The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-07-15
The Critic In Georgetown.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things in wash
fngtOn.


finished.
WAsHINGToN's MONUMENT is now 227
feet high.
DON'T TACKLE green apples. There's
cholera morbus in EN-.
FIVE HORSES are reported to have been
killed by the heat yesterday.
THE work of improving Second street
northwest has progressed as far as II street.
MIR. A. NJ. BRANDT, of this city, is visit
ing Cumberland, Nd, where he formerly
resided. r..
THE Police Department received n large
portion of the supplies for the fiscal year
to-day.
THE UNION VETERAN CORPS presented
Captain Thomson with handsome medal
last night.
JUSTICE WALTER Indignantly denies the
allegation that he is afflicted with govt in
the foot, but
Two MORE mad dogs are reported to
have been killed yesterday-both on First
street southwest.
THE STONE presented by the King of
Siam for the Washington monument has
reached Washington.
THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE is
running large force on the tabulated re-
ports of the Census Office.
Col. Tom BIvINs, of the Republican, is
perhaps the most graceful racquettccr in
Washington. He dawnces well.
LAWYER L. G. INGERsoLL proposes to
get out patent on q shirt he has invented
to beat the hot weather. lisa daisy.
THE UNION VETERAN CORPS cxcurts to
Marshall Hall this evening, the boat leav
ing at 6 o'clock and returning at II.
MR.. JESSIE SARvIs, who has been quite
unwell during the past ten days, is now
much better and on deck at business.
IT Is matter of dispute which is the
coolest place in the District during the
heated term, the City Hall or the Jail.
GUY II. THOMPSON, who was held to bail
in the Police Court yesterday on the charge
of impeding witness, is protege of Billy
Cooks
A WHITE womtn named Mary b. Hoif-
man was found dead in her bed this morn
ing at her residence, 1l30 Twenty first street
northwest
LEE LAWRENCE, a small boy, was struck
on the head with swing and knocked
senseless for time at Beyers Park ycster
day aft ernoon.
THOMAS p. Handy was suddenly taken
sick yesterday, and removed from his home,
mt Fourteenth and p streets, to the Freed
mans Hospital.
IT is REPORTED that Col. A. w. Fletcher,
superintendent of the House fo,ding-rOom,
has purchased the Sanderson Hot Il property,
on Capitol Hill, for $4,000.
THE IMPROVEMENTS in front ofthe City
Hall will soon be finished, and the general
verdict is that the work has been hand
somely planned and well done.
THE Orientals of South Washington de-
feated the Hooley baseball nine on the Ma
tiOnal grounds Wednesday, by a score of 10
tod. Only seven innings were played.
The GOVERNMENT BINDERY is making
up for lost time occasiOned by the exhaus-
tiOn of the appropriation last year, by run
ming the force until o'clock evenings.
THE body of white man named Daniel
Stunden was found to-day under tree,
corner of Nineteenth street and Virginia
avenue. Death was caused by heart dis
ease. .in-sl-. si- 4.lri..ir
THE LAWYERS on both sides in the Chris
tiancy divorce case say that they are wait
ing for each other to go on. Perhaps the
public would not feel exceedingly dis
gruntled if they kept on waiting M. d.,
CLERK CLANCY says If the Frcnchmen
who have business Mt the City Hall can't
understand his French it is their lookout.
He speaks it according to the rules of
pronunciation laid down in the books.
THE MEMBERS OF the Carroll Institute
give their select annual excursion to Mar
snail HAL on MONDAY next. Inc Corc0ran
leaves at 9:30 a. m, 4'3O and 1880 p. m, and
returning will leave Marshall Hall at 2, q
and 10 I'm.
REGISTER OF WILLS WEBSTER was at his
Office this morning, but would not say what
course he intended to pursue in the matter
of turning over his office to Mr.. III. j. Rams
dell, his successor, until he had consulted
his lawyers.
LAwYER ]. J. JOHNSON has more adipose
than any man of the District bar, and yet
he manages to look as cool as a cucumber
when the Thermometer is away up into the
nineties. He accounts for 1t by saying that
he always refused to be married.
Col. JOSEPH PARKER, of the New York
Herald, at present in this city, wears a cork
hat as d life-preserver in case of immersion
from perspiratiop. His wardrobe repertoire
consists of twenty four suits of seersucker
and they need no washerwoman. lfL
THE CORONER was notified yesterday of
the sudden death of Mary Owens, a servant,
16 years old, living at DIR. Dukes, 7I5 Four
teenth street northwest. To-day DIR. Har-
tigan made an examination and stated that
death was caused by congestion of the
brain.
The FOLLOWING Washingtonians won
the prizes named mt the Baltimore Schuet-