The Evening critic., 1883-03-05
News Notes,

| of Ireland.
The trial of thirty socialists will begin nj
Vienna on next Thursday.
Phares Cassiday died at Lebanon. Pa.
yesterday, aged 102 years.
Ex-Treasurer Polk was released from iail
at Nashville, Tenn, on Saturday, on 100000
Judge NJ. NJ. Towner, of st. Louis, died
County, Va.
Charles w. Smith, prominent cotton
manufacturer OF Worcester, Mass committed
suicide on Saturday.
paEf GeneIaa M9ln James me Il; Simpson died at st.
was graduate OF West Point.
Moses L. Ray, bookeeper in the Mercb-
ants and Planters Bank, al Montgomery, Ala,
shot himself on Saturday and died.
The volunteer fire department of New
S,iiGaEs s,rs;s Yesterday celebrated their forty.
SIKH anniversary by grand parade.
Ensign Hunt, with Bartlett and other
survivors OF the Jeannette Expedition, have ar.
rived al 81 petersburg, en- route for home.
The steamboat Yazoo sunk in the Mis-
slssippi, near Bonnet Cave, on Sunday morn
ing. II Is feared number of lives were lost.
:. The second pigeon match between Cap.
Iiil .aii Dogardus ana Dr. Carver was shot Mt the
chicago Driving Park on Saturday, Carver
won by 81 against 10. va
Joseph Myers & Son, cloak and suit
4nn,aa!nuiacturers, at No. 01S Market street.
estimated atS150,00O.
w. III. Pratt, president of the Banl, of
Mobile, and vice-president OF the Mobile /,
Montgomery Railroad, was run over and til,ed
at birmingham, Ala, on Saturday.
The British Government has asked for
me eztradition OF John Walsh, who was ar
rested last week IN Paris. The extraditIon ~
FRANK rtank Byrne has been asked for, but his
friends are preparing to prove an alibi.
Harvey n. Follansbee, clerk to the auper-
1a dntendent asnn OF the Boston police department
has embezzled some 500, $50 Of Invested fnnd;;
OF the latter organization. He has been speeu.
lating In stocks. i'N"'
Michael Cleary, the pugilist, has brought
a SUIT Tor damages against Mayor King and
sparring exhibition which was advertised To
take place at the American Theatre, PhiladeI
phia, about month ago.
r. General Walker, Superintendent OF the
T,ensus, ,nrass stands BY the returns OF manufac.
nppoihted enumerators In 1880, and will
tae tahe no oiheial notice of the recent census
Blodgett. -A'' 'oiin
The election of the Most Rev. Edward
w. benson as Archbishop of Canterburv. I'm
place oI lhe Most Rev. DR.. TAFT, deceased was
dom TSe SrcShsy sSatSSfhdsy In the Bow Church, Lon
DiSh0n9
Exeter oficiated. -'00A'''er ana
The jury in the case of John Cronev
,Tled az Wilmington, Del, for killing Danisi
Magnlre In a light at the last election. failed
70 agree. The State then accepted a piea ~
guilty OF granddaughter, and the prisoner vyoa Oa
sentenced 10 hye years Imprisonment and 70
pay fine OF $4,000. 1' "
The Augustinian Society's affairs were re.
ferred TO In all the Catholic churches at law.
renee, MASS, yesterday. Society meetings
VIII be held on Tuesday evening next NV t5e
several congregations 10 consider tine matter.
Twenty-one attachments, aggregating over
$4,000, now cover the properly OF the Society.
A bill in equity filed by Anna G. Pell.
executrix OF the Will OF the late Alexander G,
Mercer, d. D., or Newport II. l., brings out the
iact that the deceased left property valued as
n 100000 and upward, S1T5,000 being In
bonds paying from TO 10 per cent. interest,
ne also had $500 shares OF dividend paying
railroad stocke. DR.. Mercer was only taxed
on $4,000 worth Of property. Harvard Uni.
yersity, Yale College and the Smithsonian In.
under his Will