The Evening critic., 1882-12-12

The evidence in the PeltZer murder trial
In Vienna was finished yesterday.
A large part Of the treasure stolen from
the Diocese of Tourney has been recovered In
this country.
1t is reported that Lord Dufferin will 60
as ambassador TO Vienna when he has com.
pleted his mission in Egypt.
A decree is expected degrading Arab and
the other condemned pashas and ordering the
connscation Of their property.
An unoccupied theatre was burned at
Point-a-Pitre tGuadaloupe), on November 80.
The loss Is estimated at $4,000.
The Irish Land Commission has rendered
n decision affecting 1900 tenants on the estate
Of Sir John Leslie, strictly in their favor.
Josiah A. Noonan, for many years a
prominent politician and journallstor Wis
consln, died yesterday In an insane asylum at
Wanwatosa, Wis.
A schooner loaded with wood, took re
while anchored In Hampton Roads yesterday,
and most of her deck load was thrown over.
board. She was towed to Norfolk.
A corps of civil engineers is engaged sur
yeying In the vicinity OF the Big Gunpowder
River on the proposed route OF the Baltimore
Ohio Railroad New York extension.
Governor Stephens has pardoned Captain
| Ed. Cox, sentenced to imprisonment for life In
| tho penltentiary for tho murder of Colonel
| Robert A. Aston, at Atlanta, In 1870.
The last spike was driven on the new
| Milwaukee & Lake Winnebago Railroad yes
| terday, giving the Wisconsin Central Road an
| Independent outlet from Milwaukee.
| At q meeting of the locked out snoe-
lasters Mt Montreal on Sunday resolutions
| were passed urging manufacturers to reopen
their factories TO keep the workmen from
| starving.
The Mississippi Valley Cane-Growers'
| Association will commence Its fourth annual
| convention at ST. Louis on Wednesday. Com.
missioner OF Agriculture Loring is expected to
| be present.
Robert S. Champion, for five years past
cashier and paymaster OF the Little Rock 4
| Fort Smith Railroad, is alleged TO BIO de-
faulter. The amount Is believed to exceed
$4,000. His present whereabouts are un-
| known.
The Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture
makes the following estimates Of the crops OF
| 1882: Wheat, %, i25,000 bushels; corn, 3d.
$4,000 bushels; oats, 3i,5sO,OOO; rye, s.,
So5,O00i potatoes, 13,76O,000; tobacco, 2S,
100000 pounds.
Joseph Carlin, while drunk, got on an en-
CINE at East Syracuse, N. ", on Saturday
night, and ran the engine eastward until hi
| met a Northumberland locomotive. The en-
gines collided and were both badly damaged
| No one was hurt.
Mrs. Collins, who has been for SOM
months confined In the insane asylum a
BunalO, N. W was yesterday released on (
writ OF habeas corpus, and her friends IN!
that she never was Insane, ana that tn
manner Of her commitment was irregular.
In the United States Circuit Court II
Now York yesterday James II. Molloy, OF Edge
Held, 8. O., recovered verdict for $4,000
against James Gordon Bennett proprietor 0
tho New York Hefaid, On account OF libel
| lOus publication. Mr. Benefits counsel move
| Tor stay OF judgment, 0ud gave notice 0
motion Tor now TRIAL
4 suit Ia Admiralty was bsgun IN th
United States District Court ~ NON York yea
terdAy ~ VIM. II. Vanderbilt, owner ot Ia
barge Saginaw, and TW0mbley Z. C1 carrier
% her cargo, against tho steamer CITY o
Worcester ana the steamtug LenOT, tor tn
recovery Of al, 900 damages, growing out -
the sinking u the Saginaw In Elgt Klyor b.
the City Of Worcester.