The Evening critic., 1881-08-04
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READ TffE Carrie. See third page for
local news.
"As sTApEp YESTERDAY" is slang THE
CRITIC ncvGr uses.
STREET LAMPS will be lighted Mt II p. m,
and cxtinguished at 3:45 a. IN.
THIEVES stole the carpet from the floor of
the Wesley Chapel last night.
GARY FAIRY" cigarettes are not injuri-
Gus to your health. Call for them.
TwENTY-sEvEN arrests were made by
the police during twenty -four hours ending
at a. IN. to-day. ..H
THE Revenue Steamer Ewing arrived
here this morning from Baltimore,
and anchored Off Alexandria. :
MAJOR john ID. ADAMS, of Little Rock,
is registered at the Riggs. The Major is ac-
companicd by his usual hearty laugh.
THOMAS CARPENTER was to-day, in the
Police Court, fined s. or fifteen days
for trespassing on the grass of Capitol Park.
THE CRITIC is the boss paper of Washing
ton for sharp, crisp news. Everybody says
SO, and what everybody says must be true.
GEORGE SULLIVAN, colored, stole three
chickens from Beverly jackson, and had to
pay fine Of IS in the Police Court to-day.
HAVE you been to the Comique this
week? If not stand not upon the order Of
your going, but go at once. The bill is a
good one.
STEPHEN MoFFAT for rushing his horse
along the Avenue faster than the law per-
mits, was to-day fined 500 or sixty days by
Judge Bundy.
THE hous, of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Urt)n was robbed early yesterday
morning Of u suit Of clothes, $75 in money,
and gold watch valued at S175.
VIM. SEMBLY, colored, was charged in
the Police court to-day with stealing lot
of clothing, .cwelry and chinaware from
Charlie, L. Smith and was dismissed.
Much AMUSEMENT has been created of
late in the Police Court by the persistent
efforts of some of the country darkies to
pay their fines to the reporters instead of
the clerks.
GEORGE CHANDLER, a white boy, Of good
appearance, was fined SO or thirty days in
jail in the Police Court to-day for striking
Mr.. Alfred Borden with stone on the pub
lie street.
BAILEY CoURrNEy, colored, was hauled
up to-day for threatening to kill his wife,
but expressing cOntrition, his personal bond
to keep the peace toward her for six months
was taken.
If THE WORK on the City Hall improve,
ment extension is not pushed forward moro
rapidly in the future than in the past, it
will not be under cover before the winter
SEASON arrives.
PETER MALLON, an old gray-headed
colored man, was brought before Judge
Bundy to-day for striking a colOred child
named Arthur Young across the face with
sticl--$1O or thirty days. l--
THE REGISTER OF WILLS Office, which
was so badly damaged by the big storm, is
undergoing thorough renovation. A new
c,iling has been put in, the walls hand
somely papered, new carpet put down, &c
A HALF-GRowN colored girl, with o voice
like fog-horn, attracted o crowd AROUND
the Police Court this MOI ming by her pierre
ing shricks aud yclls. The maiden wa
awaiting the van, to be taken to Jail fOl
fighting, and found this vent for her out
ragged feelings.
Soon aftermiduight last night THE
broke pane of glass in the rear basement
window of house No. 1910 Sixteenth street
northwest, occupied by Charles Sigbee, will
piece of gas pipe. The noise brought t.
the spot servant, who succeeded in soaring
away the thief .t...,
Mr.. WILLIAM DICKSON telegnphs from
Richmond that he thought Washington wa
hot, but it is grotto of lovely teiuperatur,
as compared with the Virginia capital. q"
is so hot here" says Billy, THAT they hay,
to keep the thermoncters on ice to proven
the mercury from melting"
OFFICER SHELTON, hearing search war
rant, called at the house of John Hall, on Eas
Capitol street, between Fifteenth and Six
tecnth, and found a large quantity Of plates
cups, saucers, knives, forks, etc, etc, which
were identified by William Hendlcy a
tx,c al hx,n ,tel WILLIAM
A coLoRED WOMAN, named Mrs. Payne
was sent to the Insane Asylum this after
noon by the Police Department. Whei
being carried out Of Police Headquarters
the woman screamed and kicked, and re
sisted in manner that created an excite
ment, heightened by her cries of murder
and fire
ABOUT IL o'clock this morning, as TIN
New York through train was coming pas
the corner of Sixth street and Maine ave
nue. southwest, q newsboy named Georg
Vclati, who had been selling papers on tn
train, attempted to jump off and fell ON tn
track, and his foot was amputated by tn
car wheel passing over it at the ankle, III
was carried to his home, ON Ninth stree
northwest, in the ambulance.
Mr.. WILLIAM ii. WARD, one of the old
est and most esteemed lawyers of Washing
ION, IL lying dangerously III aI MS rcSiuenc'
on Sixth street, near #. Mr. Ward is a mos
popular lawyer, especially among tn
younger members of the Bar, to whom II
has been the kindcst friend and adviser {
those who are just entering the legal lif
His purity of life and integrity of charact1
during his sixty-three years of life have er
deared him to and ennobled him among a
of our citizens.
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Suit for Specific Performance.
JOseph Foertsch and wife this afternot