The Evening critic., 1883-02-26
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE street-lamps will be lighted at 6:15
p. IN. and extinguished at 11:50 p. IN.
JAMES RUSSELL and Charles Gardiner,
two able bodied tramps, were committed to
the workhouse to-day for one month each.
PETER FLYNN, George Carter, Richard
Lacey and James Sherwood were fined by
Judge Smell to-day for being disorderly
yesterday.
ROSE NJ. BOWLING has entered suit for
divorce from Julius A. Bowling. AS the
papers have been withdrawn the grounds
cannot be given.
ANNIE MCDONALD, a notorious woman,
who was drunk and begging yesterday, was
committed to the workhouse for the extent
of the law to-day as vagrant.
PUG DOGS as pets have had their day
among the extremely fashionable, but
colds never go out of fashion. so that it is
always necessary to know that DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup is a sure cure for all coughs
and colds.
ID. w. BAILEY, contractor, has entered
suit against the District to recover S25000
| He AYERS that he entered into au agreement
| with the District in July, 1877, to lay cer-
| tain pavements and did the work and has
not been paid.
THE Arlington Fire Insurance Company
held its annual election Saturday evening
and elected the following named gentle
men as directors for the ensuing year:
Walter S. Cox, William Gait, William r.
Riley, Charles Edmonston, ]. w, II. Love-
joy, w. w. Johnston, d. f. Robinson, $. T..
Brown and William King.
THE story in Sunday paper about a row
at the Government Printing Office between
a number of intoxicated printers is pro
nounced untrue by several of the Record
force. There was q difficulty between two
| printers, in which one spat in the others
face, and was promptly knocked down. He
was discharged by the fore man. That is all.
| SOLOMON PAGE was charged before
| Judge Smell to-day with refusing to pay
hack hire, and the colored hackman, when
asked how far the defendant rode re-
sponded: "Well, Yo' Honor, done druv him
from Louisiavania avenue to Smoky Run,
and yo' knows dat am a long ways" Judge
Smell ordered the payment of the fare, and
in default fifteen days.
THE regular weekly meeting of the aid
committee of the Clan a-Gael for the re-
lief of the distress in Ireland was held yes
terday at their hail. Captain Meagher Con-
don chairman, and Louis II. Lauman, sec
retary. Returns and reports were received,
which indicate that the suffering is on the
increase and corresponding efforts to miti-
gate it are being made by the committee.
| several pOOu SuDsCrlptrDuS WeIo TcCciNcu
during the past week. Acquaintance was
ordered to be sent to Kilrusto, Clair County,
where intense suffering exists among the
people,
The District of Columbia Social Science
Association held its regular monthly meet
ing at o'clock Saturday night in the par
lors of the Spencerian Business College, DR.
Henry Randall Waite in the chair DR.
Waite thanked the society for the honor il
had conferred upon him. and said the ques
tion of success in the aims of the society
was not a question of numbers, but Oi
thought, practical wisdom and work. Mis-:
Anna Lohman Smith presented a paper
upon "The Useful Arts at SCHOOL, The
paper was discussed by Professor James II
Blodgett, Mrs. Zorah C. Ford, Professor A
Montague and others. Miss Spencer made
report as delegate to the Ninth Confer
ence of Charities and Corrections at Madi
son, Wis, giving condensed abstract o
the proceedings of the conference.