The Evening critic., 1881-06-14
rTHE EVENING CRITIC.
MISCELLANY.
ESTABLISHED AUGUST, 1865


Miscellany.
BALTIMORE received 2,63s European emf
grants on Saturday.
STRAWBERRIES are reported to be drug,
in Cumberland Valley, Pa
The silver mines of Garrett County, Md,
,sarc to be worked again this summer.
BALTIMORE reports 121 deaths last week,
10 less than the corresponding week last
year.
THE vital statistics of New York for last
week show 633 deaths, 475 births, and 3l4
marriages.
y SUNDAY free concerts are given on Boston
Common at the city's expense. and there
seems to be no serious obiection.,
CAPTAIN II. S. HAYES, of Palestine, Texas,
has been elected first vicc-prcsidcnt of both
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and Kansas,
;. Texas & Pacific Roads.
~ THE boy preacher, Thomas Harrison, is
low conducting revival in indianapolis,
Ind The total number of converts is re-
ported TO be nearly 1000.
SANTA CRUZ, CAL., has by ordinance de-
clared it to be msdcmeanor to sell, orgivc
cigarette, cigar or tobacco to any person
y under sixteen years of age.
JOHN II. HOWARD, of Burlington, VT,
Monday gave to the University of Vermont
$4,000 for the endowment of the Howard
professorship of natural history.
Mr.. RANDOLPH TUCKER in Il recent
4. lecture said that General Robert +. Lee was
: u cross of the Cavalier and Puritan. The
Governor Bennett, colonial governor, who
was an ancestor of Gen. Lee was a Puritan.
THE Iowa Democratic State Convention
will meet in Des Moines on Thursday. On
Wednesday the Pennsylvania Greenback
\. State Convention will assemble ut Potts
ville and the Ohio Greenbackers ut Column
bus.
THE ability with which Mr.. Conkling
keeps away from his home at Utica excites
remark 1t is possible that he breads meet
ing "Mrs. Conklng's son-in.law," us he
contemporary styles his daughters hus-
band.
y THE printers of New York are cndeavor-
" ing to increase the membership of the union
preparatory to a strike for an increase of
/ wages, the present rates being represented
us less than those of any other craftsmen in
that city.
SEVEN THOUSAND wild pigeons from the
r. Indian Territory are now i'll the coops at
Z Jersey City, and eight thousand more will
Y arrive on the 18th instant The birds are
sS,r the use of the New York State Sports
mans tournament, which will be held ut
Coney Island next week.
INVITATIONS have been sent to President
Garfield to extend his trip to Boston when
he goes East to attend the Williams College
commencement. Should he accept the invi-
=. tation, it is said that banquet arranged by
representative merchants would be one of
the features of his entertainment.
WE CAN never be too thankful to the
English press for keeping us posted as to
affairs in the United States The London
Truth. ostensibly veracious paper, has the
following "Mr Hayes, the ex-President of
the United States, is coming to Europe
about the end of next month, and after
making a tour through this country, he will
proceed to visit France and Germany. 1t
is expected that Mr.. Hayes will appear in
the pulpits of Wesleyan chapel; he is a
shining light in the denomination"
THEpstimated revenues of the Postal Ser
= vice for the fiscal year ending June 30th,
1882, are $39,57S, 1915, and the total
amount of money appropriated by Congress
for expenditure by the Post Office Depart
ment during the same fiscal year, is $40.
955, 432, showing that the amount necessary
to be saved, in order to bring the expcndi.
lures within the receipts, and thus place
the department on business basis is
$1,376, 642.55.
WILMINGToN, DEL, has gas fight on
hand Two new companies wanted to lay
mains, whereupon the old company, in or
der to monopolise the business, offered ia
their pipes after the first of July, at 81 .5(
per thousand cubic feet, cash, and the COR
poration buildings for S1.25 per thousand
feet" but added as II saving clause $50 long
us there is no great advance in the price o.
coal" The City Councils refused pcrmis
y sion to the new companies to lay pipes
Nmuch to the disgust of the citizens, wht
spped that competition would give then
a. a,bettcr and cheaper gas
MR.. JEFFERSON DAVIS has returned from
Canada to his. home in Mississippi. A re
porter cayght,bim as he passed through In
dianapolisss 6tithward- bound, and asked hin
what he thought of General Shcrman'
criticisms upon the Rise and Fall of The
Southern Confederacy." Mr.. Davis said
II have read that remarkable rigmarole o
General Sheman's, but | cannot see that /
in any respect breaks the force of my state
ment Sherman, us the lawyers say, con
Z sphrase, his defense is in the nature of
negative pregnant which contains, on it
face evidence Gifts falsity. In other words
it is u negation of one thing while imply
ing an affirmation of another. History ha
~ already decided that Sherman burned Co
lumbia, S. G., in the mere wantonness o
war and to crafty brutal spirit of re
4 venge against what they called the hot-be'
of secession Sherman wagcd war with NOR
ferocity than any soldier since Attila."
GENERAL WALKER has had the expert
ence of every previous superintendent q
the census in having his appropriation Civ
out. Each census costs more than the last
and in larger proportion than any one eX
pected. The seventh census cost 81 800 027
y. the eighth, 81 922, 272 the ninth, S3,336,5ll
sIy,jongress adding $6S5,0O0 in the last instanc
ITO the salaries paid on account of the in
crease in prices between 1860 and 1870. l
estimating the cost of the present census Il
$3,000,000, General Walker went as low Il
he could, lower than most men who had eN
amined the subject thought was wise bu
General Walker knew that it is easier to &c
ten deficiency appropriations of $4,000
'-T- from Congress than one original appropriI
tion of $l000,000. The collection of stats
h,, tics of special industries has probably cost
g. good deal more than any one expected. TIL
price paid the agents has been good on'
rs was necessary, and the work done exec
= lent but the result is that the tenth censu
will probably cost about 100000.
V EDWARD TRIcKETT the Australian OAR
tfman, arrived Mt New York from Europe o
M aturday, and was greeted by number {
~ is admirers He was accompanied by h