National Republican., 1881-08-16

Arlington.--H. r. Wright, U. s. N; G..
+. Gardner J. Jarvis, New York; W. Richardson,
Brooklyn; Professor Hcmyrel Dresden, Germany.
81. Mdrc.-M Schloss, New York j. S.
Allston, Wilmer shclwel, Maryland II. II. Muir
ray, Kentucky.
Imperidl.-J. Il. Johnson Cincinnati I;
II. II. Warren, New York; Henry Dickson, Virginia.
Wormicy's.-J. NJ. Davis, Boston.
You can publish a three-line advertise
ment of want, rent for sale. or lost three times for
twenty-five cents in TnE REPUBLICAN,
Judge Pelham will speak at the Read
juster mass meeting at Fairfax on Thursday.
Hon. DHnid V. Baker, of Portland, Ind,
is guest Off II. stine, 82j street southeast
A REPUBLICAN, myrmidon heard lady
yesterday seriously refer to ankles as "lowcr
wrists" Culchaw!
Miss Mary j. Dearr, clerk in the
Treasury Department, is lying quite i'll Mt her
home In Philadelphia.
Colonel w. II. Boyd, special agent of
the Census ONCE, has gone TO New York in con-
nection with statistics Of distlers and brcweries.
The schoolmaster is abroad again. He
is perched on q street. lamp near the Baltimore
| and Ohio Railroad depot. lie spells II Dclcware
avenue
Ground was broken yesterday for the
new high school building on Corcoran square, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh and o and p streets
northwest.
The value Of advertising in TIE Ma
TtoSAL REPUBLICAN is shown in the return yester-
dny to its owner Of q tame white parrot uftcr a
weeks wandering among the city foliage.
A horse attached to the buggy of Mr..
Richard Earnshaw ran away at the corner of
Eleventh and streets southwest Yesterday morn :
ing aud completely demolished the vehicle
The many funerals of editors out West
lately are the direct result of having their hats
chalked at Eastern wnering.places Shecphead
fish and sheepheaded quilld drivers don't jibe well
together.
Mr.. n. MacDaniel, the Washington
ticket agent Of the Virginia Midland Railroad, who
has been taking briny "dips" at Ocean city for
some days, has returned to his postagan as brown
as berry. -
The Clan-na-Gaels of the District are
making arrangements to join in the Yorktown
celebration. II Is expected also that the Clan mn
Gnel organizations throughout the country will
participate.
Mr.F +. d. Chamberlain's class in the
Pension Office have presented that gentleman with
beautiful French plate gilded scone as n test-
monial of their kindly regard for his uniform
courtesy and attention.
The police are hunting for Mr.. Benia-
min L. Ellen, butcher who left the Western
Market Saturday afternoon and has not been
heard Of since. His friends fear foul play. He is
twenty eight years old.
Another man has turned up who
claims to have been elected President His name
is Louis Holmes, a native Of Hanover, Germany,
from which he cmigrated six years ago. lie will
probably be sent to st. Elizabeth.
The rifle match which was to have
taken place at Bcnning's tomorrow afternoon be.
tween the Columbia Rifle Association and teams
from Westminster and Baltimore, Nd has been
postponed till the first week in September
Justice Wylie has issued an order re-
turnablc August o. in the case Of W. +. Weber,
who applied for an injunction against the Wash.
ingtOn Musical Association to restrain them from
interfering with persons belonging TO his band.
A young lady on Fourteenth street was
giving the whole family away fearfully the other
evening by playing on her piano. She might as
well have opened the front shutters or taken in
milk at the front door. Some people have no dis
cfction or strategy.
The Jolly Mariners" returned Sun
day evening looking brown and healthy, from n
Through the Kind hospitality OF the people of
Leonardlown their experience has been one of UNI
iritignted pleasure
The National Rifles will give another of
their popular excursions to Marshall Hall to-mor-
row night. Those who have participated in these
ford, and those who have never gone don't know
how much fun they have lost
Mr.. S. b. Taylor, wife and daughter,
Miss Nellie left the city this morning to join Mr..
Thomas +. Taylor and wife, who have been sum-
merng in Clark County, Virginia. They were ac-
cOmpaned as far ms Boyd's Station by Miss Clara
Dawson, where she intends spending few weeks
of the heated term.
A row occurred at the Fair grounds yes
torday afternoon between several stable boys, and
during the melee Sam Anderson was struck in the
| head with Il crowbar by colored boy named Henry
Warren, and received severe injuries. Anderson
was taken to Providence Hospital in the police
ambulance but his assailant escaped during the
| excitement
Colonel II. NJ. Rogers, as will be seen by
the advertisement gives another of his first class
musical excursions down the river on the Mary
Washington to. night Tuesday. These excursions
| are elegant and enjoyable, and the class who 60
| upon them is of our best society. Singing dane
| ing, and reciting are among the exercises. This
| boats large open deck makes 1t the most homeikG
| ofany on the Potomac.
Colonel Garrick Mallery, Major j. W.
Powell, DR., Hoffman, DIR. d. W. Prentiss, and Pro.
fessor o. T. Mason left yesterday to attend the
meetings of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Science IN Cincinnati Tomorrow.
| The remaining delegates will leave in q special
obseryation-car at eight o'clock this morning, by
| the pennsylvania route, reaching Cincinnati NJ
| half- past SIX Il. IN. Tomorrow.