The Evening critic., 1882-05-24
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.


PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.
THE street lamps will be lighted ut IL
p. m. and extingulshed at "a. M
THE police made forty-one arrests during
the twenty-four hours ending at 8 n. m.
A DEAD baby was found in Judiciary
Sauare this morning and the Coroner notified.
JAMES BRYAN, for stealing feather bed
from Mary Clark, has gonc to jail for thirty
days
Throw physic to the dogs, and use st.
Jacobs OIL In Its place. You Will then be
safe.
BOB SUTTON, the Harbor Master, is con-
fined to his house by sudden attack OF
billiousness.
THE Commissioners have been petitioned
TO grade and improve Twenty-third street
from Pennsylvania avenue to NJ street.
MR.. CHARLES L. FOSTER will build
brick orlce on L street. between Ninth and
Tenth streets northwest TO cost $4,000.
FREDERICK SMITHERs, n vagrant has
entered for n course OF lessons in mineralogy
with General Crocker's stone-breaking gang.
MRS. Ross the lady who was recently
attacked and terribly bitten by a Newfound-
land dog, is still at the Freedman's Hospital.
She will recover.
CLINTON JAMES, the seven-year.old son
OF Police 0ffcer James, fell last evening at
Eighth and streets southwest, while climb
iRg fence, and broke his leg.
A WHITE male infant, about two months
old, was left on the steps of Mrs Ellen L. Lees
residence, No. 27Os street, last evening, and
has been taken to st. AIMS Infant Asylum.
A HORSE attached to the business wagon
of Mr.. Charles Edmonston, the builder, ran
away last evening and was not stopped until
1t collided with n stone coping at Fourteenth
street and Massachusetts avenue.
BURGLARS attempted to force an entrance
TO the house OF Mr.. NJ. A. Dillon, Fifth and d
streets northeast, last night, but were fright
ened or after forcing open a roar window. Tho
burglars are said to have been mulatto and q
colored man.
ELLEN T. WINDOW, LYDIA Nordhoff, Car
rie S. Harrison, Eliza Nelson Burr and several
other ladies have Incorporated " the Ladies'
AID to the Garfield Memorial Hospital" to aid
The board OF managers consists Of thirty
ladies.
MYSTERIOUS disappearance: els the
neighborhood much bothered with cats ,"
asked gentleman who was negotiating for
the lease of q house. at used to be-" frankly
answered the landlord, "but since a French
restaurant was opened around the corner
there hasn't been ono seen."
THE wife of one of tho Diplomatic Corps
at Washington says that the corps dislike ex
ceedingly TO put on their court suits. "AIy hus-
cason aoes % 20 Mes1 oss selore US
dislike the wearing of that 80 heavy dress,
and so do they all. They do all profane about
It,"
HENRY GETS, colored beer consumer,
and August Long, n German beer dealer, had
cross-flre assault cases In the Police Court to-
day. Gets went into Longs saloon on Satur-
day night and got clubbed, for which Long was
fined ten dollars, and Gets returned later and
bombarded Long with rocks, for which Gets
was fined ten dollars.
THE Columbian College Baseball Club
played game with picked nine on the col
lege grounds yesterday afternoon, the score
standing: College nine, 13; picked nine, 8.
The college Boys did some heavy batting, and
Parks made a homo run. To-day the Colum.
bians Will visit Alexandria and play the Epi5
copal High School nine.
THE Commissioners, in response to q re-
quest to open an alley, have reported that by the
advice OF their attorney, and owing to the de-
fecttve laws on the subject, they have decided
to open no alleys in future without man
damus from the courts or a unanimous re-
quest from all property holders interested
The damages must always be equal to or less
than the advantages accruing or the alley
will not be opened.
JUSTICE HAGNER to-day granted Will
lam Kicks divorce from the bonds Of matrl
mony with Laura Kicks: The bill was nled ir
March last by Robert ]. Murray as solicitor
on the I'd OF November, 1874, by Rev. Henry
Brooks, Of the Fifth Baptist Church, and lived
together until mt July, aSS0, Then n she left him
adultery at a house on @, between Thirteentt
and Thirteen-ahd-a-half streets northwest
with various parties unknown to the plaintiff
LEWIS Cox, the brutal negro who escaped
from the Alexandria jail while awaiting trans
portation to the Richmond Penitentiary, Il
which institution he was sentenced for sixteer
years for outrnging little child, is believed
to still be in the city. Tho police think hi.
friends and relatives In the city are hiding
him in some shanty, and vigilant search II
Alexandria are very much excited over Cox
escape, and number of them who know hin
have volunteered to come to the city and assis
IN the search for him.
REV. DIR. VIM. p. HARRISON, who ha
been elected book editor by the General Cor
ference Of the M. E. Church South, is o mem
Ser Sr the 9 ana is neN
alternate delegates to the Conference. DI
Harrison is a native of Georgia, and was 70
Church South, SOUTH IN ti this city, during M Which tim
he was also Chaplain Of the United State
House Of Representative: The new dutie
removal to Nashville, Tenn.
THE Health Officer yesterday addresse
letter TO the Commissioners, which was IT
ferred by them to the House District Commit
tee, asking for a deficiency appropriation c
$49O to pay the expenses OF the departmen
during the present month OF June. The lette
states that the current appropriation is on
tirely exhausted, owing TO numerous unlocked
for expenses, the principal expenses befn
to Mt up the office, procure blanks, print regr
lations, etc., for the Inspector of Plumbing.
large amount OF money was also expended |
preventing the spread OF smallpox and 1
other ways.
Equal DIVISION Sons OF TEMpERANc
held n most attractive session last evenina
Mr.. Austin Herr the W. p, In the chair
number of candidates, prominent citizens
Georgetown, were Initiated, and then the 70
lowing excellent programme was carried ou
under the head of the ''good OF The order
Plano solo, Professor s. II. Jeckoi barton
solo, Mr.. L; J. whippie; reading, DR.. Jamisor
Miss Kate Curry; bass solo, Mr.. Harry {
Noyes; recitation, Mr.. Z. j. Whipple. Tn
division Is now In hourishing condition an
is rapidly increasing in membership. L
concert on the 3lst instant at Curtis Hal
Georgetown, promises TO be one OF the mo-
enjoyable entertainments OF the seasoi
Among those who Will participate are MIR
Annie Roemar Kaspar, Professors Josef Ka
par, Hubert Schutter, s. II. Jecko, John Twe
dale, Messrs John o. Pugh and L. ]. Whippl
News Notes.
The situation in Egypt is again reporte