The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-10-20
The Critic IN Georgetown.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things iu wash
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About People and Things in wash
ingtOn.
HUFF's black goods store, 7l3 9TH St. II. W.
STREET LAMPS will be lighted at 5:l5 p.
IN. and extinguishod at $40 o. m.
THIRTy-NINE arrests were made by the
police during the twenty.four hours ending
at o u. m.
FLocKs of wild geese, an unerring sign of
approaching cold weather, passed over the
city last night on their way south for the
winter.
HENRY HETHL was sent to jail for thirty
days for stealing hardware from n house in
which he was working on the Bladensburg
Road.
s. w. PARKER ESQ, Of the Supreme
Court of Georgia, was to-day admitted by
the Court in General Term to the bar of
this District.
GERTRUDE CARTER, whose sad accidental
burning was noted yesterday, died last
night from the effects of her terrible injur-
les, at her home in o street alley.
THE pump at the southeast corner of
East Capitol and Ninth streets has been out
of use for month past, and the neighbor-
hood implores the Commissioners to have it
put in order.
ROBERT WILSON, the tonsorial artist, has
fitted one of the neatest and cosiest shops in
the city on L, near Seventh street. Only
first-class workmen are employed and first
class work done.
Mrs. KATE DoUGHERTY was tried in
the Police Court tot day for cruelty in al
lowing horse to be driven which had
horrible running sore below its right eye.
A fine Of 81 was imposed.
In THE United States Supreme Court to-
tl,n IF n,,.i lie EI,,.r
Speiden was argued by Job Barnard and
James s. Edwards for Davis, and by VIM.
+. Mattingly for Speiden.
THE WIFE OF James H. Henderson, who
dropped dead in the street at Yorktown,
has telegraphed to have the body sent to
this city, and 1t will be taken this evening
to the residence of the deceased, No. 227 c
street southwest
DENNIS BLAND, q colored man, was sent
to jail for sixty days by Judge Smell to- day
for striking James Newman on the head
with a stone on Thursday last inflicting
wound from which Newman lay almost UNI
conscious for two week.
G.. M. MATTHEWS, ESQ.,, deserves the
thanks of the school teachers for his gen.
erous action yesterday in advancing to the
teachers of the fifth division seventy-seven
per cent Of their September salaries upon
his own responsibility and from his private
resources.
THE published list of the contributors
to the Garfield fund set, on foot by Mr..
Cyrus w. Field shows the following from
Washington; w. w. Corcoran, $1,000 (;
Riggs & Co., $1,000 w. s. Roose, $500;
Alexander Ashley and family, $40; d. II.
J Graves, $40; Columbia N. Payne, IS; Il. H.
L., 81 a lady clerk, 81; Amy, 81.
AwAGoN, LOADED with stone, and driven
hx,t Il Cd will
at Ninth street and Massachusetts, avenue
last evening, and the carriage was badly
smashed. The carriage was the property
of Mr.. VIM. +. Holtzman. and Mrs. Holtz-
man, q lady friend and n co.ored driver
were the occupants. No one was injured.
THE Circuit Court Jury this morning
gave Charles W. King verdict of
$50 against George w. Utermehlo for SER
vices rendered in preparing plans and speci-
fications for the construction of three
brick stores on the east side of Seventh, be-
tween M and N streets, northwest. The
suit was brought for sos, and the jury cut
the bill down to $50.
Miss MINNIE EVAN, who has made a
high reputation in this and other cities as
vocalist, sang in Baltimore last night
with the Haydn Society. 1t is understood
that Miss EVAN will go to New York at an
carly date, where she has secured an en-.
gagement at one of the largest churches
and where she will also prosecute hor must
cal studies. Her many friends, while re.
Joicing at the young ladys good fortune
will regret her leaving the city where she
has been so thoroughly successful and
generally admired
The ELECTRIC LIGHT illumination OF
Pennsylvania avenue, from First to Fiji
teenth streets, which was postponed from
Saturday night last to last night did not
take place. At the last moment il wa.
found that the wires were grounded some
where along the line. Another postpone
ment was therefore necessary. The proba
bilities are, barring accidents, the illumina
ton will take place tonight and the night
following of this week. A crowd of from
fifteen to twenty thousand people were oil
the avenue last night, all of whom were dis
appointed.
In VIEW of the repeated failure of the
electric light to put in an appearance it /!
but just to state that the local committee
on illumination have had nothing tc
do with the experiment since Saturday
last, it being entirely in the hands
of the Brush Electric Light Com.
pany. When they failed to fulfill
their contract on Friday the committee
gave them one days grace, failing then
the committee dropped them and they are
now working on their own responsibility
They were to have been paid $780, but by
their failure of fulillment of contract they
lose that. They have already expended
$4,000. A series of misfortunes seem to
follow them, as this morning when every
thing had been perfected for successful
illumination tonight, the boiler sprung
aleak.
May They He Happy.
Joseph III. Gold, of Baltimore, Md. and