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The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-09-05
DAYsvILLE, ILL, 18th June, 1881.

Received of the Washington Beneficial
Endowment Association the sum of five
hundred dollars ($5OO), being the amount
of insurance due me in consequence of the
death of my late father, JOHN NJ. HINKLE.
t.tt ANNA Il. BEMIs.
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WASHINGTON. It'll MAY,

n. " :" u W NSHINuIOlNJ TUTI IuHyt lOCIs
Received of the Washington Endowment
Beneficial Association the sum of two thou
sand dollars (S2,000), being the amount of
insurance due me in consequence of the
death of my late husband, HENRY H.
BRADLEY. ,t..f. .,..I r.a.f
LAURA A. BRADLEY, 93s street northwest.
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DIR. Rhodes Trnnsrasing battery,

advertised in another column, is an article
of real merit and is worth its weight in gold.
1t will positively do what is claimed for it,.
Money cheerfully refunded to all using it a
reasonable length of time if they are not
satisfied. Mr.. r. X. Helphenstine, the we'll
known druggist, Fourteenth and Fstreets-
Ebbitt House--is The agent. ~
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Total amount paid in benefciaries, $780,
500, Certificates issued from $500 to
$1,000
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Young CnthoIics, Friend society.

The twenty-nintb annual meeting of the
Young Catholics Friend Society was held
last night in Carroll Hall, the president,
Joseph Fullerton, in the chair, ID. L. Murphy,
secretary. The president submitted his re-
port for the past year, showing the total re-
ceipts to be T1,271.48. Expenditures for
parish schools, 81, 030.50; other expenses,
$I15.75, and balance on hand, S125.4s. In
closing his report the president says: Our
Young Catholics Friend Society is now the
Oldest Catholic association in the District of
Columbia. 1t has had the honor of
giving birth to many Of our Catho-
B lie schools The st.. Joscph's Orphan
Asylum for boys was founded through
the Jealous exertions of its men,
bers; and the now floutishing Carroll Insti-
tute, capable of so much good for the young
origin to our society. Our plan of or
ganization while leaving to the several d.
visions in each congregation an absolute in
dependence in the management of their
own affairs unites us into one representa-
tive body for all the Catholics of this Capt.
tai. We have need now, and may, in the
future, have still more need, of mutual sup
port and encouragement as Catholics. We,
therefore, again earnestly appeal to every
help us in the great and good work we are
endeavoring to do.ynct The report was
adopted. The annual election of officers
resulted as follows: President, James
Fullerton; e-president, John Bingham /;
secretary, d. i. Murphy treasurer, i. Eich-
horn book keeper, +. N. Devereux; auditing
committee, Charles Mccarthy, Eugene Nc
earthly, D. 1. Murphy, John Bingham,
James Fullerton, with power to examine
the accounts of the general society and its
branches.
The election of officers in the several
branch organizations resulted as follows:
st. Mary's- President, Rudolph Eichhorn;
secretary, H. J. Shulleis. st. Dominica
President, George II. Pelly secretary, J. j.
Dermody. Immaculate Conception Presi-
dent, John i; Fallon secretary, g.
Lackey secretary, c. l.. Clarke. ST. Peters
President, J. S. Boiseau secretary, Joseph
Loughran. ST.. Aloysius President, Gus
tave Coppes secretary, John Fuller.
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summer Theatre Comique.

This week patrons of this popular theatre
will be entertained by one of the most
talented combinations in the variety
line. Harry Miners combination will
occupy the boards, and will give each
evening and at the matinees to-mor-
row and Saturday performances of the
rarest attractions. Among the notable
artists of which this combination is formed
are d Carrie Swain, formerly with the
"Tourists' Carl Burgess whose eccen-
tricities are always amusing; Frank Lewis,
the local favorite Billy Carter one of the
funniest of banjoists the Jeromes, the
Brennans and Capt. Liable and Others.
Murphy's Dream" will be feature.
The diversion of fire company at Sey-
mour, Ind, is to run their engine to the
residences of persons who have become
Objectionable, and drive them out by
flooding the houses.
DRAFTS on London, Dublin and Paris at
TT N CnnGa Tn g M % 400 Ia et
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From an Alleged Afternoon Newspaper
DIR. - was asked by the Star reporter
this morning if the President was not lit
tie weaker than yesterday.
"Yes, he is little weaker answered
the Doctor, but on the whole he is about
the same." mHailass % tH 100
u, @ ~ o. IHH-@ .fl ~
q is there any malaria in the systemP"
~ do not think there is, but there is
plenty of it around" r r
B" Does the President show any of the eff
fects of it ?" 1J
None, except that it is apparent that he
is somewhat influenced by it,
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DRAFTS on London, Dublin and Paris, at
II. d. Cooke, Jr., & Co.'s, 1920 + st.
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.


THE planning mill of Menke, CIR i nm
Co., has been obliterated by flames, wiping
out 1000.
THE fouring-miIl of Lancaster & Err
win, at Girard, Ill.,, valued at 900, was
swept away by fire.
THE latest break in the Sny levee is
eleven miles below Hannibal, where the
Mississippi is seven miles in width.
A LOSS of $45, 900 was incurred at Pitts
burg by the burning of the hinge-works
and carpenter shop of the Allegheny
mill.
KEITH's extensive furniture warehouse
at Leavenworth. Kan, valued, with its
contents, at $4,000, was swept away by
FIRE. A fireman was injured by falling
wall,
AT Columbus, O., Emma Beckman. who
was taken sick while employed in hotel,
jumped from fourth-story window of
building in High street, receiving fatal
injuries.
AT the Vulcan steel-works, St. Louis,
the fall of an elevator crushed James
McGrail to jelly, fractured Pat Dailey's
skull, and broke three ribs for James Mar
rion. An hour previously Hugh Hogan
was roasted with molten metal.
WIN. II. GURNEE, one of the abIest law
yers of western New York. whose brain
was affected by sunstroke received four
years ago, drowned himself in the Niagara
river, under the hallucination that he
would die in the poor-house.
MICHAEL O'MALLEY, foreman in the
mill elevator of Freeman & Co., of La
Crosse, was smothered to death in one of
the large bran-bins. The bran in some
way became clogged, and in order to right
matters O'Malley descended into the bin,
and was buried alive. When found he
was standing in an upright position. He
was young man.
A CLERK in Cincinnati hat store went
to the door with brass rod to take in
some buffalo robes. The metal touched
the iron frame of the electric light, and
he was knocked through the plate-glass
show window, from which he rolled to the
sidewalk, remaining unconscious for a
long time.
JOHN GOULD, switchman in the employ
of the Detroit, Grand Haven and Michi-
gan railroad company, at Detroit, Mich,
while attempting to make a coupling had
his foot caught in frog, and in trying to
extricate himself fell forward and was run
over by switch engine. Part of one leg
and one arm and shoulder were severed
from the body. When picked up by the
train men life was extinct. The deceased
was "a years of age, unmarried, and his
parents live in London, Ont.
EDGEFIELD Court HOUSE, S. c., has
been almost wholly wiped out by an in
cendiary conhagration. The provisions
spared by the fire will not last two days,
and citizens of Augusta will send in a
l. F. Il nxI
three stores are left to mark the site of
the town. The flames broke out just be-
fore daybreak in the livery stable of the
Tillman hotel. The loss is estimated at
over 100000, which is distributed among
thirty-ive persons.
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FOREIGN.

IN the lord mayors procession at Lon
don, the American flag will be escorted by
guard of honor.
THE failure of Surcock Il Debbas, OF
Paris, is announced, from specu lation in
Egyptian securities, with liabilities of
100000 francs.
THE editor of the French paper at Cal
70. Egypt, has been forced to flee from the
country on account of threats against hi
fife bv The sheiks for calling Mahomet a
false I1ophet.
THE irish Land-lesguers are said to
have directed : tants to send in claims TO
the land commission IN such number as to
swamp it. Sexton has assumed chief di-
rection of United Ireland.
THE nihilists threaten To prevent the
coronation of the car unless he grants
specified concessions.
FIVE Russian political prisoners have
been sentenced to terms of deportation
ranging from four to ten years,
The principal journals of London con-
tinue 10 demonstrate the impossibility of
any return from confederate bonds, and
the price fell in that market 10 Il rs I'D
per loco pounds.
PARNELL was forbidden to see his solic-
itor and order steps to test the validity OF
his arrest, except in the presence of the
warden. The land court has received two
thousand more applications to have fair
rents fixed. The police in London pre-
vented a public meeting called by the
branch land league of Great Britain.
SENIOR PoRTuoNDo, deputy for Havana
in the Spanish cortes, criticised the liberal
government for delays in carrying opt re-
IL Al Is,
onies. upbraided the Cubans for ingrati-
tude, saying that autonomy was danger
Gus, and that Spain had the right TO be an
American power. As to The attitude of
the government toward slavery, he point
ed 10 the recent emancipation of Eve mil
lion natives in the Philippine islands.
FARMERS are focking into the land
court in increased numbers every day
Fifteen hundred were entered on Thurs
dav. 1000 applied Friday. and 5000 Sat
urtay. The staff of clerks is working
night and day, yet all are completely
swamped. 1t is in contemplation to APP
point more sub-commissioners, as the four
about to sit are inadequate to the labor.
1t would take two years for the present
staff 10 work off the cases which will
probably apl y during the coming month.
TIE defeat of the attempt to confer free
dom of the city of Dublin on Parnell and
Dillon was accomplished in the face of de-
termined efforts on the part of Gray and
his friends to enforce the support of mod
Grade home rulers, When Gray found
that the requisition had not received the
signatures of a majority of the council
he intended to abandon the proposal, but
the Tories tainted him into Fersisting
with it.
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Stack, and tits just barely possible that
they will remember the young man
who defended and acquitted him.
Trude is a western genius who has I'M
dertaken the case of Guiteau, not from
any desire to figure III the public eye
but partly out Of professional charity
and partly from his love of a big fight
in the criminal courts. Trude is rich
now, the attorney for the Chicago Times
and the Chicago Tribune, and, IN GER
tain class of cases, has yearly retainer
to represent every railroad that enters
this city. But he twas not always thus. =
He came originally from New York
state, and began at the bottom, the very
bottom. Now he is the most successful
criminal lawyer in the west. He de-
Tended Billy Brush, Matt. Patterson,
Salisbury and Ira Garsides, the Louis
vile gang that eight years ago, swim
i died the First National bank of Louis
vile out of 100000 with bogus checks.
He defended James r. Barron, "the
fremont house thief" acquitted White
Pine, indicted for the killing, in 1875,
of the famous Colorado politician ''Sir"
James; acquitted William Gerbrick,
charged with killing his mistress and
burning her house down, acquitted
James O'Connor, Martin McGarry,
William Cullen and William MeFar-
line, charged with killing four Bohe-
mians acquitted but what's the use
Guiteau's counsel-in-chie has had
plenty of experience.and abundance of
success. The assassin will be assured
fair trial. If he is crazy il will be
shown
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TEIEGR-APHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

COLONEL GEORGE w. HOOKER. of Yer
mont, has entered the field as a candidate
for sergeant-at-a rms of THE house of rep
resentatives.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS NJ. RAMSEY has been
appointed superintendent of the United
States naval academy, and Admiral Rodg-
ers will be retired.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has gone to New
York, and after spending week in that
city will return and take possession of the
white house.
THE supreme court justices, General
Sherman, and other distinguished gentle
men at Washington attended the wedding
of j. l.. Childs, Of Boston, and Miss Edith
Harlan.
THE president has appointed Clifford
Stratham postmaster at Lynchburg, Va.
in place of Wilson, suspended, in accord
ance with the programme arranged by the
last senatorial caucus.
In reviewing the business of the treas
ury for the year. Treasurer Gilfllan says
| there is no provision of law requiring a
specie reserve for the redemption OF
United States notes, but the stock of coin
has been maintained at about forty per
cent. Of the greenbacks outstanding.
Ir is charged that General Tyner's hunt
ing trips are made with the postmaster
of Laramie, Wyoming, to whom he al
lowed salary of s., 100 per annum, and
| 81 200 for clerk hire. The office paid less
| than $500 yearly in box rents and COM
| missions.
THE canvass for the speakership of the
house will doubtless commence within
three weeks, as prominent members are
already engaging quarters. The caucus
strength of the republicans is estimated at
$50 votes, with 76 necessary to secure a
nomination. Ex-Congressman Rainey,
coiored, of South Carolina, and MePher-
son, of Pennsylvania, are candidates fol
the clerkship.
CAVEATS on file in the treasury depart
ment show that there are outstanding
| 1854 900 in stolen registered bonds. fol
which new ones have been issued. 1t has
been discovered that thieves lend theii
plumber to dishonest officials of banking
and other large corporations, to be filed
| away as legitimate securities, receiving
as compensation a sum equal to the legal
interest.
DEFREKs, the public printer, is making
a vigorous effort to be retained, but viii
probably be compelled to give place tC
S. p. Rounds, of Chicago. General JOSEPH
Il McCammon, of Philadelphia, has beer
appointed auditor of railroad accounts
to succeed Theophilus French. 1t is said
that Chauncey l. Filley, of st. Louis, will
be appointed postmaster general in Janu
airy, and that the secretaryship of The iu
terror lies between ex-Senators Chaffee
and Sargent.
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Jefferson and Randolph.

A correspondent who has been do.
ing Yorktown gives the conversation Of
an an :ient Virginian:
"Do you remember President Jeffer-
son ?"
every well. He did not die till was
81. He was a tall man, originally red
hai1ed, not unlike Virginia old men,
straight and grave, you can see about
here nowadays. The high road from
Richmond to Washington passed
through Bowling Green, and nearly all
the Virginia and most of the national
statesmen stopped over night in our
town, which is forty-five miles from
Richmond, and about twenty-five from
Fredericksburg"
"John Randolph, / suppose, often
went past?"
"Often. He was lean, tallish man,
peculiar looking, but nothing much TO
excite attention till be began to speak,
Then, o myi His voice was like bag
pipe in battle, piercing every mans
gizzard. One of the last times he was
in Bowling Green he stopped at the tav-
ern and called for six candles. As it
was daylight people wondered what he
meant, and gathered around the win
dows to peep into his chamber. He
demanded that the blinds be drawn
tight, saying he was no wild animal to
be exhibited. It was afterward found
that he used the candles to melt his
ceiling-wax and stamp his letters. The
landlord once entered his room on an
other occasion to'welcome him to Bow
ling Green, and began: Mr.. Randolph,
/ believe. Yes, thank you sir; where
did you get your impertinence? re-
sponded Randolph's shrill voice, with
out an instant's delay. He came
through here the last time in buggy,
one of the first buggies | ever saw,
driven by his old servant, Juba.
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RAGING WATERS.
The People of Eaukauna. Appleton.
Neenah, MenEsaa and Oshkosh, Wis.
Greatly Exercised Over the Present
Condition of Things.

Condition of Things.
MILWAUKEE. Nov. 2.-Advices re-
ceived at the general offices of the Mil
YANKEE, Lake Shore & Western rail-
road company yesterday were to the
effect that large committees of citizens
from Kaukauna, Appleton, Neenah,
Menasha and Oshkosh had met at Osh-
kosh to take immediate action in refer
ence to the flooding of the country
about the Fox river in that vicinity by
reason of the high dam of the Neenah
Water Power Company. Mr.. J. o.
Thayer. of the Lake Shore & Western
railroad, represented that corporation
at the meeting and telegraphed yester-
day in answer to inquiries from Mr.. H.
G. H. Reed that the meeting will add
journ until the Fond du Lac committee
arrives at Oshkosh. Careful surveys
taken at Algoma street bridge, Osh-
kosh, show that the water is six
inches higher above the bridge than
below. This is accounted for very
easily. Since the water in the river
has become very high, very swift
current has been running--so swift, in
fact, that the numerous marsh lands
above the bridge were carried down
the river, and their. progress being
impeded by the stone abutment of the
bridge, large quantities accumulated
and sank to the bottom, carrying with
it a great many logs. This has formed
very effectual dam, and by this
means considerable damage has been
averted. In relation to the dam,
which has been the alleged source of
all the trouble, but little can be said.
1t was rebuilt last year by the Neenah
water power company, and it is alleged
that the company closed by embank-
ment all the sluice-ways which the old
dam had. Fears are entertained that
should any break occur at Oshkosh, or
strong south wind arise, the Neenah
dam will go out. The result
will be disastrous to residents
in the lower Fox, and should
openings be made at Neenah for re-
lief, then Appleton will have more wa
ter than she wants, and the island
would be swept away and all lis con-
tents carried With it. At present there
is a unanimitv of feeling among the
residents, that they should be secure
in some way against repetition of
these floods, but how to obtain inn
mediate relief is the perplexing ques-
ton. The outcome of the Indignation
meetings at Oshkosh is looked for with
much interest, and already several
well-known attorneys have been retain
ed by the sufferers from the flood to
conduct their actions against the Wa
ter Power Co. should this course be de-
cided upon.
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to avoid the grand jury. We have no
desire to do it. except where we can
show cause why it should be avoided.
| agree that under ordinary circum-
stances and without good cause being
shown, the proper and expedient way
is to proceed before the grand jury.
Col Bliss cited various acts to show
that the prosecution had right to
proceed by information in criminal
cases, and that it had been repeatedly
recognized by congress by authorizing
criminal proceedings by indictment
and information.
The right to file information in some
criminal cases being clear, both under
statutes of the United States and under
decisions of the courts, the question
arises whether the crime charged in
this information is one coming within
the class in which informations are al
lowable. The only possible limitation
TO the right of bill Of information is
found in the fifth amendment to the
constitution, has been already quoted.
That amendment prevents the filing of
information, ''for a capital or otherwise
infamous crime" The offense charged
in this information being clearly not
capital, it only remains to ascertain
whether it is infamous.
Bliss gave numerous citations of de-
cisions as to what crimes are infamous,
and held that there is no case
holding conspiracy to defraud or
conspiracy generally to be Infamous
crime. We therefore say broadly that
conspiracy to defraud has never been
held by the court to be an Infamous
crime, and that had any passages in the
textbooks which seemed so to hold,
are not intended to apply to any con-
spiracies other than those which are
based on misapprehension of the cases
cited to sustain them. 1t allows that a
conspiracy such as is charged in the
case before the court is not an Infamous
crime, but if the court should regard
| the question as doubtful, a safer and
fairer way is to allow this case to pro-
coed. | ask that the accused be protect
| ed and those of the government saved.
| If there is a conviction the higher court
viii protest against the enforcement of
the judgment if its very basis is adj
judged illegal. On the other hand, if
there is an acquittal, inius tice,will be
done and defendants will obtain what
they insist is their due. Section $40
declared. eff two or more persons con-
spire either to commit any offense
against the United States in any man
ner or for any purpose, and one or
more such parties do any act to effect
the object of the conspiracy, all parties
| to such conspiracy commit a crime"
The information certainly charges a
crime against the defendants, and SUBJ
mitted its charges of such crime in a
legal and proper form. The prosecu-
ton claimed the right to come here
and ask for conviction on the ground
that Brady, being intrusted with dis
cretlon, did not exercise it honestly
and in good faith; that he did not ex-
ercise it in the purpose of the people
and for the good of the government,
and that he knew he did not. Bliss, in
conclusion, combatted the propositions
submitted yesterday by counsel for the
defense.