The Evening critic., 1883-05-07
THE EVENING CRITIC.
LACoNrC LOCALS.

Asylum tO-uuy.
JUDGE EDMoNDs is ON brief visit to
New York on private business.
A MARRIAGE license has been issued to
William r. Rains and Martha G. Garrison,
both of Stafford County, Va.
JUDGE MACARTHUR gave notice this
morning that there could only be three
days of this week devoted to criminal cases
in his court.
OWING to the near approach of the end
of the special term of the Criminal Court
the murder trial set for tomorrow will not
be tried this term.
PERSONS recovering from wasting dis
eases, such as malarial fevers, ETC., will be
greatly benefited by the use Of Browns Iron
Bitters, true tonic.
IT WAS reported to-day that the perpe-
traitors of the robbery at Holmes grocery
store had been arrested, but there was no
foundation for the rumor
THOMAS CRAIG, colored man, who
assaulted woman by whom he had had
three children because she asked him for
money, was fined S. to-day.
Two colored men named johnson and
Davis are held at the Second Precinct Police
Station on suspicion of having participated
in the burglary of the Rockville postofice.
PROFESSOR r. T. GREENER furnishes
at the meeting of the Union Bethel Historic
and Literary Association, entitled "Devel-
opment of Race"
DETECTIVE RAFF to-day arrested e. B.
Barnum, agent of Devlin & Co., clothiers.
of New York, as an unlicensed commercial
agent, and he was released on paying the
license tax of$200.
HUGH f. BROWN and James Bachelor
have been arrested for alleged participation
in the larceny of gold watch from George
Bury on Saturday before last Bury was
treating crowd to drinks when they sur
rounded him and relieved him OF his watch.
The cases will be heard tomorrow.
THE clerks of the Saving Division,
| of the Treasury Department, will present
Mr. w. d. O'Connor, assistant superin-
tendent, a magnificent floral broken column
composed of Marshal Neil roses and white
| pinzs, and surmounted by purple crown
| of immortelles, to be placed upon the coffin
| of his only daughter, who died Saturday at
| Providence, r. ].
YORK PUGH (colored), charged with
selling liquor without United States IL
| cense, was tried to-day He was fined 500
| and imprisoned in the District Jail for
| thirty days. Pugh was Chief Justice Chase's
Il steward for eight years. Reddy White was
| sentenced to two years in the Erie County
| IN. " Penitentiary.
L MICHAEL JENKINS, neatly-dressed
young man, who is alleged to have imposed
upon the Metropolitan Hotel ard various
merchants, was before the Police Court to-
day charged with obtaining $40 from Mr..
William +. Spindler, the undertaken, by
means of q forged check on Jenkins & Sons,
of New York. The man was committed to
Jail for six months.
THE Sabbath-school of the First Univer-
salist Church held its first session in the
new building yesterday. The attendance
was large, about seventy-fve pupils being
present. The pastor, Rev. Alexander Kent
made the opening address, calling upon the
scholars and teachers to bring in the little
ones who are straying from Jesus and place
them on the right road. The first sermon
will be preached in the new church next
Sabbath morning.
SATURDAY night last fight took place
on New York avenue, between Sixth and
Seventh streets northwest, between
Thomas Bowie and another colored mar
and four unknown white men, during
which Bowie was badly cut in the face. HI
went to DR.. Merriman's Office, where he re
ceived medical attention, and then to hi!
home. He could not tell who the me,
were. and there were no arrests.
HARBoRMAsTER SUTTON reports the fol
lowing new arrivals at the wharves
Barge William A. Smoot, Captain Marr, III
tons of coal for Inland & Seaboard Coastinl
Company; barge Eva, Captain -, III
tons of coal for Potomac Steamboat Com
pany barge Centennial, Captain McNally
250 tons of coal for G. II. Burgess; schoone
Howard Ogden, Captain Reed, 25 cords o
wood for J. o. Carter schooner Lady o
! the Lake, Captain Bennoe, % cords of wood
do. schooner Mount Vernon, Captain
Woody, 40 cords of wood, do; schooner G
II. Hoyt, Captain Hubert, 207 ton
, of coal for Clark & Given; schoone
II. G.. Egly, Captain Grisley, 20
, tons of coal for S. +. Emery
schooner j. A. Sommers, Captain Bailey
800 bushels oysters; steamer Kate, Captain
Ellis, fish for II. A. Golden; steamer Comet
Captain Taylor, fish do; steamer +. II
, Gilbert, Captain Hilton, fish for William l
Stuart; schooner Maggie, Captain Cook
} fish for ]. II. Skidmore; schooner job
Francis Captain Evans, fish for r. A. Go
den; schooner Margaret Ella, Capt. Davi
l fish do; slnop Belverder Captain johnson
! fish do; sloop Jeanette, Captain Raymond
fish do; schooner B. II. Lambert, Captai
Davis fish do.