The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-07-22
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VERY agreeable hour can be passed at
Abner's.
LIQUOR DEALERS cxcurt on Monday,
July %.
, WASHINGTON GROVE CAMP begins on
August IL.
DO NOT FORGET the excursion and testi-
nonial to John A. Bayly on Sunday.
A MARRIAGE LICENSE has been granted
to Henry E. Nash and Martha L. Meddon.
THE HALLS and waiting rooms of the
Police Court were being rhitewashed to-
day.
SEVEN CHARGES of petty quarrels and
assaults were tried and dismissed by Judge
Smell to-day.
Col. JOSEPH Cooke, of Willard's, will |
shortly return to New York. He will be
back again next month.
WILLIAM PINKNEy was to-day sentenced
to fine of 500 or 30 days in Jail for fist
driving on street northeast.
JOHN GRAHE was arraigned before Judge |
Smell to-day, charged with keeping an I'M
licensed bar. The case was continued.
HENRY BEARD, a Washington lawyer,
has purchased Mrs. Wootton's farm, q mile
west of Rockville, about $50 acres, for 3d.
900.
RESIDENTS OF Ninth street, between G
and II, have been victimized during the
past week by series of doprcdations by
sneak thieves.
MRS. Bowen, of 100 B street, was pros
trated by the heat in Judiciary Square yes
terday afternoon, and removed to her homo
in the police ambulance.
Mr.. DAVE WALLING, the popular young
character actor, who has been travelling
through the East, has been summoned to
the bedside of his dying mother.
TIM IOr OvIyn Wachiu 0tnniaua are
registered in Philadelphia: T. w. Webster,
A. w. Porter, N. w. Fitzgerald, John w.
Mcknight, and r. p. Barbour.
MRS. CAROLINE BUCKLEY, against whom
divorce was granted to her husband, Will
liam Buckley, on the ground of adultery,
has appealed her case to the general term.
THE steamer Lady of the Lake makes
her regular trip to Piney Point Point
Lookout, Norfolk and Fortress Monroe this
evening. The genial Capt. Baldwin is in
command.
MARIA BARKER, colored. took to the Sec
ond Precinct station, this morning, o white
male infant, which had been left in her
hands by its mother. 1t was taken to st.
AIMS Asylum.
THERE was some disappointment among
the members of the Bar this morning, be-
cause there was no legal fight over the reg
istership of wills. They wanted something
to relieve the stagnation.
MEETING of the New Jersey Republican
Club was held at No. $40 Eleventh street
northwest, last night, for the purpose of
passing resolutions of coincidence and SYM
pathy with the President.
BAY HORSE belonging to Mr.. A. NJ.
Tanner became frightened In front of Lees
feed store yesterday afternoon and ran
away. The top-buggy, to which the horse
was attached, was badly damaged.
A coLoRED man took to Lieut. Grier's
station this morning q small black cloth
bag, containing several dozen Mackinnon
old-pointed pens, which he had found at
the corner of Eleventh and II streets.
HUcKsTER named Philip Bland was
driving up Seventh street this morning with
wagon load Of produce, when wheel was
taken of his vehicle by passing carriage,
and the street was sprinkled with aliberal
shower of huckleberries, potatoes aud corn.
THERE are enough gentlemen daily stand
ipg about the work going on at the City
Hall with their hands under their coat-tails
and feet wide apart, to form u respectable
brigade. Either the law business is mighty
slack or the improvements excite m over
towering fascination.
A LIVELY fight occurred last night be-
tween Howard Smith, colorcd door
keeper at a church entertainment on M
street, and u youth named Harry Williams,
who tried to enter the church, and got
I" fired out" Judge Smell decided that the
blame was equally divided, and discharged
Smith, who was charged with assaulting
Williams.
CONRAD RoETH was held in 800 bonds
or six months in jail by Judge Smell for
threatening to stab his son George with n
knife on the goth inst. Roeth has just
served six-mOnths' sentence for cruelty
beating his wife and children. 1t is alleged
that he has been following his son George
about with gun with the intention of kill
ing him, and on Wednesday he resorted ia
knife instead of a gun.
THE HoOLEYs AND AcTIvEs played a
game of base ball at the National grounds
yesterday evening. The batting was ter
rife ON both sides. Butler S. King and
Davidson, of the Hooleys, and Jackson and
Monohan, of the Actives each made home
run, Jackson's hit being clear over the
centre-fed fence Tho score stood, at the
end of the ninth inning, 81 10 IA, in favor
of the Hooleys. The latter club plays the
Capital City nine on the National grounds
this evening. All are cordially invited.
JOHN DooDY was arraigncd to-day before
Judge Smell on the charge of ARRAY. Doody
had dame Murphyup yesterday for assault
ing his daughter and she was dismissed
Last night he called at the house of Mrs
Murphy, who is d tenant of his, and en-
deavored to eject her from the premises
a lively fight ensued in which Mrs. Murph.
defended herself and property with
hatchet, greatly to the damage of the in
truding landlord. The court sustained Mrs
Murphy in her self-defense and held Dood,
for further hearing tomorrow.
YESTERDAY suit of clothing which ha
been washed and stretched to dry ON tn
limb of a tree in garden back OF littl
store on Four-and-a-half street, south Q
Maine avenue, was left hanging there unit
after dark, when some person passin
through an alley in the rear Of the premise
saw the dangling garments and started til
sensational report that man had hun
himself A crowd of horror-stricken negroe
soon assembled and peeped through .th
cracks Of the back fence, and would not b
satisfied that it was not u case of suicide un
til the garments were taken down and sub