The Evening critic., 1883-05-11
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE police made ffty-one arrests. yes
terday.
THE street-lamps will be lighted at 10
p. m. and extinguished at 2:15 q. m.
ALEXANDER LEE, colored, was fined s.
to-day for driving over sidewalk.
MIsER BRUCE, for throwing stones at an
elderly woman was fined $5 in the Police
Court to-day.
HENRY KELLY, an old and inhrm PEN
sioner, was sent to the workhouse for thirty
days to-day for disorderly conduct.
THE fire-alarm from box 3S this morning
was caused by slight fire in frame house
on Twentieth street, between and X.
FROM A. Brentano & Co. we have the
April number of The Cdn0eiSt All the
latest publications can be obtained from
Brentano.
JOHN CAMPBELL, an unlicensed CONNER
cial agent for New York firm Of china
ware merchants, was arrested by Detective
Block yesterday and deposited the required
5000.
A PRETTY and neatly dressed white baby
was found sleeping quietly in pine box on
Valley street, near Road street, in West
Washington, and was sent to the Infant
Asylum.
AUGUSTUS CLARK, Maryland farmer,
| who came into town to go to the circus and
|
was arrested for disorderly conduct and
| fined S..
ADA CANT, woe-begone little colored
girl, about 8 years of age barefooted and
ragged, was picked up on tho streets last
evening, and has been sent to the work.
house until called for.
JAMES RIDGwAY was driving on Penn
| sylvania avenue between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets, last evening, when his
horse ran away and he was thrown from
the buggy and painfully injured.
JAMES WATKINS, brutal negro rufian,
| beat his wife aud assaulted Officer LOTUS.
| Judge Smell to-day fined Watkins for dis
| orderly conduct and for the assault. The
| been severely clubbed and was covered with
| blood.
| HARBoRMAsTER SUTTON reports the fol-
| lowing new arrivals at the wharves
Schooner c. G. Skinner Captain Steidel,
10000 feet lumber for johnson & Wimsatt
schooner Annie f. Clark, Captain Wheeler
$4,000 feet lumber for George A. Sheehan
| schooner Pocahontas, Captain Kendrick, 40
cords wood for II. l.. Biscoe; schooner
Howard Ogden, Captain Reed, 30 cord;
wood for j. o. Carter schooner Sally, Cap
tain Jorden, 90 cords wood do schooner
Caroline, Captain Mothershead, % cords
wood do.
| AT the meeting of the Woman's National
Industrial League last night resolution
was adopted indorsing the platform of the
knights of Labor in demanding equal COM
pensation forequal labor, and stating that
the league relies on them for the further.
ance of the woman's cause. In speaking Of
the coming industrial exposition in Bel
GUM, member said that large number
ofwomen of Washington would send exhib
it's. Resolutions were adopted requesting
the proprietors of summer resort hotels *
afford suitable accommodations for theii
female employees.
BY direction of General Ayres, U. S. A.
Major Hanneman, District of Columbil
Volunteer Artillery, will superintend the
firing of the salute ON the day of the vet
eran parade. He will station one platoon o
his command in the White Lot for tina
purpose, where, upon sign from the Gen
eral, he will cause a signal gun to be firet
at the moment that the General wishes tn,
column to move. AS soon as the head o
the column passes the President of tn
United States at the White House, salut
of thirty EIGHT guns will be fired. Upo
the conclusion of the parade, as sigma
that it is to be dismissed, another gun will
be fired There will be no other salutes.