The Evening critic., 1882-05-01
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.


JAMES JONES assaulted Mary Lucas, both
colored. and has gone TO Jail for thirty days.
THE police made twenty-seven arrests
during the twenty y-fourhours ending at a. m.
A CONCERT was given to the members
and invited guests Of the Schuetzen Verein at
the park yesterday afternoon.
EVERY HoUsEKEEPER should avail them.
selves of the generous offer of Smith, Hanway
Co. See advertisement In another column.
Judge David Davis, president pro tenn.
Will adjourn the Senate in time to allow tho
Senators TO get their dinners before going to
the circus.
VIM. BUTLER appeared in the Police
Court to-day against Henry Middleton, whom
he charged with assaultlng him, The case
was continued.
ARTHUR BURGESS was charged in the
Police Court with making an ARRAY with
colored man named jackson. nve-dollar
fine was imposed.
DAISY ALLEN and Susie Edwards, two
colored girls, pleaded guilty to-day In the Po-
lice Court to being loud and bolsterous and
were sentenced TO jail for fifteen days each.
The whisky men are growing desperate
finding that IT is not so easy to capture tho
Senate as 1T was the House for their scheme
They now threaten TO withhold any snbscrip
tion to either party for campaign purposes.
MR.. ]. II. HARMAN. n gentleman nearly
70years Of age, fell from the platform of a car
at Nineteenth street and Pennsylvan avenue
last evening, and was seriously hurt. He was
street, and attended by DR.. Sothoron.
The final funeral services of the late
Cadet Engineer Lawrence A. Wedderburn, U.
s. NJ. took place saturday afternoon at his
grandfather's residence, No. 61S street,
whence the remains were taken to Glenwood
Cemetery and placed in the receivingivault.
Our statesmen are considerably wearied
at Mr.. p. t. Barnum for showing to-day and
tomorrow. They cannot in good grace adj
dourn to attend on Monday and Tuesday,
whereas IL he had appeared on Friday and
Saturday Congress would have adjourned till
Monday.
CHARLES CLARK, the one-legged veteran,
who makes the spacious halls of the Police
Court ring with his stormy eloquence, was in
The dock again today on charge Of profan-
fty. He acknowledged TO having cursed the
station-keeper at the Fourth Precinct Station
and was sentenced to seven days In jail.
THE dedication of the chapel just COM
pleted in st. Marys German Catholic Gene
terry, which was TO have taken place yesterday
afternoon, was postponed till Sunday next on
account Of tho inability OF Father Alig, the
pastor, to attend as was expected. He has
prostrated yesterday to be unable to leave
his bed without assistance.
LAST night Fletcher M. Z. Church was
well filled TO listen to Bud Eagleston's CON
vinciSg arguments in favor OF total abstinence.
The meeting was opened with prayer by the
pastor, Rev. Charles J. Mytinger. After few
made by BIessrs. Ryan and PROXY, of tho Ea-
gleston Dashaway Club, that club being well
represented. Quite number of young men
came up and signed the pledge
WHEN the Criminal Court convened this
morning there was a very meagre audience
present and the attendance of witnesses ex-
ceedingly slim. Deputy Clerk Williams sug-
gested that both had probably been attracted
by the circus. Whereupon the lawyers re-
marked that the circus always did have bad
effect upon witnesses. Jennie Williams,
charged with larceny, was called, and failing
TO answer, her recognizance was forfeited.
The same course was taken with william
Taylor, accused Of assault, and who failed to
appear.
No ONE has ever regretted using st. ia
cob's OIL. 1t always cures painful ailments.