The Evening critic., 1881-10-21
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About People and Things i'm wash
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HuFF's black goods store, 1l3 9TH st, n. W.
THIRTY-oNE arrests were made yesterday
by the police.
THE number Of cases in the Police Court
to-day was unusually small.
MR.. JONI PAUL JONES, of Indiana, was
to-day admitted to the Bar Of the District.
A NEW SCHOONER was launched in Bal
timore yesterday named the James A.
Garfield"
A coLoRED INFANT was found on X
street, near Twenty-second street, last
night, and taken to st. AIMS Asylum.
GENTS FALL HATS, new supplies, low
prices at A. T. Lewis, 1876 Seventh street.
Also Gents Furnishings, for moderate
prices.
A FIRE ALARM was turned in last night
from box 1856, caused by pile of rubbish
being set fire to in the rear of No. A10 +
street. No damage was done.
FANNY NEIL, a colored woman of about
40 years, died suddenly last evening ut
about $50 o'clock, ut the house of Enoch
Carter, in Q.street alley. The Coroner has
been notified.
In ADDITION to the Indictment against
Capt. Howgate, the grand jury to-day found
true bills against the following: james
Smith, larceny; Richard Wood and Mar
greet Wood, larceny.
A CoLoRED BURGLAR entered the house
of J. II. Bivins, No. 100 Twelfth street,
through kitchen window, and ransacked
the building. The thief was frightened of
without securing any plumber.
SPRING BRINGS the blossoms. Autumn
brings the fruit-and also colds, ETC., for
which nothing superior to DIR. Bulls Cough
Syrup has ever been offered to the public.
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LEONARD SMITH was arrested this morn
ing by Officer Block, for biting large por-
ton of Pete Boston's ear off while quarrel
was going on at F0ur-and-a-half street and
Maryland avenue on Wednesday evening.
RUBY JACKSON, a colored boy, swore out
warrant this morning against William
Dixon, colored, who he accuses of robbing
him, while he was asleep in board yard, of
his coat waitscoat and about seven dollars
in money.
Mr.. GEORGE LILLEBRIDGE, an official in
the Sixth Auditors Office, hung his coat and
vest on q hook near his desk yesterday, and
when he took them down from the hook
he found that his watch and watch-chain
had been taken from the pocket.
FIRST COMPTROLLER LAWRENCE has in
formed the District Commissioners that
they have no authority to incur any cx-
pense for pavement within the space of two
feet beyond the outer rail of the track of any
street railroad in this city, or for the space
between the tracks.
THE body of the man who was missing
from the steamer Havana, while on its way
to Baltimore, has been discovered and
identified as that of Rev. Michael Ivers, n
Catholic priest who was engaged in solicit
ing subscriptions to build chapel in his
native town, Alfreton, Derbyshirc, Eng
land.
SARA JANE SHELTON was tried in the
Police Court to-day for robbing her EN-.
ployer, Louisa Lusbig, of napkins and
spoons, and sent to Jail for ten days. This
woman has been convicted several times of
similar larcenies, and was recently found
guilty of second ofIensc in the Criminal
Court, the sentence was, however, sus-
pended.
IN THE case of John Chiles against
Stephen V. White, involving the distribu-
ton of q certain sum of money, obtained as
fees for prosecuting Claims before the Mex
lean claims Commission Hon. Daniel w.
Voorhees, and John Paul Jones entered their
appearance to-day as counsel for the defend
ant.
The Ninth Massachusetts Regiment re.
turns tonight, and we trust that they have
had enough amusement and will behave
themselves. Just prior to their departure
from this city, they took possession of q
collation. spread in honor of the Thirteenth
New York and left the Brooklyn boys in q
half-starvcd condition They acted very
roughly in Richmond, and at Yorktown
came within an ace of having a collision
with the New York Regiment because the
latter refused to associate with them.