The Evening critic., 1882-03-20
THE EVENING CRITIC.
ESTABLISHED AUGUST Isgs
LACONIC LOCALS.


TnE strcet-lamps will he lighted at 6;35
L. m. and cxtlnguished at 80 a, m.
THE police made only sixteen arrests
during the twenty -four hours ending at0 a. m.
An accidental fire at 3:45 a. m. yesterday
damaged the Webster law-buildlng on ID street.
near Fifth, to the extcnt Of sisOoO'
THE Coroner Investigated the crcum-
stances surrounding the sudden death OF an
old colored woman named Lucretla Wesley
and has given a certincateo OF death from natu-
raj causes.
RosE McDEvITT. an ancient dame, who
appears at Judge smells august tr,9unal pune. az
workhouse on saturday and went back Tor
three months today.
JOHN McDERMoTT, an old man, pleaded
guilty 10 the charge OF vagrancy and said he
wanted to so the workhouse until warmer
weather. He did not want ninety days, but
would like to have sixty. Sixty days was tho
sentence.
HENRY W. JAMES, a one-armed veteran,
appeared In the dock Mt Police Court to-day
and told sad story Of destltution and want.
He said he was tired of sleeping I'm the parks
and wanted to 20 TO the workhouse for ninety
days. His request WIS complied with.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, the eminent
divine Of Boston, preached yesterday In All
Souls Church. The audiences, both morning
ana evening, were very large. In the morning
the reverend gentleman took his text from the
words: "whatsoevcr thy hands find to do, do
II with all thy might"
THE senior class of the Columbia Law
School organized Saturday evening, prepara-
tory to commencement, by the election of the
following onlcers President Blair Lee; first
yice-presldent, II. w. Noyes; second vice -presi-
dentsM. G. Emery, ir,; secretary, l.. w, Max
son; treasurer, ]. Foshay Walker
FREDERICK DOUGLAS will lecture at
Bethel Hall, on NJ street, near seventeenth
street, northwest tomorrow evening, at Z 80
o'clock, on "John Brown The proceeds OF
the lecture are for the benefit OF the new Union
Bethel A. NJ. +. Church. The lecturer and the
subject insure rich treat to all who attend.
WILLIAM SMITH, colored. u boy about 16
years of age, who has been in jail for more
than year awaiting trial upon charge too
disgusting TO name, upon Henry spencer, on
June 10, 1850, was brought into the Criminal
Court This morning and allowed to plead
guilty to assault and battery. He was SEN
fenced to thirty days In jail
BURGLARS climbed up onto the porchcs
In the rear Of several houses on Rhode Island
avenue, between Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets, last night, and tried to force open the
rear windows. AT the residences of Colonel A..
II. Gilman, No. 1211 Rhode Island avenue, and
Mrs Abby Pastor, 1907, Stats were cut out OF
the rear window shutters, but In each case
the thieves We're frightened Off.
COMPLAINTS on vagrants sleeping in va.
cant houses attracted the police to an empty
house In South Washington at n late hour last
night, and thly found asleep In the house,
lying on the floor in different rooms, william
johnson, William Gibson, George Turner,
Richard Neigle, Carrie Dent, Ida Wilson, Eliza
beth Rice, Ida Stuart and Annie Howard, who
were sentenced to ninety days each by Judge
SMELL
The annual meeting OF the American
Tract Society was held IN the metropolitan
Presbyterian Church, I'm this city, yesterday
evening. ExJustlce Strong presided. secre-
tary Shcarer presented an abstract of the work
of the year. The receipts were $3169S9.51.
and the expenditures 1916, 1898. OF the re-
ceipts S104,939.51 were from donations and
lePacies. Hon. ]. W. Foster, late Minister to
Russia, and Ex-Governor Dingley, of Maine,
made addresses.
A MAN called John Campbell, of this
city, who had been on spree at QUautco,
twenty-five miles below Alexandria, for some
days past started for Washington yesterday
afternoon, walking on the Alexandria h Fred
ericksburg Railroad. The 1 o'clock train
struck him and threw him against bank
with great violence, killing him Instantly
An inquest Will be held by the county authori
ties, and the body VIII then be sent to this city
il his friends claim It
A. G. WRIGHT, of Pennsylvania, F. A.
Brogan, Of Kansas; W. L. McLaughlan, Of Da
kota, and j. b. Madigan Of Maine have been
chosen by the Philodemic Society OF George
town College as polemlcs to contest for the
Merrick medal by debate at Lincoln Hall on
Territorial acquisition conducive TO the best
interests OF the country?' The medal will be
awarded at the college commencement in the
latter portion OF June.
IN the Police Court to-day Ida Taylor, 8
peaceable-looking little colored woman was
charged with breaking a streetlamp In Maj
lor's alley. Ida testified that she had been IN
a house in the alley when Ia jealous lover hac
undertaken to boat her, and she had jumped
from the second-story window, breaking thu
stIeetlamp as she passed II In her jump
Judge Smell said there was no intent TO breal
the lamp, and as he did not suppose she woul,
jump from the windows ON to street-lamps fo
amusement he would dismiss the case.