The Evening critic., 1883-05-03
Childrens' Knee.Pants
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Mrs. Beachamp was yesterday acquitted
OF the murder OF her husband.
S.vera1 cigar manufacturers of Baltimore
have granted advance Of pay to their employees.
Cardinel McCloskey warmly indorses the
proceedings of the late Irish convention at
Philadelphia
The public schoolhouse at Elkton, Nd
was damaged to the extent OF $500 by fire yes-
terday morning.
DIR. A. s. Todd, prominent physician of
Wheeling, W. Va, died yesterday in his
eightysixth year.
The Berlin North German Gazette has in
effect acknowledged its blunder In attacking
Minister Sargent.
A heavy fall Of snow in Montana is in
terfering with the progress of the building OF
the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Tho race for the Chester Trades Cup at
the Chester race, England, yesterday, was won
by NJ. de Rothschild's nlly Diserta.
The stonemasons employed by Bryan
Hanrahan, contractor, Of Baltimore, have been
day.
The trial of Major Ellis P. Phipps ex-
superintendent Of the Philadelphia Aims
house, who Is charged with forgery, began In
Philadelphia yesterday.
AT banquet given by the National Lib
eral Club, In London, yesterday evening, Mr..
Gladstone said the Government had met dan
gers from an unseen agency-secret societies
successfully.
The Pennsylvania Senate yesterday
passed q bill prohibiting any attempt to per-
senate or represent any being recognized as O
Divinity in the Old or New Testament In any
public performance.
w. B. Searight, mayor of Vincennes, Ind,
committed suicide by shooting himself yester.
day. He had been mayor six years, and was
candidate for reelection, but was defeated at
the election on Tuesday.
Nancy Timbrooks, colored, died at Easton,
QlNt Ntfn 0nA
106 years. She was born In the year OF Bur
goyne'e surrender, and bore upon her back
the scars from whippings she received whena
slave.
mated Monday morning at / O'Clock, while re-
turning with his family from a neighbor's In
the Condreil Croche neighborhood, near ope-
lousas, La. He was riddled with buckshot.
The assassin Is unknown.
The bill submitting to popular vote n
constitutional amendment prohibiting the
| manufacture or sale OF Intoxicating liquors
| was defeated on the third reading In the New
| York Legislature yesterday by the votes of two
| Republicans, Macarthur, OF Troy, and McCar-
| thy, of Syracuse.
The Pennsylvania Greenback State Com
mittee, at q meeting held In Harrisburg yes
terday, decided to hold a State convention at
| Williamsport August 80. Mr.. It. s. Heath
| tendered his resignation as chairman OF the
committee, and Mr.. Il. b. Rynder, of Altoona,
| was elected to succeed him.
i Nc Wutdt III tut uOIIucTu pirU OF leAa9
| is reported TO be late, but looks we'll. Rye aud
barley are not promising. The corn is ali
planted. The planting OF cotton is still In
| progress. The acreage Will not bo as large as
last year owing TO the low price and scarcity OF
| labor. The season Is about twenty days late.
While dozen men were on the top floor
| OF the elevator at Benden's blast furnace, at
| Troy, N. Y, yesterday morning, repairing a
| broken wire rope, the tackle above gave way
| and two men were jerked down the shaft, q
| distance OF sixty feet by the falling rope. Ed
| ward McCabe was killed by the fall, and vii
liam Scott was dangerously hurt.
The city council of Danville, ILL.,, fixed
| the yearly saloon licenses at 5000. Yesterday
| all saloon keepers refused TO pay the license
and closed their places. large number OF
| citizens having signed a call for O public meet
Ing for the purpose OF urging the council to
yielded and agreed TO pay the 5000.
Hattie Thornton, the l2-year-old girl,
who, whilo living with her parents at the Ho.
tel Glendon, Boston, set IRE TO the building
nye different times, was arrested yesterday.
She does not seem 10 realize the gravity Of her
onense, and is evidently laboring under q
mania caused by her absorbing Interest In a
patent fire escape which was exhibited at the
hotel some time ago.
An investigation of the peach prosnect in
Delaware, made by the statistical agent of the
United States Department OF Agriculture fol
that State, shows that the approximations Of
damage by black frosis OF April 20 and %
were not realized. The orchards mado a fail
growth OF well-ripened wood last season, the
trees are healthy and now In general bloom
though not 30 full as last year by 90 per cent
| There fs a large increase OF new orchards II
| New Castle County.