The Evening critic., 1881-08-16
The Critic i'm Georgetown.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things In wash
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STREET LAMPS will be lighted tonight
at 7:20 and extinguishcd vt IL p. M.
FoRTy-FoUR arrests were made by the
police during the twenty four hours ending
at ga. IN.
THE WORK on the City Hall extension
is now booming along finely, both brick
and stone work.
THERE WAS an unusually large number
of loud and boisterous cases before the
Police Court this morning.
In THE CASE of Sanderson VS.. Troutman
ct al. Judge Wylie to-day postponed the
hearing until next Saturday.
FLORENCE O'DoNoHuE was up before
Judge Bundy to-day for keeping on unli-
censed bar in West Washington fined $l05.
WASHINGTON JOHNSON, colored, was
charged in the Police Court to-day with
running rum mill without license, and
was fined $105.
FRANK WILLIAMS stole sixteen bars of
soap from the grocery store of Michael
COombs and was sent down for ten days by
His Honor Bundy.
THE water in the river is unusually low,
and crabs are caught as high up as Shop
herds Point, the water being brackish al
most up to Alexandria.
WORKMEN to-day were engaged in taking
up the carpets and otherwise cleaning the
court-rooms at the City Hall preparatory
for the rcopening of the courts.
BRADLEY YOUNG and Alexander Porvitt
were sentenced to 10 days in Jail each, for
stealing hats from u store on Pennsylvania
avenue, near Four-and .a-half street.
OFFICER MILLER brought dead infant
to the Seventh Precinct station yesterday,
which he found on Second street northwest,
near c. The Coroner has been notified.
SARAH SEARS, a young white girl, was
before Judge Bundy to-day, charged with
contempt of court in failing to answer u
summons, and was fined SO or 10 days.
Pack THIS WEEK is splendid. Al. Thorn
son, who keeps all the funny journals at
507 Ninth street, keeps all the journals that
have fun in them, as well as good cigars
and tobacco.
ALEXANDER CHILDs a crank created an
excitement by entering De Moll's drug
store on Capitol Hill last night, and smash
ing number of bottles and glasses. Childs
was arrested.
FLORENCE ODoNoHUE and John Dris-
coll were charged in the Police Court o-day
with disturbing the usual quiet neighbor-
hood of West Washington on Saturday night
Driscoll was fined S. and O'Donohu6 dis
charged.
THE HERDIc COMPANY is making i'm.
provements all the time. The coaches are
about to be reprinted. A lot offresh horses
arc shortly to be put on the line, the COM
pany having recently pastured large lot
of them in the country, and they will i'm
mediatcly be put in service.
MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM, Pat Collins
and James Reynolds were arraigned in the
Police Court to-day for beating John Cud-
more and raising terrible row in Jackson
alley last night. Cunningham was dis
missed, Reynolds was fined $40 or 30 days
and Collins forfeited collateral.
ABOUT $50 this morning the fire alarm
turned in from box AZ was caused by the
burning of two frame houses on NJ between
Third street and Delaware avenue south
west, owned by Mrs. Margaret Kemp and
occupied by George Jordon and Sarah
DOugherty. The damage was about $3.50
A house on Delaware avenue, near NJ, was
also damaged to the extent of $25. The
house is owned by Henry Dugan. The
cause of the fire was supposed to be stove
in the house on NJ street, near Delaware
avenue .a rE.