The Evening critic., 1882-05-31
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

A RED ticket given to 81 buyers. Young's.
THE police made fifty-six arrests during
the twenty-four hours ending at o n. m.
MRS. MoRRELL holds her usual reception
TO art-lovers tonight at the Academy OF Fine
Arts.
THE price for meals at the New York
avenue Hotel will be 500 per month from
June l.
DAVID TAYLOR, for stealing clothing
from John Clark, has been committed to Jail
:or sixty days.
THE bhoys have rechristened peanuts
''Jumbo pills."
A DEAD colored male infant was found
yesterday at Columbia Heights, and Will be
buried In the Potters Field.
Mr.. A. c. KLINCK, on account of sick
ness, was to-day excused from further service
as petit juror In the Criminal Court,
ABRAHAM PAGE, for stealing the harness
from horse left standing at the MARKET was
to-day committed to jail for sixty days.
ONE of the most enjoyable affairs on
Decoration Day was the prize picnic given by
The Knights OF st. Columbkili at Juenemau's
Summer Gardens. The prizes were presented
by Captain II. A. Duffy, In an appropriate and
eloquent speech.
MR.. WILLIAM ScHwING, whom it is al
legged was alien In the plea of DR.. O. Z.
Prentiss to the insuftlclency OF the Indictment
found against states that he was naturalized
twenty-five years ago, and been resident OF
this District for twenty years, and that his
father was also a citizen of this country.
SAMUEL J. SHERWOOD, who has figured
as defendant in a number Of cases In the Po
lice Court recently, was to-day acquitted Of O
charge of tearing up the cell in which he was
confined and sentenced TO thirty days in Jail
for beating barkeeper named August Schenk,
who refused TO give him plate of clam soup
on credit.
G. A. SMITHsoN was honorably acquitted
to-day on q charge OF obtaining money under
false pretcnses. The facts appear to be that
Smithson gave an order for 800 on a firm which
he claimed to represent, The order was sent
by mistake to a wrong firm, who denied any
knowledge OF smithson, and, accordingly, pro.
ceedings were instituted subsequently the
order was sent TO the right firm and cashed.
THE rush for Glymont, Mount Vernon
Occoquan and elsewhere of excursionistS yes
terday morning was multitudinously great
The crowd for Mt. Vernon, especially, was So
large that Captain Blake had to suspend tn,
free list 'sfor this occasion only" wheroupoI
the free riders turned about In disgust, somt
vending their way mournfully to Arlington
while others toted their baskets back home ant
then laid back and announced that the,
''didn't. want to go anyhow" and everybody
said "of course" out loud.
THE entertainment of Excelsior Tent
10. r., yesterday brought out large audi
ence. Musical selections were given by Mr.
and Mrs. 5. H. Jecko, Messrs; E; J. Whipple
John Wall, Potter and Johns, and Misses
Mamie and Annie Gross, and Messrs. Reid ant
Muller. AT the close of this programme g. Boz
wick and Messrs. E. A. Bernhard and W. c
Souder, after which there was an enjoyable
hop, which continued until late hour.
AT A MEETING of Swiss, held at Abner'
last evening, to devise means for giving tn
Swiss Minister to tho United States, Colone
Fret, fitting reception, 1t was decided, b
reason OF the absence of a number of repre-
sentative Swiss and want Of harmony, rel
dering proper interchange of views impos
sibe TO postpone further action until the Swis
Society of Washington can, at Its meeting t.
morrow, Issue call to all the Swiss in Wash
tngton to unite III action with this society
and make the contemplated reception a M
tional affair.
A LIVELY scrimmage between severa
well-known parties, in which horses, hack
and carriages figured prominently, occurre
the other evening near the corner OF Mint
and streets. For a few minutes the air wa
full OF Teutonic expressions and human bodie
and had the supply of human sandbags nC
been exhausted as soon as 1t was, the prob
bilities are a regular pitched battle woul
have been the result of quarrel about hors
flesh. In summing up the disasters OF the da
II was found that one man had been knocke
out OF time by terrible left-hander on tn
right optic; another, having received a sledgi
hammer tap on his frontispiece, was suddenl
deprived of reason and the power OF locomi
tlon, while fair-sized squad Will wea
patches, use walking sticks and annoint wit
salve for several days TO come.