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You can publish u thrcc.line advertisement OF
"wanted." "For Rent" For Sale" or Lost"
| three times for twenty-five cents iii THE REFuB-
| LlCAN.
Tomorrow is the twentieth anniversary of the
battle OF Antictam.
Miss Eva Mills will leave here the 25th inst to
sing in opera in Richmond and Petersburg, Va.
| Colonel Richard McAlstcr has just returned to
the city after year nnd half sojourn in Europe.
| Governor Wells and wife have returned to the
city froma two months sojourn at Saratoga Springs
aud the Adironducks.
Miss Jannette ]. Sumner and Miss Anne A. Rico
sailed September H. on the steamer Johns Hop
kins, from baltimore for Boston.
Mr.. Robert L. Downing left yesterday 10 join
MISS Mary Anderson, with whom he plays leading
| business next season, in New York.
McSsrs LauSburgh u Bro have engaged the ser5
| vices of Mr.. E. Hcine, prominent young business
man from New York, to act as floor m"nagcr of
| their new store.
A farmer named Purcell and Edward White, a
| horse-trader, got Into row about the age OF q
| horse, which resulted in the former being bned
IS. An appeal was noted
Mrs McCartee, the pretty soprano OF ST. Mat
thew's Church, has returned from'a trip North,
| looking much improved in health. She VIII DC
| in her accus omei place to- morrow.
Joseph Gordon. colored, was attacked with
cholera morbus, at Miller's restaurant, yesterday
| afternoon. He was taken to the Emergency llVs-
pital and attended by Dr. Markrttr.
Marriage licenses have been issued to Jacob
Miller and Josie Turner, Baltimore County, Mary
land; William Martin aud Margaret Koch, and
John L. Bradley and Elizabeth Grahum, OF ihis
| city
workmen are busy painting the benches in the
Smithsonian park. Many of the lenches were in
| a miserable condition, and first-class coat OF
green paint OIL them will add much TO the beauty
of the purk.
,orge A. smallwood, the colored man whose
arrest for biting the lips of dusky maiden named
| Annie Mars was mentioned in yesterdays RE-
PUBLICAN, was sent TO Jail for fifteen days. In de-
| fault of 60 fine.
Two drelge boats are at work in the channel on
the Virginia side of the river above the Long
Bridge Some parts of the channel have been a
serious cause OF complaint 10 vessel captains 60
| ing t. Georgetown.
Suit for s5,554 has been brought by the United
States against George Hill, jr., for waste paper
bought by Mr.. Hill from the Government Printing
0niCe. The declaration is sworn to by George
Larcombe, clerk In the Public Printers Office.
Colonel Joseph G. Cook, proprietor of Willards
returned from Saratoga yesterday morning look
ins very well. lie will leave next week to attend
tdc Stnte convention - be held at Saratoga. Will
lrds will open for the season on the DIST of Octo-
Der.
Nessrs. Hopk ms & Bros, 2O3 Pennsylvania ave-
nue., have for sale the United States Blue Book"
which is a complete register of Federal officers
nnd employees In each state, Territory, aud the
District of Coum bin giving the salary and emol-
uments of each.
A petition unanimously signed was presented
to Postmaster Anger yesterday, asking the estab'
liShnent ofa branch post office in the section o
the city near the Government Printing Office. The
petitioners recoIamend that it be located at the
northwest cor..er OF First and streets, i'll Mr.
Slater's stole.
Yesterday in the police court several merchants
doingibusness on Seventh street between and II
STREETS, were charged with obstructng the side.
walk in front Of their business places with pack
lug boxes. Minimum fines of S3 each were i'm
posed upon Messrs. Joseph Young Morris Clark,
and Randolph Goldsmith.
The Commissioners have postponed the award
lug of one half OF the Avenue sidewalk bids for
thirty days to test the pavement already awarded
| .
ready to nip the work, and the probabilities gre
that the pavement will be a fraud. Haven't We
had enough Of experiments?
About 1918 last night Sergeant Twombly dis
covered fire In the junk store of David Dryfus
| 1894 Bridge street northwest, and turned in the
alarm from box 72l. The fire was caused by spon
ianeous combustion. Damage about SloO. Fully
and soon cxtinsuished the flames.
Mr.. Zephaniah Jones, the well-known builder
and contractor, commenced yesterday the digging
of large hole in the inclosed reservation between
Tenth and Twelfth streets and street and Ohic
avenue, under instructions of General VI. C. Meigs
to ascertain the nature of the foundation which
the Pension Office is to be erected
Mr.. Matt Snyder who IL 30 successful rs thu
General in the play OF "49" is Washington boy
and used TO be II clerk in one of the executive de
partments. His wife, who as Mississippi show
such villainous tenn per, was noted for he
amiubity Of disposition when us Miss Cooulbs, o
this city, she WAS the center Of wide circle 0
friends.
The Me3srs. Connolly have received the silve
medal and diploma which was awarded them a
the Paris Electrical Exposition for their improve
ment In telephones. The medal is quite heavy
having upon its diverse side female head
crowned with laurel, aud on the reverse, across
eautiiully engraved mass of laurel leaves, the In
scription, CONNOLLY Bros Max Tighe." Their
are also other inscriptions and the date.
At a meeting of the National Shelf and Fill
Company last evening, the resignation of Mr. G
A. Whitaker, as director and secretary, was re
ceiyed. Mr.. NJ. ]. Wine was elected director Il
fill a vacancy. The directors and officers of tn,
company are now as follows: L. NJ. Saunders
president; Frank b. Conger, vice president; NJ. J
Wine, secretary; L. L. Jackson, treasurer; J. c
Lang, superintendent; George C, Garrison and /
i. Jackson, directors.
Professor Alexander de Wolowskl and his &C
compllshed daughter, Miss Isabella, have re
opened their musical institute at No. lll6 NJ street
corner Twelfth street northwest. The parlors ar
arranged in an elaborate and comfortable man
ner. The professor and his daughter teach an en-
tirely new sy,tem of vocal and instrumental
music. Many of the finest opcratic artists in Eu
> rope and in this country graduated under his tui
tion, and both father and daughter are an acqui
sition to Washington musical circles.
A Philadelphia ass by the name OF John Hndle
Ferguson finds fault through the columns OF tn
New York Sun of yesterday because the name
william Dickson Is in company with the name
of eX.SenRt II Dorsey and General T. w. Brad!
and others on II white satin bill Of fare of u ban
| quct rendered to the tragedian, John Mccullough
at Wizards Hotel, in this city, December Z, 1874
= It's good thing that reduced picture of Fer
guson's ears were not placed OIL the menu Their
l. would have been no room for anything else
r -S
The Swimming school.
The swimming school was thronged last evenin
I by many ladies and gentlemen who ayailed then
selves Of the kind invitation Of Messrs. Kelly
Curtis to indulge In natatoral fcte. There wei
| some fine swimmers among the Indies and Il