The Evening critic., 1881-08-13
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things I'm Wasl
ingtOn.

tnStOns
Coop programme at the Comique to-
night.
Go TO Abncr's summer garden and in
dulge in glass Of Culmbach.
STREET LAMPS will be lighted Mt 7:20p. m.
and extinguished at 10 p. IN. W.
FoRTy-FIvE arrests were made during
the "a hours ending at a. IN.
THE POLICE complain that Judge Bundy
does not treat thievish Migrants with suf-
ficient rigor.
The thermometer registered 900 at 10
o'clock this morning. The highest figure
at that hour this summer.
THE ONLY marriage license issued to-day
was to Charlie G. Eli i,r, of st. Louis, Mo-,
and Lille j. Marsden, city. r.
IT is THE GENERAL IMPRESSION now that
Messrs. Norris and McNeir weakened con-
siderably when they compromised their rail-
road case.
RICHARD MAcKER, living at No. 81 Marion
street, cut his foot severely, severing an
day afternoon.
SOLOMON O'NEAL, a white boy OF IL, fell
from the top of tree in front of No. 123l
Twenty fourth street yesterday afternoon
and was seriously injured.
the mercury having risen to 99o, not
single case of a person overcome by the heat
was reported to the police stations.
THE UNDINE FISHING CLUB, composed
of young men of Capitol Hill, leave on the
9th instant for fifteen days cruise on the
lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay.
PATsEY NIX and Annie Harding, two
damsels rs black as coal, were before Judge
Bundy to-day for pulling hair and scratch
ing each others faces in the public streets
CLAUDE ROBINSON, white youth, wa
up before Judge Bundy to-day on n charge
of stealing lot Of carpenters tools from
Henry Robinson. Sent to Jail for 30 days
BURGLARS made an attempt last night t.
enter the house of ]. H. Johnson, No. POI!
Fourteenth street northwest, by forcing TIN
front door with jimmy. The burglar
were frightened OFF.
THE sixth excursion of the Nationa
Rifles will be given on Wednesday next, oil
the steamer w. w. CorcOran. 1t will be
grand excursion, and all who go will en-
joy themselves.
THIS WEEK SHOWS list of ten person
sent to the insane asylum and three insan
persons sent to their homes. This is tn
largest list of the kind for any week dur
ing the present year.
"A YOUNG WHITE dlhL, WIN Ndo ShSoSS'
in peddling on Pennsylvania avenue thi
afternoon, fell in an epileptic fit whei
near Sixth street, and did not recover fol
nearly three-quarters of an hour.
Mr.. SID II. NEALY. the well-knOwn ant
accomplished artist, is the agent of tn
Heliotype Printing Company, of Boston
He is fitting up room 50, CorcOran building
and afcer next week can be found there
Mr. S. j. FAGUE. measurer and builder
of Four-and .a-haf street, says that in til
style of the houses now being erected, an
in their number this year is the buildin
boom of the city of Washington since
was laid out rs city.
To-Day bill in chancery was filed b
Oliver A. Daily against Jeremiah Costello
John Mccarthy and Others, to set aside
deed of trust, alleged to be fraudulent, an
to sell certain real estate and divide til
proceeds among those entitled.
JOE BURcHE was charged by Major KIM
agent of the Society for the Prevention {
Cruelty to Animals, to-day in the Polio
Cont with being the owner of a mule, whic
he caused to be worked, that had a very sol
back and was otherwise unfit for labor
fined $50 or sixty days. HDal
SAM STRONG and his counsel were tO-da
engaged in taking testimony in the cas-
of his claim relative to the Boundary stree
sewer before the Court of Claims. There
one thing that can be said about Strong
none of his work has ever necessitated re
pairs or reconstruction.
EDWARD RELY is the latest crank
big, powerful man, who has been reduced
fear and dread of all he meets and sees, an
whose screams of fear and terror are almos
ineessapt. This man has only been mar
ried for about two months, and has changes
in that time from a strong, sensible man to
pitiable maniac. He will be sent across tn
river to-day.