The Evening critic., 1882-03-11
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS,

JouN r. ENTwIsLE was fined $40 today |
by Judge Smell for loud and boisterous Ian |
gunge.
PETER HILL, colored, will work out his
board for the next thirty days mt the work
house.
G. b. TANNER received permit to day
10 erect brick dwelling on street, bctween
Third and Fourth streets, at an expense Of
$4,000.
FRANCIS QUEEN, convicted of assaulting
n police officer was to-day sentenced by Jus
ticc wylic TO six months In jail and to pay
fine Of 80.
THE clerks of the First Assistant POST
lnaster-Generals office to-day sent handsome
iioral cross to the residence Of the late Chaun.
cey Smith, as a token OF remembrance.
Mr.. J. A. SMITH, as solicitor for Maria
Byrnes, to-day nled a bill for divorce from
Patrick Byrncs. They were married In
Poughkcepsie, N. Y, In May, 1866, and that
she has since been compelled TO leave him on
account OF his cruel treatment.
JAMES BENNETT was charged in the
Police Court this morning with vagrancy He
promised to leave the city at once, and as the
District work-house is Just now crowded with
buns from , other parts Judge & smell e, o ,es MN
count the rails on the track between this city
and Wheeling, w. Va.
THE new Grand Jury for the March
term of the Criminal Court brought in their
first indictments to-day as follows: william
Harris, for the murder of Joseph Banks, by
striking him In the head with stone on the
9th OF July last, from the effects OF which he
died some ten days later. Hugh strider, Sec
oDd offense, petit larceny.
THE following business was transacted
in the Criminal Court In addition to that pub
lished elsewhere: James Walsh, unlicensed
bar; n nolle pros entered. Francis Carter,
maintaining nuisance; adjudged guilty and
fined So Margaret Costello, previously con
vfcted Of keeping an unlicensed bar; sem
fenced 10 pay fine OF SlO5.
A GERMAN boy, of about sixteen years.
came into the city this morning by the Baltl-
more Potomac Railroad, and asked at the de-
pot to be directed to the residence OF n butcher
named Yeizer, No. S15 street northwest.
The butcher cannot be found at that address
or any other, and as the boy has no money or
friends, the authorities are in quandary as to
what should be done with him.
A CONTROVERSY has arisen between the
hackmen and the Capitol police concerning
the hack stand at the front Of the Capitol.
The police have made an effort to prevent
hacks and carriages stopping and waiting in
the grounds while the hackmen claim they
have legal right to stand at the East front as
the regulations by which they are governed
have designated this situation one of the
stands for licensed hacks, cabs, coupes,
carriages, etc
The Engineer Commissioner is busily
engaged on business of Importance to the
District and Is working with zeal that might
be initiated by his co-Commissioners, In tho
preparation OF reports and tables for the infor
nation Of Congress. Reports are in prepara-
tion on the applications for charters Of the
Sixth-street Bladensburg, Washington Il
Point Lookout and other railroads, as well rs
a great deal Of data concerning the water
supply, Potomac flats and other subjects.
THE police, from information received,
think the eloping colored couple, Mr.. Hawkes.
worth and Mrs. Douglass, are still In this
country. Mr.. Fleetwood reached New York
city before the vessel started for the Barba-
docs, and is certain that the refugees were not
on board. Hawkesworth is probably lying low
in some secluded place, and will not attempt
to leave the country until his pursuers have
returned home, or he may have taken passage
TO Cuba instead OF going direct to the Barba-
does.
THE clerk of the court has issued to War;
den Crocker cards OF admission to the Auburn
State Prison for the following convtcts: Henry
Kaiser, second ofrense petit larceny, two years (;
James Rustin, second ofrense petit larceny,
two years; John Weeden, burglary and lar
ceny, seven years. Albert CASTOR, larceny, one
year; Mace Lee, second ofrense petit larceny,
three years; Charles Morgan, Richard Butler
and VIM. Thomas, grand larceny, each three
years; Jones Scott, second offense petit lar
ceny, three years, and Milly Peyton, second
onense petit larceny, three years in the Albany
Tenitentiary.