The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-11-28
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.


DIR. A. T. AUGUSTA lectures at Bethel
Hall this evening.
THE streot.lamps will be lighted at $40
p. M. and cXtlngulshed at 0:3Op.m.
Mrs MATTE BELL, of Pittsburg, is So.
iournlng with her sister, Mrs. Marie Louise
Mosen, Fourteenth street.
THE grand banquet and ovation to Mr..
Frederick Douglass will tako place NJ
Frcunds. january I, 1888. Mr.. Register
Bruce Will preside.
ADRIAN ADAMS, n middle.aged bare
footed man, pleaded guilty In tho Police Court
to-day TO stealing a pnlr Of shoes and was COM
mitted TO tho workhouso for fftcen days
The well.known journalist Captain
Henry Baker, cor. Chestnut street and Peters
avenue, Now orleans, tried ST. Jacobs OIL,
and was cured Of a troublesome case OF rhou-
mntism,
A MAN named Jacob Tully, aged 40
years. was arrested and locked up nj Police
Headquarters charged with signing tho name
of General Brown, the governor Of tho Day.
ton COhlo) Soldiers Home, TO letter. He Will
bo sent bnck TO Dayton.
The Colored Soldiers and Sailors Mon
umcnt Committee are arranging for mon
stor mass-mectlng I'm this city in January.
General Benjamin +. Butler, Professor II. y.
Greener and Colonel Robert j, Ingersoll Will
be the speakers. Mr.. Douglass Will preside.
JOHN JOHNSON. convicted in the Police
Court on october Ii, 1882, OF assault on James
POWELL and sentenced TO pay flno OF $50 or
BlNty days In lull, look an appeal. IO-uny IN
thclCrminal Court no again pleaded guilty and
was sentenced TO twenty-five days In jail.
GEORGE HAYDEN, young colored man,
was charged In the Police Court to-day with
stealing hat from boy named Isaac Sein-
burg and assaulting the boy and his father,
and being dlsordery. Judge Snoll fnod the
man SO for assault and continued tho other
cases.
FRANK MITCHELL, a livestock dealer,
forfeited 500 collateral In tho Police Court to-
day on n charge OF cruelty starving ana no.
glcctlng thirteen cows. The agent of the $. p.
G. a. found the cows In u small room without
food or water and In n starving condition. The
case was one OF unusual cruelty.
JOSEPH HIMER, the brick manufacturer,
was charged In the Police Court to-day with
cruelty TO animals in permitting to be driven
two mules which were In n weak and starving
condition, and ono OF which foil down no.
pcatedly while endeavorlng to pull q bad OF
| bricks and finally died In the harness. Judge
| Smell imposed flne OF SO.
ABouT o'clock Monday afternoon Mr.
| II. @. Fisherman was driving with his
daughter Carrie on Seventh street, near q
| when tho horse ran away and colllded with q
tree-box. Tho carriage was upset and tho oc
| cupanis thrown out, slightly inIuriug the
| young lady, but tho others escaped with few
| scratches. The carriage was damaged to Q
| considerable extent.
THE divorce suit of Milton Plummer
| against Alice plummer has been dismissed
| at the request OF the petitioners. Tho bill was
| filed ON the 22d of last May, and charged hel
| with deserving him In August 1, 1879, taking
| with her the children and all the household
| goods; also, that she committed adultery with
| Robert Dlackston In the Smithsonian Grounds
| on September 10, ISL III her answers she
| denied the charge OF desortlon, but asserted
| that her husband abandoned her by falling and
| refusing TO provide for herself and the child
| rem, and that on august j, 1850, he packed
| his trunk and left them. She also positively
denies having ever been unfaithful to hei
| marriage VOWS.