The Evening critic., 1883-01-26
New Notes.

Lord Greville, OF England, is dead.
David Chandler, a prominent citizen of
Wilmington, Del, died yesterday.
The Porte in a circular note claims that
the English note concerning Egypt is at
variance with Turkeys rights.
The ice carnival at Montreal yesterday
was great success. The sports were wit.
messed by nearly 10000 persons.
Mr.. Healey refused to give the bail for
good behavior required in the Queens
Bench division in Dublin, and he will 60
to jail
McFerron and Mcintosh, two Pittsburg.
ers, have arranged for prize.fght for $500
a side, to take place near Pittsburg in
few days.
Members of the Prohibition party of New
Jersey held consultation in Trenton yes
terday to arrange for vigorous campaign
in the fall.
A report has reached Petersburg, Va, of
the drowning of Henry Fans, son of Mr.. r.
III. Fans, well-known citizen of Dinwiddie
County, by two colored youths, at Clark's
Mills.
Rev. Samuel Fish, for fifty years pastor
of the Baptist Church at Halifax, VT, and
the Oldest clergyman of that denomination
in the State, died yesterday, aged 81
years.
The Mexican Central Railway Company
has issued subscription for S6,032,500,
which amount the company considers to be
sufficient to complete the main line by the
first quarter of the year 1884.
Joseph Whitman, for the last ten years
head clerk of Craig, Finley & Co., printers,
| at Tenth and Arch streets, Philadelphia,
has disappeared leaving a deficiency in
| his accounts, it is said, of $4,000.
A construction train on the Denver and
| Rio Grande Railroad jumped the track,
causing the death of the engineer, II. L..
| Jameson, and William Lawrence, brake.
man. Two other persons were wounded.
The annual meeting of the National AS
| sociation for the Protection of the Insane
and the Prevention of Insanity began its
sessions in Philadelphia yesterday. An
address was delivered by Professor Samuel
ID. Gross
AT Memphis, Tenn. yesterday. Achilles
| Winberg quarreled with James Proudht, a
clerk in the De Soto oil works. WinberS
| struck at Proudit with an AK, and was
shot and killed by an elder brother Of
ProudfU.
The birthday of Robert Burns was
| celebrated in New York yesterday even.
ing. The Burns Society had its annual
dinner at which about fifty were in attend
ance. Scottish toasts were drunk and re-
spondcd to. The annual Burns supper of
the Caledonian Club was also enjoyed.
Thomas Maher, jr., Isaac l.. Street and
Joseph Myers, the first named Democrat
and the other two Republicans, all three
of whom were election officers at the
municipal election in Philadelphia in 1851,
were yesterday convicted of making a
fraudulent return of the votes in their pre-
cinct.
The Philadelphia Commercial Exchange
yesterday adopted resolutions for presenta-
tion to Congress obiecting to the propojel
transfer to the Navy Department of the
several marine bureaus now under control
of the Treasury Department. The New
England Ship Owners Association at Bos
ton took similar action.
The French Ministry conferred yesterday
with committee of the Chamber of Depu
ties on the bills against the preteuders. Tue
committee then adopted a proposition eX-
cludiDg from French territory all members
of families having reigned in France
Eugcnie, in London says she neither
saw nor wrote to the Prince Napoleon
while she was in Paris.
The St. Georges Union of North America
will on Monday forward to Mr. Gladstone
in commemoration of his fifty years public
service, an Illuminated address, signed by
j. Herbert Mason, Of Toronto, president and
Charles f, Benjamin, of Washington, d. c.
secretary. St. Georges Union comprises
ST. Georges societies all over the American
continent.
AN alarm OF fire was turned in at IA
this morning, caused by the discovery o
fire in the barber-shop of Joseph Cato, un
der Breinhan & Lehman's restaurant, cor
ner Eighth and i streets northwest Tht
Fire Department responded promptly bu
did not 60 into action, as a BARRIERS chail
was the only thing on fire, which wa
thrown into the street and extinguished
The loss was about $40.