The Evening critic., 1882-01-16
THE EVENING CRITIC.
PERTINENT pARAoRAPHs.
ESTABLISHED AUGUST, is09.

THE POLICE made only fourteen arrests
yesterday and last night.
STREET LAMPS will be lighted nj sos D.
IN. and cxtineuished ut $50 a. m.
THE Court IN Banc met this morning and
adjourned for want of quorum until to-
morrow.
RIGHT REV. il. PISoKNEY NoRrHnop,
was yesterday installed rs bishop Of Will
mington, n c.
SANDY HENpERsoN, Che Misunderstanding
tramp on record, was Gagged by Judge Shell
to-day for yagraucy.
JoHN LEWIS was committed by judge
Smell to day for q further hearing for strik-
ing an old Colorcd man with q brick.
THE JuBYMEN for the December term of
the Criminal Court were called this morn
ing and then discharged for one week.
FRANKLIN w. OWENS, james Driscoll,
and Franklin Myers, alias McDevitt, three
tramps, were referred 90 Gen. Crockcr to-
day by His Honor Sncll
THREE BoYs broke tho window of
Wixom's provision store, No. 1873 Ninth
street, last night, but were frightened of
without securing any plundCr, except few
oIangcs.
THE win of the late Henry Waldy was
fled with the Register to-day, and be-
Quoaths all the estate TO the daughter
Mary L. Waddy, who is named also as eX-
Ccutrix.
MERsPs. r. J. MURRAY and C. G. Fray
ser have filed a bill for Barbara Hclnuth
vs.. Agnes Kinney au1 others, for the sale of
lot 3G in square 1872, TO define dover
interest, sc.
CAPT J. S. HIcKoK, assistant supcrin-
tendeut Of the Senate fOding.room, was Mt
the Capitol to day for the first time in
four weeks. He has been suffering with
rheumatism.
cation of Women at AssCmbly's Church,
tomorrow evening a lecture on Colo
nization' will be delivered by Bishop Be-
dell and.others.
Next WEDNESDAY NIGHT the eleventh
annual ball Of the Knights Of st. Patrick
will occur at Abner's Hall. 1t promises to
be very pleasant event, us extensive ar
rangcments for its success are being made.
AN EFFECT existing without q cause is an
impossibilityi tickling in the throat huslli-
ness of the voice. violent coughing, etc,
arc the effects Of severe cold. Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup cures the cold at once and
removes its serious effects
a NUMBER of liquor cases, in which the
defendants were charged with selling
liquor while their licenses were pending
before the liquor license committee were
continued by Judge Smell to-day to allow
the defendants to procure their licenses.
CONRAD SAUL. white man, living at
Thirteenth and n streets northwest, was
charged in the Police Court to-day with
assaultng his wife, Charlotte, with an i'm
mense butcher-knife and attempting to kill
her The case will DO heard tomorrow.
JOHN HAssETT and Michael Ford, two
young white men, were charged in the
Police Court to-day with going Oh little
picnic on Saturday night and breaking
some windows with pieces of brick. Has.
sett was sent to Jail for thirty days.
Mr.. NJ. i. ToBRINER, as counsel for j. J.
r. Cousins, filed bill in equity against II.
J.. Strasburger and Jacob Rich, assignee,
for an injunction TO prevent the disposal
Of the stock of the former and for re-
ceiver to vacate, sale and for discovery.
JAMES NELSON, u colored boy about 10
years of age, was sent to Jail to-day on Il
charge of vagrancy, the testimony show,
ing that the boy had been found sleeping
one night outside the K-street Market COW
cred with snow, and on other nights slept
under stalls and at various places.
Col. WILLIAM a. Cook, in a conversa-
ton with gentleman at the City Hall this
morning., stated that counsel for the Gov.
ernment in the Starroute cases had as yet
held no meeting for the arrangement oi
their prosecution in the Criminal Court
and he could not now tell when the trial
would come off.
IN IHL iItlultS NOuTb lO-udN, III JIiH Ei'S
Of A. NJ. Soteldo, jr., against John Lyon, tC
settle partnership account and for an in
8 junction, Justice Wylie, after hearing thC
motions by plaintiffs counsel for an at.
tachment on Lyon for violating the pre-
liminary restraining order, granted tht
order and appointed Robert e. Holtzman q!
receiver pending the suit.
Mr.. BRIGHT, the juryman who it il
predicted will hang the jury in the Gui
ie bn nf Il N WIN
died ut the Government Hospital for th'
Insane here. A gentleman here, will
whose father both learned their trade, anC
who ever since has been acquainted witt
him, says that, while he has never noticed
anything wrong about Mr.. b., still he con
siders him somewhat peculiar"
Mr.. S. j. LAMBERT, proprietor Of th
Abbott House, Parsons, Ark, says that ST
Jacobs Oil is the boss rheumatic specific
" 1t has cured myself and WIFE" said Mr.
Lambert, ''of rheumatism. We both ha'
rheumatism - inilammatory rheumatism
too-and had it bad. believed in th
remedy which every one was praising AM
used it. have ever since been glad that
did so. for both my wife and myself real
lied speedy relief and cure. The St. Jacob
Oil is a splendid curative power; in short
it is just the best of liniments."
THE local telegraphers are at work al
ranging to perfect permanent proteotiy
union here, with view to amalgamatn
with the national organization al
ready in existence. Messrs. Floyd, Pen
mock and De Akers, recently named q
delegates TO attend the forthcoming col
vention at Pittsburg, have since been dis
charged from their positions. The loci
telegraphers held another meeting yestel
day, but declined TO make public the bus
ness transacted. 1t is understood, thougl
that they agreed on an appeal to the PEI
pie, and framed business proposition
submit to the telegraph companies, with
view 10 prevent the further employmeg
at night of operators who hold position
during the day in the Government d
Qartments.
The Irish land League.
A meeting of the executive commtt
Of the John Dillon branch was held Ia