The Evening critic., 1883-02-24
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
THE street et-lamps will be lighted at 615
p. N. and extinguished at 9;45 p. m.
WAT HAWKINS, alias Wat Butler, and
John Hawkins, were indicted by the Grand
Jury yesterday for housebreaking in the
night
THE alarm of fire at $3.50 o'clock yester-
day afternoon, struck by box 127, was for
slight fire at 917 Seventh street. Very lit
tie damage was done.
For the vast relief afforded by st. Jacobs
Oil, Captain John j. Dawson, late of the
British Army, now in New Orleans, La,
feels grateful toward the wonderful pain
cure.
THE fftieth anniversary of the Congres-
sional Temperance Society will be held to-
morrow, Sunday evening, at the Congrega-
tonal Church. The occasion will be one
of special interest.
MARY NICHOLS, disreputable charac-
ter, who was picked up drunk on tho street
last night and fought the policeman all the
way to the station, was committed to the
workhouse for fifteen days.
MANY London ladies crop their hair short
and wear an almost entire wig, and conse-
| quently catch cold more frequently than
| their American cousins, but of course they
all use DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
AT the E-street Baptist sociable last
night the entertainment was given by the
| Musical Circle under Mr.. Keble to a
| crow led chapel. In this church they must
have fewer people or more room.
JOSEPH WILSON, alias Hanshaw, was ar
| rested by Officer Duvall with quantity of
| property, supposed to be stolen, in his pos
session, and was to-day committed to the
workhouse for ninety days as suspicious
| character.
TAYLOR & HUFTY make a speciality of
| low-priced nightgowns, and their stock
| this season is better than any they have
| had before. 1t is not trouble to them to
| show their goods, and no one can resist
their bargains who looks at them.
A HORSE attached to wagon owned by
w. II. Howe ran away from the stable on
| o street, between Thirty first and Thirty
| second streets, running down o street to
| Twenty NINTH then to p, where the wagon
| collided with buggy owned by w. r.
Deeble, smashing the buggy.
| Mr.. THOMAS EVANS was charged in the
| Police Court to-day with allowing an unne-
cessary waste of water in his houses Nos. LAG
| and 1454 Corcoran street. The waste was
stopped as soon as the owner was notified
and Judge Smell dismissed the cases. Col
onel Enoch Totten appeared for the defen-
dant.
ALL lovers of art will be cordially well
coined at the National Academy of Fine
Arts, Corcoran Building, Fifteenth street
by Mrs Imogene Robinson Morrell, next
Monday evening at o'clock. Those in
terested in flower painting will find beau
tiful specimens in water colors and oil, and
on silk and satin.
JAMES B. WILLIAMS, an oyster-boat cap
tain, and Henry Cray, colored oyster
shucker, were involved in profane dis
pute on Eleventh-street wharf yesterday
and were both fined $5 by Judge Smell to
day. The colored laborer paid his fine, bu
the gallant captain was impecunious ant
sought refuge in the dock.
HARBoRMAsTER SUTTON reports the fol
lowing new arrivals at the wharves
Schooner Chingarara, Captain Blank, CO.
+ 600 feet lumber for w. w. Mccullough
sloop John Williams, Captain Green, 40
b bushels oysters; pungy Chief, Captai
= Swami, 600 bushels oysters sloop G. "
Driver, Captain Southerd, 500 bushe
oysters.
STAR OF HOPE LODGE OF COOP TEMI
LARS celebrated its first anniversary on la:
evening with very enjoyable entertain
ment at odd-Fellows' Hall, Twentiet
street and Pennsylvania avenue. The ha
was filled to its utmost capacity by an al
preciative and select audience. Ever
number of the programme was q gem, an
added to the acknowledged celebrity of til
d talented contributors.
PITIFUL spectacle was presented in til
Police Court dock to-day when William
g Higgs and George Higgs were called up ;
. suspicious characters, and father and sol
both in the last stages of starvation an
u raggedness, answered to the charge. III
police officer testified that Mrs. Higgs W;
in the Poorhouse Hospital and the faith,
and son begged on the streets. Judge Sne
sentenced the man to ninety days in I'll
workhouse and committed the boy to ii
Reform School during minority.
ii VERY sad accident occurred yesterds
e afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Ma
- Rodgers on Thirteenth street, between
0, and G streets northeast, which will pro
= ably result in the death of little Irenia, Il
n eight-year-old daughter of the above lad
n During the temporary absence of the moth
the little girl attempted to kindle fire
the kitchen stove, when her garments toe
fire. The unfortunate child's screams 8
tracted several neighbors to the scene, w
: tore the clothing from her and extinguish
: the flames, but not before she had be
terribly burned about the body and fat
y, DR.. Ford was at once summoned and pi
n. nounced the injuries of serious and pt
W hans fatal nature