The Evening critic., 1881-07-20

PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People md Things In wash
ington.


BASS ARE biting splcndidly at Great
Falls.
THE THEATRE CoMIoUE offers good
bill tonight.
DRIVERS summer garden is well worthy
visit in the evening
DON'T FORGET that Abncr on 4 street,
offers an excellent programme to visitors.
CHARLES JONES was sent to Jail for six
months to-day for striking Samuel Paine on
the head with club.
FRANK d. Y. CARPENTER, Oscar Varana
and DIR. j. II. Holmes, of this city, were
registered in Baltimore yesterday.
WILLIAM II. GIBSON has been sent to jail
for three months for stealing clothing and
iewelry, valued at twelve dollars, from Val
entine LoldecIer.
GEN. RoBT. MITCHELL, ex-governor of
Kansas, will leave Washington shortly for
.he Rocky Mountains where he will spend
q couple of months.
GENERAL A. S. BADGER, collector of the
port of New Orleans; Senator w. Pitt Kel-
logg, and Judge John Pardee, of Louisiana,
are ut the Riggs House.
Au. S. MARINE, named Michael Rafferty,,
stationed at the Naval Academy, was
drowned at Horseshoe Point, near Annap-
oils, yesterday afternoon.
NOTHING has been done as yet toward
the bracing of the Metropolitan Church
spire thrown out of perpendicular by the
storm which unroofcd the City Hall.
THE asphalt works, corner; of North
Capitol and X streets, continues to emit its
offensive odors much to the discomfort of
the residents of that section of the city.
IT WOULD seem, from the daily catch of
the poundmaster, that the high dog-tax,
81. has had the effect of reducing the num-
Der of worthless ours within the corporation
limits.
WILLIAM WARD, white boy, o years of
age, fell from the second-story window of a
new house being built at Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and / street, and was seriously but not
dangerously injured.
FRANZ WEsTERBRooK, a Swedish sailor,
attempted suicide yesterday afternoon by
taking dose of arsenic. He was found in
PROSTATE condition by Officer Nolkman,
and an antidote was administered.
JOHN MAGILL was charged with keeping
policy-shop near Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue in the Police Court
to-day. The case was continued until to-
morrow, in order to got witnesses for the
prosecution.
THE diamond trophy for long-range rifle
shooting at Columbia range was won yes
terday afternoon by Charles Laird, defeat
ing DIR. Scott and all other contestants. Mr.
Laird having won the trophy in three sue
cessive matches, it now belongs to him.
IT is understood that Mr.. Bernard Nc
Donnell and Charles +. Shelton, two ath-
letes of East Washington, will shortly en-
gage in scull race on the Eastern Branch
These two gentlemen have been in active
training for some weeks past.
PERSONS are looking forward to the set
Element of the question as to who is the
legal Register of Wills with anxiety, as a
long adjournment of the Probate Court
would seriously affect those interested in
the settlement of the estates of decedents
CHRISTIAN II. WATcHsMITH, native
of Prussia, living on Massachusetts, avenue,
died this morning, at the age of seventy
nine, from the effects of the heat. This is
only the second case of the fatal effect OF
the heat reported to the health officer.
Col. JOHN G. KIMBALL, of Atlanta, Ga
of the International Cotton Exposition tC
be held Mt Oglethorpe Hall, in Atlanta, will
be Mt the Metropolitan Hotel in this city OF
his return from Boston, where he has beer
ON business connected with the eXposi
ton. 5n
A FAMILY of six cmigrants arrived al
this city Monday night on u train from
New York, and stated that they had neither
lTlcUuS hut IlDuty anu ulu liob huOW WnClt
to find lodgings. The party were taken to
Lieut.. Austin's station, and will remain
there for few days, the mother being very
unwell
QUITE AN EXCITING trial of speed Oc.
CURED on the road yesterday evening be-
tween Wash. Nailor behind his SO 800 mare
minnie" and Frank Hagerty behind his
"Hard-boiled Egg" Both horses moved
magnifcently, but Frank, by splendid
squirt, passed Wash. as they neared thu
Schuetzen.
ANNIE REUTHs was held for the grand
jury in $500 bonds to-day for assaultinl
Clara Wallace with q razor or knife and in
ficting cut across the breast which just
tes charge of attempt to kill. Both
women are cOlored and the accused is de
clared to have been maddened to despera
ton by jealousy.
Hon. JOHN AMBLER SMITH has decided
not to go to Naples at present On receipt
of the cablegram announcing the dangerous
illness of his father, who is United States
consul at that point, he determined to go
but as he has heard nothing further he il
hopeful that his fathers condition is i'm
proving.
IT is UNDERSTOOD that a vast amour
of wildcat" life insurance exists in Mont
gomery County, Maryland. Advices from
Rockville state that nearly every decrepi
old darby in that town has thousands o
dollars of life insurance taken out upol
him by Spectators, and that this swindlin
business is seriously damaging legitimat
insurance companies.
WILLIAM ELMoRE, white, and Thoma
Brown, colored, made their appearance to
day before His Honor, Smell, charged will
ARRAY. The two men are hackmen and wer,
standing by their vehicles on Fourteenth
street, below Pennsylvania avenue, whei
Gilmore struck Brown with club on tn
head. He was fined ten dollars for the as
sault. Brown was acquitted
MARINE products inspected for the weel
ending to-day, are as follows: One hundred
and ffty-six bushels of oysters, 1,20i
punches of fish, 81 400 crabs, 6S,303 CLANS
GA sheepshead, 3 turtle, 10 porgies. 2
mackercl, 1850 blue fish and II sturgeon
Marine products condemned: Sixty-on
punches of fish, 1900 crabs and 5,303 CLANS
Native wines.
James Tharp, S1S F street, has ON han
a good article which he sells in quantitie
to suit at very low price.
Transfers OF Real Estate. r
Deeds were filed to-day ms follows: JOhl