The Evening critic., 1881-07-18
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WEATHER more agreeable to-day.
HARD WEATHER on street cur horses.
Toy PISTOLS and lock,j 20 hand in
hand.
SERGEANT HEFFNER, of the Fifth pre-
cinct. is i'll.
DoG-cATcHERs commenced vigorous
warfare to-day.
THE PARKS swarm with baby carriages
in the evenings
SOME buzzards wcrc plucked from the
roost Saturday night.
If YOU seek GOODNESS and comfort go to
Drivers summer garden.
ABNER offers special attractions at his
summer garden this week.
WHY DON'T Washington have public
baths for the benefit Of the poor?
ACCORDING to Vennor, we are to have
only seven more days of intense heat.
THE remains of Capt. Charles Il. Gantcr
were buried yesterday ut Prospect Hill
Cemetery.
YESTERDAY mornings fire Is supposed to
have been caused by man smoking his
pipe in bed.
AMOS r. CURRIE, sixth victim to the
deadly toy pistol died at his home in this
city yesterday.
ABOUT 6.30 o'clock last evening bed in
the second story of No. 34S + street was ac-
cidently burned.
WASHINGTON boys will please take notice
that the Baltimore papers to-day report
more fatal results of toy pistol wounds.
EDWARD HARRIS, colored, aged IL, was
thrown from mule near Washington Cir
Gle yesterday, and had his arm fractured.
THE Washington Light Infantry Corps
will assemble at the arinory at 9 o'clock
sharp tomorrow, to start OH their trip to
Warrenton.
GEORGE ANDREW DOUGLASS, who for
years has catered to the printers in tho
newspaper offices, died yesterday morning
Of consumption.
A WHITE MALE infant, two days old,
was left on the steps of the COrcoran Art
Gallery, ut 10 o'clock last night. The babe
was sent to st. AIMS Infant Asylum.
WHY DON'T our temperance societies
place free ice water on tap in the most fro
quented parts of the city? The cxperient
has been tried in New York and with good
results.
LAST NIGHT Alexander Lee struck Lucy
Williams with stone in the head, while she
was standing in Blagdon Alley. The man
escaped and the woman was attended by DIR.
Bushnell.
HARRY ROBINSON and David Ban gs
brought their heads into contact with such
force at the New York avenue swimming
school, on Saturday night, that it will con-
fine them both to their homes for few
days.
THERE will be no moro jury trials in the
Circuit Court until the opening of the Oc
tober term. There will probably be spe-
cial term in September for consideration of
cases where judgments by default are de-
manded.
MAJOR HANNIBAL ID. NORTON, principal
financial clerk of the Third Assistant Post
mastcr-Generals office, has been offered the
captaincy of the Washington Light Guard
made vacant by the resignation of Captain
Donald McCathran.
THE YACHT Ella Treadwell, of this city,
is OH the ways at the Alexandria ship-yard
in process of overhauling. Her commodore,
Charley Godfrey, poet and mariner, has re-
turned to the city after an extended trip to
his old home in Boston.
THE RIVER STEAMERS have about as
much rs they can attend to on Sundays
owing to this pleasant weather. A large
proportion of the resident population seize
upon the opportunity to enjoy an outing
and the fresh river breeze.
No ONE CAN more pleasantly perform an
act of charity than in contributing to the
fund now being raised for the weekly cx.
cursions down the river for the benefit OF
sick children, whose parents are unable to
afford them the needed recreation.
OF THE sixty-threc arrests made by the
police during the twenty-fours ending at
o'clock yesterday morning, only sixteen
were for drunkenness, which evidences that
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citizens can carry q large amount and still
bob up scrcncly.
THE work on the extension of the City
Hall is now being pushed forward very
rapidly, and the work is being solidly and
squarely done by the contractor He could
not SLOUGH the job if he wanted to; there
are too many eyes upon him; but he is evil
IDENTIFY going to give us building worthy
of the city.
THE WASHINGTON CADETS Capt. C. A
Fleetwood will leave here for pleasur,
excursion to Richmond, Va, on Saturday
the Both instant, at IL p. M. There will be
about fifty men in the ranks, and the past
record of the cadets gives assurance that
they will do no discredit to the District in
the neishboring city.
MAJOR KING, of the Society for Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals, is doing good
work in putting q stop to the torture of
horses and mules. The cruelty practiced
upon the horses used by contractors on the
street pavements is sometimes simply dia-
bOlical. All such cases should be rigidly
prosecuted in the Police Court.
OUR FRIEND TIMMs, having withdrawn
from his connection with the clothing house
southeast corner Seventh and ID, is devoting
his time to pushing forward improvements
Oh his now store, on the northwest corner
of the same streets. Early in September
this store will be ready for occupancy, al
which time we are promised something new
and original in the clothing business.
A HANDSOME monument to the Confeder.
ate dead will be dedicated at Culpepel
Court House, Va, on Thursday next
Among the speakers will be Gov. Holiday
Gen. Kemper, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, John NJ
Daniel, and ex-Representative Goode. Mr.
John L. Norris, president of the Jackson
Democratic Association, and q number o
other Washingtonians expect to be present
Another Shot at Guiteau.
District-Attorney Corkhill this morning
received a letter from Greeenburg, Ind.
dated July Is, saying:
"Please deliver the inclosed postal card t
the brute in human form, Charles Guiteau
DEMOCRAT, J. w. DUNBARToN.
On the card is drawn u gallOws marke