The Evening critic., 1883-01-02
News Notes.

MIR. O'Bi1en was arralgned for libel in
Dublin yesterday, and the prosecution was
postponed.
The steamer Wheatfeld, from New York,
has been wrecked at st. GATHERINGS Point, on
the English coast
No 10 breaker of the Pennsylvania Coal
Company at Pttston, Pa, was burned yester-
day; loss, S150,00O.
The japanese army is to be increased by
several infantry regiments, and the navy Is
also TO be augmented.
The arrivals at New York of vessels
from foreign ports during 1882 numbered
6,476, including 1,945 steamers.
Three of the new Belgian glass blowers
imported to take the places of Baltimore
strikers Joined the latter yesterday.
Harry w. Bell, one of the editors of the
Selma (Alao Times, died yesterday from an
overdose of chloroform taken by accident.
Judge Sharswood retired from the Su.
preme Court of Pennsylvania yesterday, and
is succeeded as Chief Justice by Judge Mercur.
The ship w, f. Babcock left Baltimore on
Sunday with $3.50 tons of coal, the largest
cargo Of the kind that ever left an American
port.
The Cincinnati water-works were COM
pieted yesterday. The city now has capacity
hours.
Henry Jacobs, clothing dealer at Charles.
ton, $. O., made an assignment yesterday. His
$4,000.
The Tennessee Senate organized yester-
day by the election OF B. +. Alexander, OF
Rutherford, Speaker, and T. Q. Long, Of Maii-
son, Clerk.
Mayor Whyte, of Baltimore, yesterday ap.
pointed largo number OF vaccine physicians,
and vigorous measures against the smallpox
are now TO be resorted to.
The Fulton cotton mill, No. 8, of Ian
caster, Pa, operated by George Calder, has
suspended operations owing to the dullness In
hundred operatives thrown
out of work.
The Ford brothers, who became in
volved In a scrimmage at horticultural Hall,
Boston, on Saturday, did not wait to be ar.
rested yesterday, as their managers agreed
rhey should, but left for New York.
The Democratic members of both houses
OF the Delaware Legislature hold caucuses
last night and selected the following ofiicers:
Speaker of the Senate, Samuel d. Cooper;
clerk, Charles Wiley; Speaker OF the House,
Geo. P. Bates; clerk, E. W. NAPLES.
The north-bound passenger train from
Jacksonville, Fla, due at Macon, Ga., at 8 80
p. m. on Sunday, was ditched by a broken
switchrod 81 miles below Macon. Four cars
rolled or the track, tho baggage car turning
over twice. Out OF one hundred passengers no
one was hurt.
William NJ. Kaufman & Co., who operate
furnaces at Topton and Kutztown, Berks
County, Pa, yesterday announced a reduction
OF ten cents per day In the wages OF their em-
ployes on account OF tho reduction in the
price OF iron. The men at the Topton furnace
struck, but the Kutztown furnace Is still work
ing.
The funeral of Jacob and William Rusk,
the two young men who stabbed a police
oflcer In Philadelphia on Christmas night,
and jumped into the canal at Trenton, N. j.,
TO avoid arrest, took place from their mothers
house in Philadelphia yesterday. Five thou
sand people passed through the house and
looked upon the faces OF the dead.
Shortly after 12 O'Clock ON Sunday night
while watch hmeetlng services were being held
In the Reformed Evangelical Church at
Reading, Pa, large cannon, filed wi.n
stones and powder, was discharged. The front
wall was broken In, and nearly all the window
| panes shattered. Great excitement was caused
among the audience, but no one was hurt,
| Eight arrests have been made.
The superintendent of the Girard estate
| gives the assessed value OF the property be-
| longing TO the estate exclusive OF the college
| buildings) at S14,S76,O2l; the college prop
| an Invested legacy OF $4,000, bequeathed by
| Lawrence Todd. The receipts from the estate
! during the past year were ST. ,022, ,S07; expen-
ditures $526, ,295. The college now contains
| lilo pupils, with 432 applicants for admIs.
| sion.
Lieutenant. Governor John L. Lewis in
| stituted q suit at Richmond, Va, for $4,000
| damages against Drs. j. d. McOan aud J. s..
| Wexford, OF the faculty OF the Medical College
| OF Virginia, and Policeman q. II. Matthews
| for falso arrest and Imprisonment. The suit
Lewis at the time that he, at tho head OF tho
| new -rd Of directors appointed by Governor
Cameo ampted to take charge OF affairs
mt the meu.SsI college some months siuce.
The old board Will not surrender the manage
| ment OF the college until legally ousted.