The Evening critic., 1882-05-16
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS,

THE strcet-lamps will be lighted at 7:30
p. m. and extingulshed at a. m.
THE wood for gardeners-ced- ar; for hat
teTs-flr; for dog og-fanciers-syc-amOre.
THE police made thirty-seven arrests
during tho twenty four hours ending at a. m.
ROSE FORD, for contempt of Judge SHELLS
august tribunal, has been sent to jail for two
days.
JAMES CAMPBELL. q colored, homeless
lad, has been committed TO the workhouse for
thirty days.
THE Commissioners yesterday authorized
the expenditure Of $1,000 for sweeping un-
paved streets.
JoHN SCANLAN was charged in the Police
Court to-day with selling liquor without q
license and fined S1Oo.
THE wood for drunkards- -hic-ory.-
EiQ1ikJOTd Herald. The wood for stubborn
debtors-willow.-AelC Jersey Enterprise.
THE destruction of negro shanty be.
yond the Observatory resulted from an acci.
dental fire at about O'Clock this morning.
CHARLES TAscoE, a colored "vag," has
Joined General Crocker's tramp brigade, and
VIII grace thatorganization for thirty days.
DOG STORIES should be written in purple
ink Washington critic. And II told verbally
the tales should be related In waggin'.-NeW
,JefSey Enterprise. Or, in a bark on the rolling
deep.
The Alexandria Gazette states that Major
Harry Gilmor, Of Baltimore, Is about to estab-
lish large fertilizer factory on the Potomac
River, below Alexandria,
A HORSE attached to buggy belonging
TO Mr.. Tailor Waid took fright last evening
and ran away. The buggy collded with tree
box at Ninth and streets, and was completely
demolished.
GEORGE PARKER, a professional thief
was to-day Gagged by Judge Smell on the testi-
mony of Lieutenant Arnold and officers of the
Fifth Precinct to the effect that he was
vagrant and sneakthief.
AUGUST SHINBURNE was charged in the
Police Court to-day with violating the plumb
ing regulations by constructing ventilating
pipe connecting with a sewer of other mate
rial than cast-iron. After protracted hear
ing $50 fine was imposed.
REV. A. w. SHIELDS, the pastor of the
Macedonia Baptist Church, Unlontown, has
Just returned from four months tour OF mis-
sionary duty in North Carolina. Hts trip was
productive of great good, over 200 persons
being converted in Raleigh alone.
JOHN DANDRIGE, q colored man, was
charged in the Police Court to-day with In
decent exposure of his person in Lincoln Park.
MIR. Padgett asked q continuance until to-
morrow to secure additional testimony, as the
case was an unusual one, and he wanted the
sentence to be the extent of the law.
AN EXCURSION of some fifty ladies and
gentlemen from Meyerstown, Lebanon County,
Pa, headed by Rev. George B. Russell, presi.
dent Of the Palatinate College OF Meyerstown,
Will visit this city tomorrow. DR.. Russell was
the late pastor Of the English Mission of tho
Reformed Church In the United States in this
city.
A MEETING of Alabamians temporarily
residing in this city will be held In the parlors
OF the Ebbitt House at half-past o'clock D.
m. this Tuesday evening, May 16, to take ap.
propriate action in relation TO the death OF
Hon. j. Q. Smith, late contesting Member OF
Congress for the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict.
The Commissioners have reported upon
the petition of the station-keepers for an In
crease Of salary. The Commissioners say thai
the police station-keepers work constantly fol
twelve hours, and that their positions are on
erous and require well-educated, thorough
clerks and that they are entitled to the in
crease which they ask.