The Evening critic., 1881-09-13
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things I'm wash
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STREE-LAMPs will be lighted Mt GAO aud
and extinguished at 10 p. m.
ROGERS musical excursion tonight.
Boat leaves at $3.50 p. m
THE CIRCUS is coming. Coup's show will
be in Washington September 80 and Oc-
tobcr l.
FoRTY-NINE arrests were made by the
police during the twenty-four hours ending
at 0 q. m.
THE Union Veterans give their fourth
evening excursion to Marshal Hall Thurs
day, the 10Th.
A PENSION FRAUD case was up before
the grand jury to-day and four witnesses
from Chicago were examined
NAsE JOHNSON was fined s. by Judge
Smell to-day for giving his ladylove love-
tap on the Uranium with brick last even
ing.
~ JACOB TRoTH, of Virginia, lectures to-
night in the E-strcct Baptist Church on the
"Promotion Cf a Family of Nations Seats
free.
AL. THOMPSON, JR., 5O7 Ninth street,
dealer in cigars, tobacco and papers, sends
us Puck for the current week. Its n good
number.
COLUMBUS BROWN, a colored boy with
white hair and red eyes, a complete Albino,
was sent down for ten days to-day by
Judge Smell for vagrancy.
A CHANCE to make some money is Of
fered by an advertiser, who offers to sell Il
patented notion which will sell rapidly.
Address success" this Office.
CHIEF ENGINEER CRoNIN has gone to
Richmond to attend the annual convcn-
ton of the National Association of Fire En-
gineers, which met there to-day.
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Baseball Club left last evening for Rich
mond, Va. to play against the Richmond
club. They will be absent four days.
THE buggies of DIR. Cadc and John H.
Culvert colidcd yesterday morning mt
Tenth and L streets aud DIR. Cade's vehicle
was badly smashed. No one was injured.
JOHN JAoUETTE, four-year-old boy,
WIS run over by a beer. wagon yesterday
afternoon at the corner Of Thirteenth and
! streets. The child is dangerously In
jpIed
THE appearance of the city parks has
much improved since the late rains, al
though it is believed that the roots of the
grass have been killed by the previous
drought.
IT is RUMoRED about the City Hall that
Sister-in-law Belva A. Lockwood, tricycle.
and all, is to be appointed Assistant Dis
trict U, s, Attorney in the place of r. Ross
Perry.
A HANDSOME gold watch and chain were
presented to Rev. NJ. Kraft, founder of the
German Orphan Asylum, by the ladies be-
longing to the sewing association of the
asylum last evening.
ROBERT JOHNSON, II middle.aged negro
was arragncd to- day before Judge Smell fol-
disorJerly conduct and assaulting Spccia
Officer Holpfer. He was fined s. in on,
case and $40 in the other
MICHAEL O'BRIEN was tried this morn
ing at the Police Court for keeping an un
licensed bar at the corner of Thirteenth
and streets, and the usual fine of $40
was imposed. An appeal was noted.
A COMMITTEE of the Columbia Com
mandery, with Gen. VIM. III. Browne, com
mander, in the chair, will meet at the City
POst-office this evening to complete arrange
ments for the Yorktown Centennial.
Work upon the National Museum goe
slowly on. Two of the rooms are tiled, al
except the edges, and in the third room
about one-cighth of the tiles are down. N,
tiles have been laid in the fourth room.
LOUISA ROBINSON, gay and fauntin,
c0lOred girl, was to-day hauled up befOr
Judge Smell for carrying pistol which sh
drew on the street, and was fined $50 or @
uhyS. IcT tOTCc VI ClTCuluStduCt;S silc LUX
latter. to-a.
MAGGIE BUCKLEY, tile two-year-ol,
daughter of John II. Buckley, was run owe
about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon by
beer wagon. DIR. Newman, who rendered
medical aid, pronounced the injuries as of
serious nature.
ALEXANDER ADAMS, an old white-hairet
c0lOred man, was charged this morning il
the Police Court with assaulting his sOn-n
law, Frank Ladson, and breaking two ofhi
ribs with kick. The old man was sent t
Jail for sixty days by his Honor Shell
THos. o. O'NEILL was to day charged il
the Police Court with assault on John H
Smithson, one Of the guards in the Capito
Park. The evidence showed that the sho
was on the other foot, and that Smithsol
had unwarrantably assaulted O'Neill wit
his club. The case was dismissed.
AFTER the establishment of the Eas
Capitol postal station, earlier collections Q
mail will be made in East Washington an
Georgetown in the morning-at 6 a. nj
order that the letters can be delivered /
the first delivery. This will be the bes
step in postal reform ever made in our city
Mr.. ROBERT III. FoRsYTII, of the C0lun
bia Boat Club, was by all odds the most OF
ergetic worker in the interests of the recen
regatta. To him almost exclusively are du
the thanks Of those who participated in TIL
hospitality and general good time attcnt
ing the complimentary excursion given o
the Corcoran by the Columbia and AM
lostan Boat Clubs in honor Of the visitin
0arslneil.
Mn. GEO. w. HARVEY, the well-know
restaurant keeper, was annoyed yesterda
by James Meihan at his restaurant, an
finally proceeded to assist one of his en-
.DlOyees in firing the unWelcome visitor IN