The Evening critic., 1883-03-05
THE EVENING CRITIC.
EsTA BLIsHEp AUGUST Ises
LACONIC LOCALS.

PETER MITCHELL, an old tramp, was
committed to the workhouse to-day for the
cold snap.
WIN. KING, homeless colored boy, was
furnished with free lodgings for ninety days
by Judge Smell.
JAMES NJ. GLASS and Lucius w. Smoot
were charged in the Police Court to-day
with wasting Potomac water, and gave
their personal bonds not to repeat the
offense.
YORK PUGH, n colored saloon-keeper in
East Washington, was charged with keep
ing an unlicensed restaurant and an un-
licensed bar, and was fined $105 on the lat
ter charge.
Sol JAsuP and his brother, Useph Jasup,
two Hungarian gypsles, were before Judge
Smell to-day for indecently exposing them
selves in East Washington, and sent to the
workhouse for week.
The South Washington police arrested
number of dsreputable denizens of Louise
alley last night, and they were sent to the
workhouse to-day. Jenny Cochran was the
most notorious OF the females.
JAMES HENRY, small colored boy who
fractured the skull of another boy named
William Lynch by throwing stone at
him, was put under bonds to-day for his
appearance on the 18th instant.
EDWARD THRIFT and Edward Cross
gave their personal bonds at Judge Snell's
request to-day not to mingle with n dis
orderly crowd that congregate on the street
corners and make Swampoodle howl.
PATRICK and Margaret Lang, a vener.
able old couple who live together in cellar
on i street and sleep on a pile Of straw,
were before Judge Smell to-day for disorderly
conduct, and went to the workhouse.
YORK PUGH was fined S105 by Judge
" for mi cnl ha
$25 for failing to procure the Government
license $25 for keeping bawdy house aud
acquitted on q charge of keeping an un-
licensed eating-house.
WM. JONES, a colored cripple, alleged to
be a century old, was before Judge Smell
to-day for begging on the street, and was
sent to the wo1khouse for ninety days, with
a recommendation that he be given the
courtesies of the hospital.
FOUR ragged South Caroliniaus arrived
in the city yesterday en- route to the North
and were arrested for begging on the street
corners and being vagrants, and were COM
| mitted to the workhouse at their own re-
quest. One Of the party, who was danger
ously i'll with chills, was sent to the hos
| pital.
| FERDINAND MULLIS, member of the
| Bar, came out of the dock at Police Court
to-day armed with plug-hat and Con-
| GyeSsiOadl RecOrdto answer to q charge of be-
ing profane and trying to get into houses
| in the Division" on Saturday night. The
| prisoners personal bonds were taken until
Saturday to pay fine Of 50.
| AMERICUs MURRAY, o notorious colored
woman, appeared in the Police Court to-
| day charged with profanity and abusing
| another woman. The defendant was ar
rayed in q costume of scarlet silk with a
sweeping train, and when she assured His
Honor that she would neverswear at lady
because she was lady herself, Judge Smell
promptly dismissed the case.
Lucy WILLIAMS, colored servant,
pleaded guilty in the Police Court to;
day to stealing breastpin, gold
rings and silk handkerchiefs from Miss
Lizzie Thornton, and stealing two rings, q
dress and two SO notes from Mrs. Ruth
Mccoy. The girl was sentenced to sixty
days in Jail for the first case and held fol
the Grand Jury in the second. Sarah Rol
lins was sentenced to sixty days in Jail fol
receiving portion of the stolen property
Mrs. ANN A. VANscIvEE was charged in
the Police Court to-day with receiving
knives, forks and spoons stolen from the
Arlington Hotel. Mr.. Roessle, the pro
prietor of the hotel testified to series o.
larcenies of cutlery from the hotel and
identified the property The police testi
fed that the house of Mrs. Vansciver, No
1925 Twenty sixth street was raided as
bawdy house and tho stolen cutlery bear
ing the mark of the hotel found in tht
dining-room. Fines of $25 were imposed
for receiving stolen property and for keep
ing bawdy house.