The Evening critic., 1882-03-23
THE EVENING CRITIC:
LACoNIC LOCALS.
ESTABLISHED AUGUST 1898.

THE street.lamps will be lighted at $3.50
u. m. and extlnguished at 80 n. m.
TUE police made twenty-eight arrests
during twenty-four hours ending att a. m.
HENRY L. BIouT, for obstructing the
sidewalk, was nned 80 by Judge Smell this
morning.
MICHAEL GREENE colorcd vag, went
to the workhousc for ninety days to-day by In
vitation OF Judge Smell.
JAMES KEHoE sailor, was charged in
the Police Court to-day with vagrancy and re-
leased on promising TO join his vessel at once.
GEORGE WASHINGTON and Daniel Web
ster did not figure in tho Police Court to-day,
hut Ben Butler was the prosecuting witness In
case.
BARBARA HoRNBACHE, charged with
violating the sanitary regulations, was tried
in the Police Court to-day and the case was
dismissed.
EDWARD OBRIEN, robbery of Robert S.
Manning, and Joseph King, larceny were ar
raigned I'm the Criminal Court to-day and
pleaded not guilty.
GEORGE H. TURToN failed to exhibit
light on obstructons In the street and gave
personal bonds in tho Police Court to-day not
10 repeat tho oilcnse.
A SUPPOSED case of smallpox on
Twentieth street northwest, was investigated
by the Inspectors to-day and found 10 be n
case OF some other disease.
BISHOP PTNKNEY will visit Saint Paul's
Church, Twcnty-third street, tonight at = 80
3. M, to administer the rite Of Confirmation
There will be full service. The Bishop VIII
preach.
Mr.. N. w. FITZGERALD has been elected
vice president Of the Hyattsvlllc LAND Associ-
alton. surveys OF the property which this
company Will place ON tho market are now
In progress, and lots VIII be ready for sale
very shortly.
BEN BUTLER charged VIM. Pine in the
Police Court this morning with tresspasslng
upon his property and pulling up cedar log.
Both parties are colored. The Judge did not
the defendant, and dismissed the case.
THE third trial of John T. Mitchell,
indicted for committing rape upon his thir-
teen-yearold daughter, Ella Mitchell, was
commenced In the Criminal Court before JUS
tice Wylie this morning. The circumstances
of the crime have heretofore been published
In THE CRITIC and are now well known to the
public.
JAMES d. CAMPBELL, of the Union Vet
eran Corps, claims to be the youngest man en-
listed in the Union Army during the late war.
He enlisted at the age of ten years and flve
months in Company q, Tooth Regiment of
Pennsylvania Volunteers, on the 10th day of
December, 1861, and served three years and
two months, being mustered out Of service
at savannah. Ca, on the 10th day OF March,
1865.
SAID statesman at Willard last night:
sIf there is one evening Stdr more stupid than
another evening star, 1t is the double-sheet
Star of this evening. The single-sheet star Is
a terror to me, but the double-sheet star only
intensifles that terror" s'rhere is nothing in
Ii, said another statesman. "Who ever said
there was" said the first. Both statesmen
then in one voice said: "The doublc-sheet star
Is an abortion Of the worst kind"
NJ an adjourned meeting of the Supreme
Council Of the Mystic order of Seven. held last
evening the following officers were elected
and Installed in their respective positions:
Justus II. Rathbone, Supreme Premier: John
Tweedale, Supreme Nice-Premier; A. W. Hon,
supreme Architect; Halvor Nelson Supreme
Financier; Robert S. Widdecombe, supreme
Acconpanier; Thomas !. Gardner, Supreme
Warder; Truman S. Post, supreme Chamber
lain. Communications from several States
were read asking for charters to organize now
councils.
MAJOR KINGS attention has recently
bceluGalled TO a cruel practice of leaving cattle
cars.1illed with the sheep or cows, on side
tracks or at the freight depots for n couple Of
days without food or water. The Major knows
OF a case where n large number OF sheep were
left in pen on the Seventh street wharf for
nearly three days without any provision being
made for their wants, except what was given
them on the third day by humane people liv-
ing in the vicinity. Major King VIII give his
attention TO breaking up this practice.
On Tuesday evening THE CRITIC pub
lished an account of a suicide at the Soldiers
Home, and the Star, with Its usual inaccuracy,
located the incident at the InsafH Asylum. DR..
Godding promptly denied that a suicide had
occurred at that institution, and now the
take, the Coroner, the Health ONCE, or DR..
Goddlng. If the EreEiH0 DnlinesS VIII take
Tuesdays CRITIC and get the facts as they oc-
CURED 1t Will afford them a good item for the
next double sheet fully as new as the alleged
news usually contained in that issue.