The Evening critic., 1881-10-18
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STREET LAMPS will be lighted at j:l5 p.
III. and extinguished at $3.50 a. nj.
THERE were sixty-fvc arrests made by the
police during the twenty-tour hours ending
at nine n. M
THE STEAMER GEORGE LEARY ran ashore
on Monday on York Spit, but was backed
off on the rise of the tide without damage,
MARY A. WILLIAMSON day filed bill
in chancery against G. c. 1vcy and others
TO perfect the title to lots 9 and 3, square 095
Mr.. FRED. w. JONES has been appointed
by Justice Macarthur guardian ad litem for
Lucy, George NJ. and Mary Rebecca Hunter.
c. G. O'CoNNELL was fined s. by Judge
Smell to-day for driving and working n
mule which had been injured on the b. &
p. Railroad.
CARROLL INSTITUTE last night adopted
appropriate resolutions in respect to the
memory of their late president, Mr., j. How
ard Bushnell
THE old flagstaff at the Navy yard has
been removed and q new one, 1l5 feet high
will be put up this week, thirty feet higher
than the old one.
Puck for the current week is an excellent
number Al. Thomson, ir.. dealer in news
papers, cigars and tobacco, at 507 Ninth
street, has it for sale.
MARTHA BANKS was convicted to-day in
the Criminal Court of assault with intent to
kill Matilda Upshur on the 18th Of June
1879 Sentence was suspended.
A NoLLE PROS. was entered to-day in the
case of John Williams, indicted for assault
ing Policeman James L. Branson, as there
was another indictment against him for the
same offense.
IN THE suit of VIM. b. Moses against
Davis w. Bailey, on account, the jury in
the Circuit Court assessed the amount due
the plaintiff as S64.32, with interest from
November 26, 1879.
MAHoMET L. CoNN, the long-haired
sallow-complexioned Persian prophet, of
Georgetown, was arrested last night while
ON one of his grand sprces, and was sent
down to the work-hoase for vagrancy.
THE following Washingtoniansh have been
granted patents James ID. Jackson, as
signcr of one half to l.. Winters, Washing
ton, ID. C., disinfccting attachment for sew
crs, ETC., and George A. McIlhenny, gas re-
tort furnace.
THE body of young white man found
near this end of the Long Bridge about
week ago, was held for Identification by
MIR. Buchly, the undertaken, until to-day
when il was buried in the Congressional
Cemetery at his expense.
BLEAK, CHILLY March and November are
the two worst months of the year for those
suffering with pulmonary diseases. Keep
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup near by and such
sufferers will be able to brave the rough
weather without danger. Price % cents.
THE many friends of Mr.. William G.
Smoot, of the Post-office Department, will
be panied to learn of the death of his eldest
son Charles. The young man was taken
with congestive chill yesterday morning
at about 6 o'clock and an hour later was
corpse, /.
Mr.. CHAs. JONES was riding past the cor
ner of Four-and-a-half street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, last evening, when his horse
Slipped and fell ON him, breaking his right
foot. Mr.. Jones was put into the police am
bulance and carried to his home, 343 l.
street southwest.
MR.. +. M. WARD, clerk in the Post
Office and prominent member of the w.
l.. /. Corps, died yesterday at his residence,
No. 54l Second street, of pneumonia The
arm0ry has been draped in mourning out
ofrcspect to his memory. The remains
were this morning sent to his late home in
Minnesota under escort of committee of
the Corps.
ROBERT GIBSON this morning purchased
a two-cent sandwich from curb-stone ven
der named John Bentley, who demanded
three cents for it. Gibson declined to pay
the additional penny and Bentley took his
hat, when Gibson seized a tumbler and
made OIL. Bentley pursued and, with the
assistance of Officer Breen, captured and
carried him to the Police Court. His
Honor thought Bentley the most to blame
and dismissed the boy.