The Evening critic., 1883-01-18
News Notes.

There were twenty-five shocks of earth
quake In Murcia, Spain, on Tuesday.
Lady Florence Dixie has refused testi-
monial in acknowledgment Of her services to
Ireland.
The Maryland Temperance Alliance pro.
test against the bill in Congress for the relief
of distillers.
1t is said that Field Marshal Won Man
teuffel Will be recalled from the Governorship
OF Alsace"Lorrainc.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad was opened to Its terminus In Buf
falo, n. w. yesterday.
Arthur Preston, colored, will be hanged
tomorrow at Belair, Nd, for the murder of
Mary Dorsey, also colored, on the 10Th Of LAST
April.
in the Criminal Court of Baltimore city yes
terday, and was sentenced to Ave years IN the
penitentlary.
The trial of ex-Congressman Voorhis at
Hackensack, N. j., yesterday resulted In his
acquittal. This is the last OF the charges
against him.
JAS McCabe,a wealthy merchant at Town
Creek, Ala, was yesterday shot and killed by
Tom Mathes because the former elected him
from his store.
Snow has fallen at Chicago to the depth
of eight inches on the level. The Cable-street
cars were Obliged tossuspend operations on
Tuesday night.
AT Savannah on Tuesday night burglars
cut INTO tue SAFE III lile JeWelry SlOre Oh A. L..
Desboullion and stole $4,000 worth OF dia-
mUE1s and jewelry.
James l.. Torrens, United States marshal
for the eastern district of Arkahsas, chairman
OF the Republican State Central Committee,
died at Little Rock on Tuesday.
James Ryan, an employe at the Etna
yesterday, was caught and his right leg was
crushed 10 the thigh, killing him.
A bill was introduced in the Pennsyl-
demeanor for the Governor, Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor and members OF the Legislature to
accept passes from railroad companies.
d. B. Chisholm, secretary of the Albion
and number of other mining companies at
San Francisco, has absconded. The directors
have received a letter from him stating that he
was defaulter to the amount of $500.
Price and Cameron, the detectives charged
at San Antonio, Texas, with assisting Treas
urer Polk to escape, have been discharged on
writ OF habeas corpus, and have started for
Nashville, Tenn, to clalm'the reward for his
arrest.
The joint resolution providing for sub
mission to tho people OF Arkansas of con-
stltutional amendment for forbidding the
payment Of the railroad aid, the levee and the
Holford bonds was adopted In the Senate yes
terday by a vote OF 80 to l.
Hugh O'Donnell, alias O'Reilly, who was
arrested at Holly, Orleans County, N. Y, for
drunkenness, and afterward swore that him
self and three others assassinated Lord Fred.
IL. Kt.
has been discharged.
A man calling himself j. r. Yates, about
35 years old, and hailing from Baltimore,
committed suicide Wednesday night at his
boarding-house at Martinsburg, W. Va, by
taking laudanum, His apparent occupation
was that OF peddler.
AT the Savannah (Ga.) races yesterday the
Bonaventure stakes, three entries, were won
by Homespun, time L :52 and :51la; the sec
ond race, $3.50, two entries, was won by Col
Sprague, time 2:23ia; the oglethorpe stake,
TWO entries, was won by Yingtun, time L ;53,
1884, and 52ld.
A square in the business part of the town
of Macarthur, Ohio, was burned ON Tuesday
night; loss $4,000. The chapel, sacrlsty and
presbytery OF the new parish OF St. Gideon, on
Lake st. John, Quebec, with the ornaments,
sacred vessels, registers and accounts OF
fabrique, were burned on Tuesday.
In the Common Pleas Court at Cincin-
natl yesterday Jury awarded Rev. Pliny b.
Morgan $4,000 damages In suit against the
college Hill Railroad. DR.. Morgan was thrown
froln a passengercar by loaded stone-car
running Wild down the steep grade and strlk-
ing tho passenger'car, and his arm and ankle
were injured.
In the Melville habeas corpus case at
Media, Pa, yesterday, Judge Clayton ordered
that Maud, the eldest child, be remanded 70
the custody OF her father, TO be sent TO a
school, her mother to be permitted to visit
her. The TWO younger children, Elsie and
Meta, are renanded TO the custody of their
mother until further orders from the court.
Miss Zerelda Garrison, whose mysterious
abduction occasloned a sensation In ST. Louis
some days ago. has been brought East by her
| uncle, o. l.. Garrison, by the advice OF the
| family physician, 10 be placed IN an asylum
| for the treatment OF nervous diseases. Acard
| signed by her doctors says that the young lady
| Is deficient in the development OF her mental
faculties, and at times is Irresponsible for her
act ons.
The fifth annual meeting of the Woman's
| Board OF Missions was held at Boston yester-
day. The receipts for the year have heen Slo1, -
| S43 The board has now under its care 81
| branch societies and three conference associa-
| tloDs, each comprising number OF smaller
organizations among women and children,
making the number OF auxillaries between
500 and 500, and the chlldren's circles be.
tween 800 and 600.