The Evening critic., 1882-08-24

The Mosel still holds together.
The fresh-water canal supplying Ismailia
has been cut.
General Wolseley intends pushing into
the interior at once.
The English cotton trade Is exceedingly
dull and without profit.
Twenty-three hundred Bosnian refugees
have been obliged TO leave Montenegro.
Ten out of nineteen Greeks caught pill
laying the Arab quarter in Port Said were shot,
The expectation Of mules from Smyrna
for British service In Egypt has been author
lied.
There is movem ent in England for
placing bust OF Longfellow in Westminster
Abbey.
A general convention of delegates of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society Will meet at Saratoga
September @.
DIR. Loring. Commissioner of Agriculture,
was yesterday elected president OF tho Amerl-
can Forestry Congress, now In session at Mon
treal.
Only fifteen bales of new cotton have
been received at New orleans from the Mssis.
sippi Valley to date, against 900 to the same
date last year.
The hesitation of the Sultan in signing
the military convention is ascribed to alarm
caused by threats and remonstrances which
have reached him.
Tho butchers of Baltimore are taking
steps to compete with the refrigerated meat
that OF cattle slaughtered there.
A great many Southern merchants are in
Baltimore making their fall purchases, and
trade is active in several important branches
particularly dry goods and shoes.
James b. Silkman, of YOnkers, N. Y,
was sent to the Utica Insane Asylum last May.
Yesterday he was released by Judge Barnard,
who remarked: ~ don't believe he over was
insane"
Michael Curlcy, burglar, broke win.
In,t- I,,I ,t,.fh atra Nary Vnrk md tl,n
fragments striking IN infant lying in a cradle
inflicted injuries from which 1t died. the
burglar was arrested.
Reports have been received at the Treas
ury Department OF certain Irregularities In
the accounts of James Crawford, superinten-
tendent OF the United States Mint at Carson
City, Nevada, and an investigation will be
made.
New South Wales, now at Salt Lake City, pub
fishes a letter giving an account of visit to
the Mormon Insane Asylum, In which he
claims that patients arc kept in confinement
who are perfectly sane, and that the manage.
mont is characterized by shocking neglect and
cruelty.
The Chicago picnic to raise funds to build
monument TO John Brown was failure.
About 800 persons were present, but the OK
penses consumed the receipts. Letters were
read from Mrs. Garfield, President Arthur,
Wendell phllips senator G0nfiing, General
guished persons. Mrs. Brown was present
The National Prohibition Convention
met In Chicago yesterday, 81 delegates being
present. Some of the States were largely rep
resented ana some not at all. h. d. Kanouse,
OF Wisconsin, was elected permanent presi'
dent. Miss Frances Z. Willard is one OF the
secretaries, and is also a member OF the com.
mittee on resolutions. The day was devoted
mainly TO speech-making.
William Boekel who, upon the petition
OF certain stockholders OF the Keely Motor
Company, was appointed an examiner to as.
certain the secret OF the invention, reported TO
the Court OF Common Pleas In Philadelphia
yesterday that he firmly believes that Mr.
keely has discovered a new and wonderfully
powerful force, yet he (BoekeD does not ye
aufflciently understand tho details OF the In
vehtion TO explain them to the court. III
says, therefore, that the stockholders should
not force Mr.. Koely 10 apply for patent q