The Evening critic., 1882-11-01
THE EVENING CRITIC.
EsTAnTIsNEp Au0uST. IAna
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

EDWIN ROLLINS. u drunken vagrlnt,
was sent TO tho workhouse by Judge Snell TO-
day for thirty days.
An advertisement Of three lines under
the head Of wanted, for sale or rent lost aud
found or personal, can be inserted In TIE
EVENING CRITIC three times for 25 cents.
THE German Orphan Asylum Association
mot last night and elected tho following di'
rectots; Louis Koitlcr, John Wafer ,i Gnstav1
Hartlg, Simon Wolf George Brcltbhrth anu
John Kaiser.
MARY HARRINGTON. an old lady, whose
COW went into the Smithsonian grounds TO
Craze, followed the animal for the purpose OF
driving It out, and was arrested for tresplss.
ing on tho park, and gave personai bonds not
to repeat the onense'
GEORGE SMITH and Anderson Page, two
burly negroes, went to the room OF white
woman, named Maggie Waters, last night, and
one struck her several times while the other
kicked her. Judge Smell sentenced the men
to thirty days In jail each
DIR, PIERCE's Pleasant Purgative Pei.
lets" are sugar.coatod and inclosed In glass
bottles, their virtues being thereby preserved
unimpaired for any length OF time, In amy eli
mate, so that they arc always fresh and relia.
bic. No cheap wooden or pnstoboard boxes.
by druggists.
SUIT was entered yesterday afternoon
by John II. Harmon against the Washington
& Georgetown Railroad Company, claiming
$4,000 damages for injuries received April
80, 1882, by being thrown from n street-car at
the corner OF Nineteenth street aud Penn
eylvanla avenue. 7
Ara meeting of the Federation of Labor
last night n vote OF thanks was rendered TO
George @. Honnlng, on seventh street, and VII.
liam q. Claggctt, Market Space, FOR thelr liberal
purchase OF tickets for tho lecture TO be do
iivercd by Henry George at the National Thea
tire, November IL.
ALICE SLATER got on the war path last
night and leaving her home in Mills alley
sought the residence OF Catherine ComodOrc,
In Clark's alley, and fight followed, which
continued until tho arriyal of the police on the
scene. The woman who began tho tight got
very much the worst OF 1t, and Judge Smell dis.
missed tho case.
MR.. JOSEPH G.. EIcHcoNE. grocer
doing business at Twentieth and streets, ap.
peared in the Police Court to-day against n
cOlored man named VIM. johnson, who has
been In the habit OF stealing brooms from In
front OF his store. The man confessed TO steal
ingtwo brooms on Monday and one Yesterday,
and was sentenced to thirty days In jail for the
first larceny and sixty for the second.
SHORTLY after the Criminal Court ad-
tourned yesterday afternoon Ben Bryan, who
had been ordered to be committed TO jail on
the charge OF assault with lntent to kill Hem
rietta Bryan, watched his chance, jumped
from the prisoners dock, skipped out of the
room and escaped. HIS sudden departure was
considerable OF n surprise to the bailiffs sup
posed to be guarding the dock.
The trustees of the Strong Consolidated
Mining Company, OF New Mexico, met at their
ofice, BOG L street, last evening, and organ
lied by the election Of the following officers: :
President, Mgernon S. Griggs; vice-presldent,
Hector McNiell; treasurer. Ell NJ. Wheat; Sec
rotary, Wm. o. Smith; mining superintendent,
Samuel Strong; general manager, W. $. O1ell;
attorney for the company, o. d. Barnett.
AT special meeting of the managers of
the Young Mems Christian Association last
night, Rev. John q. Ames presiding, arrange
ments were made for adding a'gymnasium,
lecture and music ball and n bicycle room TO
the new headquarters on New York avenue
Rev. DR.. Bartlett, OF tho New York avenue
Church, will deliver an address at the public
anniversary of tho association at Foundry
Church, November Ii.
SOME boys bent on celebrating hollow cen
In the proper style, built q bonfire In large
dry goods box Tuesday night on L street, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets. Onlcer
Montgomery cxtnguished tho blaze with n
few buckets of water. An alarm OF fire was
turned In from box 62, about @ 80 p. M, boys
having piled up some tar barrels and lighted
them at the Intersection of First and streets
and New Jersey avenue. This ilre was also
oxtinguished with few buckets of water.
AN enthusiastic meeting of the West
Virginia Republican Association was held yes
terday evening In the rooms of the associa-
tion, LIE Droit building. committee report
was received and approved recommending
public reception 70 be given at some suitable
time to the West Virginia Republican Members
OF CoDgress-elect. The time and details OF tho
reception were left to the committee for fur
ther consideration. II Is proposed 10 make the
reception worthy OF the pioneer Republican
State OF the South.