The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-08-12
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Thsssgs In Wnsl
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About People and Ths.sgs in wash
fngtOn.
THE CoMiQUE invites. Go, ifVou would
laugh and he happy.
DRIVERS SUMMER GARpYs invites the
masses to recreation.
STREET lamps will be lighted mt 7:20 p.
m. and extnguishcd at 9:25 p. m.
THE LADY OF THE LAKE leaves at $50
to-day for Norfolk and Fortress Monroe.
FoRTY-FIvE ARRESTS were wade by the
police during the twenty-four h0lurs ending
at q. IN.
THE CHIEFS Of the various divisions and
offices under the District government have
been directed to send in their annual re-
ports.
THE PALACE STEAMER EXCELSIOR will
give select Sunday afternoon excursion on
the 14th to QUANTITIES. Avail yourself of
the opportunity.
GEORGE REITTER, who has served as
pressman in various newspaper offices about
the city for q number of years, leaves here
tonight for Chicago.
HENRIETTA WIscE, an old colored woman
suffering with consumption, was taken to
the Emergency Hospital last evening. and
medical aid was rendered.
PERHAPS Bob Ingcrsoil might learn
something.by consulting with Mrs. Chris
tina Taylor. Mrs. Christina evidently be-
licves that there is devil.
THE STEAMER LEARY leaves her wharf
at o'clock p. m. tomorrow for n view of
the ocean. ExcursiOnists can return in
time for business on Monday.
THE LATEST PHASE in Questionable society
is to wear thermometer on the watch
chain. Never mind the watch, you can tell
the time by the temperature.
WoRKMEN now engaged dredging the
Kidwell flats report the soil extremely light
and easy to remove. They expect to make
rapid Roadway with the work.
ALICE AND MAGGIE McAULEY to-day
filed bill through their counsel against
John McAuley and Others, to sell for their
benefit part of lot 4, in square 2i3.
DoN'T FORGET the excursion to Lower
Cedar Point. You can go on either the
Moseley or Thompson, and both vessels are
splendidly equipped and well differed.
ABNER's GARDEN, on L street, is cool and
delightful. The orchestra is all that could
be desired in the way of music while
no one can complain Of the Refreshments
served. .
THE CRITIC again yesterday dstanced
all its contemporaries in the report of the
Lynchburg convention. The universal
verdict is that our special dispatches sup
piled every want
THE CRITIC OFFICE is the most religious
newspaper establishment in Washington.
We have church Siamesc.twinncd to us,
and write our articles under the inspiration
of choir rehcarsals.
THE NUMBER of colored men, boys and
girls committed to the work-hOuse on
charges of vagrancy in the Police Court
daily is alarming in view of the plentiful
Eess of work in the adjacent farming regions.
WILLIAM ID. BELL, for threatening to
terminate the existence forthwith of his
wife Mary, was to-day, in the Police Court,
ordered to give 5000 bond to keep the
peace toward her or 60 to Jail for thirty
days.
MAJOR KING appeared in the Police
Court to-day against Peter Campbell for
driving superannuated mule, and Wm
Matthews for driving mule with a very
Sire back, Both cases were dismissed by
Judge Bundy. ~
Ex-CuysTABLE JOSEPH was arraigned
this morning in the Police Court for His0r-
derby conduct in. the restaurant of Mr..
Schmidt, on Seventh street, near G, but the
case was not made out, and the defendant
was dismissed.
WIN. ROLLINS, a laborcr in the Treasury
Department, fell off ladder in the base
ment Of the building, this afternoon, and
was removed to his home, on the Navy.
yard, in the police ambulance.
In THE CASE of Sanderson VS.. Trout
man Judge Wylie ordered to-day that the
hearing for application for sale of furni
ture, &C., in Sanders0n's Hotel, on Capito
Hill, be anticipated, and that Tuesday, tho
10th inst, at 10 A. m, be fixed for the hear
ing.
ABOUT 10 o'clock this morning colorcd
man named Samuel Lee, a laborcr workiDi
at the Hamilton House, at the corner o
Fourteenth and X streets, was overcome b,
the heat and removed to the drug store %
Fourteenth and l. streets, and afterwart
sent to his home, at Nineteenth and Boun
dairy streets.
A LITTLE DAUGHTER of Mrs. Miller, liv
ing on Sixth street southwest, narrowl,
escaped being run over by the express trail
coming in on the Baltimore and Potomac
Road yesterday. The child was standing
on the track at Maryland avenue, and wa
saved by Mr.. Springman, who lifted he
from the track.
THE garbage man and street-cleaner i
much needed in Marion alley, between
Sixth and Seventh streets, in the rear o
Wheatlcy Bros lumber yard. 1t seems t,
be dumping place for garbage, carcasses o
dead cats, fowls, &C. Where is the eneIgeti
Health Officer Of the city?
THE yacht Annie Gibson leaves tn
George Leary wharf at A p. IN. with In
nocents Abroad for all river landings as ia
down as Point Lookout TO be gone abou
fifteen days Lieut.. Gessford, J. II. SuttOr
Henry Hepburn, Sergeant Leach, Office
Barnes r. G. Clarvoe and Others constitut
the party.
Go to Hahn for Easy shoes.
Easy feet are the next thing to an eas
conscience, and the shoemaker who flu