The Evening critic., 1882-04-24
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE police made twenty-five arrests the
twenty-four hours ending at 8 n. m.
THE street.lamps will be lighted at 1oA5
p. m. and extingulshed at 3 80 n. IN.
ADELINE HOWARD, q small colored girl,
was fined in the Police Court to-day for pro-
family.
HATTIE JORDAN, colored, stole 81, for
which ofrense she will remain In jail for
thirty days.
JANE LESTER and Emma Lee, both col
ored, for lighting In the street, we're fined SO
by His Honor Judge Smell to-day.
THE rare and uncomfortable scene of
fruit trees in full bloom loaded down with
snow was presented TO washingtonians yes
terday. It was indeed n rare scene for this
dcmisemi tropical climate.
RACHAEL Brown, a colored woman 67
years Of age, was found lying dead In hor bed
at her home, No. 2717 street, yesterday, and
the Coroner has been notified.
LOUISA BRITToN and Carrie Quiet went
down for fifteen days each to-day for being
loud and boisterous. Carrie Quiet was also
sentenced for carrying concealed razor.
LOUISA CHIsLEY, a colored servant. was
charged in the Police Court to-day with stoal-
ing number Of books from her employer,
Mr.. Robert schufeldt. Sentence postponed.
APPLICATIONS for admission to the bar
of the District were made yesterday In behalf
Of William b. King, A. Q. Richards and Charles
r. Haight and referred to the examining COM
mittec.
CHARLES WOODLAND, a fast young col
ored man, pleaded guilty In tho Poltco Court
to-day to stealing a clock, and Judge Smell
kindly gave him permission to spend thirty
days in Jail.
CHARLES WooDMAN, alias Butler the
suspicious colored man arrested by the de-
tectives with clothing in his possession stolen
from Mrs. Anna Munroe, was to-day sentenced
TO six months in jail.
DE. RICHARD JOSEPH, Disbursing Clerk
residence, No. 11O2 Thirteenth street north
west, with congestion OF the lungs. His re-
covery Is doubtful.
SATURDAY night about 10 o'clock the
heuse OF James Fry, on street, between Sec
ond and Third streets northwest, was set on
fire and badly burned. The loss Is estimated
ut 5000, and is covered by insurance.
THE South Washington Branch of the
Land League will present a set OF resolutions
10 Hon. W. L. Robinson, In acknowledgment
Of their appreciation of his efforts on behalf
OF the Irish-Americans imprisoned by the
British Government, tonight at St. Dominic's q
Hall.
FRANK WILLIAMS, colored, found it a
trife inconvenient TO enter chicken-coops at
night without light, and therefore stole a
Teuner. Frank, for the next thirty days, Will
feed on Potomac herring at General Crocker s
mansion.
SIMON SIsfMs and Mary Armstead, both
colored had little misunderstanding and
tho former made awful threats "agin" the
latter. Tho Judge did not believe that the de-
fendant would carry his threats Into eXecu-
tiOn blSIttOEt lel nlll 20 OA HIS pbT5Oull
recognizance.
THE remarkable phenomenon of a snow
storm in tho latter part OF April-such as we
had in Washington yesterday-occurred here
on the 22d OF this month twenty years ago. In
Captain F. c. Adarns' "Story of Trooper" we
find that on that day heavy storm OF snow,
hail and rain, with high east-northeast winds
swept over this city and section.
The Central Dispensary and Emergency
Hospital to-day filed certificate of incorpora
tion with J. B. Wilson, president; J. A. Baker
vice president; ID. U. Keyser. secretary; D. W
Middleton, treasurer, and over thirty direct
ors. The object is to provide medical and
surgical advice with medicine for needy per-
sons.
AT a meeting of the Teachers Associa-
tlon of the Sixth Division held at the Franklin
Building on Saturday the subject of teaching,
drawing and music In the country schools was
discussed. The subject for the next meeting
is topography rs Taught in the Public
Schools" Regular meetings on the second
and fourth Saturdays OF ench month at 0:3O
O'Clock n. m.
GEORGE RYNEAL JR desires to convey
to his friends and tho public generally his
grateful acknowledgment of their many kind
expressions of sympathy. He is now busily
engaged In repairing damages caused by the
late fire, and expects shortly TO have his place
OF business moro attractive than ever. His
store. AIS Seventh street, is now open and he
Is ready and able TO I'LL all orders promptly.