The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-12-08
THE EVENING CRITIC.
EsTAnLIsHKp AuouaT Ieas.
LAooNIO LOCALS.

Mrs. QUILL was charged in tho Police
Court to- day With keeping an unlicensed bar,
and John schaefer, charged with tho same of
fence, was fined fiOb.
WILLIS REAGAN stole child's carriage
from In front Of Frederick Rey's store, and
was captured by officer Breen and sent to
jail for sixty days for tho larceny.
TnE cases growing out of the larcenies of
thoes from Mr.. il. WALKER Tucker were pre-.
scented TO Police Court today, and all were
continued except thoso against the negro Fry,
who was given six months In each OF tho thlr-
teen caees for receiving stolen property.
JACKSON WELSH, u colored man, who
called on friend named Abraham Johnson,
left the house simultaneously with tho dis.
appearance OF $3.50 from the mantle-plece.
Judge Smell heard OF the affair this morning
and gave Welsh sixty days In jail.
SALLIE L. REYNOLDS to-day fl led petit.
were married in this city May 90, 1877. and
lived together six days, when he left for
Louisville, KY, whore che corresponded with
him until the ensuing september, since which
time sho has never heard from him.
AT meeting of the executive commit
tee Of tho National Jockey Club, Colonel
Joseph o. McKibben, president; II. ID. McIn.
tyre, secretary: II. W. Blunt, Colonel Charles
Stone, +. ii. Christman, o. O. Greene aud
James $. Edwards being present, n discussion
waa had rs to the purses % DO offered at tho
next spring meeting. It was finally agrood to
give $4,000. other business was transacted,
and tho meeting adjourned.
A coLoRED witness on the stand at
Police Court to-day attracted attention by his
peculiar conduct and language. Ho said he
was "Divinely.ordained and sanctlned min
istor;" that ho had been born In "Mlchlglana,
Demo Rara and Georgetown" and had boon
for many years resident OF this city. In dc.
scrlbing n fight, the witness swayed to and fro,
and, in high key, delivered n harangue, In
which the only Ineligible sentence was (:
"Dey hit de niggah, and yanlod dc niggab, and
wiped up dc no wild de niggah, till he didn't
know what dey was tryln' to do"
Mrs. RACHAEL LEVI was charged in the
Police. Court TO day with keeping an unli-
censed pawn-shop at No. 90 ID street north.
west Two witnesses testified TO pawning ar-
ticles at the shop AMI being told that they
could redeem them nj 80 cents premium, and
then when they returned for tho property
were informed that It had boon purchased
were tho acts of Mrs. Lewis husband and son
and Judge Smell decided that although Mrs.
Levi was tho proprietress OF tho store, she was
not responsible for the acts Of tho men. Tho
case was dismissed.
THE Levi family, of ID street, figured
conspicuously In the Police Court proceedings
to-day. After Mrs. Levi had been dismissed for
keeping an unlicensed pawn.shop her son was
nrraigned for the larceny OF u coat, which an
old soldier testified TO having pawned for 81
and had been refused the privilege Of redeem
Ing. Judge Smell dismissed the case, and tho
old man Lovi was called and charged with tho
larceny OF pair of shoes from colored man
named Alfred Sutton, who sworo that he
wanted TO sell tho shoes and Levi took them
out paying him. Levi swore that ho paid the
man Utmost twice as.much as the shoes were
worth, and Judge Smell dismissed the case
against him.