The Evening critic., 1882-11-20
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

PERTINENT PARAGhRPHSs
THEstreot.lamps will not DO lighted again
until tho 26th instant.
A suow-wINDow will be built at. No.
1000 Seventh street northwest at cost OF
$40.
CHARLES BROWN, homeless colored
boy, was committed to the workhOus9 today
for ninety days for vagrancy.
THE last stone placed in position on tho
Washington Monument saturday brought that
shaft to the height OF $50 feet.
A LARGE number of persons were fined
by Judge Smell to-day for disorderly conduct
and loud and boistcrous talking.
HENRY MILLER pleaded guilty to-day
to nssaultlng Lizzie johnson doth c0lorcl)
and was sent to jail for fifteen days.
GEORGE GREEN, n small colored boy, who
has no home and sleeps in the streets or ut tho
markets, was given tho extent OF tho law for
vagrancy TO day.
Four cases of unlicensed eatiDg-houses
were nolle pressed by Prosecuting Attorney
Tndgctt at tho Police Court today, the licenses
having been produced.
JOSEPH WILKERsoN, burly negro, who
threw oyster.shells at II young man named
George Litz, has been committed to jail for
thirty days for tho assault.
WILLIAM BARRY, boy charged with
annoying railroad onlclals, by jumping on
ana or trains, etc. was before Judge,Snell to-
day and released on his personal bonds for
good behavior.
".
Of tho Navy, to-day filed n bill In equity
against Mr.. S. l.. Phillips to have the cloud
removed from the title to certain lots In subdl-
vision In square 421.
DosT thou love life?-then do not squan.
der valuable time,-for that is the stun life Is
made of-but procure at onco bottle OF DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup for your cough and be
cured. Your druggist keeps 1t.
WILLIAM WHITE, black, has been sent to
tho workhouse for three months. White Is
notorious pickpocket and Is believed to be the
party who snatched the pocketbook of n LADY
named Mrs. Ravens on Ninth street, near o,
the other evening.
FIRE was discovered in the Presidents
cottage at soldiers Home, about 4 o'clock p.
m. Saturday, caused by the ovcrheatlng OF
furnace in tho cellar. No alarm was given,
and the flames were soon oxtinguished by the
inmates OF tho house. Damage slight.
THE steamer T. V. Arrowsmth, of the
lower Potomac route, broke tho cgosshead Of
her engine about sixty miles down the river,
ON Saturday night, while bound toward this
city. The steamer Mystic was dispatched to
continue the trip OF tho Arrowsmith while the
latter was towed 10 Alexandria for repairs.
A YOUNG white girl, named Amelia
her parents at 1862 X street northwest, died
| at noon Saturday from dose of rat poison
taken the night before while laboring under
| temporary alteration OF mind. Coroner Pat
| terson gave certificate of death by suicide.
DIR. PIERCE's Golden Medical Dis
| covery" has become 80 thoroughly establlshod
In public favor that were IL not for the forget
| fulnoss OF people It would not DO necessary
| to call attention to Its power to cure consump.
| tlon, which is scrofula OF tho lungs, and
other blood diseases, as oruptions, blotohes,
| FRANK TAYLOR, colorcd man, assaulted
| an acquaintance named Edward Howard,
| whom he accused with insulting his wife, and
| pounded him with his lists 50 severely that he
has been incapacltaled for work for nearly q
| week and showed up in the Police Court to.
| day in a very ,dilapldated condition. Judge
| Smell gave the disciple of Sullivan sixty days
| in jafl.
THE chicken thieves have commenced
| their wiEter campaign. on Friday night they
| entered the henhouso of Edward Means, on
| the Bunker Hill road, near Brooks station,
| and carried or thirteen chickens. Benjamin
| Martin, living at 1920 New Jersey avenue, re-
| ported TO tho Second Precinct Station yester
day that his roost was robbed OF fifteen Polish
| chickens on Saturday night
The Metropolitan Club is almost ready
| 10 enter It's new building at Seventeenth and
| ii streets, which has cost 100000, Is nearly
seventy feet square, and has tower and a
| kitchen on the roof. This is almost diagonally
| across the Presidents Square from tho old
| clubhouse, where Philip Barton Key breathcd
his last. Keys children are now al grown
| ager, and they are all said to have nouns.
HOWARD HOLLAND, the young man re-
| Gently arrested by Detective Coomes, charged
| was In the dock at Police Court to-day charged
| with stealing an overcoat from Mr.. Leigh
| Robinson, another from John L. Cox ana a
| pocket.book, mirror, pair OF shears, paper
| knife, etc., from William @. Langley. The boy
| pleaded guilty to each of the charges and at
| his mothers request was sent to the Reform
| School,
SERGEANT JOHNSON and Officer Harlow
| discovered a fire about o'clock yesterday
morning IN the vestbulo of house No. 0l0 i
street, occupied by samuel Naler. Their at
| tention was attracted TO the house by seelng
| smoke about the door, and on entering the
| vestibule they found the woodwork on 1lre.
The succeeded in eXtingulshlng the fire be-
| fore much damage was done, and investiga-
| ton showed that tho place had been set on
fire by means OF lighted candle placed
| against the woodwork. on the floor was
| found a pocketbook which was Identified as
one that had been stolen from Mrs. NJ. L..
| johnson, Of No. sos NJ street. supposed to have
been dropped by tho iucendiary.