame shanty corner OF Nineteenth
and x streets occupied by Shadrach Goskins
caught fire little after II O'Clock yesterday morn
ing, and an alarm was turned In from box No. 81
The flames were soon e&tinguisEcd.
Bids were opened yesterday for constructing
sewer Oh Virginia avenue south, between Eleventh
and Twelfth streets, as follows: J, G. stafford
s23S5Gi II. Himber, $4,000; p, Moloney, 2Gl.2S
james Cannon, 1860. No award was made.
1t is denied by State department officials that
ball will be given in that building on the 9th in
slant Outside fany further objection there is M
; space in the building for the accommodation o
aball Of such magnitude rs the one proposed.
Tho secretary Of the navy has given permission
10 the sunday-school union to have the Unite,
States marine band in attendance on their process
sion aud review a week from next Saturday. Tn
secretary will also address the CHI ildren ON tn
Smithsonian ground on that occasion.
Detectives McDGyitt aud Voss en- ry yesterda
morning arrested colored man named Austi
Jackson, whom they found In the street carr yin
a sack Of -four: In his house in Jackson alley the
> found q quantity of goods stolen from Med DWELL
feed store, corner of Second and ID streets, las
Saturday night
The District commissioners yesterday orderc
that the building regulations OF the District OF CO
lumba be and arc hereby amended 10y adding tn
words Nor shall any wooden building, 10 be use
as stable be placed within thirty feet OF an
dwelling after the word purposes" in section /
OF said regulations. This applies only TO til
county.
The house District committee yesterday agree
insert an item Of $4,000 for Howard university an
5000 for repairs to the university building In III
: District appropriation 61il, Mt. Aldrch MAS q
I IeCtcd to report without recommendation the bi
looking to an amendment OF the charter Of th
university.
The many friends Of Mr.. W. j. o'Ncal viii lear
with regret OF the death Of his Wife which Occurre
: yesterday morning nj her residence in the fir
. ward. Mrs. o Neal had been prostruted for sever,
months with rheumatism which finally went
/ her brain, causing her death, She leaves two In
tercSting children who will share with their fatht
T the sympathy OF his many friends
Mary A. Hurdle WINS yesterday granted a
I yorce from Charles II. Hurdle. The parties wei
married In this city on September y, 1865, by Re
j. G. Butler, and lived together until November ?
1878 when she ehsrgss mat nc deserted her. ~
/ peated acts of adultery with Annie Miller NJ
, John n. oliver was solicitor for the complainant
The spring and summer suits offered by Geort
| L. Timms Il Co., southeast corner of Seventh an
ID streets, at the lowest prices, represent the late
, styles. These suits are made OF the best mqtori
| ana Snhpeu Dy hflSllC ChllcIh- ms ClutullB {
Enlistment has become immensely popular /
bringing il within the means OF man in modera
| circumstances to be always dressed neatly al
:, | fash Onably.
-GeySer water makes ono OF tue most pleasar
cooling and healtl ful summer drinks that can
s | found. g. u. q. Simms the druggist corner
b Fourteenth street aud New York avenue, has ju
received from Saratoga good supply Of Geys
water in bottles aud barrels. lie also dispens
from his celebrated "InvinGihle' Fountain De-
o Rock aud other mineral waters, with the most d
=. licious soda water favored with pure cream al
fruit syrups.
There is q complaint Of scarcity OF water In q
= neigh borhood OF tile now bureau of engraving al
G printing building. Water Registrar Cox has
?. guested the commissioners to issue an order
II Lieutenant Johnson, Of the second police precn
Il TO reflect that person be permitted TO use water
i. tue building or any other than domestic purpose
/. from the pump on Lincoln avenue GleuwoC
s. cemetery road, opposite the drinking saloon ca III
4. the hallway house,