The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-12-11
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

The strcct-lamps will be lighted at $40
=. m. and oxtinguished at 6;15 n. m.
TWENTY prisoners were conveyed from
Police Court to jail and workhouse to-day.
COLONEL ISAAC S. TIcHENoR, the new
District AUDITOR entered upon his duties this
morning.
Mrs NJ, Cora BLAND will hold liter
nry reception this evening at her residence,
1909 street.
THE Commissioners have appointod
Thomas d. Shoemaker to clerkshlp In the
Engineer Department
THE Dickson trial will be resumed in tho
Police Court tomorrow, and counsel expect It
10 contlnuo into next week.
CORA MONROE succeeded in stealing
cost from Samuel Moore, and has been COM
mitted to Jail for forty-1ye days.
MOSES JONES, colored man who stole
four pounds of pork from John Johnson, has
been awarded thirty days In jail by Judge
Snoll.
DURING November the officers of the
Centre Market made iifty.seven arrests which
resulted In the imposition of flnes to tho
amount Of s1d0.
The District Commissioners have ordered
the establishment OF school at tho work.
house, for the purpose of teaching the younger
prisoners committed to that institution.
FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS
field Memorial Monument Fair to school chill.
dren. This represents 5000 who visited the
Fair.
JAMES JOHNSON and Martin Brown, two
cOlored men, got Into n light on Columbia road,
In tho county, Saturday. Johnson fired two
shots from a revolver ut Brown, but missed
him each time.
The supply agent of tho Houston &
Texas Central Railroad, Mr.. W. W. Stiles, OF
Houston, Tex, was thrown from his horse and
received very severe sprain. st. Jacobs OIL
helped him amazingly.
SAMUEL FLYNN, boy and marine
named Michael Hely, had fight which was
interrupted by the police, and Hely was fined
IS for nssaultlng Flynn, and Flynn was &C.
quilted OF charge OF assaulting Hely.
HENRY HUDSON, colored man, accosted
young colored woman, named Lizzie Rice,
near the market on Saturday night, and, at.
ter making an improper proposal TO her,struck
her in tho face. Hudson was fined So by Judge
Smell to day.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE FOSTER, secretary of
the. National woman's Suffrage Association,
arrived in this city yesterday and Issued n
circular calling for the assembling of n con-
vention Of the association here, TO continue
from January to inclusive.
A LADY about sixty years old, named
Mary Gleason, fell on the sidewalk on I street,
between North Capitol and First streets north
west, about O 80 yesterday morning, breaking
her right leg. She was taken 10 the Providence
Hospital in the police ambulance.
IT is understood that tho committee to
whose consideration the National Rifles re.
ferred the Light Infantry's challenge have de.
cided not 10 accept the competition. A letter
Is being prepared giving what are said to be
satisfactory reasons for the refusal.
LIFE is too short to try half dozen
different kinds of "sure cures" when one suf-
fers with cough or cold; stick to the best and
use DR.. Bulls Cough syrup; 1t will euro your
cough and never disuppoint you. All drug
gists sell 1t at twenty cents bottle. (
MATHEW SMoTHERs, brutal negro, was
lighting with another rough In South Wash
ington last evening when O1lcer Williams ar
rested both combatants, and Smotbers ondeav-
ored to break away and kicked the
ofIlcer in tho abdomen, injuring him pain
fully. Judge Smell imposed the usual fine.
A BILL for divorce was filed Saturday by
Mr.. d. ]. Darneille for Katie L. Colo against
W. II. Cole. The bill sets forth that they were
married on July %, 1871, by Rev. Van Meter,
at her fathers residence, and charges, adult.
cry, drunkenness, cruel treatment, non-sup-
port and desertion, and also asks the custody
of their child.
JOHN JOHNSON and Frederick Fry, tho
men charged with receiving the stolen shoes,
were called up In the Police Court to-day for
sentence. Judge Smell gave them six months
each In six OF the cases, making three years
In Jail each, and suspended sentence In tho
other seven cases. The third man, Sutton, is
still at large, but will be arrested on an at
taphment.