The Evening critic., 1883-01-05
THE EVENING CRITIC,
ESTABLISHED AuGUST LSBs.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.


The street.lamps will be lighted at
b 30 p. m. and extlngulshed at5 40 n. m.
GEoRGTANA CHIPMAN threatened to cut
the throat OF friend named Nora Young, and
gave bonds not to execute the threat.
THE schooner River Queen, which has
been lying Mt Rileys wharf for several weeks,
is being loaded with manure for farmers on
western Branch River, Va.
GEAR brings disgrace, bravery brings
honor, copdrdice Sdres no man from hS IUe,
says tho Caliph Omar, but Dr.. Bulls Cough
Syrup has saved millions from an awful fate.
A BALTIMORE & Potomac engine be-.
came deraied this morning at th9 intersec-
tlon OF Tenth street aud Maryland avenue,
causing much delay In shipping operations
For seven years or more l suffered
with n dstresslngly painful Joint trouble.
called by many rheumatism. used 81. Jacobs 8
OIL and was quickly cured, says Jonn carr
Moody, esq., of Vallejo, cal.
JOHN w. DICKSON, Il cOlored boy was
charged In the Police Court to-day with tres.
passing and cutting down a tree on farm In
The county, and was released on his personal
bonds not 10 repeat the offense.
GEORGE and William Smith two colored
gentlemen, who had little brotherly mis-
understanding yesterday, were before Judge
Smell to-day, charged with cursing and swear
ing, and were given fifteen days EACH
RICHARD SAUNDERsoN, colored, who has
been IN the Police Court half II dozen times
since Christmas, was on hand again this morn
Ing for being drunk aud running into pedes-
trians on the Avenue. Saunderson went down
for fifteen days.
j. T. CoLDwELL, real estate auctioneer
sold yesterday afternoon, sublot 10, square
north of 177, fronting on I street and New
Hampshire avenue, to Frank B. Smith, at
S400, subject to special Improvement tax
amounting to about $3.50.
ALBERT FOSTER, q colorod man who was
recently acquitted Of being one of the gang
who burglarized sievers coal onlce, in South
Washington, was rearrested yesterday with
portion of the stolen property still In his DOS
session and was to-day committed by Judge
Smell to Jail for six months.
HARBoRMAsTER SUTTON reports the fol-
lowing new arrivals at the wharves for yester
day: Schooner Dauntless, Captain Luttrell,
COO bushels oysters for markets schooner
Annie Laura, Captain Davis, 400 bushels oys-
ters; schooner W. s. Brewster, Captain Jenk.
ins, 600 bushels oysters.
BENJAMIN FLEURY and Edward Pad
gett, who were charged yesterday with steal
Ing two dozen partridges each, were before
Judge Smell to-day for sentence and were
given thirty days each, the sentences to be re-.
mitted If the property was restored or paid
for.
A LARGE assembly of the G. A. r.,
Meade Post, smoked around their scamp fire"
last night. The programme included i'd
dresses by Messrs. Burdett and Thompson,
music by the Marine Band, character songs,
clog-dancing, banio-picking, "reminiscences
and anecdotes, rendering the "camp' very en-
joyable.
MEssRs. COOK AND COLE, as counsel for
Edmonia A. yalfe, have filed petition for di.
vorce from her husband, John A. vaile Her
maiden name was Edmonla Archibald, and the
parties were married In Indiana, at La Porte,
November 3, 1880. She charges him with
repeated acts OF cruelty, asks for aIlmony and
permission to resume her maiden name.
DURING the week ending December 30
1889, there were rs deaths reported In the
District of Columbia. OF this number "a were
NO. ..4IA ~ ., lNA Ca al
males and 1S colored females-giving a death
rate OF 20.62 per 1000 per annum for the total
population, and 1887 for the white and 23.4i
for the colored population. The diseases by
classes were as follows: zymotlc, II; con.
stitutional, 1S; local, "a; developmental, IL;
violence, A.
JAMES WILLIAMS, the man charged
with selling oysters to his customers in O
small measure, yesterday forfeited collateral
Ia the Police Court and wont down the river
Williams is suspected to have been at thi:
practice for some time, but the complaint thai
many others are engaged in the same method:
of swindling customers is without foundation
The measures used by the oystermen In gen
eral are of the regular Government gauge, bu
scarce and dear, the custom OF heapinl
| them above the surface of the measures is MOI
| followed. Even the majority OF buyers on the
| wharves are entirely satisfied with the meas
ures given them.'
THE necessary transfers and changes Of
teachers In the Second Division, growing out OF
the recent decision of the School Board con
cerning the non-appearance of teachers at ex
aminations for promotion were made yestef
day as follows: The school late In charge oi
Miss Hooper, In the Henry Building, has beer
assigned to Miss Merrick and that OF Mise
Ball, on street, between Ninth and Tenth, Il
Mrs. Rachael ]. Floyd, and that Of Miss Baker
(recently married), in the Gales Building, T.
Miss Elizabeth j. Havenner. Misses Chadwick
Longfellow and Bigelow are from Massachu-
sets, who came here last fall, and Miss Mer
rick, Mrs. Floyd and Miss Havenner belong L
Washington. The statement that an injustice
had been done Miss Chadwick, who could no
appear for examination on account OF sickness
is false,