National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-03
You can publish three-line advertise
ment ofwant rent, for sale, or lost three times for
twenty-five cents in THE REPUBLICAN,.

The man who does not advertise has
II done for him finally under the head of Fail
ures in Business"
Marriage licenses were issued Saturday
to Benjamin A, Miller and Lizzie Walter and J. W.
+. Taylor aud Mary l.. Curry.
Captain Edward ON. Congdon, of the
Treasury Department, has gone to Cincinnati to
take part in the campaign for Foster.
The Pennsylvania Republican Assoca-
ton will meet this evening at ST. Georges Hall,
Eleventh street, to organize for the fall campaign.
One of the heads of bureau of the In
terror Department has proven himself such sneak
that the clerks under him heartily detest his sncaky
appearance.
The swimming-school on New York
avenue will be open this week. A delightful
party of ladies and gentlemen enjoyed themselves
there on Saturday night.
The police made sixty arrests during
Saturday, twcnty.sx of which were for intoxca-
ton Seven dodgers were accommodated in the
station houses Saturday night.
If anybody thinks John Hancock can't
catch splendid black bass up the Potomac he's
mistaken. A half dozen tine specimens recently
swan into this Office from Johns hook and line.
A horse attached to w. j. Schneider's
wagon ran away on Bridge street; near Washing.
ton, in Georgetown. Saturday, and broke the pub.
lie hydrant near the bridge by running against it,
The Public Printer is still busily en-
gagged on orders for printing given by Congress
more than year ago. About 5000 copies OF the
Agricultural Report for 1880 yet to be delivered
Judge Richardson, of the Court of
Claims, will deliver the opening lecture before the
Georgetown University Law School on Wednesday
t icc" "'N'' ''' '"''''' VIII " 'D''''"' N0'
The "pink-eye" is disease that has
greatly afflicted horses In this city the Washington
and Georgetown Railroad Company having already
sixty horses in their stables suffering from It, 1t Is
said to be an aggravated form OF influenza.
Early Saturday morning two colored
thieves attempted to burglarizo the store Of Mrs
McKenncy, corner OF Twenty second and streets
northwest by forcing open the shutters but were
frightened OH before enecting an entrance.
The Capital City Guards, Captain 7. s.
Kelly, and the Washington CadC Is, Captain C. A
| Fleetwood have accepted an invitation to visit
Baltimore, October TO- and TO take part In the mill
tNry and civic parade of the oriole celebration.
The Catholic knights who win visit
Baltimore during the oriolc pageant will be re.
! cciycd by the Knights OF 81. Vincent, who have
| rendered them grand soiree on the 18th Instant
Nearly If not quite all the societies in this city
| have accepted the invitation
| The coal dealer and winter hat man
stand aghast at this weather, aud ia the anguish
of their souls are ready to curse Hazen, Vennor
| and all other weather cranks and die and til,
| ind.hear,ed public syinpnthzc with them decpl!
and stick to empty CRATES and old hats
A sealed package was received Mt the
| City Hall Saturday which contained the testimony
ofMr L. X. Haight, witness for the defense II
| the Chrlstiancy case He was In Peru at the tint
Mr. Christiancy Is alleged TO have driven his wife
from him. and his testimony Is stated to be cor.
| roborative OF certain acts OF cruelty.
Archbishop Gibbons, of this diocese, hal
appointed the following days for the forty hours
devotion in the District of Columbia January %
4, AT
! for St. Marys German Churchi March 20, for 81
| Matthews; June 4, for 81, Patrok's, August ha
been assigned for 81. Mary's, at Rockville, Nd.
Professor Il. T. Fristoe will deliver thu
initial lecture before the National Medical Colleg
of the Columbian University, at the college build
ing on II street, between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets, this evening, At eight o'clock takn
| for his subject 1.-THE Chemistry Of Water" whic
he will illustrate with interesting experiments.
The funeral of Mrs Sarah n. Hayes
wife Of Mr. Charles W. Hayes, took place at Al
Souls Church Saturday afternoon. Rev. d.
Shipper spoke eoquently Of the many. virtues O
mains were deposited IN vault at Glenwood bu
will be shortly removed TO New York for burial
4 white woman named Catharine AclS
ems was arrested Saturday afternoon on u charg
OF stealing $50 from d, NJ, Keyes, well known her
as proprietor OF bowling saloon on tho Avenue
near Eleventh street. The prisoner was taken
the Flnh Precinct, but subsequently her friends b
strenuous efforts secured $50 and she was release,
on collateral.
Owen Flood, whose attempted shooting
of oliver W. Longan has been referred to IN I'll
REPUBLICAN, was arraignod In the Police Cour
Saturday for simple assault but Judge Sne
stopped the proceedings, and ordered the prosecul
ing attorney to draw up an Information for assau
with intent to kill. Tue case was then sent to Ill
grand jury on $4,000 bonds,
Four cart drivers, named Abraham A
well, Horace Conway John Jones, and JAM
Grady, were fined 81 each in the Police Court sau
day iorhauing offensive matter through the street
Their employers Messrs II. G. Jones and Jamt
Ffawey, Will also be prosecuted, and 1t is eNpuctC
that, If conviction follows, the full penalty of g.
for each ollcnsc will be imposed,
The mean temperature of September f
this year, according to the signal Onlcor, was II
higher than any previous record. The nearc
approach to 1t the past decade was In SeptembC
1874, when the mean was 7Oi2. The lowest nca
temperature I'm September the past ten years W.
In 1871, when the record was G2Go, The total raj
fall last month was 2l9 inches, which is below Il
average.
Charles Milligan, young man en-
ployed In the Posi-. ONCE Department and llyir
with his parents on Third street northeast, Satu
day afternoon, while riding on his bicycle near Il
corner of Ninth and G streets, was thrown violent
to the ground and sustained compound inctu
man TO the Emergency Hospital, where his broke
limb was set by DIS. Parsons, MarkriIer ana JOIN
son.