The Evening critic., 1882-12-18

The United States diplomatic agent has
presented his credentials to tho Khedive.
Archbishop Gibbons confirmed class of
$50 at st. James Church, Baltimore, yes.
terday.
Ice. cutting was begun in Massachusetts,
on Saturday. The prospects are that the crop
Will be large.
The ten Brooklyn aldermen who were
imprisoned for contempt OF court were re-
leased from jail yesterday morning.
The Sultan has denied the reports of dis.
scnslons in the Government and he says he
doesn't fear conspiracies against himself
Mathew Zimmerman was convicted Of
murder at Kenrney, Neb., on Saturday, anI
was sentenced to be hanged April 81, 1888.
The penal code was dead letter in New
York yesterday. Persons who engaged In
| business We're not interfered with BY the po-
| lice.
The Sunday Item announces that Mr..
| Fred. Gebhard arrived in Philadelphla at a
| late hour Saturday night Mrs. Langtry plays
| there this week.
| A steer escaped from drove in the
| neighborhOod of Central Park, New York, on
| Saturday evening, and tossed two mon before
| he was lassoed and shot
ssssA case believed to be genuine leprosy has
| developed In tho almshouse at Salem, Mass.
| The patient is Charles Derby, who arrived
| from Sah Francisco week ago.
r The expert accountants who have been
examining the books OF the Brooklyn Board
|
| defaulter to the extont OF S250,OOO.
Schedules in the assignment for the
benefit OF creditors OF tho ilrm OF Barnett
Bach & Co., OF Now York, show the liabilities
to be SiS,4Tl, and actual assets SO, d61.
Letters have been received at the Home
| ONCE In London threatening that the Govern.
ment officers are to be blown up In revenge
for tho execution OF the three men at Galway
on Friday.
Earl Spencer has issued three new procla-
.fFa FanI. o. I..F.,
relative TO the Phmnix Park murders. West.
gate, tho sek.accused assassin, has arrived IN
Dublin, andFsw he denies that he had any.
thing TO do with tho assassination.
Lille Porter. pretty girl of 10, living
Rt Ballston, n. ", who was betrayed by hei
brOther-in.iaw, died from the effects OF NAL
practice in Troy ON last Tuesday DR.. George
Rice, n prominent physician OF Troy, has beor
arrested on the charge of causing her death. :
The committee from the New England
Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute
which has visited tho South and Southwest t,
secure exhibits from the several States auC
. Leading railroads at the fair to DO held at Bos
ton next autumn has returned and repOru
! having had very successful trip.
I, The proprietors of the Singer Stee
|. Works, at Pittsburg notified the meters OF
o Saturday evening that their wages would b
! reduced from VI y SO per ton. The meltor
] refused to accept tho reduction while othe
g steel mills are paying VI, and the matter wa
' referred to the Amalgamatod Association 70
settlement.
: Annie LOTUS Jackson, the young woma
whose sudden disappearance created a senst
tlon In Chicago some days ago, has returne
10 that city. She says that she Ns sent to S
Louis by a sympathetic gueS atthe Clarenc
House, where she had been taken by n yOun
doctor, who failed In his criminal purpose
TO conceal her identity, sho said, shewas ser
10 st. Louis.
Yesterday was the seventy.hfdl au
niyersary Of the birth OF tho poet John oroe
leaf whittier. He spent tho day quietly h hi
4 room at the Hotel winthrop In Boston anaFt
communication from his fellow.citlzens
\ Ampsbury, asking that he pass the day
home and hold reception, but ne was opllg
10 decline ON account OF n cold. Many beau
ful floral tributes were sent In during the di
by friends.