The Washington critic., 1888-03-02
CITY NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

William Murphy was found guilty Of
hOusebreaking in the Criminal Court yes
terday.
William Rodgers Of Montgomery
County was run over by wagoh and Sc
Iiously injured yesterday.
The horse which Daniel Jones, coll
ored, was riding yesterday, slipped and
fell on Jones leg and broke it.
The case of George and Mary Condy
against Charles II, Smith, for Si20, was
submitted In the Court in General Term
yesterday
John Prior wasacquittcd of disorderly
conduct in the Police Court yesterday be-
cause he thought the might doctors
were after him.
About one hundred of the lady assist.
ants at the Potomac Fair booths were
photographed in a group at the Rifles
Armory last night.
The case of Sallie Johns Peter against
Francis Dep. N ]. Leonard is on trial be-
fore Justice Merrck. The jury will de-
eide which of a number of wills filed is
genuine.
"A banquet was given by the Wash
ington branch of the Salvation Army, at
their barracks last night in honor of Major
and Mrs. Wells, Major Cozeus and Cap
tain Agar.
John B. Finch Lodge, No. G, Good
Templars, held their regular meeting last
night. Speeches were made by Grand
Chief Templar Mahoney, Grand Secre-
tary Doney and others.
-Lieutenants Kelly and King, Ser
geants Kimmel and Robinson, and Cor
poral Keegan have been appointed a
committee of the Merchants Rifles to
organize a broom brigade.
"A paper entitled "The Interest of the
African Race in American Shipping was
read before the Philomathian Society at
the Second Baptist Church last night by
j. II. Smythe, ex-Minister to Liberia,
--Horatio A. Maryman was sent down
as a vagrant yesterday. He was a we'll
known character on Capitol Hill, and at
one time, with Judge 4. j. Macliay, led
movement for suffrage in the District.
The Soldiers Temperance Union of
the Third Artillery gave an entertain.
ment of literary and musical nature at
the Arsenal last Wednesday night.
Dancing was a feature of the entertain
ment.
The Southern Passenger Association
adjourned late yesterday after appointing
a committee to consider the question
whether the articles of agreement provide
for diiierential rates and to report at q fu-
ture meeting.
For the second time in eight years the
y. NJ. G. A. Literary Society spent
Wednesday night as q senate for the dis
cussion of questions of national import
ance. l.. T.. Phillips was chosen presi-
dent and f. II. Drew, secretary. At a
late hour they adjourned to reassemble
February 30, 1892.
Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost of Newark,
N. j., lectured last night at the open
meeting in G. A. II. Hall OF the Anti-Pov-
erty Society of Washington. The meet
ing was well attended and the reverend
gentleman exposition of Henry Georges S
land theories was clear and concise.
West Washington.
There is considerable complaint on
the part of farmers and others who are
compelled to use the canal road between
Georgetown and the Chain Bridge as to
the size of the stone used by the con-
tractor in the construction of that macad-
amized road. They say the stone is not
crushed sufficiently small to make the
road passable.
Mechanics Lodge, No. Is, l. o. o. F.,
meets tonight.
No arrests in this precinct.
Temperature and condition of water
at a, m: Great Falls, temperature 40;
condition, 6; receiving reservoir, tempera-
ture 30; condition at north connection, 4;
condition at south connection, 6; dis
tributing reservoir, temperature 3S; con-
dition at infiuent gate-house, G.; condition
at ethuent gate-house, 6.