The Evening critic., 1883-02-02
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PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

1911 Rhode Island avenue northwest. A
colored woman took charge of it,
CAPTAIN BEN FINNEY, of the Criminal
Court, st. Louis, Mo- writes For three
winters I suffered torture with rheumatism
st. Jacobs Oil was recommended and
seven or eight applications cured me.
Mr.. CLAYTON II. BUELL., the market
master of the Centre market has had the
fountain on Ninth near b street, removed
to Seventh and b streets which stops the
blockading of the street, which formerly
occurred.
EXPRESSIONS of gratitude on the part of
the public are always impressive and
solemn. 1t is pleasant to know that the
people are justly praising the merits of DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup, safe remedy for
coughs, colds, bronchitis, Group and sore
throat
THE Argo Literary Club has elected the
following officers President, NJ. Rosenberg /;
vice-president, William Baum recording
secretary II. King corresponding secre-
tary, S. Richold; financial secretary, A..
Kaufman; treasurer, e. West; sergeant at
arms, NJ. Lucks.
POLICEMAN HORNE yesterday arrested n
white thief named John Drawner, who had
in his possession a lady's short dolman
trimmed with fur, and lady's velvet coat
which he was trying to dispose of. He was
locked up as n suspicious character at the
Fifth Precinct Station House. A handsome
purse was also found on him which is sup.
posed to have been stolen.
News Notes.
The Reichstag yesterday considered the
subject of preventing collisions at sea.
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies is con-
sidering an amendment to the tariff laws
The Maryland internal revenue district
holds 100000 gallons of 1850 whisky and
100000 gallons of 1881 whisky
The nomination of S. Davis Page to be
controller Of Philadelphia was yesterday
rejected by the Pennsylvania Senate after
being reported favorably from the commit
tee.
In st. Agnes Roman Catholic Church,
New York, last evening, Biou Heron, the
actress, was married to Henry John Mil
Ter, late Of the Union Square Theatre COM
pany.
The Pennsylvania State Encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic, in ses-
sion at Wilkesbarre yesterday, elected Gen
eral L. S. Osborne, of that city, grand COM
mander
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and
Iron Company yesterday purchased the I.o-
Gust Gap Colliery, in the Mount Carmel re-
gion northumberland County, Pa.) for
$1s7, 1000.
A snowstorm prevailed over the whole
of the State Of Nebraska yesterday. In
Minnesota and Dakota the weather is ex-
ceedingly cold, the mercury at some places
reaching 80 degrees below zero.
The suit of DIR. L. E. Dreyfus against
Nicholson & Co., proprietors of the New
Orleans Picdyane, for $4,000 damages for
alleged libel, was concluded yesterday,
bn tot lar
James McAalliard, ex-iustice of the peace,
pleaded guilty in the Criminal Court at
Trenton, N. j., yesterday, to the charge of
collecting fees in fictitious criminal cases,
purporting to have been tried before him
last year
The Quebec carnival wound up on
Wednesday with parade by the snow
shoe clubs in costume and by torchlight,
headed by Indians, who danced war dances
on the Esplanade amid brilliant display
of fireworks.
Hon. Otto S. Weeks, @. c., member of
the Provincial Parliament for Guysbor-
ough, N. S., was arrested yesterday, at the
instance of the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty, on charge of brutally assault
ing his wife.
In the French Chamber of Deputies YES
terday, after a long debate, the proposal to
cashier the Orleans Princes was rejected,
and NJ. Fabre's bill, giving the Government
discretionary power to expel the Princes,
was passed
Hydrophobia has made its appearance
among dogs in Vicksburg, Miss A short
time ago a rabid dog bit blooded horse.
Yesterday the horse died in all the apparent
agonies of the dreadful disease. Several
children have been bitten.
Tho remains of Gertrude Donahue, who
was lost in the Newhall House fire in Mil
waukee wife of John Gilbert Donahue, the
actor, were sent to her fathers home at
Blood's Station, N. Y, yesterday. The un-
fortunate husband was unable to accom-
pany them.
Martin w, Culp, one of the Philadelphia
Gas Trust clerks charged with forgery, was
arrested yesterday morning at the light
house at the mouth of the Christiana near
Wilmington, Del, where he has been hid
ing for a month past. He was taken to
Philadelphia.
Sam Wakefield, colored, Louisiana poll
tician, State Senator in 1874 and deputy
naval officer at New Orleans until last De-
cember, when he was removed, committed
suicide in that city yesterday by shooting
himself through the head. He leaves wife
and seven children in New Iberia.
Young Cobb, who shot and mortally
wounded Sheriff Shenneman some DAYS
ago. was taken out of jail at Winfield, Kan,
yesterday by a party of masked men and
hanged to railroad bridge on the out
skirts of the town. He confessed to Mrs.
Shenneman, the widow of the dead sheriff
that he was Charles Cobb and gave her his
revolver Subsequently he stated to Sheriff
Mcintyre that he had been influenced by
reading of the exploits of Jesse James and
other desperadoes.
Song of the Suppressed Congress