The Evening critic., 1883-04-27
News Notes.

The universal chess tournament began in
London yesterday.
William Miller, ex-member of the Ohio
Senate, died at Columbus yesterday.
Confederate Memorial Day was cele-
brated In many Southern cities yesterday.
Ellis P. Phipps was arraigned in Phila-
delphia yesterday, and pleaded not guilty.
The Baltimore cigarmakers will demand
an advance OF one dollar thousand on May /.
Charles w. Foster, father of Governor
Foster, died at Fostoria, Ohio, yesterday oven.
ing, aged 80.
A fire occurred in Warsaw yesterday in
cabinetmakers workshop. Sixteen of the
workmen were burned TO death.
General Jubal A. Early proposes to be
one OF fifty gentlemen to contribute 81 900
each for an equestrian statue of General X, L.
Lee in Richmond, Va.
Newburgh, Frenkle & Co., one of the
largest wholesale clothing houses In Cincin-
natl, have made an assignment. Their capt.
tai is estimated at over 100000.
The assignment schedule of Goldstein
Brothers, clothiers, of New York, was filed
yesterday. 1t gives the liabilities as S30,794,
nominal and actual assets, S1S,0i5.
A bill was reported by the Ways and
Means Committee in the Pennsylvania House
OF Representatives imposing tax OF one mill
on every gallon Of crude petroleum shipped
from Pennsylvania.
The odd-Fellows of Mississippi celebrated
Inc United States al Port Gibson yesterday.
Colonel j. L. Power, of jackson, grand master
OF the order, delivered an oration.
W. J. Fontaine, white man, tried in the
Circuit Court OF buckingham County, Va, and
convicted Of the murder OF a colored man
named Burton, has been sentenced TO ave
years Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Dispatches from the fruit-growing regions
OF Southern Illinois say that the late frost did
very little damage to the country south of Car
bondale, all the fruit trees being In full
bloom, and large crops OF all kinds OF fruit are
expected.
In the United States Circuit Court at st.
Louis on Wednesday, In the case of the United
States against Charles Ferguson, charged with
counterfeiting, Judge Hoffman decided that
gliding the new flve-cent nickel is counterfeit.
Ing and the jury convicted the prisoner.
A temperance mass-meeting, under the
auspicss Of the Maryland State Temperance
Alliance, was held last night at Carroll Hall,
Baltimore. Rev. d. @. Babcock, Mr.. William
Daniel, Ex-Governor st. John, of Kansas, and
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, OF Iowa, made addresses.
The Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives yesterday appointed a committee to In
quire into the validity of Governor Buffers
veto OF the bill Incorporating the Union Safe
Deposit Company. It is claimed that the Gov.
ernor was out OF the State on the day the veto
purports to have been signed.
1t turns out that the reported operations
OF burglars at the house OF Captain Parater,
CHIEF OF police OF Richmond, Va, were simply
the freaks OF his daughter. whose mind has
been disturbed by the reading OF sensational
stories. The story which she told OF being
seized and gagged by burglar was pure
fiction.
The fifty ninth anniversary of the Ameri-
can Sunday-school Union Will be held at Hart
ford, Conn, May 90. E. S. Tobey, of Boston,
Will preside. Addresses are expected from
the Rev. Q: l.. Goodell, d. D., OF st. Louis, Mo. i;
the Rev. W. p. Paxson, superintendent of the
southwestern District, and Senator A. II. Col.
| quilt, OF Georgia.