The Evening critic., 1883-05-02
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

The police made thirty arrests yesterday.
THE street-lamps will be lighted at 7:20
p. m. and extinguished at 2:15 a. m.
CURE and comfort centre in st. Jacob g
Oil, the great pain-relieving and healing
remedy.
GET your tickets at Ellis for concert of
the Fiske Jubilees Friday evening at the
Congregational Church.
JOHN LEARY, sailor on the Tallapoosa
who came ashore last evening to get drunk,
accomplished the design and has gone down
for seven days to get sober.
WILLIAM II. SADLER, a young man, who
made raid on the table cutlery of Jenny
Turbit's house, was sentenced to spend
sixty days in Jail for petty larceny.
j. w. GRIFFIN, james Printz, William
Van Week, j. B. Gilfillan, Il. G. Upton, J.
G. s. Berger and Aug Kuhner were yester-
day elected trustees of the Sovereigns' Co.
operative Association.
The Commissioners have replied to J..
w. Easily that they cannot bear the OK
pense oflaying sewer 244 feet in length
in front of public property on b street, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh northeast.
MEssRs. A. L. BARBER g. Co. have been
notified that their request for permission to
make connection with the water main run
ming from the standpipe cannot be complied
with, as the standpipe cannot supply its
present area.
The Commissioners have notified num-
ber of persons who protested against the
erection Of blacksmith's shop on Massa-
chusetts avenue, between Sixth and Sew
enth streets northwest, that the party
building the shop has complied with the
law.
THE Commissioners have notified Messrs.
John Starr and Others that it will not be
advantageous to the District to provide
them with material to pave and grade
Thirteenth street, between ID and Il streets
and on the south side of d street, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets south
east.
DIR. c. F. RUSSELL, superintendent of the
telephone on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal,
is now on tour of inspection of the entire
line of that work, experimenting and CIV
ing instruction in the working of the tele-
phone, which has proved an important ad-
junct in the successful working of the
canal.
ONE voice all over the land goes up from
mothers, that says, "My daughters are SO
feeble and sad, with no strength, all out of
breath and life at the least exertion. What
can we do for them ?" The answer is simple
and full of hope. One to four weeks use of
".
rosy, sprightly, and cheerful.
THE police reports showed that last night,
between midnight and daylight this morn
ing, the police in making their rounds
found eight private residences and business
houses which had been left unsecured by
the occupants and exposed to the depreda-
tions of thieves. The authorities call at
tention to the necessity of care in this mat
ter.
THOMAS SHAcKELFoRD and Jas. Byron
were charged in the Police Court to-day
with violating the fishing regulations by
leaving seines in the water in the Eastern
Branch during Sunday. The ownership of
the seines was not proved and the case was
dismissed. Mr.. McGinn, of the Health Of
flee, was the principal witness for the pros
ecuted.
ROBERT JOHNSON and Abe Banks, two
colored men, went into the store of Elias
Doty, No. 1916 Fifth street northwest took
the money drawer containing some small
change and made their escape. The men
were arrested, charged with housebreaking
and held for the Grand Jury in default of
$1,000 bonds each.
AT THE meeting of the Federal Building
Association last night the following officers
were elected to serve the ensuing year
President, Jos. r. Edson vice-presdent,
Robert ii. Fenwick; secretary and treas
urer, John A. Prescott; directors, G. G.
Duncanson, M. G. Barnard, Hamilton K.
Gray, Geo. S. King, Chas. It. Nutze, VIM. +.
Gardner, VIM. Hart, Chas. Harling and Jas.
A. X. Moore.
MAUD AcToN, one of the Oldest and most
notorious denizens of the disreputable
resorts Of the city, died suddenly this
morning under peculiar circumstances.
Maud has passed through all tho nhases of
a wild life, and at last sunk SO low that of
late years she has spent much of her time
in the workhouse. She was only recently
released from that institution, and this
morning went to the house kept by Delcie
Adams, colored, in the Division. She COM
planned of being sick, and as she was also
partially intoxicated, lay down on a bed in
the house, and when one of the woman
went to awaken her, it was found that she
was dead. The Coroner has been notified.
If you are bilious, take DIR. PIERcE's
PLEASANT PuTgative Pellets" the ori ginal
Little Liver Pills" Of all druggists.