The Evening critic., 1881-10-17
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things in wash
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IN. and cxtinguished at 1;i5 u. IN.
WIN. HAWKINS, colorcd was fined 500 by
Judge Smell to-day for carrying pistol.
THE NUMBER of disorderly cases was
unusually large in the Police Court to-day.
FoRTY-THREE ARRESTS were made by the
police during the twenty-four hours ending
at . q. m.
A FRAME HOUSE, No. 1899 Thirty-nrst
street, was damage TO the extent of $50 by
Me last night.
MARY TowLEs, colored was fined $40
by Judge Smell this morning for beating
Malinda johnson.
HENRY BLACKBURN made night hideous
by his profanity in lineup alley, on Satur-
day night, and was sent to Jail for ten days
by Judge Smell.
POLICE OFFICER POWELL was taken sud.
denly i'll while on duty last night and car
ried to the Eighth Precinct station, where
DIR. McKim attended him.
b. U. KEYsER, receiver of the German
American National Bank, was granted per-
mission by the Equity Court to-day to sell
property Nos. 1913 and 1915 X street south
east.
FRANK HERBERT startled the quiet resi-
dents of Georgetown by discharging pis-
tol several times on Bridge street Saturday
afternoon. He will be at large again on
November II.
PETER GRACELAND, q small colored boy,
was brought up in the dock at Police Court
to-day charged with stealing horse, buggy
and harness from VIM Ridgway. The case
was continued.
JAS. JOHNSON, q colored boy, was found
guilty of assault on John Merritt on the
18th of last September in the Criminal Court
this morning and sentenced TO pay fine of
SO or 30 days in Jail.
ALL arrangements have been perfected to
have the electric light on Pennsylvania
avenue on Wednesday night and will be
continued until Saturday night. There
will be no flaw this time.
THE pastor of the Gay, street Baptist
Church, Georgetown, immersed four per.
sons in the presence of large audience, one
Of whom was well-known gentleman, 81
years of age, on the 9th instant.
CORNELIUS BRENNAN, superanuated
old tramp, whose clothes should have been
condemned by the Board of Health, pleaded
guilty to the charge Of vagyancy this morn
ing and went down for 80 days.
EDWARD WHEELER, skillful colored
burglar, was sent to the grand jury to-day
for burglariously entering the house of Mr..
L. d. Tracey, 1926 n street, on Saturday
night and stealing sundry articles.
Col. BURNSIDE, on behalf of the
Columbia Rifle Association, yesterday pre-
scented j. p. Lauritzen, of the National
Rifles, with a handsome gold prize medal
won by the latter in the matches at Ben.
ning's.
In THE case of Thomas j. Casey, recently
convicted of assault with intent to kill
Martha A. Bergevin, a motion for new
trial has been filed by his counsel, on the
ground that the verdict is contrary to the
evidence.
MARY MURPHY, white, a servant en-
ployed by Daniel Luther esq, at 112s
Eighth street northwest, was found dead in
her bed this morning. The Coroner certi-
fed that the cause of death was conges-
tive chill.
JOHN HARDY on Saturday received the
Tammany nomination for Congress to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of
Fernando Wood. Mr. Hardy was the indie.
pendent candidate against Mr.. Wood at
several elections.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, John Bell and Will
liam jenkins, three colored boys were
found asleep under fruit stand, at
o'clock this morning, and charged with
vagrancy in the Police Court. Judge Smell
released them on personal bonds.
THE fire alarm from box II turned in
early this morning was on account of fire
in the carpenter shop of Mr.. Thomas, on
Congress street near Bridge, Georgetown.
The building and tools were completely
destroyed and loss of 500 sustained.
THERE WAS an alleged crank at the
White House to-day. He desired to see the
President and have everything worked ON
the square. Before he could be persuaded
to leave he RECALLED the doorkeper with q
lot of choice poetry of his own composition.
EDWARD FITZGERALD, workman, fell
down an embankment at Thirteenth and C
streets this afternoon, and was taken to
1868 G street, where it was found that he
had broken his hip. He was subsequently
removed in the police ambulance to the
hospital.
DIR. A. W. PITZER, of the Central Pres
byterian Church, gave the first of u series
OF lectures upon the origin and history of
the books of the Bible last evening. He
purposes giving an account of the manu-
scripts extant, and Of the various English
translations.
BY THE Virginia game laws deer can be
Killed from September / to January Is
pheasants, from August / to February |:
wild water fowl, from September / to May
l.: ana wild turkeys nom October 10 to
February |. Mocking-bird can neither he
caught or killed until after April 2, 1885.
WILLIAM DOUGLASS, colored, was c6n-
victed of grand larceny in stealing goods
from the house of Emily NJ. Butcher. better
known as Frank Middleton, who keeps an
establishment Of questionable virtue, in
the Criminal Court to-day, and Justice Cox
sentenced him to the Auburn penitentiary
for three years.
The October term of the Circuit Court
was opened this morning by Justice Mac
Arthur with II calendar containing 564
cases. The following iurymen were ox-
cused Messrs. Francis Libbey, George w
Wise, Joseph Y. Potts and James S. Miller
and the Marshal was ordered to summon
talesmem to fill the vacancies.
The following appeared on Lieut. Eek
ION report OF arrests yesterday morning
Name, William Malone; color, white: age
"a native Of the United States. occuna'
ton, United States Senator; married, can
read and write o1ense, violation of the
dueling law complainant, Samuel Strong
ofiicer, Detective Coomes; disposition. re-,
leased oil personal bonds by Judge Smell.
HQUITE A LITTLE EXCITEMENT was caused
THIS afternoon, in front of THE CRrrIc
ONCE, by the shooting of a horse which had |
ALLEN from exhaustion. Ii was one of the |
drove that had been injured in the acct. |
dent at Culpeper Saturday, and was given
TO man named Walker, who lives above
The boundary. II fell twice as he was lead.
ing 1t home, and lie abandoned it. In order