The Evening critic., 1882-09-25
SOUTH WASHINGTON.

Protecting the Parks-COmmand OF
thc Leary-Wharf RcpOrt-Snbbnth
Scrvfces-POlice Matters-A Cargo
of MacIsereI-MfiscelIa Mat
ters.
Since September on account OF the improve.
ments being madc In the parks the regulations
prohibiting working teams from passing
through have been enforced. With tho limited
number OF watchmen employed IL has been
very diflcult matter TO prevent the teams pas.
sling through, for the most OF the entrances are
left without signs and many persons thinking
tho old rule Of allowing everything TO go
through still In vogue want TO enter e. regardless e
with tho drivers hired by tho Government.
Ono watchman Is expected to guard several on.
frances which under the circumstances ls i'm.
on October Captain J. Beacham will be
placed In command OF tho steamer George
Leary, and Mr.. John A. Watts will be made
chief engineer. Both gentlemen formerly held
tho snme positions on the Excelsior. Captain
Il. L. Baldwin and Mr.. O'Donald, now OF tho
Leary, will bo transferred TO tho Lady OF tho
Lake.
In the forty .oight hours ending at 9 q. m. to-
day seventeen culprits wero landed In tho
First Precinct Station.
Tho following is the wharf report for satur.
day and Sunday, made out by Harbormaster
sutton: Barge Alexander Shaw, Captain Ny
ers, 100 tons coal for q. II. Sheriff, slxth-street
wharf: schooner Howard ogden, Captain
Rising Sun, Captain Dunnington, % cords
wood for II. L. Blscoe; schooner Peri, Captain
Nash, 05 cords wood for Johnson & Bros;
schooner Uriah Horner, Captain Weston, 80
cords wood for j. y. Carter; schooner Three
Brothers, Captain Taylor, % cords wood for j.
Q: Garter; sloop Hulse, Captain Rowe, 300
coal for Potoniac Steamboat Company;
schooner Carrie Holmes, Captain Lyman, 10i
liam A. smoot Captain pyles, us tons coal
for John Miller; schooner q. O. Lane, Captain
Lane, $50 tons coal for @. II. Burgess; schooner
for Il. A. Golden; sloop Mollie Captain Carroll,
$40 punches flsh for II. A. Golden; steamer
Sue, Captain Geohegan, merchandise for
stephenson Bros.
Sunday was very qulot day In South Wash
ington, and not near the usual number OF per.
sons could bo seen on the streets, and tho
churches were not very largely attended. This
can be attributed to tho cool weather, and
doubtless many wore ut home enjoying tho
comforts OF tho first fall fire.
william Howard, James Thomson and Chas.
Galloway, three colored culpri,s, were raked
In early Sunday morning by Officers McGree-
vey, Williams and Block, for taking up their
abode In an unoccupied mansion.
AT p. m. on Sunday Charles Ross, OF Eu-
ropean descent, called at the station In half
inobriated condition and proceeded TO address
the scions OF the law on politics, &c. Onlcer
Gessford objected TO political debates on the
sabbath, and, amid cyclone OF Indecent Ian.
himself.
Julia Banks, q notorious colored maiden,
was raked In on Saturday by onlcer Mills.
She was very obscene while being escorted
through the commercial marts and during the
period OF registration at the E-street hotel,
and succeeded In smashing ono OF tho doors
on the way to the coils before sho was finally
placed In limbo.
The U. s. revenue cutter Ewing, Captain
warner, arrived at tho South Washington
| wharves last night.
An immense quantity of cedar poles arc
hrp nj hx rot nd limo frnt,, vt.,ta
The schooner Willis s. shippard, Captain
| Reeves, arrived at Riley's wharf this morning
with 1,05S barrels of mackerel from Glou
eesteryMass., the first vessel load OF the soa
son. Tho cargo was consigned to tlro follow
ing Washington merchants, tho figures indi-
eating the number OF barrels to each mer.
chant s. H. Bacon go walker Co. III
Duyall, 10; ". II. Brown, .; A. Clcary 4 Co.,
1G Eood GSy' eS III 4aSors ID t. sss a
ST. anA hu9e' ~. ~ j. esopiey. h'F1,s %
Samuel Gr9Pley sons co. EiThhorn 29
| Drowning Middleton, 10; II. O. Edmonson
| so. 1t Is very raro occurrence for mackore
to be brought to the city In sailing vessels II
| recent years. They are generally brought b!
| cars or steamers.
| Edward O'Neal, for keeping an unlicensed
| bar, was hauled In on Saturday by onlce
| Williams, and Fred W. weirick, for engagln,
in tho same business, was taken in by oiiice
| Barry. Fred kept an establishment on
| street ostensibly rs an eating-house, but tn
| gentleman sold good deal OF hot stun In tn
| rear.
| The pools OF water lying on Water stree
Saturday were completely dried up this morn
| Ing.
The pleasure steamer Lila, which went I,
Mattawoman Creek Thursday with q party o
| gentlemen, returned Sunday afternoon. Tn,
| party reports that they had q splendid tim,
| lishing and hunting, and game was plentiful
| In the creek.
A blind horse, severely beaten by n bruta
| mulatto, was tit subject for Major King, a
| the foot OF Thirteenth street this morning
| There is n steep grade in the street from Waite
street to Maryland avenue, and the driver hat
| loaded his coal cart to an uncommon degree
| and because the aged, wornout animal failet