The Evening critic., 1883-02-22
News Notes.

Deputy Collector Dallam, of the port of
Baltimore, is dead.
1t is said that Irish Americans are leav-
ing Ireland since Carey's confessions.
William Roberts, aged 20, a prominent
citizen OF Baltimore, died yesterday.
Hon. James p. Dawkins Judge of the
Fifth Judicial Circuit of Florida, died few
days ago.
The report that another widespread con-
spiracy was to be investigated at Dublin Gas.
tie Is denied.
Prime Minister Ferry has submitted to
President Grevy list of the members OF the
new French Cabinet.
Mrs. Mix, living near Ocala, Fla, was
burned to death on Monday night by her cloth
ing accidentally taking fire.
Smallpox has broken out in Sussex
County, Va, three miles from Stony Creek
Station, on the Petersburg Il Weldon Rail-
road.
Last night Katie Gerlach, aged years.
one OF the children injured In the schoolhouse
disaster in New York on Tuesday, died. She
is.the seventeenth victim.
1t is stated by authority that the ma
jority Of the Rhode Island Democratic State
Committee are opposed to the candidacy OF
Mr.. Sprague for Governor.
The husband of Mrs. MacRae, who died
at Nantucket on Thursday OF drunkenness,
told the coroner that he might give the corpse
to the medical faculty for dissection.
All the temperance and prohibition
measures introduced in the New Jersey Leg
islature at the present session wore killed In
quick succession in the House yesterday.
A clerk in the banking house of Preston,
Kearn & Co., OF Chicago, named Il. NJ. Kerr,
absconded in January with $20,55O OF their
money ana $4,000 in bonds belonging to their
customers.
Virgins prediction of a terrible storm
from March o to 10 has deferred a number of
Gloucester fishermen from returning to
| Georges Bank. The women are urging the
men TO stay at home.
Andrew ]. Hennion a florist, of New
| burg, N. ", who is In financial trouble, sat
| down on bed yesterday and blew his face to
| pieces with a double-barreled gun, pulling the
| trigger with his feet.
The surveyor of the port of San Francisco
| has seized on the steamer City Of Toxic lot
| OF opium valued at $4,000. 1t was concealed
| in the watertank, the only access to which is
| by means OF a shaft we'll.
While political convention was being
| held In a hall 9t East Hastings, Ont, on Tues
day night, the floor gave way and hundred
| people fell through. No one was killed,
but a large number were more or less In.
iured.
The liabilities of the suspended firm of
Allen & Co, OF Chicago, are found to be over
100000. The assets, though nominally
S3o0,00o, VIII realize much less. Rudolph
sylvan 4 Co., liquor dealers, OF Chicago,
4 600.
Mrs, Elizabeth S. Taylor formerly of
Winchester, Va, died in New York a few days
ago, at the residence Of the Hon. Algernon s.
sullivan, aged SO years. Mrs. Taylor was tho
widow OF the late Bushrod Taylor, the founder
Of the Taylor Hotel, Winchester. Tho wife OF
Mr.. Sullivan is niece OF Mrs. Taylor.
An ice-yacht race took place on the
Hudson yesterday, between oight of the crack
boats Of the Poughkeepsie Iceboat Club
| The course was sixteen miles long. Aaron
Innis' new boat, the "Haze," which was never
in a race before, won the first heat In 90
minutes, and the second hoat and the race 10
% minutes.
Some days ago the body of Daniel Walker
n colored man, was found on the track OF thl
Richmond Fredericksburg Railroad, nea
| Richmond. II was at first supposed that HI
had been run over by train, but later do
yelopments have given rise 10 suspicion
that the man was murdered and his bod!
placed ON the track Barbara Walker, thl
| wife of tho decensed, and man named Lee
who Is said TO have been Intimate with her
have been arrested and committed to Jail a
| Richmond.