The Evening critic., 1882-02-24
THE EVENING CRITIC.
LACoNtc LOCALS.
ssTABLTsHED AUGUST. Ises.

THERE was light fall of snow this
morning.
DO DICK BRIGHT and Capt. Allabaugh
own the Capitol buildingp
THE street. lamps will be lighted at His
y. m. and cxtingulshcd AZ . a. m.
Is IT not great stretch Of authority to
close the Capitol building to visitors on hoii
days? -
THrRry.TuREE offenders fell into the
clutches OF the police during the twentytout
hours ending at 9 n. m.
THE District docket at Police Head
quarters to-day was brief and unimportant,
Including only few drunks and some dis
tuTbers OF the pence -
THERE is need of more room at the
Money-ofder Department of the City Post
cf,ice, Considerable complaint Is heard from
thosc who have ro remain about the room to
be waited upon I'm times of rush. The capacity
should be doubled.
AN INTERESTING lecture will be deliv-
cred at the K-street Baptist Church (c5loredl
this evening by @. A. johnson, the editor OF
the British Lion, paper published at Halnil.
ton, Ontario. Mr.. Johnson has chosen Tor MS
subject "The Sun Moves and the Earth Stands
Stili.'
THE fifth medical lecture in the course
given hy the Young Mems Christian Assoct-
alton win be delivered this evening in the
association chapel, at 7;3O, by DR.. j. W.
Lovcjoy. Subject: "Prevention Better than
Cure" Tickets OF admission may be procured
free at the association office, SOl L street
northwest.
THE inaccuracy of the Star was again
shown yesterday in Its announcement TINT Mr..
W. II. Whitney had been appointed chief clerk
Of the Bureau OF Education. The gentleman
who has received that appointment is William
II. Gardiner, Of Illinois, who has for some
time been netting as chief clerk. HIS appoint
ment Will take effect March L.
OFFICERS of Lieut.. Greer's Precinct this
morning arrested Walter Contee and Andrew
White, two pickpockets, who relieved Mrs.
Mary II. Booker OF a pocketbook, containing
sos, while she was Witnessing the graceful
evolutione of the Light Infantry In front of
the Arlington on Wednesday afternoon. The
men will probably be tried In the Police Court
to morrow.
THE reports of the fortune inherited by
Police Officer Landers are very much exager-
rated. Mr.. Landers has recently received
things of the death OF his mother and says
that after the settlement of the estate there
may be n few hundred dollars coming to him.
is denied, as his Inheritance viii not be large
enough to Justify such a step and Will not
come TO him for a year at least
A MEETING of the Directors of the
Mutual Union Telegraph Company was held
yesterday at the Office of Mr.. ]. +. Olmstead,
1416 New York avenue. This company re-
ceiyed its charter from the Dom Union Govern
ment about the middle of September last, and
has since then built and equipped line oil
telegraph from Montreal to ottawa, also from
Montreal via st. Albans, VT, to Saratoga, n. Y.
connecting them with the Mutual Union tele
graph system, and another line from Toronto
to Buffalo, n. ", making another connection
with the Mutual Union, making nearly nine
hundred miles in four months and ten days.
A CERTIFICATE of incorporation has
been filed with the Recorder In the name OF
the Palm Paper Company. The capital stock
Of the company is 100000, divided int
5000 shares. at $25 each, with privilege tc
increase to 100000. The incorporators are
Robert G.. Ingersoll, Ebenezer Morrison
Josiah Curtis, Nathan w. Fitzgerald, Alex
ander NJ. Proctor, Edwin J. Brooks, Christie
pher E. Hawley and Arthur w Fiske, OF Wash
ington, and Frank H. Alden, of Cincinnati
The object of the company is TO manufacture
paper and pulp, and all other articles and fab
RIGS, ornamental and useful, made from the
various species Of palms and other abrous
plants.