The Evening critic., 1883-04-19
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE warrants for violations of the phar-
macy law were sent out yesterday for SER
vice.
MEssRs. JOHNSON & WRIGHT forfeited
$50 to-day for keeping their bar open on
Sunday.
THE Inspector of Plumbing swore out
warrants yesterday against Joseph Powell
and John A. Schnapp as unregistered
plumbers
THE police have been informed that a
colored voudoo doctor, calling himself DR..
Glare, is practiciDg extensively among the
superstitious and ignorant colored residents
of the northern part of the city. The vou-
doc undertakes to cure sores aud pains by
magic, and makes a good deal of money.
THE'operettas of "Mistaken Identity I"
and Penelope, which will be given at
Willard Hall tomorrow evening, promises
to be an enjoyable affair. The characters
will be in the capable hands of Mrs. Nc
Cartee, Mrs. True Messrs. Pugh Hay and
Daniels, while Mr.. John p. Sousa will be
the musical director.
ABOUT $50 yesterday afternoon Moses
Anderson, a colored man, while at work
tearing down a building corner G street
and New Jersey avenue northwest, was
knocked down by one of the partitions
falling on him. He was picked up and
found to be bruised very badly. He was
removed to his home, No. 246 Thirteenth
street northeast, where DIR. Merriam at
tended him.
MEssRs. Eldridge, Horsford, Goodrich,
Young and DR.. Wadsworth, committee of
the Capital City Gun Club, yesterday waited
on Major Dye, Chief of Police, and request
ed that energetic measures be taken to en-
force the game laws. In response Major
Dye said he would do all in his power to
enforce the law. Restaurant keepers will
be warned not to purchase game out of sea-
son, and the police will be instructed to ar
rest violators of the ordinance.
MARKETMAsTER BUELL. has decided to
revive the law (section 5, page 257, Webb's
digest,) relating to persons who permit
dogs to accompany them to market, and
to that end has recommended that a num-
ber of notices be printed and posted in con-
spicuous places about the Center Market,
notifying people that the law will be en-
forced on and after May 1. Health Officer
| Townshend will in the meantime impound
all untagged dogs found in the market
| vicinity
HARBonMAsTER SUTTON reports the fol.
lowing new arrivals at the wharyes :
Steamer Kate, Captain Ellis, fish for r. A.
Golden; steamer Comet, Captain Taylor,
| fish for do; steamer Fanny NJ. Gilbert,
| Captain Hilton, fish for William Z. Stuart
schooner Maggie, Captain Cook, fish for ].
II. Skidmore; schooner John Francis, Cap
fain Evans, fish for r. A. Golden; schooner
M. J. Stephenson, Captain Evans, fish for
do; sloop Dan Sheets, Captain Mason, fish
for do; schooner b. II. Lambert, Captain
Davis, fish for do; schooner Belvidere, Cap
tain johnson, fish for do; schooner jean
nett, Captain Raymond, fish for do
ANNIE BROWN, colored servant en-
| ployed by Mr.. Charles G. Won Tagen,
was charged in the Police Court to-day
with stealing $50 gold piece from her
| employer. Mr.. Won Tagen testified that a
| new double eagle coin was given to him
on. his golden wedding, and that recently
| he missed the coin and sent for Acting
Detective Mattingly, who traced the lar.
ceny to the girl and succeeded in getting
her to confess and aiding him in recover
ing the stolen gold piece. The prisoner
| pleaded that this was her first offense and
her employer asked that mercy be shown
to her. Thirty days in Jail was the
| sentence.