The Evening critic., 1883-03-22
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

EDWARD ADLER was fined So to-day for
wasting Potomac water.
NEWEST shapes in boys and children's
clothing, at A. Saks & Co.'S.
JOSEPH D. HOPKINS has been appointed
a special policeman for duty on the lower
part of Four-and-a.half street southwest.
LOUIS ROSENBERG, DIR. Theodore Bolder-
man and others have asked the Commits
sioners to substitute concrete for the rotten
wood pavement on Eighth street, between
ii and l streets northwest.
L. G. LANsDALE, of 1877 Twenty fourth
street. has called the attention of the Com
missioners to the dangerous sanitary con-
dition of the alley between Twenty third
and Twenty-fourth and l. and NJ streets.
A MAGNIFICENT bouquet was this morn
ing placed on the desk of Chief Justice
Cartier, in the Court in General Term, this
being the Goth anniversary Of the passage of
the act of Congress creating the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia.
SOMEWHERE in Georgia there is church,
which is called The Sisters Church; all the
members are women. The chief work of
their missionary society is to send DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup to the Indians, who
suffer largely with coughs and colds.
WILLIAM SIMMONS, of Philadelphia. has
applied to the Commissioners for position
on the police force. His age being 40 years,
the Commissioners have replied that 40
years being the limit of the law, n man
must be under that age to receive an ap-
pointment on the force.
IN the cure of severe coughs, weak lungs,
splitting of blood, and the early stages OF
Consumption, DIR. Pierces Golden Medical
Discovery" has astonished the medical fac.
ulty. While it cures the severest coughs,
it strengthens the system and prifes hc
blood. By druggists.
THE Elks' benefit on the 4th of April
next, bids fair to be the performance of the
season. With John T. Raymond and his
superb company, Harry Miners powerful
comedy combination and other first-class
attractions, programme will be presented
that cannot be excelled.
w. ]. HOWARD and ]. L. Whales, saloon
keepers in the vicinity of the hay scales
complain to the Commissioners that it is
unfair to allow parties to carry on the "eat.
ing business as it is called, around the
scales, by selling from baskets, buckets, etc,
without paying license.
THE Health Officer has called the atten-
ton of the Commissioners to the filthy, OBJ
structed condition of the following sewer
traps: Mouth of the alley adjoining 49,
Pennsylvania avenue corner of Four-aud-
a-half and I streets southwest, and First
street, between B and c northeast.
WILLIAM HUGHES and William Krouch
were charged to-day with assaulting John
Shaw, but the evidence showed that a
crowd of roughs assaulted Shaw and es
capped, and that the prisoners came to his
assistance ald were arrested. The peace.
makers were discharged from custody.
IN THE Police Court to-day Annie John.
l oir how hut ;,,f h.
dock enveloped in long shawl and sur
mounted by Il plug hat, and pleaded moi
guilty to a charge of the larceny of cloth
ing from Mrs. Rynex, for which she wa:
sentenced to thirty days in Jail. Jenny
Lawson and Annie johnson were also
charged with stealing clothes from the
same lady, and were given similar SEN
tences. A number of unimportant routine
cases were disposed of.