The Evening critic., 1882-03-22
THE EVENING CRITIC.
LACoNIc LOCALS.
BLTsHED AUGUST is8s

JOHN LYNcH paid s. to-day for assault
Ing Patrick Foley.
THE street-lamps will be lighted at 635
y. m. and exiinguished at 80 a. IA,
The police made twonty-nine arrests
duiing the twenty-four hours ending at
n. m.
THE case of Robert White, charged with
grand larceny, has been set for hearing on
Tuesday next.
G. w. TRoTHER has renounced his alleg-
lance to Gcrmany and become naturalized
citizen OF the United States.
MARY CURTIS, a white woman, was sent
10 the workhouso to-day by Judge Smell for
thirty days for begging In the streets and vlo-
lating the vagrant laws.
THE suit of Thomas A. Heunery against
tho Washington 4 Georgetown II. r. Co., for
$1,000 damages has been revived through his
attorney, Frank II. Fall, esq.
CHARLES GIBBS, colored newsboy
robbed white companion named George Ger
holt Of an amethyst ring, valued at $3.50, ana
has been committed TO jail for fifteen days.
A COLD is unlike most visitors. If you
want TO get rid OF IL You must give II warm
reception with DR.. Bulls cough syrup, the
standard cough remedy OF our age. For sale
by all druggists at 20 cents bottle.
Mr.. A. b. ScHoFIELD, formerly man.
ager Of the Soverclgns' Cooperative store,
tried in the Criminal Court yesterday on three
charges of embezzlcment, growing out OF bust.
ncss transactions with the store, was acquit-
ted by the jury without leaving their box. Tho
prosecution failed to make out case.
JAMES C. SHERWOOD, was on n spree of
unusual magnitude last evening and abused
his family, cut his son Albert's head open
with a glass and cursed and swore 10 an un-
limited extent. Judge Smell fined Sherwood
$5 or fifteen days for the profanity and
. $40 or sixty days for assaulting his son.
EDWARD c. MASON, Young man, went
to the Mount Vernon House yesterday to re-
monstrate with tho clerk for slanders and
libcls alleged to have been circulated by the
hotel clerk Mr. Blagdon +. Clark. Clark
ridiculed the young man, and said In tho
presence of a crowd that the clothes whicn no
wore had been given TO him by guests of the
hotel, and mndo other humiliating and i'm
pertinent remarks, which eliminated in an
measure was justinable, grew little too
dcmonsirative and paid SO in the Police
Court to-day for making an assault.
THE Crcuit Court has been engaged to-
day in the hearing of the suit for slander and
defamation of character brought by Mary NJ.
Tyar against j. McC. Perkins, claiming 3d.
COO damages. 1t ia charged that the defend
ant spoke IN January %, 1880, of the plain
tifr as follows: ''She is liar, a thief and
rogue, and the truth is not In her." On March
l, 1880. with further intent to injure her
her as follows, to Martha Dickinson: ''She is
the biggest thief in Washington, and you will
be troubled by the police as long as she is in
your house, she took about $500 worth of
things from me-" Mcssrs Charles S. Moore
and Thomas +. Miller appears for the plain
tifr, and Ir. l.. G. Hine for the defendant
MIR. JOHN L. ID. PYLES. the East WASH
ington grocer, appeared I'm the Police Court to-
day against Charles Jacobs, white man
charged with larceny. Mr.. Pyles testified that
he had noticed recently that his horse had an
appearance indicating starvation, and as he
knew the horse was amply provided, was puz.
zled for an explanation and finally hired u
colored man to secret himself in the stable.
The horse was supplied usual and the sta,
bleman left the stable and locked the door. Iu
n few minutes Jacobs entered the stable by n
duplicate key and emptied the feed from tho
horses trough Into bag, and was about to
leave when arrested. Jacobs confesses that he
has been feeding his own horse by robblng
Mr.. Pyle's for some time. sentence of thirty
days in jail was imposed.