The Evening critic., 1882-10-23
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.


JonS MACH was fined s. to-day by
judge Smell for sleeping on Sunday In the
public parks.
JUSTICE HAGNER this morning dis
charged the petit Jury In tho Criminal Court
until Monday noXt
JOHN HUGHES, white, was charged In
tho Police Court to-day with being drunk and
disordcrly. ilne OF SO was Imposed.
WILL BosLER, white boy, for creating
n disturbance In the K.street Market Saturday
night, was fined s5 to-day by Judge Smell.
JoE DuFFIE, a small colorod boy, was in
Judge Snelrs tabernacle to-day for striking q
title girl on tho head. Tho youth was charged
50 for the privilege.
GEORGE TALBOT was excused as q juror
In the Circuit Court to-day, and tho Marshal
ordered TO summon sufficient talesmen to I'LL
existing vacancies In the panel.
THE meoting of the Dashaway Reform
Club 2t.Masonic Temple last night was al.
-lsoBted by Judge ii. A. Hall, j. ii. Hilton, +.
Humphrey, @. NJ. Nye and Judge Holloway.
BRIDGET MORRISON, white girl, was
charged In the Police Court to-day with being
vagrant. Judge Smell took her personal
bonds TO behave better In tho future and dis
missed her.
MARTHA WARD and Lizzie Ford. two
colored women, were charged In the Police
South Washington. Five dollars apiece was
charged for the sport.
DAVID LAWS, colored wagon.driver,
was in the Police Court to-day for running
wagon through the streets from which tar and
other Nth was dropping to tho pavement.
lne OF 50 was imposed.
A MAN named Joseph Donnelly was ar
rested Saturday night, charged with embez.
zling Si from his employer, Thomas Reedy, a
picture-frame dealer. Donnelly claimed that
he appropriated the money, as II was owed to
him by Reody.
Mr.. HENRY ROBINSON SEARLE, formerly
an architect In this city, died yesterday In
n mamhAr
of the American Institute of Architects, the
Union League Club, of New York, and the
Philosophical Society, OF this city.
THE late estimable wife of Richard A.
Mclean, esq, was buried yesterday Mt Glen
wood Cemetery. The services were CON
Quoted by Rev. Parker H. Sweet, and were
highly impressive. The pall.bearers were
Messrs. W. W. Maloney, A. Ritter, o. Rabbit,
u. King, J. d. Harris and f. ourand.
THE case of johnson against Douglass
was decided to-day in the Court In Banc, JUS
tice James delivering tho opinion of the Court.
The question at issue was whether or not n
landlords lien had preference over that of
deed OF trust. The Court hold that the lien OF
property under trust took preference of the
other, and the landlord took II subject TO that
lien.
MAJOR KING has on hand two more
cases OF cruelty to animals. ono is the brutal
beating of a dog Saturday night near tho
works OF the Washington Gas Company by the
dog-catchers, and tho other Is the overloadlng
and subsequent abandonment OF horse, near
Brightwood, by Its owner. The horse WAS
left on nFourteenth'street road, whore II died OF
starvation.
IT is stated that through the trickery of
Kirchner, their telegraph operator, and
Bros, brokers, on Pennsylvania avenue, near
Fifteenth street, havo been systematically
swindled. Their method was to report false
quotations OF stocks received by telegraph and
then TO speculate with outside parties on
tho actual figures received. The Arm claim
that their loss was 5000.
WILL FOLEY, young white man, was in
Police Court to-day for assaulting John Doug
las and calling him dirty sucker and other
juicy opithets. 1t appeared that the two gen
tlemen own livery. stables opposite to each
other, and Foley claimed that Douglaslwas In
the habit OF placing dirt In front Of his stable
and refusing to clean 1t away whom requested
todo 80. The last time they interviewed each
other blows and profanity were used with
great liberality. The case was closed by flning
MIR. Foley 50 and COSTS
GEORGE WEST, Robert Red David Louis,
Robert Montgomery and Henry Haly, for In
dulging In loud and rlotous conduct In front
OF "A tlored church In the northwest yester.
day, were fined - each by Judge Smell. 1t
appeared by the evidence that the pastor OF
the church was recently turned out for adul.
terry. Many In the congregation disbelieved
the charge OF adultery and went to tho church
on Sunday to relnstate their pastor. They
were stoutly resisted by the opposite faction,
and row ensued. Tho pastor has not yet
been replaced in charge of his flock.
IN the case of A. Melville against the
Baltimore x Potomac Railroad Company,
Justice Cox delivered the opinion OF the Court
In the general term this morning sustaining
the demurrer and granting leave to amend tho
bill. The plaintir sues the defendant for
damages In carrying him to Alexandria instead
OF stopping the train and letting him off at
Fort Runyan. The plaintiff held commuta.
ton ticket to Alexandria, and the face of 1t
provided that he should not stop at any inter-
mediate station, but he claimed TO have a
verbal understanding with the company that
the train should stop at Fort Rrnyan for him.
YESTERDAY an interesting mass meet.
Ing Of Presbyterian missionary societies was
conducted at the Fourth Presbyterian Church
Tho order OF exercises was rs follows: An
thems by Assembly Church choir; address by
the president, Mr.. o. ,. Brown; responsive
reading by Youths Missionary Society OF
First Church; prayer by Rev. Mr.. Kelly; ad-
dress by DR.. Sunderland; and object lesson,
hcathen and Christian religions compared
by Western Missionary, Society, Rev. Mr.
Wynkoop officiating; solo and chorus by the
Fifteenth street Church; recitation by Mas
ter Thomas Clark, OF the Metropolitan
Church, and u recitation by Miss Bessie
Hobson, of the North Church. These exer
cises were varied by several hymns, In which
all Joined
Nevya Nnfas.