The Evening critic., 1882-03-08
THE EVENING CRITIC.
EsTA BLIsHEp AUGUST 1865.
LACONIC LOCALS.

THE street lamps will be lighted at 6:25
p. m. and extnguished at 10 ;55 y. m.
THE police made thirty.s seven arrests dur
ing the twenty -four hours ending at a. m.
OFFICER MONTGOMERY found the body
Of a dead infant on the parking on street, pc
tween Third and Fourth, last evening ana nou-
fed the coroner.
BARpARA SMITH, this morning in the
Police Court was sentenced TO sixty days IN
jail for the larceny OF a purse containing slo
from Mrs. Charles II. johnson, py Whom sne
was employed.
THE following talesmcn were accepted
today to lll vacancies and servo as petit
Jurors in the criminal Court. VIZ Nil, j., 2, f. car
yanneet, John q. Preinkert.
Mr.. WILLIAM X. RILEY was yesterday
elected to MI the vacancy In the board of dl-
caused by the death of Mr.. william Orme.
The other members were reelected.
THE cases against Greenbury Chase, alias
Duvall Frank Harris and Fanny Mccoy, alias
Grammar, three notorious colored thieves,
charged with robbing G. A. Brlckwedde, will
be tried in the Police Court on saturday
THE action of the intendant physician at
the Providence Hospital In refusing TO admit
10 that institution Mr.. Francis Darneille, who
accidentally cut his throat while shaving him
SELF has provoked unfaverable comment.
TELEGRAM from Norfolk, Va, states
that the city is filled with strangers from Bal
timore Washington and Richmond, to witness
the cooking main between Washington, ID. O.,
and Virginia. Six battles were fought yester-
day, five OF which were won by the Washing
ton cocks.
JUSTICE WYLIE to-day notified the
grand and petit Jurors that II they wero not
present at roll call in the mornings they
would forfeit their pay for that day. Ten
O'Clock was the hour for commencing business,
and he wanted them on hand at that hour
tardy Jurors about the Court.
THE public meeting of Equal Division,
No. 8, Sons OF Temperance, last night was
one OF the pleasantest affairs OF the Kind that
has taken place in this city this season. The
Division room was crowded, and many were
unable to obtain admission. Stirring ad-
land, Mr.. Grimm, of Kansas, and John b. DUN.
ming. Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Jecko, Miss Simpson,
Mrs. Julian, and Messrs. Pugh, Whipple, and
Noyes rendered excellent vocal music. Mrs.
Naylor and Miss Marguerite Saxton gave ex-
cellent recitationS.
A LITERARY and musical entertain
ment was given atFalls Church, Va, last night,
for the benefit OF the Baptist congregation of
that place. Misses Della and Enlalie Domer,
the two daughters of Rev. DR.. s. Domer of this
city, were present on special invitation, and
sang several duets and solos in splendid
style. These young ladies are members of st.
Pauls Lutheran choir, and of the Rossini
in musical circles for their flne voices and at
tractive singing abilities The entertainment
and performers from the city are loud in their
praises Of the kind people Of Falls Church.
THE Chinese Minister. with his inter.
prefer, called at the house OF Secretary Freling
huysen a day or two since, when Miss Ere
linghuysen offered him cup OF tea. The
Minister drank the tea, and remarked very
coolly: SIT is OF medium quality. Will send
you some that is really fne." The next day
she received, with his compliments, two
pretty boxes OF tea and n pair OF vases of ex
quisitely carved white wood. The diplomat
afterward explained that tonlytheChinese gran
dees get the best quality Of tea Foreigners
may pay what they choose, they cannot gel
it. And still people will go on drinking this
second-rate Chinese slop.
JOHN WATERS, colored, pewsboy, wa
committed to jail by Justice Smell In May las
the charge of having forged an order OF
Mr.. John Doyle for twenty copies of the Sun
day Herald. Three terms OF the court hav
passed, and the man not having been indicted
he was to-day brought out on habeas corpu
and discharged by Justice Wylie. The Dis
trct Attorney stated that the Grand Jury a
the last term had presented the accused, bu
the paper claimed to have been forged was
mere memoranda, and he did not see how tn
law could reach 1t. The man might be re
leased, and II wanted could be rearrested.
MAJOR BROCK requests us to warn tn
guileless hotelkeeper and boarding-hous
mistress against the champion "beaL" VIII
has recently honored Washington by maxim
his debut among us. This specimen Is de
scribed as five feet seven inches high, wei
formed, and of a genteel appearance, % year
OF age, dressed In dark clothes, with n blac
Derby hat. The modus operandi by whic
the young man performs his operations is
apply for lodgings, representing himself as
stranger In the city, whose baggage has NJ
arrived, and who contemplates entering la
college. After securing a room the youn
student steals everything available and make
sudden departure after staying as long
his landlady's patience held out.