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

1t is intimated that the illness of NJ.
Fallieres may break up tho French Cabi-
net.
The Rockaway Beach Hotel was sold
yesterday, by the receiver to General Bar
low, for $176,500.
The jury in the Carroll murder trial, at
New Haven, Conn.,, reported yesterday
that they were unable to agree.
1t was reported in Paris yesterday that
the Orleans princes had drawn up mani
feato protesting against the charges made
against them.
l.. Candee g. Co., manufacturers Of rub.
ber goods have decided to stop work ON
February 10. This throws 1900 men out
of employment.
The employees of. the Pittsburg chair
works, at New Brighton, Pa, struck yes
terday against ten per cent reduction,
and the works are now idle.
State Treasurer Vincent, of Alabama, is
short in his accounts over 100000. and he
has left Montgomery. The Governor has
taken the keys of the treasury.
The Committee on State Prisons of the
New Jersey Senate has agreed to report
favorably bill for the branding of all
goods manufactured by convicts.
@. w. Ray, aged 55, of Assumption
Parish, La, committed suicide at New
Orleans yesterday by shooting himself
through the head. The cause is unknown.
Charles Nichols, of Centreville, Nd, was
fatally injured Monday in driving acci-
dent. His skull was crushed by his wagon
and his jawbone broken by a kick from one
of his horses.
E. A. Niven, associate editor of the
Wilkes Barre Union Leader, who was sued
last fall for libel by Ziba Van Loon, the
Democratic candidate for prothonotary of
Luzerne County, has been acquitted.
Ex-Governor Downey has published
card, in which he scouts at the tramp the
ory of the recent disaster ON the Southern
Pacific Railroad at Tehichipa, and charges
it to the carelessness of the railroad en-
ployes.
w. r. Cox, Congressman from the Fourth
North Carolina District, was married at
Raleigh, n. g., yesterday to Miss Fanny
Augusta Lyman, eldest daughter of Rev.
Theodore b. Lyman, Bishop of North Caro-
lima.
Next week the lodges of the Amalga-
mated Association throughout the country
will commence revision of the rates of
wages paid the past year, with view to
arranging new scale to go into effect
June l.
William NJ. Taggart, who was elected
Controller of Philadelphia by the City
Councils, made another attempt yesterday
to take possession of the Office, but found
the doors barred and retired without gain
ing admission.
James G. Roe, proprietor Of the Glen
ridge House at Cornwall N. Y, has made
an assignment, and Edward p. Roe, author
of various popular novels, his brother has
also made an assignment, caused by heavily
indorsing for his brother.
The lower house of the New Jersey Legis-
lature yesterday PASSED bill making four
men out of jury of six and nine men out
Of jury of twelve competent to render a
verdict. A bill was also passed repeating
the statute which makes labor strikes Sn-
lawful,
The Marquis of Lorne, Governor-G General
of the Dominion, aud suite arrived at OF
tawa yesterday. He was met at the sta
tion by guard of honor from the Foot
Guards, Sir John Mcdonald and other min
listers of the crown, as well as by q large
number of prominent citizens.
dispatch from Shamollin, Pa, says the
fire in Bear Valley shaft is extending, and
is now burning in breasts Nos. 8 and 10 and
in two mapways. Large quantities of
burning matter are being drawn out. The
operators will endeavor to extinguish the
fire, If possible, without flooding the mine,
as that would entail great expense
Franklin Pierce, claiming to be ply
sician. was he'd in $4,000 bail at Worches-
ter, Mass, yesterday for manslaughter in
causing the death of Mrs. Barna Bernis, of
Oakdale. He treated her for internal cry
sipelas by bathing her in kerosene aud
rolling her up in bandages saturated with
that oil. The woman was literally blis-
tered and skinned alive, and died after a
week of suffering.
Charges of a very circumstantial nature
having been made that friends Of Senator
Ferry and managers of his canvass for re-
election had approached various members
of the Republican opposition with offers of
postofiice clerkships, control of Federal
patronage and even foreign appointments
as bribes to induce them to vote for Mr.
Ferry in the pending contest, the lower
house OF the Michigan Legislature yester-
day adopted resolution calling for an in
ycstigAtion.