The Evening critic., 1883-02-19
THE EVENING CRITIC
FeTA pIrsHEp AUar1RT us0s
LhCONIC LOCALS.

THE water in the Potomac was 80 degrees
Fahrenheit this morning.
CAPITAL CITY GUARD, COMPANY b.,
will visit the Nineteenth-street Church
Fair tonight in full uniform.
THE Jurors in the regular panel in the
Criminal Court were called, and those not
engaged in the Star-Ro trial excused for
the term.
CHARLES SMITH, a suspicious character,
who was found trying to force an entrance
into q jewclry store, was committed to the
workhouse to-day for ninety days
THE steamer Mattano is being thoroughly
refurnished, and the first of next month
will commence running to lower river
points as freight and passenger steamer.
WIN. BROWN and Walter johnson, two
colored men, who stole whip from the
carriage Of Mr.. Wm. A. Decide, were sent
to jail by Judge Smell to-day for sixty days
each.
SERGEANT SLATTERY arrested Thomas
Davis yesterday for assaulting Fanny
Tindler and Isaiah Hitter objected to the
arrest and assaulted Slattery. Davis was
fined 50 and Hitter was fined 81.
YESTERDAY afternoon the first herring
of the season were landed at the wharves.
They were consigned to II. A. Golden, and
sold for seventy-flve cents per bunch. A
large quantity of other fish also arrived.
THEODORE CUYLER, small boy, was
before Judge Smell to-day for striking
colored boy with a brick. Mrs. Cuyler
notified the Court that if he did not punish
her son, she would and Judge Smell allowed
the youth to go home with his mother.
BROADWAY NJ. L. CHURCH, Baltimore.
the term of whose present pastor, Rev. A.
NJ. Courtenay, expires in March, has de-
cided to call Rev. c. Herbert Richardson,
who has just completed a term of service
in McKendree NJ. L. Church, in this city.
THIS morning as Mrs Ivens, clerk in
the Treasury Department, was passing
down Fourteenth street, she slipped and
fell in front of the Hamilton House,
fracturing her thigh bone. The injuries
were attended to by DIR. Hartigan and the
lady was then taken to her home, No.
1929 Fourteenth street.
THE Mnuets held meeting at their
clubrooms yesterday and decided to give n
reception during the early part of next
month. The following members were pres
ent George W. Pralle, president; ]. II.
Caller, vice.president W. w. Galway,
treasurer ; W. A. Weaver, secretary ; G. +.
| Dietrich, +. ii. Steele, j. L. Dennison,
Charles o. Brill, T. A. Perry.
SYDNEY SMITH being i'll, his physician
| advised him to take walk on an empty
stomach" Upon whose ?' asked Sydney.
| Still better steps to take would be the pur-
chase of Dr. R.V. Pierce's Golden Medical
| Discovery" and pleasant Purgative Pei
let's" which are especially valuable to
those who are obliged to lead sedentary
lives, or arc afflicted with any chronic dis
case Of the stomach or bowels. By drug
gists.
THE members of the Columbia Fishing
Club assembled yesterday afternoon at the
Baltimore & Potomac Depot, and afterward
proceeded in q body to the residence of Mr.
Chris Kieny, on the Bladensburg pike, to
compliment that popular and well-known
gentleman on reaching his forty-third
birthday. Numerous ladies and gentlemen
were present. The genial host and hostes:
were equal to the occasion, and dispensed
hospitalties to their jovial guests in the
usual pleasing way.
| HARBoRMAsTER SUTTON reports the fol
lowing new arrivals at the wharves
Schooner George and Martha, Captain West
on, 80 cords wood for II. l.. Biscoe; pungy
Sarah Jane, Captain Russell 1000 bushcl;
oysters; schooner Ocean Queen, Captain
Bundick, 500 bushels oysters schooner
Virginia, Captain Davis, 100 bushels oys
ters; schooner NJ. j. Stephenson, Captain
Evans, 700 bushels oysters sloop Daunt
less, Captain Luttrell, 800 bushels oysters
A YOUNG man named Albert Smith wa
charged in the Police Court to-day with
stealing jcwelry and clothing from hi
mother and sister. The young man pleaded
guilty, and his mother stated that he wa
Incorporate and had been led astray by ;
colored man named Lawrence Whitehead
who prompted him to steal and dispose o
the property for him. Whitehead wa
charged with receiving stolen property
and was sentenced to six months in Jail
while the thief was given thirty days.
THIS evening at o'clock the fifth lee
ture in the course of free lectures to youn
men by the Young Mems Christian Asso
citation will be delivered by Rev. Williar
Leonard, rector of st. Johns Episcopa
Church. The subject is Singlehearted
ness and Determination of Paul" Rev. MI
| Leonard is an eloquent speaker and favore
the association with a lecture last seaso
on Cuba. The lecture room accommodate
only three hundred, therefore it will b
necessary to be on time to secure admi:
sion. These lectures are free to men only
Mr.. THOMAS L. MILLER, as counsel 70
Charles Weeks, to-day filed bill i
equity against Marshal McNIchael, A
King Chandler, Jacob Rich and Others fo
the appointment ofa receiver and restrain
ing order. The complainant asserts tina
he purchased certain goods at Madam
Washington's sale, and had a joint interes
in them with Mrs. Chandler. That tn
goods were levied upon by the marshal t
satisfy Judgment against A. Kin
Chandler, and being in the possession {
the complainant he files his bill of intel
pleader, and prays that the goods be sol
by Il receiver and the money distribute
among the parties entitled to receive th
same.