The Evening critic., 1882-11-22

The ruins of the Tuilleries will be sold
December4.
Admiral Seymour and General wolseley
have been gazetted peers.
The Queen yesterday presented decora-
tons to the troops returned from Egypt.
Charles ]. Allen, retired merchant of
New Haven, Conn, died yesterday, aged SS
years.
Rev. G. G.. Sweeny, assistant priest at st.
Pauls Catholic Church, Philadelphia, died
Monday night.
The Alabama State temperance convcn.
tlon met at Montgomery yesterday, 220 dele
gates being present.
Nir. Edward Jones, brother of George
Jones, of the New York Times, died IN Roch.
ester, N. ", Monday, aged rs years.
Henry S. Hannis, former manager of the
Hannis Distilling Company, Philadelphia, has
been committed to an insane asylum. He Is u
sufferer from acute mania.
The steamship Wearmouth, Capt. Evans,
which left Quebec for London on Friday, was
wrecked on North Sand beach, Magalen Is.
lands, on Sunday night. Tho crew all per-
ished except four.
Colonel William Henry Mcmahon, chief
adjuster OF duties of tho New York Custom.
house and tariff commissioner for the State OF
New York, died suddenly OF rheumatism OF
the heart yesterday.
A very large sun spot was seen from the
Harvard College observatory yesterday, ylsi-
BILE with the naked eye. In the opinion OF OBJ
servers this verines the theory that magnetic
and electrical disturbances and flashing
Northern lights arc primarily caused by solar
phenomena.
Isaac d. Cough, one of the oldest of the
Mississippi pilots, testified yesterday before
the Congressional committee now inspecting
the Government works on that river that none
| OF them had, In his opinion, been OF any bene.
| 1T 10 navigation except the putting up of
| lights and the removal OF snags.
A test of the new method of laying tele-
| graph wires In an underground conduit was
made In Philadelphia yesterday, and was re.
| garded as satisfactory. Wires Of the electric
\ light the Morse telegraph line and tho tele-
| phone were put side by side Ia the same pipe
and there was no percopuble Induction.
On account of the prevalence Of diph
iberia and other contagious diseases in Boston
| the board OF health has forbidden public fune.
| rails whore persons die OF contagious diseases
| The health ofiicer OF Philadelphia reports that
| during the year 1889 there were $50 deaths
| from diphtherla, and that It Is now largely on
the Increase.
An agreement was arrived at yesterday
| between the State Auditor OF Kentucky and q
| committee of the Kentucky Distlllers As5ocla
| ton under which the distillers VIII act as the
| agents OF the Auditor for the collection OF the
tax on bonded whisky owned by non.residents
| which the Supreme Court OF Kentucky ha:
decided to be subject 70 state and county tax
| alton.
The gross receipts of the Philadelphia
Reading Railroad Company for the month o.
| OctbcF NtIo qS5ZSbiDls.tSi lue gross ft'A
penses were Sl,105, 06l AZ. The gross re
ceipts Of the Coal Iron Company wer,
s1,b02,217.17 and the expenses 81 i1,26S.0f
leaving tho net earnings OF both companies fol
the month sl,l71,5 O0.SS, an increase o
$3.50, 222.l0 as compared with tho correspond
| Ing month last year.
Argument upon the demuTers in thu
case Of Anthony Reybold vs.. The New York
Baltimore Transportation Company was con
cluded In the United States Circuit Court u
Wilmington, Del, yesterday. The suit Ia
been pending for eight years. Mr.. ReybOl
lays his damages at 100000, on account Of NJ
alleged breach Of an agreement made by IN
defendants not to run boats over designated
route between Elk and sassafras Rivers an
New York.
The judgment obtained against the Bal
| tmore ohio Railroad Company by tho pa
rents OF William i. schwndllng, q child VIII
was injured by passing train while stlndln
On tho platform at tho PltlBburg depot, VIA
reversed yesterday by tho supreme Court q
Pennsylvania. In delivering tho oplnlOn
Tho court Chlef.Justice dreon said that IN
boy had no businesB OF any kind With the con
pany; was n mere l0itorer NJ tho depot, q
there WAS no pretensc Of want0n injury.