The Evening critic., 1881-08-03
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things i'm Wash
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LOCALS on third page.
STREET lamps will be lighted at 10 p M.
and extiuguishcd at 3:i5 II. m.
"A1RY FAIRY" cigarettes are not injuri--
GUS to your health. Call for them. IIliI
Col. ROGERS excursion, forty miles down
the river, last night was n delightful affair.
ANNIE DAvipGE was fined $3 to-day for
firing Kate West, one of her tenants, out of
the house. csrI
WIN. FITzuUGH knocked his wife down
on the street twice last evening, and was
Gagged for thirty days this morning.
MAJ. w. ii. MILLS is happy over the adj
dition of new boy to his household YES
terday morning. The Major has named
him the Dictator
THE WORK on the new City Hall ex-
tension (brickwork) was stopped yesterday
by the refusal Of the hod-carriers to work
with non-union employees.
SERGEANT PERRY and officer Conway
extinguised fire last evening, which had
broke out among some rubbish in the cellar
of 1911 Pennsylvania avenue
The steam drcdge Of the National Dredg-
ing Company is anchored on the edge of the
Kidwell meadows, off Ninth street, ready
to begin the work of harbor Improvement.
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Washington city postal system, which al
ready embraces Georgetown, to the villages
of the District, has been substantially aban-
doned, for the present. at least.
THE PouNDMAsTER has had one of the
most successful weeks on record, averaging
% catch oftwenty-fve dogs per day, as well as
horses, cows, geese, etc. During The four days
ending to-day, 1877 dogs were captured.
UP TO DATE the last licenses issued were
to Mrs Annie Murphy for hacks Nos. 81 and
1875; to John A. PurDer, produce, Washing
ton market, and 81 permit for produce deal
ing to Alexander Shreve, 2 street market.
ONLY three schooncrs arrived in the Dis
trict yestcrday--thc Annie L. Clark, with
10000 feet of lumber; Mary A. Harmon, witt,
423 tons of COAL and the Eta Stowe, with
$50 tons of ice.
THE EXCURSION of the Capitol Pleasure
Club last night to Marshall Hall was very
enjoyable affair. The young gentlemen com
posing the club are entitled to great credit
for the efficient manner in which the excur
sion was conducted.
THE POLICE BOARD was to have met thi!
evening to try charges preferred against
three officers of the force but owing to the
illness of two of them the meeting was
postponed. The charges are of light
character in each case.
AUGUSTUS o. BRUMMEL was before the
Police Court to-day charged with having
left sick horse without attention for three
days Mr.. Robert Ball, Of the S. p. G. A.
was the prosecutor After lengthy ex-
animation the case was dismissed x
MICHAEL. GoTTHELF, clothier, doing
business at 525 Four-and-a -halfs street south
west, made an assignment yesterday for
the benefit of his creditors to Elon Behrend
making preferences to the amount o.
1880 tlr.se
A HORSE attached to w. II. Coleman &
Co.'s business wagon and driven by Willie
Il Brown, white boy, took fright at pass
ing buggy driven by A. G.. Bell, yesterday
away, breaking wheel and the shafts o
y the wagon. Oh DIT 29Cukf
JOHN NORRIS and Henry Kaiser, white
were up before Judge Bundy to-day charged
with vagrancy. They were suspected o
having been engaged in the attempt to rol
the stores of Brad Adams and Mr.. Lambie
The evidence against them did not amOun
to much and they were dismissed.
ABOUT 1890 a. m. yesterday, while 1
white boy named VIM. Benton was bathing
in the Eastern Branch, at THE foot of Thirt
street southeast, he had an attack of cramp
and was saved from drowning by Jane
Doremus and Carroll Lowtrip, who swan
to his rescue. Benton was carried to hi
home and revived
THIS EVENING the Moselcy takes an 'ex
cursi0n down the river to Norfolk and TIN
Capcs. The proceeds are for the benefit o
Bud Eageston's temperance tent. Thu
tickets are placed at a nominal figure, ant
we understand that all the staterooms hav
been taken. Bud is entitled to encourage
ment. The steamer leaves at p m.