The Evening critic., 1882-11-17
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE strcet-lamps will be lighted at l0d5
p. IN. and extlnguished at a ;i5 n. m.
VIM. JOHNSON has gone into winter
quarters at the stoutenburg plantation on
charge OF vagrancy.
CHARLES GREEN did moro hard swearing
than Judge Smell approved OF, and Will tarry
for fifteen days ut the workhouse.
SALLY JOHNSON has gono to the work.
house for fifteen days by permission OF Judge
Smell for profane and Indecent language.
WIN. ii. CHARLTON cursed and swore
yesterday to an extent that has secured him
Two weeks boarding at the public expense.
JOHN DoDsoN, negro thief, was given
thirty days by Judge Smell to-day for tho lar
ceny Of bags and clothing from bartholomew
Rerdell.
THE case of grand larceny against Robert
Proctor and Sarah Chisley was indefinitely
continued to-day, the prosecuting witness
having sustained fracture OF ono OF his legs.
AN advertisement of three lines under
the head OF wanted, for sale or rent, lost and
found or personal, can be inserted In THE
EVENING CRITIC three times for 20 cents.
ISAAC WHITE, an old colored man, was
charged In the Police Court to-day with being
an unlicensed produce dealer, and tho case
was dismissed on the production OF license.
Do YOU want cheap and good house?
II 30, you can purchase onein South Washing
ton by making application at Nos. 61S 620 or
622 Seventh street southwest. See advertise
mont.
DANIEL JACKSON and William II. Green,
two young men, were observed by Sergeant
Holllnsberger last evening while endeayoring
to pick ladies' pockets, and were sent down to-
day as suspicious characters.
CORNELIUS BANKS, a young colored
man, was charged in tho Police Court to-day
with defacing private property In tho gallery
OF tho Theatre Comlque by committing null
sance. Ho was nned $40 or 30 days.
THE horse belonging to the Presidents
messenger was left standing on Pennsylvania
avenue yesterday afternoon, and had disap-
peared when Its rider returned TO where ho
had left 1t. II Is supposed that the horse was
stolen, and the detectives are looking out
for 1t.
DRs. w. w. JOHNSON, S. NJ. Burnett and
Thomas L. McArdle have been appointed
committee by the Medical Society OF the Dis
trict to confer with committee OF the Wash.
ington Training School for Nurses upon tho
subIectof establishinga "nurses' directory"
in the city.
THE cases against Messrs. Harvey & Hol-
den, John English, Evans Bros, J. II. De Atl9y,
Aug. Koch and Charles A. Sautter, charged with
keeping unlicensed eating houses and restau-
rants, were nolle pressed by the Prosecuting
Attorney at Police Court to-day, the licenses
having been produced.
DIR. PIERcE's "Favorite description" is
most powerful restorative tonic, also COM
bining the most valuable nervine properties,
especially adapted to the wants OF debllttated
ladies suffering from weak back, inward fever,
congestion, Inflammation, or liberation, or
from nervousness or neuralgia pains. By drug
gists.
JOSEPH WHITE, colored man, Informed
his wife, Sarah White, yesterday, that he In
tended TO cut her throat, and produced the
knife with which he proposed to perform the
operation. Judge Smell heard of the occur
renee this morning and committed tho muir
derous husband for Six months, in default of
bonds to keep the peace.
CHARLES MCLAUGHLIN was charged in
tho Police Court to-day with the larceny of
ninety cigars from the saloon Of Gustave
Gieger. Mclaughlin said he was in the saloon
and the cigar-box was passed around and so
he helped himself, as he thought no had n
right to do. Judge Smell said that ninety was
most too many to take at one time, and sen.
fenced the man to thirty days In Jail. Nc
Laughlin.was also charged with stealing 50
bill, and the case was dismissed.
In accordance with previous announce
ment, DR.. Thomas L. McArdle delivered his
Interesting lecture on "The Air We Breathe"
before the Carroll Institute last night. At the
conclusion of the lecture Mr. John McAvoy
sang couple OF ballads In exquisite style,
and Major Edmund Mallet read "rhe New
Rome" from the Baptist EJdniner-as Illus.
tratiye Of the changed opinion of Protestant
writer's on the magnificent growth OF tho
Catholic Church in America. The president
announced that on next Thursday evening
there would be an essay read before the insti.
tute-subIect, ''The Old Players"
ABOUT 10 o'clock yesterday evening n
colored woman named Annie Ageos, living on
L street, between Twentieth and Twenty-nrst
streets, was walking along NJ street, between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth, when she was
accosted by two colored men, who persuaded
New Hampshire avenue to street, whero she
asserts the men attempted to commit q rape
upon her. She screamed Violently, and Onlcer
Edwards ran TO the spot as soon as possible;
into the coupe and were driven OF. The ofl-
Ger is inclined TO discredit the woman's story.