The Evening critic., 1883-03-07

PERTINENT PARAG RAPHS.

SPRING ovERCoATs at A. Saks & Co.'s
A FIRE was discovered in Junk shop,
6lO Four.and. .a-half street, last evening.
No. engine was notified without turning
in an alarm, but the fire was extinguished
without its going into service. The dam
age done amounted to about s..
A RATHER cynical lady, somewhat OF a
flirt, saysl most men. like colds, are very
easily caught, but difficult to get rid of. Her
Syrup will cure any cold, however stub
born it may be. Price 25 cents.
A SOLDIER named George Anderson went
TO the Fourth Precinct Station about
o'clock yesterday afternoon, complaining
of being i'll. He was attended by DR.. New
man, who said he had consumption and
sent him to Freedmens Hospital.
A MAN about so years old, named Mar
shall, was taken suddenly i'll in front of
the st. Marc Hotel yesterday afternoon. He
was taken into Gilmans drug store,
where it was learned that he had consump-
tion, and after applying restoratives he
was sent to his home, 1922 Seventh street.
A LARGE-sIzED muattO sneak thief,
wearing a brown ulster and a black derby
hat, entered premises No $40 Indiana
avenue about 6 o'clock yesterday evening
and succeeded in getting off with lot of
statuettes, black silk umbrella, number
Of ornamental articles, &c. The police
have clew to the thief, and will probably
capture him.
SUIT was entered by Theodore S. Nell
linger against the Virginia Midland Rail
road Company, claiming $1,000 damages.
The suit grows out of the collision of one
of the company's trains with a street car,
at the intersection of Seventh street and
Maryland avenue southwest, on September
IL, 1882, in which the son of the plaintiff
was injured.
THE Washington World has just COM
pleted the publication of a serial, entitled
Bills of Exchange" from the facile pen of
Mr.. L. Whitaker Grant, the well-known
stenographer of this city, which recon-
mends Mr.. Grant to high rank in story
writing. Its plot is well and deeply laid,
the language is clear and the current
entertaining to n degree of fascination,
the whole being literary production OF
more than ordinary merit. Mr.. Grant is
the stenogiaphcr to the Jeanette Board.
THE will of the late Mrs. Mary f. Woods
has been filed with the Register for probate
and record. She leaves all her personal
property to her daughter, Elizabeth NJ
| Woods, who is also made executrix. She
| provides for the sale of lot 81, square 495
| and the improvement thereon one year af-
| ter her DEATH and directs that the proceeds
shall be divided as follows: To her daugh.
ter, Mary o. Smith, 5000; one-half of the
remainder to Elizabeth NJ. Woods, the bal
ance to be divided into equal parts between
her daughter, Annie M. Hail. and her son
| James S. Woods.
ANDREW WooD has filed his answer TO
the suit for divorce brought against hin
by his wife, Rachel A. Wood, on the ground
ofdescrtion and abandonment. He sayi
that for reasons that might seem trivial by
some he left her at the time stated in the
bill that he is a very poor man and ha
| been out of employment much of the time
| since his marriage that he is not able tt
| employ an attorney to defend this suit
even if he had defense. He usually get;
employment for very small wages at al
eating-house during the winter and during
the summer has no employment. He "ha
no means either real or personal and ask
to be relieved from payment Of any cost
in this behalf, and hereby valves notices o
any further proceedings in this cause"