The Evening critic., 1883-04-18
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS,

HENRY BARNES, n colored vagrant, was
sent to the workhouse for 90 days to-day.
JOHN MITCHELL, Portland, Oregon, was
sick a-bed for two years. st. Jacobs Oil
cured him.
The petition for sidewalk on Seventh
street is from q to X street, and not from G
TO III, as stated.
CHARLES BROWN was tried in the Police
Court to-day for wasting Potomac water
and gave his personal bonds not to repeat
the offense
ALEXANDER PETERSEN forfeited $50
collateral to-day on each of two charges
one of keeping his bar open on Sunday and
the other of keeping it open after hours.
THE colored barber, w. w. Queen, who
is wanted for outraging little girl in Marl-
boro, Md, and who was thought to have
come to this city, has not yet been arrested
here.
YOUNG man named John Cassell, re-
Gently employed at Frank Wards dairy,
was charged in the Police Court to-day
with stealing clothing from fellow-em-
ployes, but was honorably discharged.
JOHN MATHEWS, colored boy, was
playing sheep and driver" with crowd of
smaller boys and chasing them about with
a whip when he struck Charles Taylor too
hard, and a charge Of assault was preferred.
A fine of 81 settled the matter
YoUNG or middle aged men, suffering
from nervous debility, loss of memory, pre-
mature old age, as the result of bad habits,
should send three stamps for part VII OF
Dime Series pamphlets. Address WORLDS
DIspENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buf.
falo, N. Y.
ANTHONY KELLY, respectable young
man, pleaded guilty before Judge Smell TO-
| day of slapping Miss Rose Eberly on the
| cheek. Anthony said he had little mis-.
| understanding with the lady and she
slapped him and he slapped her. The gen.
| tleman was assessed So.
MOTHERS DON'T KNow.-How many
children are punished for being uncouth
| willful, and Indifferent to instructions OIL
rewards, simply because they are out o.
health An intelligent lady said of a
child of this kind: Mothers should know
moderate doses of Hop Bitters for two oil
three weeks, the children would be all O
parent could DESIRE"
THE Commissioners yesterday granted
the request of the gas company for permis-
sion to lay mains on Massachusetts, avenue
between Twenty first and Twenty second
streets; o street, between Twentieth and
| Twenty first, and w street, between Thir.
teenth and Fourteenth. The superinten.
dent of lamps reported that there were nc
gas mains in the section referred to, and re-
commended that permission be granted
under the usual conditions for repair o
pavements where broken or taken up.
EIGHT boys named John Cuttings
Thomas Cuttings, Andrew Bradley, Alexan
der Mason, Paul Sullivan, Clarence Doyle
Charles Stockbridge and Thomas Moore
were arrested for disorderly conduct In en-
gaging in boyish sports on Corcoran street
playing ball, humping each other against
lamp posts, etc. Judge Smell told the boyl
that he regretted that they had no bettel
chances for their games than are afforded
by the city streets, but that they must moi
make nuisances of themselves. The boys per
sonal bonds were taken. The parents of tn,
boys assert that malicious persons brough
influence to bear, and had policeman de
tailed in citizens clothes to interfere will
the boys in their inofensive sports