The Evening critic., 1885-03-10
LOCAL BRIEFS.

MrssRs. JOHN Il. FERGUSON and w, B.
Dyer were to-day accepted as talesmeu TO
Gil vacancies in tho panel Of petit Jurors of
tho Criminal Court.
ISAAC SMITH, colored, pleaded guilty In
the Criminal Court yesterday to tho charge
OF hOusebreaking and Justice Macarthur
sent him TO Albany for three years.
TIE Poundmastor resumed his crusade
against the vagrant dogs yesterday after
giving them immunity for several months.
He captured % yesterday and 81 to-day.
The Recorder has received the certificate
OF the election of the following trustees OF
the Metropolitan Church; John Skirving,
A.C. Clark F. +. Borgia and Il. Mclean.
GIVE you reason on compulsion2"
Why, Of course will. am cured of rheu-
matism, which has kept mo enslaved for
twenty years, by using Salvation Oil, which
cost me only % cents.
JEREMIAH T. O'CoNNELL has entered
suit against Thomas p. Jacobs, claiming
$500 damages for injury done his prop.
trty by water draining from the sheds of
the defendant on to his promises
WIN. ROBERTSON was convicted In the
Criminal Court yesterday of breaking into
the stable of Allison Nailor and stealing q
number of game chickens. He was SEN
fenced to two years in tho Albany peniton-
tiaTy.
THE mother of Anna G.. Crane, 1l-yesr-
old scholar at the Industrial Home School,
appeared at the Police Court yesterday and
swore out n warrant against John w.
Douglass, a teacher in the school. Sac
swore that tie accused BACKED her daugh-
ter's Dyes aud tore her hair.
The Union Veteran Corps First Com
papy, met last night, Capt. Dillon presiding.
Ten active and sixteen honorary members
were elected. Resolutions were adopted ten
dering the thanks of the corps to Hon.
Samuel J. Randall for his efforts to secure
General Grants retirement.
Mr.. JAMES D. CLARY, chief clerk and as
sistant secretary of the Washington Gas
light Company, died yesterday at his homo,
500 Tenth street, in the 46th year Of his
age He entered the service of the coat
pany in 1861 and was highly esteemed for
his integrity and honorable character.
MIR. A. l.. MERIIMAN, as solicitor for
Sarah II. Il. Ryan, has filed petition for
divorce from her husband, Edmond n.
Ryan. Her maiden namo was Sarah IL.
Ellis, and the parties were married in this
District February IL, 1871, aud sho charges
that he deserted his family in March, 1877.
DAVID SToTTs, who was indicted with
Robert johnson and Isaac Smith on tho
charge Of entering the store of Peterson IL
AIslonoy and stealing quantity of goods,
to-day pleaded guilty in the Criminal Court
~ d was sentenced to three years at Albany.
4 he other two men pleaded guilty some time
since.
TIE President received General J. W.
Denver, president of the Mexican War Vet
Grams, and such of his comrades as were in
the city to-day at 3 o'clock. The veterans
assembled at General Denver's office, 1lj
Pennsylvania avenue, at 2:30 o'clock and
preceded to the Executive Mansion in a
body.
MARRIAGE LICENSES have been issued
as follows: John Russell and Mary Il.
Snowden; John Hawkins and Addie
Cumens both of Baltimore, Md; Robert
Beverly and Mary Jarvis Walter ]. King
and Emeline Pylas, both of Frederick o.,
Md; Thomas A. Little and Jessie l.. Mason,
both of Wheeling, W. Va.
JOHN TALIZE, colored boy, was acct
dcntally run over by street car last night
on Pennsylvania avenue, between Nine
teepth and Twentieth streets, aud had his
head badly bruised and his left arm badly
inaDgltd by one Of tho Wheels He was re-
moved to tho Children's Hospital, where
his arm will be amputated.
Ar meeting of the Northern Liberty
German-A American Association, No. ., held
at Meyers Hall last evening the following
Pitt vice-president, A. S. Johnson secre-
tary, Ed Brown treasurer, Z. A. Mattern
hoard Of directors, Messrs. Brensinger, Krey,
Dean, BishoG, Thieleike, Fendeur, Pugh,
Gisseler and Klein.
Hon. GEO. B. LoRIYG delivered his lee
turo ON Hawthorne last evening at the
Fifteenth street Presbyterian Church, il
being the third lecture in tho course of nine
given under the auspices of tho officers aud
teachers of the Sunday-sch of that
church. Tho next lecture of the COURSE
will be on Monday evening, March IG, by
Hon. Frederick Douglass ON civilian the
Silent"
MISS GERTRUDE O'REEDER of 17S New
York avenue, when she returned to her
homo last Saturday afternoon, found the
house crowded with people. When she in.
CURED the cause of tho unusual gathering
she was informed that they came to attend
her funeral. She was handed an evening
PAPER and read her own obituary notice
The young lady was so shocked that She
became i'll.
ALL pain quickly yields to the influence
of Salvation OIL, Price 25 cents bottle,
A CoLoRED employee Of Wanstall's livery
stable, corner Of Nineteenth street aud
Ponnsy lvaDia avenue, last Sunday nigh
claimed to have found some human bone
In the bottom of DIR. Henry B. Fay's car
riagc. The colored men around the stablI
were Mortified at tho statement of tho mar
and none Of them would go near the Gar
iiagc. The next day the Doctor was ar
rested by a policeman, but quickly re
leased