The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-08-17
The Critic In Georgetown.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things I'm wash
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THE Comique has good bill thi, week.
Go 40 Drivers garden for an evenings
enjoyment.
ABNER, at his garden, offers good pro-
gramme tonight.
STREET lamps will be lighted mt 7:20 p.
IN. and extinguished at / H. IN.
FIFTY ARRESTS were made by the police
during the twcnty-four hours ending Mt
Sa. IN.
THE Virginia Midland Railway will issue
tickets for Fairfax Courthouse tomorrow
and return for ninety cents.
To-DAY's experience shonld teach even
the most skeptical that if they want the
news they must read THE CRITIC.
PATRICK SEXTON, charged with choking
Mary O'na in u free fight, got the benefit
of n doubt to-day and was dismissed.
EMMA STEWART, black, made violent
assault on Eliza Hammond, mulatto, last
night and was fined IS for the same to-day
by Judge Bundy. 1914
1T WAS the drivers of the Columbia Rail-
way Company, and not the company itself,
who sent the floral harp to decorate the
coffin Of the late w. b. Reed
The central portion of the city seemed to
be unusually infested by mosquitoes last
night, and residents generally found it i'm
possible to sleep, except under mosquito
bars t. n~t
AFINE specimen Of night blooming cereus,
with over forty open blossoms, will be ex-
hibited tonight at Odd-Fellows' Hall, from
Bto IL o'clock, for the benefit of Odd Fellows
library. Admission 10 cents.
In THE SUIT of II. NJ. +. v. Stamp VS..
Geo. w. Ballock ct al, restraining order
was made by Judge Wylic to-day against
the transfer of certain stocks, as prayed for,
and the hearing was fixed for the first Tues
day in September.
JAMES DAVIS, coiored, was before Judge
Bundy this morning, charged with the
larceny of pocl1et-book from Mary Smith
which he took from her while asleep. The
matter was pretty well fixed on James and
he was fined $25 or go days.
ELLA BARTON, as black as the ace of
spades, was before the Police Court this
morning charged with the robbery of a
white man named Joe Burns of S. in money
ina low bagniO. The Court did not think
the case made out and dismissed Ella.
In THE case of Charles L. Sawyer VS..
Matte s. Sawyer, for divorce, Judge Wylie
to-day denied the motion of counsel to rule
the taking of the testimony of Charles
COunttie from Examiner John A. Clarke,
and to hear the evidence in open court.
In THE POLICE COURT this afternoon,
John Norris and Henry Kaiser, two styl-
ishly dressed young white men, were ar
raigned as suspicious characters, and as they
could give no satisfactory account of them
selves they were sent to the workhouse for
. 80 days.
FIRE was discovered last night in va
cant frame house, No 1439 N street north
west, belonging to the Hilton estate, and
when the flames communicated with the
next house general alarm was sounded
The structures were of dry, inhammable
material, and the efforts of the firemen were
devoted to saving the adjacent property
The house in which the fire originated was
completely Quilted, and the other one badly
damaged in the upper story, the loss being
about $500.
JAMES CoNNERs, alias Shanty Corners,
living on ID street, between First and Second
streets northeast, was brought to the Fifth
Precinct station by young man named
Coakley. Corners head was badly cut and
bruised. He claimed that George Mantz
and John Coffee had beaten him in Mantz s
saloon. Corners refused to allow his wounds
to be dressed, and also refused to prosecute
the parties, saying that he would get for
himself better revenge than the courts could
give him. The wounded man and his COM
panion left the station in search of sweet
revenge. sf