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CITY AND DISTRICT. Condensed Locals. Street lamps will be lighted at 7:15 p.m. and extinguished at 3:45 a.m. Capt. McCathran, of the Washington Light Guards, some days since informed the commander of his regiment that, desiring to resign, he had asked of his successor a receipt for the muskets and other property in his charge, but that as yet no receipt had been given, and it was understood that there was some probability of the disbandment of the company. He was instructed by Adjutant General Webster that a receipt must be given as soon as the resignation is accepted. Mr. B. U. Keyser, receiver for the defunct German American Savings Bank. began yesterday to pay out another ten per cent dividend to the creditors of that institution. About 9 o'clock last night a fire broke out in C. A. Schneider's iron foundry, corner of 12th street and Ohio avenue, but was extinguished by the members of No. 2 engine company, Foreman Shedd. before much damage was done. The fire caught from the cupola of the foundry. No alarm was turned in. The alarm turned in from box 54, at 7:50 o'clock this morning, was for fire in a frame house on 5th. between L and M streets southeast, occupied by John Lancaster and A. Richardson, colored; supposed to have been set on fire by children. Damage about $20. The colored people of Frederick and the adJoining counties of Maryland held at the fair grounds adjoining Frederick yesterday a grand fifteenth amendment celebration. There were five or six thousand persons present. The orator was Prof. R. T. Greener, of this city. Yesterday afternoon Sergeant Johnson, of the fifth police precinct, found John Carroll lying sick in the Smithsonian grounds and took him to the station house, where medical aid was given by Dr. Parsons, of the Emergency Hospital. Shillington sends us an advanced copy of St. Nicholas for September.
