The Evening critic., 1881-08-18
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
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THE CoMIQUE offers good bill every
night this week.
DRIVER has new attractions this week Mt
his summer garden concerts.
STREET LAMPS will be lighted at 7:15 D.
m. and extinguished at 1870 a. III.
THE thermometer to-day registered 7io
at $50 a. M, and 76o at 1890 a. m.
AT ABNER's superior orchestra supplies
exquisite music nightly to scores OF
visitors.
FoRTYEIGuT arrests were made by the
police during the twenty-four hours ending
Mt 8 a. IN.
ROBERT BARKER and VIM. McGll were
fined 81 each by Judge Bundy to-day, for
throwing stones.
CATHERINE DENTZ, of Georgetown, had
to fork over $105 or give bonds, for selling
whisky by the small in the Police Court to-
day.
THE numerous friends of Mrs. Ellis will
be glad to learn that she has recovered from
her serious injuries, and is enabled to leave
her bed.
CHARLES GREEN white, was up in the
Police Court, charged with keeping an un.
licensed bar in the First Ward, and was
fined S105.
THE ALARM OF FIRE from box 314 ut 3 p
m. was caused by tar pot boiling over al
Littlefeld's tar works. The damage did
not exceed 81.
ROSE KENNY, the unfortunate colored
child who was burned to death i'm her pa
rents yard some days ago, was buried at
Payne's Cemetery last night
EUGENE PIERCE, white, was charged in
the Police Court to-day with raising ter
rible racket in the division" last night,
and was fined s. or 10 days.
MARY WALKER, a small colOred girl, was
charged in the Police Court to-day with
stealing a lace collar from Jenny Reader,
and was sent down for ten days.
Tom JOHNSON, a colored boy, was before
Judge Bundy to-day, charged with Sec
ond offcnse of larceny, in stealing revolver
from Arthur Jackson. Grand jury.
THos. ALBERToN, n well-dressed young
white man, was brought before Judge Bundy
for vagrancy, and was required to give
bonds or go to the work-house for 80 days
A TEAM belonging to johnson Brother,
ran away on ID street to-day and collided
with Shaiiield's mineral water wagon
breaking the axle and shafts of the latter
THE HEALTH OFFICER should order thu
old mating on the floor of the Police Court
room to be taken up. 1t is filthy and odor
GUS of tobacco spittle, and as people arc
compelled to attend the court, the Health
Officer should protect them.
JAMES NOBLE JENKINS was before Judge
Bundy this afternoon on charge of assault.
ing Bob Turner, by stabbing him in the
back while engaged in fight at the cor.
ner of Fourteenth and d streets. He was
fined $40 or thirty days.
AT 6 o'clock last evening fire was dis.
covered under the school. house near the
Soldiers Home, and cxtinguished by neigh.
bors. At o'clock the building was again
fired in another portion, and extinguished
by the police. There is no doubt that the
fires were started both times by an in.
cendiary.
A PARTY of five young men engaged in
an ARRAY on Pennsylvania avenue south
east, a few days ago. To-day
John 0'Neal and George Simmons, who
were arrested yesterday, were arraigned in
the Police Court, when O'Neal forfeited his
collateral, and Simmons was fined $40 and
costs.
THE PRIMITIVE BAPTIsTs from Loudoun,
Prince William, FauQuier and Alexandria
Counties, Va, and from Georgetown and
Washington, ID. G., commenced at New Bal
timOre, Va, yesterday what is known Us q
corresponding meeting. The attendance
was quite large .I lasls.-.l II
BESSIE STAPLES, aged five years, was ac-
cidentally shot at Shiloh, King George
County, Va, last Wednesday, by Henry
Luzby, a ten-year-old Washington boy, who
was visiting there. Master Luzby took up
a gun to shoot dog, and it went Off the
load of Shot lodging in the girls arms, neck
and face.