The Evening critic., 1883-06-27
Pith of the Morning News.

rice famine is feared IN Java
The epidemic of cholera in Damiella
Egypt, continues unabated.
The belligerent Virginia editors seem
still to be looking for place to fight.
The recent operations of the British in
Sierra Leone were attended, with great atrocl-
ties on the part OF the native allies OF the
English.
On Monday evening, as the sheriff was
passing into the Jail at Madison, ILL.,, to lock
powered him and made their escrpe.
In the New York Supreme Court yester-
day Judge Lawrence denied the motion to set
aside the ''tri-partite agreement entered Into
by the three elevated railroads in 1881.
The loss by the destruction of the
Planters Cottonseed-0il Mill at New Orleans
600, on which the insurance is S2sO,OOO.
The Tell Chapel, ON Lake Lucerne,
switzerland, which was recently restored by
the Society of Swiss Artists, has been formally
handed over to the government Of the Canton
OF Uri.
While Sam Gatlin, colored, was being
taken to Jail at Lancaster, Pa, yesterday for
assaultlng young white girl, he was shot in
the back by some unknown person and fatally
wounded.
H. Clay Sale, whose exploits In Whining
ton, Del, as a disburser OF bogus checks havo
been heretofore mentioned, was adjudged a
lunatic yesterday in Louisville, KY, and sent
The winners of the Coney Island Jockey
Club yesterday were Mr.. II. W. walden's Chan
ticleer, Mr.. p. Lorillard's Breeze, Mr.. +. Rob-
inson's Harriet, Mr.. G. Littlefelds g Free Gold,
Mr.. j.. Heffner's Dan X, and in the steeple-
chase. Mr.. W. O. Daly's Belle of the North.
The ballot for United States Senator in
the New Hampshire Legislature yesterday re-
suited; Stevens, II; Marston, 13; Briggs, 80;
Patterson, SO; Rollins, 104; Bingham, 117.
Whole number, 321I necessary to a choice
161. Rollins loses 8 from Fridays ballot.
On Saturday Northern Pacific gravel
train, with about one hundred Cinnamon on
board, ran into wood train at the Heron
Siding (Montanal Instantly killing eighteen
others. The engineer OF the gravel train was
killed and the fireman badly hurt.
All the Christian lawyers at Nyreghhaza,
Hungary, where the trial OF the jews charged
with numbering Christian girl is proceed
ing, have adopted a resolution attacking the
conduct OF the public prosecutor because he
scarcely conceals his belief that the case was
fabricated by persons opposed 10 the Jews.
The will of N. L. Dukes was admitted to
probate In Uniontown yesterday. Besides the
bequest OF $1,000 to Mrs. Beeson he specifies /:
'Before my mother shall become beneficiary
under this instrument she shall sign to my
brother Lewis a release OF her dover upon the
land that was awarded TO me In partition In
proceedings in Hancock County, Ohio"
The trial of the case against NJ. t. Polk,
The defaulting State treasurer OF Tennessee,
began yesterday. An aflidavit WAS filed In sup.
port OF motion for a continuance, setting
forth that General Polk already had paid $50 =
600 TO tho State, and setting forth the sources
from which he expected TO derive $50. 1000, all
OF which would be promptly turned into the
treasury. The court overruled the motion
and ordered the trial To proceed.
DID you ever smoke Longfellow cigar?
The water is falling on the river side of
the Chicago 4 Alton Railroad at East st.
Louis, but Is rising out on the bottoms. In
the flooded region below many people are
camped on the bluffs, and some are living In
box cars on the railroads. In East ST. Louis
all the lowlands are inundated from ten TO
twenty feet, hundreds OF houses have their
lower floors flooded, and many OF them their
second stories. South OF st. Louis the entire
bottom, for an indefinite distance, including
the villages OF East Carondelet aud Cahokia,
Is submerged, and all the farms, for miles
are destroyed.