The Evening critic., 1882-03-10
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS,
WIN. GAIT will make additions to build.
ing ct seventeenth and Pennsylvania avenue
at an expense OF $1,000.
Mr.. THOMAS E. ROACH chief of the Bond
Division, Post-ofce Department, Is confined
10 his residence seriously Ill.
X. +. CAMPBELL will invest $4,000 in the
erection Of two brick houses and stores on
Tenth street, between d and Z.
MRS. FLEET, mother.in-law of Prof
Greene, has been appointed TO n clerkship In
the ONCE of the Register Of the Treasury.
A. +. BARKER received permit to-day
TO build dwelling on @ street, near Thir-
teenth, southwest, at an expense OF 81, 800.
COMPLAINT has been filed with the
Commissioners of q dangerous hole In the
carriage way on North Capitol street, near b.
ATTORNEY. GENERAL FRANK S. BLAIR,
of Virginia, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Gem
Blair is one of the ablest lawyers in tho South.
THE Special Assessment Division have
completed the revision OF assessments against
234, 142, 225.
THE Safety Committee will meet to- night
~ Chief Cronin's ONCE and agree upon their
final report. Yesterday afternoon the last
work Of the commission was performed.
HOUSE bills for tho relief of Albert T.
Whitney ana Thomas Evans have been
ferred to the District Auditor for report, at
the request of the District Committee.
MRS. ELIZABETH FORCE received per.
NIT to-day to invest about $1,000 on general
repairs TO the building 400 Tenth street north
west which Will be occupied as the Sunday
Herald offlce.
PERSONS living on Pennsylvania ave-
nue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, have protested against the proposed
substitution OF young trees for the old poplars
In that vicinity.
A SMALL colored boy fell into a fit on
street, betw Eleventh and Twelfth north
west, this morning. He was loaded into a
wagon and toted on TO physicians expert
menting room.
The attention of the Superintendent of
City Gas Lamps has been called to the sick
condition of gas lamp situated on east side of
Thirteenth street, between L and Massachu.
setts avenue northwest.
Col. JOHN G. WATTS, States Attorney of
Tazewell County, Va, an able Readjuster, is
with Gen. Blair; also william Pendleton, the
brilliant editor OF the Readjuster organ of
Southwest Virginia, at Marion.
THE Benevolent Society OF Washington
have Issued a report of the cases relieved by
the association during the month OF February.
The report shows that thirty-seven needy per-
sons were the recipients Of fuel and groceries
during the month.
CHARLES X. WILSON, editor and pro.
prietor of the Washington Home Companion, 1913
street northwest, has been declared a fraud
by the Post-ofice Department, and money
orders and registered letters are ordered
withheld from him.
JAMES SCOTT, alias Thomas Scott, alias
Scott Thomas, who has spent one term in the
penitentiary, was to-day convicted of a second
ofrense OF petit larceny in the Criminal Court
and Judge-wylte remanded him to the Auburn
State Prison for three years.
THE District Auditor, in response to a
request of the House District Committee, has
reported upon petition of the school jani-
tors. The report gives no opinion as to the
Justice of the claims, but supplies all the data
concerning the salaries now and previously
paid.
CONSIDERABLE curiosity was excited
yesterday when a statue was unloaded from a
wagon and carried into an artists studio on
Pennsylvania avenue. The statue was of a
man, life size, and being covered with cloth
was supposed by the congregated crowd to be
corpse.
The recommendation of the Chief of the
Special Assessment Division that persons
against whom.special Improvement liens had
been issued should be notified, having been
approved by the District Commissioners,
about one hundred notifications were issued
to-day.
CHARLES MORGAN, Richard Butler and
william Thomas, all colored, were convicted
In the Criminal Court to-day of grand larceny v,
in stealing from Maria L. Walker on the 11th
OfJanuary, 1881, tewelry Of the value OF $65,
and each sentenced to three years in the
Auburn State prison.
JUDGE PORTER arrived in the city this
morning and spent some time in the District
Attorneys Office looking over the bill of ex-
ceptions in the Guiteau case. While they are
bulky and voluminous, still the Judge In.
clines to the belief that not great deal OF time
will be requisite to settle them.
AT THE Dental College commencement
at Baltimore yesterday degrees were conferred
uron William II. De Ford and Stewart b
tlon OF the college met yesterday. DR.. j. b
Hodgkin, of this city, was elected president
and Il. b. Bliss, also of this city, treasurer.
MILLS & FOWLER, matterss manufac
turers OF New York, have agreed to withdraw
the appeal TO the Criminal Court, recentl,
made from the decision of Judge Smell In tho
case Of H. q Bull, charged with soliciting
trade without a license, and havc agreed t
take out licenses for Mr.. Bull and their Other
agents.
1T is reported that two shsts were fired
some evenings ago at young lady who wa
standing at a front window of house oil
Twelfth street, near l.. The would-be assassin
10 said to have been jealous spaniard, bu
the relatives OF the young lady have taken n,
steps to have him arrested and wish to give n,
unnecessary publicity to the occurrence.
The reconstruction of the Jefferson
School building began early this morning.
force Of thirty men began the work under tn
superintendent of J. W. Drane and directe,
by the Inspector Of Buildings. The Inspecto
OBJ OF Buildings ia spent 2 portion Of the mornin
tion on the plans for the restoration.
MILLY PEYToN, bright mulatto girl
young In years. but evidently old in thievlng
was to-day convicted in the Criminal Court o
petit larceny. She has already served on
year in the Albany penitentiary and two term
is jail, and Judge wylie, believing that shoi
sentences had no beneficial effect upon hei
sent hor back to the Albany penitentiary 10
three years at hard labor.
SARAH Il. DAVIS applied to the Chan
cellor to-day for divorce from W. II. Dayl
with permission 10 resume her maiden nam
They were married February Z, 1867, an
lived together until January, 1881, haVln
SIX children. She charges that the defendaI
committed adultery with Fanny Ward In d.
cember last, and has treated her with gref
cruelty, and compelling her TO seek protectio
I'm IA police station.
In RESPONSE to request made by W. "
Dean for the paving OF Tenth street from
Rhode Island avenue, Lieut.. Greene reporte
the rotten wood pavement had boon remove
and replaced with gravel In 1850. The stree
according 10 the report, Is still retained IN III
ltat OF wooden payemenis 10 be replaced, bl
is not equal In Importance to some OF the ay
nues which have not yet been repaved.
The issues in the habeas corpus case
james Smith, growing out of an arrest undt
writ OF cOpias ad satisfaciendum, hay
been prepared and filed and are TO Il
following effect: "Whether the defendan
have conveyed away, leased or disposed
their properly with intent thereby TO hind,
or delay the recovery for the payment Of the
debts, or whether James Smith has done
with the Same Intentions" The hearing wi
take place tomorrow.
ABRAM WHITE, black, disturbed Il
congregation OF the Fifth Baptist Church, m
was hauled up before Judge Smell this NOR
ing. The janitor OF tho church testified tn
Abram, although a member OF the church
good standing, would insist upon putting h
big feet on the benches and otherwise beha
ing In a manner contrary TO the rules az