The Evening critic., 1881-08-22
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things in WASH
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other rcading matter.
JUSTICE WALTER has returned to the
city, and was at his Office to-day.
STREET LAMPS will bc lighted at 7:l5
y. IN. and extinguished ai:3:i5 n. m.
REV. w. l. McKENxEY preached at
Washington Grove Camp yesterday.
THE WORK of the transfer of dead bodies
from the old Holmead Cemetery will be
completed this month.
AT Washington Grevc Camp, yesterday
Messrs. Charles Nye and II. A. Hall held n
temperance meeting.
DIR. TAcHMYNTIs was to-day furnished
with transportation TO New York city by
the District authorities.
DURING the past twcnty-four hours the
police made large number of arrests of
DRINKS and disordcrlics.
THE Lady of the Lake leaves ut $50 p. m.
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for Nor
folk and Fortress Monroe.
THE bulk of the cases in the Police Court
to-day, where the United States was in
volved, was for petty assaults.
Mr.. JOSEPH MArTINGLY, q wcll-known
railroad agent, hasibeen admitted to Provi-
dencc Hospital, toihe treated for insanity in
mild form.
YESTERDAY the We man s Christian Union
held an interesting meeting at Masonic
Hall. A largely attended gospel meeting
was also held at Waugh Chapel.
ONE-THTRD of our present police force is
doing special duty, much to the disgust of
business men, who consider that their prop
erty is by no means properly guarded.
LOUISE MARSHALL, colored, a homeless
and friendless cOnsumptive, was yesterday
assigned an apartment in the Emergency
Hospital
WM. BOSWELL neglected to observe the
law,.and was fined To-day $50 and costs for
keeping his bar open on Sunday in South
Washington.
EUGENE BosToN, colored, was before
Judge Bundy to-day, for raising merry
Hades in the county, and was fined So or
fifteen days.
ASSISTANT DIsTRfcr ATTORNEY PERRY
paid;a flying visit to the city to-day, but
will not be back permanently until the first
of next month.
SAkUEL CARTER, white, was charged to-
day ia the Police Court with keeping his
bar, ina South Washington, open ON Sunday
FinedS20 and costs.
THOMAS HOWARD, who sssalleged to have
stolen nineteen chickens fran the Soldiers
Home, to-day managed to get n continuance
in the Police Court.
LAWYER L. c. INGERsoLL .Of counsel for
ex-senator |. p. Christiancy YIN ihis suit for
divorce, states that he expects l,is client to
arrive in shis city about the list al September
HERBEGT FITZHUGH, white. last night
aroused the echoes of the Baltimore and
Potomac depot building with Ais profane
and boistenaas conduct, and was fined in
the Police laurt to-day SO or sevendays.
JAMES THOMPSON, n driver on one of the
One-h0rse ears on Pennsylvania Avenue,
was taken With an epilcptic fit this lporn.
ing and removed from his car, which was
then driven By enc of the boys who aMivcs
the extra car horses at the Treasury hill.
SHORTLY after midnight. officers on the
beat including n street, between Second aud
Third, discovered fire jn the house of Ed
ward Butler, and extipguishcd the flames
without turning in M alarm. The damage
will not exceed $50.
BUILDING lots embracing 1904 feet OH
Rhode Island avenue, between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets have been sold for
SIG, 1897 80. The assessment rates for this
property in 1879 were between 80 cents and
~ per foot. -
JANE BOSWELL, white, was hauled up in
the Police Court to-day for an assault upon
Charlie Montgomery, the son of one of our
policemen, by hitting him in the side with
rock, and injuring him seriously. She
was fined only IS and COSTS or fifteen days
in Jail.
The SUBCOMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION
appointed at the citizens meeting on We'd
nesday night last, to report upon plan of
celebration during the Yorktown Centen-
NAL ceremonies In October next, will meet
at the National Hotel this evening at 7:3O
o'clock to complete their report.
Mr.. ROBERT McGINN, chief clerk of the
Health Department, returned to the office
to-day after n short vacation spent down
the river. A feature of the trip was the
rescue of two drowning men. The first
man who fell from the deck of the Leary !;
the second ho rescued by jumping from
the wharf ut Marshall Hail.