The Evening critic., 1883-02-26
LACONIC LOCALS,

CHARLES CHASE was before Judge Smell
to-day, charged with stealing clock valued
at 25 cents, and was acquitted.
For weak lungs, splitting of blood weak
stomach, night sweats, and the early stages
of consumption, Golden Medical Dis
covery'' is specific. By druggists.
FRANK AND JOSEPHINE TAILOR, n
colored couple, INDUCED in rough and
tumble fight in the street yesterday, and
went to Jail for fifteen days each to-day.
Mr.. A. KALsTRoM, G. w. G. T. of Good
Templars, delivered an address upon tenn
perancc on last evening at Ebenezer NJ, L.
Church. The church was crowded and the
greatest interest manifested. Good re-
suits from the meeting can be confidently
expected.
A RoUsING temperance meeting was held
yesterday afternoon at Northeast Temper
ance Hall, S23 III street. at which addresses
were delivered by DR.. Norton, Colonel Tay-
lor and Mr.. Kalstrom. The hall was filled
to its utmost capacity by an enthusiastic
and appreciative audience.
THE police of the First Precinct raided a
disorderly house on Maryland avenue, last
evening, and arrested the proprietress,
Kate Howard as well as two other women
and two men. The women testified to i'm
proper conduct in the house, and the Off
imposed fine of $25, and an appeal was
noted.
JOSEPH FORD, Moses Hunter and George
Miner, three colored boys, who are believed
to have been implicated in a series of
Iobberies, were before Judge Smell to-day,
charged with breaking into building
owned by b. Brooks & Co. and stealing
oranges, bananas, soap, etc. The case was
continued and the issue of papers in other
cases ordered.
WILLIAM HAWKINS, Il colored driver,
was charged in the Police Court to-day
with violating the hack laws. The man
was driving for a party of three that went
to the National Theatre on Wednesday
night, and after the opera was over under
took to drive the wrong way and defied
the police. Officers Sutton and Sullivan
endeavored to stop the horses, but the
driver insisted on going on, and during the
scene that followed, the panic-stricken
occupants of the hack jumped out, the
| horses reared and pitched, and the hack
| got wedged in between the carriage of the
| French Minister and the carriage-door was
| torn off. The hackman was fined $5 or
| fifteen days.
EVERETT d. BERRY, young man of
| good appearance and neatly dressed, was
before Judge Smell to-day charged with q
sGIlCS VI luICeuIeS VI NulutDic ONeTCUduo
| from the cloak room at the National Hotel.
| Hon. Henry Van Aernam, of New York,
| testified that he lost an overcoat which cost
| him $50, and that Officer Edelin recovered
| it, Colonel Rutledge p. Hughes, Marshal
| of the Richmond District of Virginia, testi-
| fed to losing his overcoat from the hotel,
and that the prisoner came to the hotel
some days afterward with the overcoat on
and was arrested. Officer Edelin, testified
that when Berry was arrested with Colonel
Hughes overcoat on. he had pawn tickets
in his possession calling for the other over
| coats, which were recovered and ideatiiied
by Representative Van Aernam and Senator
| Call. Berry acknowledged pawning the
coats, but denied stealing them, and Judge
| Smell sentenced him to six months in jail
in each of three cases and appeals were
noted.
| HARBoRMAsTER SUTTON reports the fol-
| lowing new arrivals at the wharves:
Schooner Carrie, Captain Stone $4,000 feet
of lumber for George A. Shehan; schooner
William Totten, Captain Adams, 600
bushels of oysters sloop Sarah Jane, Cap,
tain Simms, 400 bushels of oysters; schooner
William Leishire, Captain Hall, zoe
bushels of oysters; schooner Joseph A. Will
son, Captain Jones, 400 bushels Of oysters
sloop Mary O., Captain Coleman, 800
bushels of oysters; schooner Two Brothers,
Captain Matthews, 300 bushels of oys,
tcrs schooner Lawson Corbin, Captain Spar
row, 100 bushels of oysters; schooner
Little Annie, Captain Spence 100 bushels
of oysters steamer Bell May, Captain
Lucas, 1000 punches of fish for Il. A.
Golden; schooner Annie Mason, Captain
Clark, 20 cords of wood for j. o. Carter
schooner Kate, Captain Upton, 20 cords OF
wood for j. o. Carter; schooner Pioneer
Captain Blank, 20 cords of wood for j. o
Carter; schooner Mary Ann Shea, Captain
Ashton, 80 cords of wood for johnson &
Bros; barge Devenne, Captain Blank, 25C
tons Of coal for c. II, Burgess schooner s
Nj. Bird, Captain Merritt, 1874 tons of Goa
for j. @. Heisting.