The Evening critic., 1882-11-11
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE street.lamps will be lighted nc j:20
p. m. and extlnguished at iij Il. m.
STAMp1NG and ombroidering at the new
store, 2O3 Pcnnsylyanin avenue east.
ANOTHER car containing 10000 carp was
cent to Minnesota yesterday afternoon By tho
Fish Commission.
THE Mississippi River steamboat scene
produced I'm the entertainment OF Callcnier's
Consolidated Minstrels IA tho most realistic
picture OF southern life ever presented T. tho
public.
ABOUT 5i5 Friday evening the goods in
the window OF the shoe store OF Il. S. Rosen-
thai, No. 1851 NJ street northwest, caught on
nre from the gas Jet In the window, which was
CXtingulshed by the proprietor.
TAKE little annoyauces out of the way.
Ifyou nrc suffering with n cough or cold, use
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup at once. This old and
reliable remedy VIII never disappoint you.
All druggists sell It for % cents bottle.
COMPLAINTS arc being made to the
Commissioners that the gas,lamps which they
ordered to be placed at the rallroad crossing
on Fourth and X streets southeast moro than
two months ngo have not yet been erected.
OFFICER KENNER discovered a slight fire
in the shoe shop OF Thomas Dickson, No. i07
Cstreet southwest Friday evening, at 1:fb
O'Clock, caused by the explosion of a coal-oll
lamp. He extinguished tho flre without turn
Ing In an alarm.
jail to-day for sixty days by Judge Smell for as.
sauiting John Lewis, also colOred, and striking
him In the face with stone, injuring him
severely. Lewis, tho injured man, was also
given 60 days for brntally beating n colorod
woman, named Eliza Wallace.
JULIA PLUNKETT and Mary Miller, two
aged danes, appeared In tho Police Court to-
day to answer charges of threatening and as.
saulting each other. The ladies get drunk
occasionally, and make things 80 warm for
each other in n social way that Judge Smell put
them both under bonds TO keep tho peace.
SOME three weeks ago the Rev. DR..
p0ret q Epiphnny Parish. praachnI n garfnon
alluding to the hopeless self.contradictions in
which those who reject Christianity involve
themselves. The text was "What think ye of
Christi" The sermon awakened much inter
est, and in answer to many requests, DR..
Paret has consented to repeat 1t on Sunday,
18th inst, at 80 m.
JOHN NOLAN, alias Thomas English, was
arrested last night for dlsorderly conduct, and
called upon his companions for assistance. In
the mob that followed onlcer Prather was
roughly handled and the prisoner liberated.
Nolan was subsequently arrested and Judge
Smell sentenced him to fifteen days for disor.
derly conduct and sixty days for assaultlng
Onlcer Prather, and he went to jail.
JUDGE SMELL had q number of persons
before him to-day charged with being dlsor.
derly and boisterous. Albert Beckett got 15
days, Bridget Ryan got on n spree and Will pay
the same penalty, Annie Crawford cursed peo.
pie passing along tho street and was fnod So,
Fanny Knight and Margaret Riley promised
never TO raise n disturbance again and gave
their personal bonds to keep quiet in the
future.
BENJAMIN FRAwLEY, small colored
man, was charged In the Police Court to-day
with assaultlng much larger man, named
William H. Brown. Brown said that Frawley
had threatened to hit him with n chair; but,
on cross-examination, Brown admitted that he
was trying to lick Frawley and had struck him
in the mouth, when Frawley seized the chair
and Brown knocked him down with an ax.
The evidence showed that the defendant had
been terribly maltreated by the complainant,
and the case was dismissed.
THE Biological Society held their thirty
fourth meeting last night. Mr.. True gave
notice that he was preparing n paper on "The
Mammals OF the District of Columbia" Pro-
fessor Chickering read a paper on "The Balds
OF the Southern Mountains" Professor Riley,
cluster fly. DR.. George Vasey read q paper
on "The Pine Trees OF North America" which
was discussed by Mr.. DALI DR.. Schaeffer, and
Professor Gill. DR.. Ryder explained the,
rationale OF the so-calJed iattening process OF
the oyster, and the cause of the green color In
certain oysters, especially priced by oyster
eaters In Europe.
WHILE Police Officer Prather was pa
trolling his beat this morning. about 1 o'clock
he heard the cry OF murder and police at First
and streets northwest and, upon running
to the spot, found two drunken men who were
yelling and shouting and creating q disturb
ance. He arrested the two men, and started
TO take them TO the station.house, when q
attacked the of1icer, and, after beating him 80
verely, cutting his eye, and hitting him with
clubs, released the men and ran away. The
oflicer sent for relief, but before assistance ar
rived the men had escaped and had not been
caught up 10 q late hour this morning.