The Evening critic., 1881-08-20
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things I'm Wash.
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Go TO THE CoMIouE tonight.
Ar 1890 a. m. the thermometer registered
$50 in the shade.
DRIVERS GARDEN is one of the most
popular of places to visit.
DURING the twenty -four hours ending at
s a. m. fifty-fvc arrests were made by the
police.
The crowds who throng Abners nightly
all testify to the excellence of the enter
tainment
MIDDLETON FOSTER was to-day fined
$40 and costs for using scales that were UNI
stamped.
DIR. HoDaKIN, the dentist, has returned
to the city and can be found at his Office,
100 Ninth street northwest.
THE Undnc Fishing Club leaves on the
9th for q fifteen days course on the lower
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay.
STREET LAMPS will be lighted to-day at
7:15 and extinguished at :E45 a. M. To-
morrow they will be lighted Mt the same
hour and extinguished Mt 3:45 q. III. Mon
day.
JOHN GRINNELL, an old man, who has
been for some time an inmate of the Freed
mems Hospital, was found wandering about
the streets last night and taken care of by
the police.
JAMES SPILLMAN was to-day before
Judge Bundy for contempt of court in
failing to answer to a subpoena issued from
the court, but he made valid excuse and
was dismissed.
THIS morning Henry johnson, small
colored boy aged years, fell under the
wheels of a cart and sustained u compound
fracture of his right leg. The boy lives in
O'Ncals alley.
THE number of small craft arriving Mt
the wharvcs has increased during the week.
but they arc mainly of the class known as
"pungies and are engaged in bringing fish
and fruit to the city.
YESTERDAY morning Chas. Evans n
white boy, about 8 years old living at No.
DIP Thirteenth street southwest, was hang
ing on behind coal cart when he fell,
breaking his right arm.
JOSEPHINE l.. GRAVES, well-dressed
white woman was to-day charged in the
Police Court with being vagrant and
lOungcr about the streets and was sent to
the work-house for thirty days.
SEVERAL of our well-known local sports
men who spent day ON the flats in front
of the city, on the Virginia side, shooting
reed birds out of season, are down with
malaria, and it serves them right
WHERE is that organization and what is
it doing that had for its object " the pro-
lection of fish and game within the District
limits?" Men and boys are shooting
reed birds over the flats every day.
In THE DIVORCE case of Mary L. Bishop
against Charles Z. Bishop, Judge Wylie to-
day ordered that the three children COM
United to custody of defendant be brought
to this city without unnecessary delay.
Mrs. MARY LOUISA PAULINE DENIM.
GER, the lively female crank from Manhat-
IA xyac vi itad Mt ia vii rl,uh or
husband this morning, and the pair will re-
turn tomorrow to their home in Brooklyn.
SIMON JosEPHs, of unenvable consta-
bulary fame, was knocked down and beaten
in u saloon on last Tuesday night by John
B. Burnett and to-day Judge Bundy sem
fenced Burnett to fine of $50 or 80 days
in jail for his violence. Il.
THE CRITIC was il seems in error yes
terday in stating that Mr.. Norris Peters
would go upon Capt. Howeate's bond. We
were simply misinformed; but the infor-
nation came from such source that we
could not we'll doubt it.
THE steamer Jane Moseley, returning
from Yorktown with the Christian Union
Association, ran aground below White
House Landing in the fog yesterday morn
ing. The passengers subsequently landed at
White House wharf until the fog lifted.
in his store window No ian pennsyIvan;a
avenue southeast last evening Wien tbc
fanoy na,,or on tI,o oa;,;n, ~ ~ o'x.a;',
caught fire and about $40 damage was done
before the flames could be eytinguishcd
wv, IT Prey ooIorod ,r,s o,,o,,,oa l.,
tho pn,;co f,omrt dan 'r;., "s s,oaI;,,s -,
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Isaac hammond The yorma n,am,s s;u "n'
lar fondness for cdge.too,s xes n"m;shads h,,
Ave days in ono case t,yentv In tha sooonS
and five in the third.
Sensations are renorted IN have heon
created in two nortions Of town last niobt
Inv false alarms If murder The 6rst tyas
caused Inv n fight between two men named
Smithv and Brown on the Island and tbe
second bv LIKE West EnocL;no down his
affianced bride near the street hr,dge
Tuy Nonmu wv .s,r,,,,,al,s, ~, a,,'u
TIVE RuIrDfNn AssorI.TIoN viii bold an
adjourned meetino On Thnrsdov n;aht at
the scbool.honse on First hct,veep and x
streets northwest nj no n M An inter'
ested should attend his is n new associa.
tion and offers unusual inducementst IN share.
holders,
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