The Evening critic., 1883-03-10

Captain Augustine J. Smith was yester-
day elected president OF the Maryland iAgrl-
cultural College.
John Wertz, one of the men charged with
setting fire to the Conestoga Cork Works, In
Lancaster, Pa, was convicted Thursday.
Governor Grant authorizes the statement
that he Will veto the bill passed by the Colo
rado Legislature taxing the net output OF
mines.
The steamer HohenstaufIen, which ar
rived at New York yesterday from Bremen,
brought 100 mill operatives for the Baltic
mills In Connecticut.
The inquest into the cause of the death
of Jim Elliott, the pugilist, was held at Chica.
go yesterday, and Dunn, who shot him, was
committed without bail.
John Carmody, who robbed New York
brokers' clerk In the street OF $1,513, was yes-
terday sentenced TO the State prison for 1Sla
years. Though but "a years old, he has
served ia years In prison.
Robert V. Dodd, formerly prominent
citizen OF Petersburg, Va, was shot and killed
at Hunnewell, Kan, on Thursday evening,
during dinlculty with an unknown man.
The deceased was Confederate soldier.
Goyernor Butler has dismissed Mr.. Clark
from the olilce Of Insurance commissioner OF
Massachusetts, but Mr.. Clark has not yet de-
cided whether TO vacate or hold on. For the
present he continues to discharge the duties
OF the oflice.
The Washington, Cincinnati & st. Louis
Railroad, narrow-guage road, on which some
work was done west of Harrisonburg, Va, un-
der the presidency OF the late Peter b. Borst, is
TO be sold on the 7th of April, together with a
large quantity Of mineral land.
Margaret Clune, of Holyole, Mass, has
sued Father Harkins, of st. Jerome Church
for SIC, 1000 for alleged slander uttered at hts
altar. Y is claimed that she gave up her seat
In church, and that he denounced her action
In terms that could not be mistaken, although
no name was mentioned.
The steamer Suevia, which arrived al
New York yesterday, reports that she fell IN
with the steamer City OF Chester, from New
York for Liverpool, on the 7th inst, with her
propeller. shaft broken. The Suevia stood by
the disabled vessel twenty-nine hours, and
then parted from her 10 gale.
The case of Father Gleason, Catholic
priest, against Mrs. Mary Donnelly, for crlmi
nal libel, In charging that he was the father o!
| child by Mary Proctor, formerly his house.
keeper, which has been in court at st. Louis
for three months past, and has attracted Q
night In verdict of not guilty. :
Additional caveats were filed yesterday
In the register OF Wills office at Philadelphia
| against the admission to probate of the Will o
charitable purposes. An urn containing the
ashes OF Mr.. Seybert, whose body was ere
mated az the LIE Moyne furnace, arrived II
In Laurel Hill Cemetery.
George +. Atiieck, his wife, and jane
Dunn, alias "Pop" White, the Oldest conidenc,
man In the country, who were arrested In New
York on Thursday, on charge OF robbinl
Jesse Williams OF $1,000 at the Broad.stree
depot, Philadelphia, had hearing yesterday
The woman and Dunn was discharged, a
there was no direct evidence against them
Aiileck consented to return TO Philadelphia.
John McCaferty, of New York, well
| known mining OPERATOR who has been ALLUDED
| 20 in recent cable dispatches as "numbe
| one' OF the Phnnix Park conspiraters, ha
| Issued a card declaring that II Is impossibl
that he should be the person referred to II
Carey'6 testimony, and explicitly denying
each OF his statements as applied TO himself
He says be has not taken part IN any move
ment connected with Irish Rffalrs since hi
discharge from prison by the British Govern
' ment In 1871.