The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1883-05-14
THE EVENING CRITIC.
LACoNIC LOCALS.


grant, was given ninety days in the work.
house to-day
JUSTICE WYLIE this morning discharged
the regular panel Of Criminal Court jurors
for the balance of the term.
GENERAL NELSON A. MILES has pur-
chased the Stone estate. The mansion and
garden contain twenty acres.
A YOUNG MAN, named Thornton Wood,
was fined So for disorderly conduct, in set
ting his dog on some small boys.
HENRY KLINGE was fined $40 to-day
for mixing mortar on the concrete pave
ment without protecting the street by
boards.
j. CLAYTON GRAHAM, colored, arrested
in the Capitol grounds for making indecent
remarks to ladies, was fined IS by Judge
Smell to-day.
Mrs. MARY CHAvIs was charged in the
Police Court to-day with assaulting and
splitting upon Mr.. Henry ID. Pfeil, and she
was fined $40.
The attention of master builders is
called to the card in another column. 1t
is of interest and Importance to both jour-
neymen aud employers.
JOSEPH BROOKS, William Sanders, Rich
ard Ford Dorsey Moulton and John Kelly
were fined So each to-day for profane Ian
guage and disorderly conduct
GRANT JACKSON and Andrew johnson,
two little colored boys, who stole a ball of
Irvine and bag, were sent to the Reform
School to-day during minority.
MR.. THOMAS TRUMMELL was charged
before Judge Smell with keeping danger
Gus dog, that bit boy ON the leg, and gave
his personal bonds to kill the dog. 1856
CHARLES ROBINSON, colored, was in
| Police Court to-day, charged with stealing
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| colored, and was sentenced to spend thirty
| days in Jail.
The suit for divorce brought by Eliza
beth A. Hubbell against w. w. Hubbell and
the cross-bill filed by him against her have
both been dismissed by direction Of the re-
spective parties.
Mrs. LA FETRA, at the Temple
Hotel, will receive subscriptions for the
benefit Of the Gospel meeting at the Balti-
more & Ohio Depot. An organ and chairs
are greatly needed.
SALLIE TAYLOR and Lottie Brooks, col
ored, had a quarrel about which should do
some scrubbing, and after fight with
brooms and kettles Lottie succumbed with
q sprained ankle and battered face. Sallie
was fined $40 for the assault.
FREDERICK RUMPH, brutal farmer in
the county, who beat his wife and pulled
her hair out of her head, WIS before Judge
Smell to-day. Mrs. Rumph o woman OF
more than 60 years, told pitiful story,
and her husband was sent to jail for six
months.
THE Register to-day received for probate
and record the will of the late Ellen
Thomas. To her nephew Peter Ferguson,
and to Rachel Truxon is left part of lot A,
square S45 also, her household goods dur
ing their lives. She names Rev. p. G.
Walker as executor.
JUSTICE MACARTHUR this morning
opened the May term of the Circuit Court.
| Messrs. j. S. Jones, David w. Mahou, w.
H. Dempsey, John Hancock and Joseph
Blair Were excused as jurors. Others were
returned not found, and the Marshal was
ordered to summon seven talesmen to fill
| vacancies.
JUSTICE JAMES to-day granted Charles
Reinhart divorce from the bonds OF
matrimony with Sallie L. Reinhart, nee
Currier. They were married February 27,
1852, by the Rev. Mr.. Ward, and the hus-
band charges that she committed adultery
with Norman Whitelocx, to whom she was
engaged before marrying the plaintiff. at
the Howard House and fremont House, in
this city:
On Saturday night Detective Cox arrested
Jennie Towles ON Fourth street, between I
and Q streets, having in her possession Q
quantity of wearing apparel, which she had
stolen from Mrs. Mary Callahan and Mis-:
Ella Corbin, Of Ga Maryland avenue south
west, about A o'clock in the afternoon
Jennie is a colored professional from Vir
ginia, and was lodged in the Seventh Pre-
cinct Station. The girl pleaded guilty to-
day, and was given three months in jail
for petty larceny.
THE communications of Governor Butler
and the collector of the Port Of Boston com
planning that the English Government Is en-
gagged in the practice of sending Irish pau
pers to that city via Belgium have been re
ferred to the Secretary of State by tn,
Treasury Department. It is alleged tina
the paupers are sent to Belgium ant
shipped to the United States from there al
expenses being paid by the English Govern
ment, and that they are credited as Belgian
eiaigrants, The Department of State viii
be urged to protest against the practice o
| floOdinp this country with manners