The Evening critic., 1881-09-29
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things In wasi,
inrtOn.

tuetOu.
FoRTY-oNE arrests were made by the
police yesterday.
STREET LAMPS will be lighted Mt $50 p.
IN. and cxtinguished ut n. III.
WHILE passing down Seventh street stop
and try new icecold cider at Whitncy's.
HENRY SrNsELL, for outmgcously abusing
and cursing Henrietta Behring's, was fined
$40 to-day in the Police Court.
John Young, colored boy, was s. or IL
days in the Police Court to-day for throw
ing stones Mt parties passing along the pub
lie streets.
TODAY, LEOPOLD WoRTCH, good-look
ing white man, ofmiddlc age, was sentenced
to $50 or ninety days in the Police Court
for vagrancy.
THE Emergency Hospital to-day increase
their usefulness by the increase of their
facilities. -Four cots will be added to those
already in service.
A DEAD female white infant was found
in a basket on vacant lot on Eighth street
between II and $ streets, this morning, and
the Coroner was notified.
THE CURRENT NUMBER OF Puck is an
excellent one. AL. Thompson, .r, dealer in
cigars, tobacco and current literature, 507
Ninth street, has it for sale.
JOHN f. DoUGHERTY, sufferer from in
termittent fever, was found lying in an
insensible condition on the Avenue last
night, and taken to the Emergency Hos
pital.
A HORSE belonging to John W. Oil was
standing at Twentieth street and Pcnnsyl-
vania avenue last evening, and ran away
down the Avenue, throwing two small boys,
George w. Oil and William Fisher, out of
the wagon to which it was attached, and
slightly injuring both.
FIRE alarm from box 2l2 ut half.past 8
o'clock last evening summoned the depart
mcnt to No. 1919 Twelfth street northwest,
owned by Victoria Taylor, where slight
fire had been caused by lighted match
being accidently dropped on bed. The
damage did not exceed So.
DETECTIVE McDEvITT, who left
this city for Cleveland last Saturday morn
ing returned to-day. The sad demonstra-
ton at Cleveland offered harvest for
criminals, and he reports that about twenty
of the most skilful detectives in the
United States were busily employed for
several days.
YoUNG MR.. BAILEY, of the Surgcon-Gen-
erals Office, evidently ate some cabbagcs
sprinkled with Paris-green, which caused a
severe attack of nightmare, and he dreamed
tniiU lic Hearu uSsaSSl1lS plOttlnb inc muTucr
of President Arthur. That's just the style
of news that suits our alleged newspaper
contemporary.
JAMES RYAN, an old "crank,' bare
headed and in bare feet, was found wander
ing about the streets early this morning
and taken to Lieut.. Austin's station, whence
he was taken to Police Headquarters and
locked up. From the best information that
can be obtained, Ryan is u fugitive from the
Bay View Hospital, near Baltimore, and he
will probably be sent back to that insti-
tuition
A SLIGHT CONNECTION was created on the
Island last night by a drunken man pro.
claiming to crowd of listeners that he was
the chairman of n society who were on oath
to take the life Of both President Arthur
and Charles Guiteau before the end of the
month. The eloquent crank had disap
peared by the time n policeman made hi,
appearance to quiet the disturbance. He is
supposed to have been John Roberts, n harm
less crank and n resident of Hookcrs
Division.