The Evening critic., 1882-02-28
The EVENING CRITIC.
LAooNIo LOCALS.
ESTABLISHED AUGUST 1858.


THE police made thirty y-two arrests during
the twenty y-four hours ending at0 am
RosA SANFORD, colored woman, was
taken suddenly sick at the corner 0f seventh
and Mnssachusctts avenue yesterday AM was
carried homo In the ambulance.
THOMAS JOHNSON, colored, put his elbow
Through a pane Of plnte-glass yesterday, while
struggling on the sidewalk, aud has gone %
the work-house for ninety days Tor destroying
private property.
II. II. WARNER has sold for the owners,
10 Mr.. J. W. p. Myers, the whole north lront
on West street, between Mill and Montgomery
streets, for $500. It will be nt once improved
by a row Of line brick dwellings.
THE publishers Of the Richmond, Va Ea'
qtaire5' heartily recommend Or. Dull's Cough
Syrup and says: at has been wei tried in orr
offlce aud composing room, and has cured
our city editor OF very bad case of bron-
chitis.
To-Day is Watch day at the Impor-
ters' Tea Company. Everybody ought Is haze
a watch when they can get them for nothing II
worth will be given away to-day. See aivor-
tlsement elsewhere In this paper
The will of Gen. James NJ. Coale, who
died recently In Frederick, Nd. was probated
yesterday. Among other bcqucsts he leaves
S1O,CCO TO the president and directors OF
Georgetown college. Or. Charles W. Hoffman,
OF the Congressional Library, is one of the
executors and trustees under the VIII.
IN the reorganization of the CAPITAL Pub.
fishing Company Mr.. 5. A. Sanord, ir.,
reelected secretary and business manager of
the company. The capital would hardly look
natural, even with Col. Piatt as editor, with
out the genial sam to manage Its business, he
having been connected with II almost from the
start.
Mr.. GEORGE T. DOWNING will deliver
lecture at Bethel Hall, ON NJ street, between
sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, tonight on
!" The Life and Character OF the Late Charles
sumner" From his long association with the
distinguished Massachusetts, senator, Mr.
Downing is peculiarly fitted to give q most in.
teresting and instructive review OF his life and
character.
The fire at the residence of Mr. Walter
L. Nichols yesterday Is very singular occur
renee, as there was no fire or iniammlble
material Of any kind in the room whore the
fire broke out. Mrs. Nichols has decided that
The origin OF the fire was the heat of the sun
striking mirror at the front window and
tadiating TO box OF matches on the wall,
causing them to ignite.
AT meeting of the Board of Associated
Charities for the eighth subdlvislon-pre ent,
irof. j; W. 0hickerins, president; Mrs: Wall
ing and Williams Messrs. Mcdowell, Bryant,
and Kanouse, secretary-it was resolved to
open place OF registration In tho session
room OF the Eastern Presbyterian Church,
where all in need of employment in that dis
trict can apply between tho hours of 3 and Z
O'Clock p. IN.
The Star, in its report of the Garfield
funeral proceedings, yesterday fell into its
usual blunder and inaccurate report of facts.
1t said "Although all the living ex-Presl-
dents and VIce-Presidents were invited, none
u
Hayes and ex-yice President Colfax." May be
the star can refer to Its obituary of ex-Vice-
Presidents Hamlin and Wheeler. II so these
reported dead are lively c1rpses, indeed.-Re-
7'u6licdn.
THE parlors of Mrs. Capt. Cabell, Capitol
Hill, were crowded last evening ON tho Occa-
sion of farewell reception TO the Splrltualist-
speaker, Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond, who will
leave In few days for her home and regular
field OF labor in Chicago Remarks appropriate
to the occasion and complimentary to Mrs. Rich
MAvhnw.
beautiful and costly bouquet OF flowers was
presented, emblematic of the flowers Of rhet-
ortc, poetry and thought, which Mrs. Rich
mond had lavished upon her hearers during
the month Of her stay In Washington. Mrs.
Richmond responded very happily to these ex-
preRsions of esteem vocal and Instrumental
music was interspersed; and the "exercises -
closed with an elegant supper provided by the
hostess of the evening.
MR.. MCCONNELL, counsel for George +.
Roberts, recently convicted of burglariZing the
drug store at the corner OF Fourth and l. streets
northwest and larceny of goods therefrom,
Today called the attention of Justice Cox, pre-
siding in the Criminal Court, to the case. He
said that when the boy was convicted he was
three days over 10 years OF age, and IL sentence
were imposed he would now go to the peni-
tentiary. HIS people believe that II sent to
that place all hope of future reclamation VIII
be gone. They have made arrangements to
Confine him in the Baltimore House OF Refuge,
and the speaker thought such confine ment
would satisfy the ends of justice, and he would
ask the suspension OF sentence In order that
this course indicated might be pursued. His
Honor was OF the opinion that confinem in
the penitentiary would be the end of any i'm.
proyement in the boy, and would suspend i'm.
posing sentence upon satisfactory evidence
being furnished him that the boy was placed
In the House of Refuge.