The Evening critic., 1883-01-27
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PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE strect-lamps will be lighted at
5:l5 p. m. and extinguished at 9:55 p. m.
ELI ToLsoN and John Nelson, two col
ored boys of tender years, but tough con-
sciences were sent to Jail to-day for sixty
days each for stealing two pillows from
John Baxter.
For the convenience of their customers
and the musical public the cnterprising
firm of John +. Ellis & Co. have had a
telephone placed in their music and piano
warerooms, 937 Pennsylvania avenue, near
Tenth street.
MRS. j. ELLEN EosTER, of Iowa, will
speak in Wesley Chapel, corner of Fifth
and f streets northwest Tuesday evening,
at 1880 o'clock under the auspices of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Public invited.
LAl, YERs will gladly learn that Brough-
am, the great English barrister, was always
careful of his throat, and further that DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup is the best remedy
fol bronchitis and other throat troubles.
THE alarm of fire at 4:30 o'clock yester-
day afternoon was for a fire in house No.
S24 Thirteenth street, owned and occupied
by Mrs. Lawrence Kearney. The cause of
the fire is unknown. Damage 500; fully
insured.
THE Sunday school Institute, which has
Church since Tuesday, held its closing ses-
sion yesterday. 1t was devoted TO the
discussion of the methods of exciting in
terest in Sunday schools.
A coLoRED man, named w. A. Brow,
living at Ill / street, on returning home
from work yesterday, found his infant
child, three months old, in dying condi-
ton, apparently choking, and it died few
minutes after he reached it. The mother
had left it while she went to neighbor's
for something.
JOHN BLATzHEIM, the 14-year-old son
of Mr.. Jacob Blatzheim, was riding veo-
cipede on the corner of Seventeenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, Thursday noon,
when buggy struck the hind wheel of his
| machine and threw him. He struck his
head on the pavement and fractured his
| skull, his brain oozing out on the ice. DR..
| Moore attended him, but he died at his
| home, 46i G street, at O'Clock p. m.
A FASHIONABLE young gentleman was
seen hurrying along the Avenue at an un
usually early hour not long ago. Where
am going ?' he said to friend whom he
passed. "to see if can get some more of
those silk handkerchiefs at Taylor s.
Huftys. Am afraid they'll be sold out
like 'em best of all my lot and away he
went He got his handkerchief, and was
| surprised to find that the prices were so far
reducedEhat he had really got bargain.
LITTLE May Carrigan, the child elocu-
ZIONIST, is to have a testimonial (musical
and literary rendered her on Tuesday
evening, January 80, at the Congregational
Church. The names of those who will
take part should be guarantee of its sue
cess Little May will give some of her
best recitations and will be assisted by Pro-
fessor Bischoff, Messrs David q. Bangs, T..
j. Whipple and Will Lackey and Misses
Belle Bacon, BERTHE Crawford, Marie Reid
and Mrs. Agnes Hamilton Kearney.
| The president of the New Jersey Re-
| publican Association, Jacob w. Starr, has
| appointed the following as an executive
committee for the ensuing year: Chair
man, DIR. A. P. Pardon First District, Hon.
George F. Nixon Second District, Hon.
Edwin Salter; Third District, William II.
Wykoff; Fourth District, A. D. Van
Dervere; Fifth District, Theodore +.
Swayzee; Sixth District, G. A. Bates
Seventh District, A. P. Stewart at large,
Benjamin +. Worsall, Patrick j. Downing
and Richard B. Williams.