The Evening critic., 1883-06-05
THE EVENING CRITIC.
TsTA BI,IaHED AU0UeT Jsgg
LACoNIC LOCALS.


Mr., MoRrIN L. THORPE was to-day ad-
mitted to the Bar of this District.
Liver disease, headache and constipation,
caused by bad digestion, quickly cured
by Browns Iron Bitters,
TIE Court in Banc to-day appointed
Mr.. Charles L. Hine United States Com
missioner and Examiner in Chancery.
A PRISONER afraigned for profanity in
the Police Court said: Il was in O 'spute
wild woman and cussed in self-defense."
The proprietors Of bars on the steamboats,
produced licenses in the Police Court to-
day, and the cases against them were dis
missed. fit at4hi ai ili .4fN'
LEON ScHELL was scbareed In tho Police
Court to-day with fast driving in the park
south ofthe Executive Mansion, and was
fined $50, from which he noted an appeal.
CHARLES GREEN, black, assaulted his
mistress, Mary johnson. the other evening
with knife, and cut her badly over the
eye, for which he has gone to Jail for sixty
days.
The decree in tho matter of the Belt
Line Railroad Company against the Met
ropolitan Railroad Company was signed by
the Court in General Term to-day. The
purport of the decree was given In The
CRITIC yesterday.
ELvIE TIBBs, the colored man who cut
Amanda Smith in the breast yesterday, In
Georgetown, was pursued by mounted
policemen up the canal as far as the Chain
Bridge, but succeeded in making his escape,
and has not been seen since.
A BILL of interpleader was to-day filed
by Mr.. Fillmore Berll, as attorney for
Chaplin Brown, against J. W. Butterfeld
and others, to decide to whom he should
pay certain money on account of the sale
Of certain property purchased by him.
JAMES BYRON was charged before Judge
nell to-day with leaving his trap-net in
the water of the Eastern Branch on Sunday
The testimony showed that the net was not
left SO as to prevent "a free and unob-
structed passage of the fish," and the case
was dismissed.
THE Register received to-day an exem-
plified copy of the will of the late James
Madison, President OF the United States,
executed in Orange County, Va, on April
Is, 1885. The object of making the record
is to perfect the title of certain property
which was left to Mrs. Madison.
JOSEPH WHITNEY was tried before
Judge Smell to-day for disorderly conduct
on Belt-Line car, and the testimony of
the driver was that Whitney was elected
from the car for profane language and fol-
lowed it along the street for considerable
distance with pistol in his hand Whit
ney was fined $40, as the pistol was not
loaded.
WILLIAM METZ resisted Constable Glib
bons in his efforts to execute writ of
restitution and was fined So to-day for the
assault Judge Smell made a remark to the
| effect that if he encouraged this resistance
to constables every development of every
case of landlord and tenant law would be
marked with bloody row or a murdered
| constable.
GEORGE PRICE, a colored desperate, cut
| a c0lored boy named Alfred Fry in the
| breast yesterday with knife at Third and
| l. streets northwest. When overtaken by
the police Price resisted arrest, and it re.
quired eight officers to convey him to the
station.h house. Fry was not seriously in
| iured, and the prisoner was sent to Jail for
| six months.
| WILLIAM KINLoCK was charged in the
| Police Court to-day with robbing John Lee
| Of $40 of his pension money while both
| parties were intoxicated. Kinlock said
that he was an old friend of Lees and took
the money for safe keeping, as Lee was a
great deal drunker" than he was. Judge
Smell said the story would NOT do, and gave
| Kinlock six months in Jail, the extent of
| the law.
WILLIAM GARNER and John Hill were
arraigned in the Police Court to-day for
robbing birds nests in violation of the
| county ordinance, which levies fine of So
for every egg and So for every nest taken.
| The prisoners, who are small colored boys,
had cat.bird's nest and twenty eggs from
cat-birds, swamp mocking birds, martins
and robins nests. Judge Smell fined Que
boy $50 and the other $25, and both went
| to the workhouse in default.