The Evening critic., 1883-02-27
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

ought to be kept in every house.
THE strcet-lamps will be lighted at GEO
p. M and extinguished at 12:45 p. IN.
Mr.. HoRBAcH will be tried in the Police
Court tomorrow, and will be represented
by Colonel Cook.
THE officers of the Grand Lodge of Good
Templars will pay an official visit to Perse
verance Lodge at McCauley's Hall, Capitol
Hill, this evening
CALEB sIMMs paid the city a brief visit
on business-swindling has given
Judge Smell his personal bonds to depart
and not to come again.
RICHARD VIGLE, venerable oolOred
tramp, was given q season-ticket to the
workhouse by Judge Smell to-day, and will
mutilate stone for ninety days.
FRANK WILLIAMS was arrested yestcr-
day with stolen chicken under each arm,
and has been held for the Grand Jury for
eecond ofiense of petty larceny.
JOHN BROOKS, colored man, who
knocked rival beau out of time in a street
fight, has gone into training under General
Crockers guidance for fifteen days.
MARY GRAVES and Alice Campbell, two
fair maidens who shocked the sensitive
police by their profane calculations, were
committed to the workhouse to-day for
cursing.
THOMAS SMITH, colored, was arrested for
profanity, and was found to be carrying n
revolver. Judge Smell gave the man fifteen
days for being disorderly and thirty for
carrying the pistol.
THE aesthetic movement in England has
entirely died out, because-well, because
people think there is more good common
sense in taking n bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup than in carrying a lily.
Et hos nI
| divorce from George +. Davis, and prays to
| be given the custody and control of the
children. They were married in this city
May IS, 1868, and she charges that he de-
serted her in June, 1850.
JOHN SULLIVAN was the formidable
name of a muscular citizen who appeared
in the Police Court dock to-day charged
with being quarrelsome and disorderly, and
Judge Smell thought it best to cage him
until the pugilists leave town, and there
fore gave him week in the workhouse.
GOVERNOR CAMERON, Of Virginia, has
pardoned Oliver Hambleton, of this city
of being concerned in a three-card monte
game, in which man was swindled out of
| considerable sum of money within the
| limits of the State of Virginia, opposite
| this city.
THE examination of policemen who have
| been unable for some time to do street duty,
under the recent order of the Commission
ers, was completed yesterday. 1t is under
| stood that quite number will be reported
inefficient and be dropped from the rolls.
They will, however, be provided for in
some degree from the police fund.
"WooDMAN, SPARE THAT TREE" is a
phrase that can be appropriately applied to
the woodchoppers who have been busy dur.
tto fnYr aIn,
trees in the Presidents grounds. Twigs
and branches are being cut from the fallen
trees and taken away by curious strangers
as relics of Washington and the Presidents
picturesque park.
DIR. PIERCE's "Favorite Prescription
perfectly and permanently cures those dis.
eases peculiar to females. 1t is tonic aud
nervine, eflectually allaying and curing
those sckening sensations that affect the
stomach and heart through reflex action
The back ache and dragging down" sen
sations all disappear under the strengthen
lug effects of this great restorative. By
druggists.
AN old gentleman, named Buck, from
watch about 10 o'clock last night in q
street-car. He was standing up holding on
to one of the support straps, when two sus
pcous looking men jostled him. few
minutes later he noticed that his watch had
disappeared. Mr.. Buck proceeded to Po.
lice Headquarters and notified the authori.
ties. The two suspected thieves boarded
the car at the foot of Capitol Hill.
HARBoRMAsTER SUTTON reports the fol-
lowing new arrivals at the wharves
James A. Harper, Captain Kelly, 400 bush
els oysters; schooner II. Wilmington, Cap.
tain Gof, 800 bushels oysters; schooner
John Francis, Captain Evans, 600 bushel;
oysters; pungy Sarah Jane, Captain Rus
sell, 700 bushels oysters; schooner ]. G
Vanname, Captain Lawrence, 600 bushels
oysters; steamer Norfolk. Captain Shrop
shire, merchandise for J. II. johnson s
Coz schooner Geo. II. Hoyt, Captain Herbert
200 tons stone for State Department.; schr
Green Hill, Captain Latham, 10000 fee
lumber for Il. L. Jackson & Co.