The Evening critic., 1882-12-26
News Notes.

Six inches of snow fell at Omaha, Neb.,
yesterday.
Joe Smith shot and killed Billie Gresham
at Aquilla, Tex, yesterday.
The British bark Peru, bound for Balti-
more, is In distress at Bermuda.
The moulders in the Ontario car shops,
at London, ont, are on strike.
The chess contest between Steinitz aud
-Sellman yesterday resulted In draw.
/, Prince Kraptokine is in solitary i'm
prisonment in Lyons, and refuses TO talk.
The stroke of death fell on Mrs. Mary
Beschert yesterday while she was dressing
for church.
At Palmetto, Ca, yesterday, John
Thomas shot and killed Lindsey Weaver In a
drunken row.
In an alteration at Atlanta, Ga, yester-
day, Henry johnson shot and killed Hugh
Mathis, both colored.
Colonel W. Ii. Coffin, land commissioner
OF the ST. Louis 4 San Francisco Railroad, died
at Blundale, ILL.,, yesterday.
Hon. Donald A. Smith has succeeded j.
j. Hill on the Canada Pacific hallway director
ate upon the latter's resignation.
The Pope, in reply to New Year con-
gatulations, alluded to attacks upon the inde-
pendence of the sovereinity of the papacy.
In quarrel in saloon at Little Rock,
Ark, yesterday, II. L. Robinson shot and
killed colored farmer named Derry Griffin.
1t is reported from Madrid that there
is no prospect of an understanding between
Marshal serrano and Prime Minister sagasta.
A convention of the tobacco.growers of
Connecticut and Of the tobacco.growlng Sec
lions OF the adjoining States Will meet at Hart
| ford to-day.
Lorenzo White, Il small boy, was acci-
| dentally shot at Lebanon, Pa, yesterday, by u
drunken man who was playing with a re-
v0lver ON the street.
Mr.. Harrington, secretary of the organ
|
| will be prosecuted by the English Govern
| ment for n recent speech.
| Louis Il. McComas, esq, of Hagerstown
has been appointed counsel TO the Western
| Maryland Railroad Company In place OF Hon.
| A. X. Syester, elected TO the bench.
| A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla. says
the dredge OF tho okeechobeo Draining Com.
| pany, working up the Caloosahatchle River,
| entered Lake okeechobee on the Goth.
Notice has been given that at the next
session OF the Dominion Parliament applica.
| tion Will be made for an act 10 incorporate
the Loyal orange Association OF British Amer
lea.
The body of the late Sir Hugh Allan
| who died at Edlnburg, Scotland, some three
weeks ago, arrived al Halifax yesterday by
steamer Samaritan. The funeral Will take
place at Montreal on Wednesday.
The city officers of Petersburg, Va ap
last, who have been on duty ever since with
out drawing any pay, were paid on yesterday
in full 70 December /, the amount required
being $4,000.
Mrs. Myra j. Osborne aud her son Ollie
aged II years, were found dead in their sleep
ing apartment In Greencastle, Ind, yesterday
morning. II is supposed that the mother
poisoned her son and then committed suicide
She had been despondent For some time.
Joseph S. StriolSell, a student at th,
Greenwich (R.I Academy, son OF widow II
Washington, d. o., broke through the ice whil
skating yesterday, and was drowned afte
struggling for three-quarters OF an hour II
tho sight OF persons whose Efforts failed t
rescue him.
Alexander Jefferson, the negro murdere
OF Brooklyn, when he learned yesterday tha
his brother, whom he wounded, was IN tn
hospital, expressed wish 10 got near enOugl
10 Ell him. Celestial, the brother, also sal
no would like 10 XIII Alexander. Jefrersoi
also said that lie had borrowed the gun
ground his knife and fixed on "a hidlng-place
week before he committed tho crime.
Lucius w. Pond, of Worcester, Mass
who was sent TO Concord State Prison In March
1875, for twelve years for forgery and embez
element, was pardoned yesterday. with tn
usual reduction Of time for good behavior h
| would have had about four years moro I
eerve. He WAS met at tho prison by friend
| and taken 10 Worcester. He was at the tim
| OF hts arrest State senator, and one OF IN
lnlCst prominent men ia Worcester