The Evening critic., 1883-04-13

oisely what Admiral Nicholson did. Ad-
miral Nicholson had better resign and
emigrate to England, where he is appreci-
ated.
THE CRITIC ABROAD,
Upon the corner stands the dude,
HIS bangs unto his forehead glued.
-ChaG.
He grlns and ogles all the girls,
AS In his hands his cane he twirls.
Drummer.
The dude, 1t seems, takes special pains
To show the world he's got no brains.
-Pits6mg Telegraph
No brains worth noting, but cheek
OF adamantlne, so to speak.
Empty speech and manners rude,
By these tokens know the dude.
-:o:-
In the matter of Corkhill's argument as
to the right Of the Police Court to issue
civil process in the case against e. Dev-
lin, for the forfeiture of a bail bond, some
people are reminded of the answer made by
a German witness called in a late case
before our courts to enforce the payment of
fire.insurance policy.
The witness was asked: "What time
was it when you first saw this fre?" he
replied: Shentlemens, / heard big
noise und pokes mine head mine window
oud und i sees mine house is not on fire,
und / vents to ped again." The witness
being hard pushed and badgered by the
lawyers on cross-examination, as to the
hour, the minute, the second, &c, as to
when he poked his head "mine window
oud," threw his hands to his forehead and
exclaimed despairingly: mine Gott,
shentlemens! 1t do make mine head to
ache to tell so mooch tings know nottings
aboud."
There are quite number Of young men
and few old ones who make practice of
taking position in front of Willard's, the
st. Marc and National Hotels every even
ing, the sole object of which seems to be to
gaze at and make remarks about every
woman who may chance to pass by. Such
conduct is unbecoming a gentleman, and
no well-bred man will engage in such prac-
tice.
One Of the colored members of the bar in
Judge Hagner's court yesterday, and who
is always neatly and tastefully dressed,
observed one of his white brethren come
in with bundle of books and papers and
who was badly dressed, and remarked that
the bar ought to take up subscription to
buy the white brother new suit of clothes,
and that he would start it off with O SUBJ
scription of q dollar. The white attorney
is said to be very wealthy man.
The Critic met an old and familiar face
on the Avenue to-day from Ohio. His
every look and move depicted trouble. So
thn D,tnl cto hot
| the Critic ventured to ask him what was
| the trouble.
| 81 will tell you" said he IL came here to
get a position; l wanted to get into the
| Mail Service"
"What chance have you?"
| "None, i suspect"
"Why, you are from Ohio"
| "Yes but the d-d Dutch have gone
back on our party, and the heads of the
Departments here don't seem to pay that
| attention to the demands of Ohio men they
once did; BESIDES l find that there are
now ON file over 5000 applications from
Ohio for positions in the Mail Service SO,
you see, l am just in the middle of a d-d
bad fx-no money and q very poor show
for position"
"The detection and punishment Of crime
is commendable. Every good citizen
should lend helping hand in such a
work. But in doing so, it should be re-
membered that the guilt of those charged
with crime should be established by re-
spectacle and reputable witnesses. The
testimony of a man who has been detected
and convicted of crime should not have
much weight with an honest jury, unless
it is corroborated by honest people," said
| an old and honOred citizen to the Critic
this morning.
"That is true" replied the Critic; but
why this exbortation ?"
well, will tell you. You see that by
the grace of the Attorney General and the
Citizens Committee two as notorious
thieves as ever infested community have
been recently turned out of Jail, to which
confinement they had been assigned by ;
jury after fair trial for stealing. They wer,
turned out, as / said, by the grace O
Brewster, Attorney General, at the solici
tation of the Citizens Committee. Th,
names of these two thieves are Murphy ani
Leary. They have been employed ever,
day sirce they were pardoned by this Citi
zens' Committee, but / surmise that tn,
Government at last will ;haye to pay thu
bill If they get anything. They are surt
of$1.25 day, anyhow, from the Govern
ment."
"How is that?"
"Well, as soon as they were let out o
Jail they were summoned to appear befor
the Grand Jury from day to day until dis
charged. So, you see, they go there ever,
day, and nine days out of every ten the!
are told that they are not wanted to-day
but to come up tomorrow"
"Could they not have told their stor
long before this ?"
mo, sir; you probably will have oil
served the fact that under the presen
management of the Department of JustiC
each and every witness for the Govern
ment in every case of Importance has to b
taught his lesson. Murphy and Leary ha
; to get theirs, consequently they were a.
, lowed to go to the City Police Headquartei
and examine the books and see when
theft was reported to have been committed
They would make memorandum of I'll
day, date and the property stolen in ia,
get all the information possible and lear
J if it had been returned to the owner or no
They would memorize, and are still gatherir
i, information ofthis kind in that way, The
then go before the Grand Jury and tell
very pretty story. 1t is an &c parte stor
however, and will, in all human prob
0 bility, be torn to atoms when they are su
, jected to cross-examination. l tell yO
that the action of the Citizens Commits
. has been disgraceful in many respects.
am in favor Of Furnishing every one of 81
o ex-detectives in accordance with the la'
o If they are guilty Of any ofiense against ii
n law, but want the known thieves to
= punished likewise. / am opposed to tea
ing down and running the good name ar
character Of q virtuous woman by harlo
| and known women nf the town ~