The Evening critic., 1882-06-23
News Notes.

Registration of voters in Baltimore to
date: White, 32,461; colored, 5,935.
The French Senate rejected the bill al
lowing the importation Of foreign pork.
Mr.. J. z. Keene's colt Golden Gate won
the Beaufort handicap at the Stockbridge races
yesterday.
Independence, Iowa, was visited yester-
day by very destructive wind storm. Several
persons are reported killed.
Mr.. Peter F. Cowardin, soh of Mr.. W. L.
Cowardin, Of Richmond, died Wednesday of
consumption, aged SO years.
The representatives of the Powers met at
the British Embassy in Constantinople yester-
day, but transacted no business.
Frederick Schiwbir, aged % years, was
killed while Witnessing the fireworks on
Federal Hill, near Baltimore, last night.
The National Association of Undertakers
was organized at Rochester, N. Y, yesterday.
Each State is entitled to three delegates.
The American Association of Nursery
men, Florists and Seedsmen is in session at
Rochester, N. y, over Two hundred delegates
The Sultan Of Turkey processes to be
satisfied with both Arab Pasha and the
Khedive. He has invited the former to come
TO Constantinople.
The Governor ofAlexandria, president of
the commissionto inquire Into the recent riot,
has been superseded In that position by the
Minister Of Finance.
In New York yesterday John Collins
obtained verdict OF S2,250 against tho At
lantic and Pacific Telegraph Company for In.
1uries sustained In the falling on him OF one
OF the company's telegraph poles
The Philadelphia gas trustees yesterday
directed the cashier TO allow the councils COM
mittee TO examine their books publicly or prl.
vately, but not to let any one outside Of The
committee take possession OF them.
Professor Swing has retired from editorial
control OF the Chicago Alliance, and will be sue.
ceeded by MIR. George O. Min, who retired
8Om9 time ia Of
Unitarian Church on account Of his agnostic
views.
During thunderstorm at Columbia
.. O., yesterday, the Confederate monument
In the statehouse grounds was struck by light
ming, and the figure OF the soldier surmount-
ing L was dashed TO the ground and demol-
Canon Leon Bernard, who Is charged with
defrauding various religious societies In Bel
gium 10 the amount OF 5000, 900 francs, has
been arrested at Havana, Cuba. Money and
found on his person.
The total loss in Iowa from the recent
tornado Is estimated at from $2,50O,OOO Ia
$a,oOO.ooo. Onefourth OF the population oi
Maicom Is homeless. Every church and public
are held In the streets.
A society was incorporated at Albany,
N. y, yesterday, called the Supreme Secular
Benevolent Association OF Port Jeryls, which
has for It's object the doing away with the OBJ.
eeivances or Sunday and national days OF
Thanksgiving as religious days, and the abol-
ishment OF the use OF the Bible in public
schools.
Judge Hughes, in the United States
District Court at Richmond, Va, yesterday
refused the petition for habeas corpus In the
case Of II, 4. Thornton, OF Baltimore, arrested
al Norfolk for selling goods by sample with
out having paid the Yirginia tax, thus ylr
iually afirnling the constitutionality OF the
law In question.
President Gowan, of the Philadelphia &
heading Railroad Company, Will advertise In a
circular today that his company Will receive
applications Tor Sl3,6OOOOO per cents. OF
the nfst series OF the Total issue Of Sl60,O0O,-
600. The subscription price 10 08 per cent,
payable In installments up 10 the Both OF Sep
tember next OF the proceeds OF these bonds
f1,0O0.O0O Is 10 be applied 20 building thirty
York Central, under trafnc agreement be-
tween the two companies for 90 years.