The Evening critic., 1881-09-16
GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS.


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About o'clock yesterday evening q
horse, wagon, and two men tumbled into
the ravine at the point where street
dered by Major John ii. King, of the s. f.
p. Q. r. A., and Mr.. Flynn, the contractor
for paving Twenty-sccond and o streets.
The demoralized team and occupants Of the
wagon were finally rescued in very
bruised condition and sent on their way, re-
joicing that in fall of ut least forty feet
they had escaped alive. The team was the
property Of Bensinger, of the Horse Ba-
zaar. ll4H J.s1f yf If Ifia
Coal Coming. i.f
Ten boats with coal for the following left
Cumberland Wednesday, Consolidation
Company, 612 tons; Borden Co., 100 tons
Maryland Co., 80 tons.
How Boats are Sent to Georgetown.
Wednesday afternoon the levels from
Cumberland to below Hancock were flushed,
in order that the boats might be sent to
Georgetown. The canal will be closed un-
til fall Of rain occurs sufficient to fill the
levels again. The basin will probably be
kept full by closing the stop-lock and keep
ing open the feeder.
An UnprovOked Assault.
Charles Larnan, d car driver, appeared in
the Police Court today, charging John
Sullivan with assault. The facts seem to
be that Charles Larman was driving past
the store of Mr.. Sullivan, in Georgetown,
when the latter entered his car and kicked
him off Of it. Sullivan was fined $50 for his
unprovoked cussedness.
A Guiteau Correspondence.
Georgetown pays its respects to Guiteau
to-day. The postal card was evidently
written by some of the cranks who managed
the press accommodations (?) in the recent
regatta: ft
"WEsT WASHINGTON.
"Chdries Guitedu: 4n1 pt
"SUR: would ask as an espheshul favor
that you get Seargant Mason to put up his
muskiet as Bail for you to leave the city,
and 20 to New York State and kill our
friend Courtney, and you will confer n
favor on all your friends In West Washing
ton. ONE THAT COURTNEY SOLD OUT"
Wheat Sales. 300
Thirty-thrce hundred bushels of wheat
were put on Change this morning and sold
at the following prices Fultz, 81 .4O@ .43.;
mixed, 81 Asa; Lancaster, 81. 534 Gp1.55.
Major King as a Cat ExecutiOner.
Major King, humanitarian, benefactor,
and friend Of dumb animals, having made
war Oh the Georgetown police, is Just now
the subject of much ridicule on the part of
the officers of that precinct. One of them
short time ago told him that he was both
cred to death by persons writing letters
to him asking him to kill their cats.
The Major, as is well known, is
dead opposed to killing cats by means of
the "heroic treatment" that is, with, a
shotgun or knife, but believes in taking a
u small bit of poison and placing 1t gently
upon the CATS tongue, and exterminate it in
that way. The other day the Major
was asked to call at the house of
q Georgetown gentleman and kill trouble
some tom-cat. The humane and gentle
Major armed himself with bottle of poison
and proceeded to the grand work of exter-
mination. His feline majesty was trife
larger and stronger than the average
Thomas cat, and the good Major had con-
siderable trouble in administering the
drug. The cat tore and scratched around
at lively rate, and presently the Major
received dig in his benign and benevolent
face. This was just too much even for til Q
agent of the s.. +. p, &C., and the Major
naturally lost his temper. Picking
up u large club, he dealt Mr.. Tom.
cat one over the head, which went
a long way toward pacifying him. The cat
lay in an Outstretched condition, and then
Major King quietly administered the
poison, and the poor cat in q few moments
had taken the wings of cat angels and
flown away to the land where good cats CO.
The Major said he never would have hit the
cat had it not been absolutely necessary.
Ho wants it distinctly understood that he
did not mean to be inhuman. r.f
building Permit.
David Jackson received a permit to-day
for building two brick dwellings on Dun
barton street, near Washington, in George
town, to cost $1,000. 7.H