The Evening critic., 1882-05-12
THE EVENING CRITIC.
LACCNiC LOCALS.
EsTABLIsHED AUGUST. 1868.

MARY JANE LoMAx, quarrelsome,
dusky maiden, has gone to jail for assaultlng
come female companions.
THE Commissioners have received an Of
fcial notification OF the appointment OF Major
Lydecker from General Drum.
JonN SMITH pleaded guilty to-day to
being q suspicious character and vagrant, and
has gone TO the workhouse for thirty days.
BENJAMIN NTURNER,previously convicted
of grand larceny, was to-day sentenced by
Justice wylie in the Criminal Court to ono
year In the Erie County IN. W pcnltentiary.
BARTHOLOMEW RUPLEY, an incorrigible
hoy, was committed TO the Workhouse to-day
by Judge Smell. The testimony was that Rup-
ley was terror to his mother and sisters and
was dishonest and lawless.
MRS. JENNIE STUART was charged in the
Police Court to-day with cruelty torturing n
COW, but the evidence showed that the injury
which she had inflicted had been accidental,
and Judge Smell dismissed the case.
The Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com.
pany have been granted permission to erect
telegraph poles on d street, between Twelfth
and Thirteenth-and-a a-half, subject to removal
at the pleasure Of the Commissioners.
THE report of the Inspector of Buildings
on the tumble.down condition of the District
Offices, and the reports of the chiefs of the va
rfous departments on what the probable loss
would be In their Offices in case OF fire have
been transmitted TO Congress for considora-
ton.
The ladies who had charge of the Dis
from that table at the Rotunda on Saturday
evening. All things left over night by owners
were kindly taken care OF by the Supervising
Architect Of the Capitol, and returned to their
owners.
CAPTAIN THOMAS B. HUNT, u. s. A.,
met with a serious accident In the lobby OF the
National Hotel last evening. He was walking
across the tiled floor, when he fell and broke
his leg in two places. DR.. Smith Townshend
set the fractured limb and had the Captain
removed to his residence, No. 201 Thirteenth
street southwest.
The first quarterly conference was held
at West Georgetown NJ. L. Church last Thurs
day night, presided over by DR.. Deale, tho
new Presiding Elder, who gave proof of being
an offlcer OF large experience and broad and
comprehensive views of the system and work
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. All pres
ent seemed much pleased.
COLONEL WILLIAM PLANTAGENET
COPELAND has favored THE CRITIC with one of
his characteristic little Jokes The gallant
Colonel's jokes of an imcomprehensible
and unfathomable kind. This particular
effort of the Colonel's should be fumigated,
or, better, deodorized. Perhaps the Colonel's
nasal apparatus is out of order and has been
laid up for repairs.
ALBERT BECKETT, colored man, was
charged In the Police Court with writing pol
icy at his house, corner of Ninth and streets
southwest A number of witnesses testified to
playing policy with Beckett and the police
officers testified to raiding the establishment
and capturing the paraphernalia, etc. A sen
tence of $50 or sixty days in jail was imposed.
ALoNzo DONALDSON was put ON trial in
the Police Court to-day for a55aulting Benja
min Smith, This is the case of the man who
was shot In the eye on q wharf in Georgetown
on April "a, and has since beon under the care
of n physician. TIE evidence showed that the
shooting was accidental and the case was dis
missed, as the defendant had already spend
about two weeks in jail.