The Evening critic., 1883-02-19

Mr.. John Jacob Seeger, the we'll known
brewer, of Baltimore, is dead.
The new 5-cent piece has already been
gold plated for circulation as 50 piece.
The Right Rev. II. Pinkney Northrup has
been appointed by the Pope Bishop of Charles
ton.
The widow of Wagner, the composer, was
entirely overcome at his funeral at Bayreuth
yesterday.
There were thirty-one more deaths in
Baltimore last week than during the Same
period last year.
A tablet has been put up by the munich
pality In the house in Rome which Professor
Samuel Morse occupied there in 1880.
The Lyons Municipal Council has advo-
Gated the granting of amnesty to the anarch-
lists recently condemned at Rions and Lyons.
President Grevy has accepted the resigna-
tions of the Ministers, and 1T is reported that
NJ. Jules Ferry has been tntrusted with the
formation OF new cabinet
Memorial services were held yesterday in
the Brick Church, New York, In memory Of
the late Ex-Governor Morgan, Rev. L. ].
Yandyke preaching the sermon.
The Boston Daily Advertiser, which for
the past fifteen years has been located on
Court street, removed Saturday morning to Its
new sixstory marble building at Washington
and Devonshire streets.
Mr.. John Gilbert the actor, who lost his
wife in the Newhall fire, Milwaukee, is about
s25 900 against @. D. Nash and the Newhali
House Company at Milwaukee.
Mrs. Cottier, of Buffalo, N. Y, confessed
Friday night to the superintendent OF police
that she had murdered her child, little girf OF
| months. She said she chloroformed II, and
then dropped It overheard from a ferry-boat.
The floods in the western rivers seem to
| have passed the crisis, and the waters are now
| receding. The volume of the Mississippi
| however, is swelling, and a disastrous over
aow in the lower Mississippi valley is pre-
| dicted.
Custom officials at Chicago have seized
| $1,000 worth of imported hair IN the posses.
| sion OF a woman named Eva Stuff. The wo-
| man says that she got 1t through the New
| York Custom House free Of duty by feeling an
| official
Clara Belden. the actress, complained
| yesterday in the jefferson Market Police
| Court, New York, that Philip Gergier had
| stolen her two pet pug dogs, valued at $500.
They were recovered, and Gergier was held
The Grand Lodge of Kesher Shell Barrel
opened its annual session In New York city
yesterday. The following officers were elect
Simon W. ga5a Henry
thal, grand secretaryi Jos. Harris, grand
treasurer.
Two Cinnamon fought on Saturday
night IN a room or Ridge avenue, Philadel-
phia, In the presence OF forty spectators who
paid 81 each. The contestants were Loo
Hing, washerman, and HI Sing Foon, an
iIOueE III lhuuuTy. after q desperate but
unscientinc battle OF eleven rounds LOG Hing
gave up.
A special to the Charlotte IN. c. Observer
says James Ross, OF Rutherford County, n O.
auarreled with his son over trade ofi5xen, on
Sunday, the 11th instant. The father threat
ened to Kill his son at noon that day but
failed to meet him, AT Z O'Clock the son,
armed with butcher knife, met his father
and stabbed him to death. The son is now IN
jail.
In New York Saturday night Patrick Carr
and Edward Looney, OF the Brooklyn police
force, attempted 10 arrest Robert Koran, alias
| Montgomery, noted bank robbor, when Ho
ran fired upon his pursuers, shooting them
both through the neck, and then made his es,
cape. Both detectives arc dangerously
wounded.
The dress rehearsal of the "Passion
Play" which Mr.. Salmi Morse had announced
TO take place In New York saturday evening,
did not come on. Mr.. Morse had on Friday
| applied for an Injunction restraining the po-
| lice from stopping the announced rehearsal,
| but the authorities asserted the right OF three
| days notice In such n case.