The Evening critic., 1883-04-26

PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS,

CuILDREN's KNEE PANTS 90 cents pair,
at A. Sass & Co.'S, 316 9TH st.
THE street-lamps will be lighted at 7:15
p. m. and extinguished at 11:55 p. m.
THE Biological Society will have field
meeting at Bladensburg on Saturday, April
2s.
LADIES and all sufferers from neuralgia,
hysteria, and all kindred complaints
will find without rival Browns Iron Bit
ters.
THE sixty-fourth anniversary of the In
dependent Order of OddFellows was cele-
brated at Odd-Fellows' Hall last evening.
A large audience was in attendance besides
the members of the order.
The Marshal's employees appeared this
morning in their new uniforms and pre-
sented neat appearance As full de-
scription has been given of the uniforms,
repetition is unnecessary.
AFTER our report in the Anderson murder
trial closed yesterday, Richard Anderson
testified to threats made by Carl that he
would kill the defendant. Mrs. Laura ].
Pierce and Joseph Smith also testified to
Carr's threats against Anderson.
YESTERDAY afternoon gentleman
named Williams was attacked with con-
gestive chill while walking on Seventh
street northwest, near p street, and medi-
cal assistance was summoned and the man
conveyed to- Providence Hospital. Williams
is a stranger in the city.
THE births in the District during March
were Ga white males, 68 white females, 81
colored males and "a colored females. There
were pairs of twins, of which only 1 pair
were white. The still-births were 8 white
and % colored. The marriages were 36 of
white persons and 26 of colored.
q
young colored men, who hired hack and
smashed the windows for amusement, were
charged before the Police Court to-day with
being disorderly and refusing to pay hack
hire, Judge Smell ordered the payment of
the hack fare, $3.50, and let the men go.
YESTERDAY afternoon about halt-past 6
o'clock Fred Kepner, aged twelve years. q
son of Mr.. Frederick Kepner, residing at
1922 Twenty-ninth street, West Washing
ton, while playing with hay cutter at
Wheatley Bros, had his hand caught in
the machine and three fingers of the left
hand badly cut. He was attended by DR..
| Kleinschmidt
THE death of Miss Nellie 7. Fitzsim-
mons, o student at the Peabody School, oc-
Cured at o'clock last evening. She had
been i'll for several days, and having re-
cuperated partially, took walk yesterday
afternoon, when, becoming suddenly ill,
she was taken home and died very short
time after. Miss Fitzsimmons was brill
liant young lady and general favorite in
her large circle of friends.
Two LITTLE girls, five and six years of
age respectively, were found yesterday af,
ternoon on Seventh street road, near Bright
wood, walking northward. The little
travellers did not know where they were
| going or where they lived, or what their
names were, "nor nothin'," and the police
| picked them up to await Identification.
Mrs. Catherine Jordan, the mother of the
children, called for them shortly afterward.
A LARGE number of cases against parties
charged with wasting Potomac water were
presented in the Police Court to-day.
William p. -, of No. 734 Eleventh street,
was fined So John w. Gregg, of Sixth
street northwest, forfeited collateral
| Daniel S. Barrow, of 1856 Eleventh street,
was fined So; Henry Hultz, of 507 Eleventh
| street; William Saunders, of $40 Q street,
and John G. Town, of 1011 Twelfth street
were all fined $5.each. DIR. f. Howard wa;
| acquitted,