The Evening critic., 1884-12-04
LOCAL BRIEFS.

THE gas lamps will be lighted at p. M. and
exiinguished At $3.50 y. m.
the kindergarten fair closed last evening,
but tho voting for the different articles will
not close until next Friday.
INVITATIONS are out for grand leap-year
calico party by the Union Veteran Corps (oid
ouard) at Masonic Temple tonight.
AN alarm Of fire from box 136, at $3.50
o'clock last night, was caused by The discovery
IRE.
THE application OF Mr.. Frank J. white stu.
dent, for admission TO the bar OF this District
waa yesterday referred to the exepiaiswc5h.
BARBOUR Il HAuyI.ssw. Wholesale rrocera.
PennsylvaniRescnne, have Lipps' Premium
sosp ,SFr'~'e' Yin good demand; gives salts
Tnr ladies Of the Trainings School for Nurses
VIII give promenade concert at Masonic Hall
on Saturday. There will also be dancing aud
refreshments.
In all largo communities persons are taking
an Increased Interest In property insurance,
ana perhaps Tor that very reason are insuring
their lives by using DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
:. THERE was goodly number OF earnest, en-.
ihusiastic ladies' at headquarters OF the wo-
They are planning their winters work ana
feeling very hopeful as to tho results.
The National Rifles attended the Emmett
Guard fair last night. Among the articles on
OF bog oak, which was sent by Rev. John Sto-
phone, parish priest OF Moninen, Athenry, Ire
lHnO.
TWO races will DO given at Ivy CITY this after.
nnoop, amatch race and a steeplechase. Me3srs.
MacFarlan, Dugan and Smith have entered
Tor the former and ]. O. Van Hook, ID. Hughs
ana q. II. Tomkins for the latter, the owners
free.
THE Arthur Rifle Corps held an interesting
business meeting at their armory corner OF
thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue,
Iaet night. Tho corps decided TO parade on
repruafy ~. II was announced that their
new uniforms would be completed before that
time. About nfty members were present.
A GooD-sIzED cor gregation In the Church OF
me incarnation were favored last night by an
able sermon, appropriate to Advent, from the
rev. Or. Addison, OF Trinity Church. When
tho city is rid OF the cowardly footpads that
Just now infest 4, eyenipy congregations will
rsya ere the whippingpost 10 the true
SHORTLY after midnight this morning Are
was dit covered In the printing once of Gibson
nros., corner OF Thirteenth street ana ponnsyl-
ed promptly TO an alarm from box 1876. 1t
was discovered that the fire was connued to
the engine room. The flremen experienced
10 tho right point on account OF the dense
smoke. Damage $1,000.
THE second day OF the fair at the Father
land Church was even more successful than
the flret. larger number OF people were In
attendance, and the confectionery stand and
the various booths Jared we'll In consequence.
To-day being the last day OF the entertainment
than ever before, and still greater competition
BIO manifested for the v8rloue articles.
MARRIAGE LIoENsES have been iseued as
follows: John Il. Hawkins and Christiana
Curry. CHARLES RupeItus and Augustine
Miele. Louis L. Beall and Harriet M, Clark.
nj. 4. Walker and T. Addie Tune. II. T. Simp-
son, OF this city, and Hannah L. Smallwood, OF
Hogerstown, Md. VIM. A. Branson ana Lau-
relia l.. M0ulton. II. L. Hawkins, OF this city,
and jennie Henderson, of Montgomery County,
Md. VIM. Pexton and Mary Ella willard.
THE Union Veteran Corps First Company,
start their social season with a grand masque.
rade ball at Abner's Music Hall tomorrow
evening. All who attended last years hops
Will, no doubt, BIO present, as they then pro-
claimed that the Vets OF the firet company
knew how TO cater for tho dancing puhlAs'bet-
ter than ana, any other assoc9t9n n ,tlsoTity. Tho
%, ana in the inaugurai(p bcession, March A.
Nobby Pants tssfder,k Nh Hampurger's.
CAPTALSsvM. HlTcHEks, the man who was
shothgshenry weible, at Cornfield Harbor,
I'd, some time ago, lies In q critical condi.
ton. gentleman who has Just come from
there says that Captain Kitchens was shot by
Weible, who was protc citing himself from some
men, including Captain Kitchens, who went to
Weiple's house and raised q disturbance. Wei
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