National Republican., 1888-02-12
LOCAL BITS.
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the extermination of the ground hog will
say aye" The ayes have it, and the bill is
passed.
141S FIFTEENTH ST., $40, 900 house
THE future policy of the National Govern
ment as to our telegraph system is a question
of vital importance, and should be deter
mined by this Congress.
141S FIFTEENTH ST.. $4,000 house
DESPITE the dull times nearly every one Of
the local stocks are held firm at good figures,
and there have been good many transac-
tons in them during the past week.
GREATEST event of the age, $40, 900 house
UNLESS something is done to improve the
condition of the walks and drives through
Judiciary Square q ferry should be provided
for wet weather. The bottom has dropped
out
Buy n ticket in the SIC, 900 house.
THE substitution of the neat galvanized
iron netting around the shade-trees for the
unsightly wooden crates is great improve
ment and should be extended to all the trees
in the city.
PoToMAc Boat Club Fair $40, 900 house.
THE almost universal bad condition of the
city sidewalks was never more apparent than
now. Brick is better than no paving at all,
but that is all that can be said, with the
best paved streets in the world we should at
least have passable sidewalks.
141S FIFTEENTH ST., $40, 900 house.
ONE of the attractions during the past week
has been the hearing of the great telephone
cases in the Interior department, in which
ex-senator Roscoe Conkling and Col. Robert
lngersoll were opposing counsel. Eloquence
filled the marble building from basement to
attic.
GREATEST event of the age, $4,000 house.
IL Postmaster Ross would compel Mem
hers of Congress to call in person at the city
postofiice for their mail for one week he
would have no trouble in getting an appro-
pration for new building. We show our
good will to the new postmaster by the sug-
gestion.
Buy ticket in the $1,000 house.
The poor are having an unusually hard
time of it this winter, and the amount of suf-
fering is daily increasing Charity should bC
open-handed during such cold weather
There are many hungry mouths and empty
stomachs among us that should be at least
partially filed
PoToMAc Boat Club Fair, SO 900 house.
THE Hole in the Ground bids fair to be-
come famous as the designation of the new
Library building. From the short debate in
the Senate the other day it would seem that
enough has been spent upon it to have laid
the foundation with silver dollars. Yet not
one stone stands upon another.
| GREATEST event of the age, $4,000 house.
THE advent of Secretary Villas into the In
terror Department was celebrated by un-
| furling new flag over the building 1t is q
more fitting companion piece to the $1,000
bath tub over which it floats than the old
patched-up and torn semblance of the starry
banner that occupied the flag staff during
Secretary Lamar's time.
Buy a ticket in the SO 900 house.
The need of music hall in this city
keeping pace with the growth of the pOpula-
tion, and has already reached that point
when it would be a paying investment for
capital. If the enterprise is undertaken, il
should be started on scale that will accom-
modate all kinds of entertainments, as well
as the numerous conventions that will be
held here every year.
Potomac Boat Club Fair, SO 900 house.
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contractor for putting in the concrete foun
dation for the enewl.ibrary building has gottci
into Congress, and the result will probably
be to add another year to the indefinite time
when the first stone of the building will ap
pear above the surface of the ground. The
period of futurity when Librarian Spoflord',
successor will preside over the completed
structure is too remote to even contemplate
1t is very doubtful if the aforesaid successor
has even yet been born.
141S FIFTEENTH ST., $4,000 house.
Most of our meat products are Offered fol
sale athome and abroad under classification
of trade marks These trade marks are pro
tected by law against infringement.
seems but inst and fair that the manuiac
turer should have this protection agains
competitors. On the other hand, Congress
under the testimony presented, is now calle'
upon to protect the consumers Of these pro
= ducts against the greed-the avaricc-th
fraud Of the propretors of these trade mark.
The people have been robbed of their none
and their health by the adulteration of thcs
articles of food. The public demands rigi
. laws, Furnishing by fine and Imprisonment
the men who have, under the guise of trad
marks, adulterated food.
GREATEST event of the age SO, 900 house