The Evening critic., 1884-03-15
THE MORNING NEWS,

Local and General, Boiled Down,
worked Over and Furnished UP
Fresh.
Ex-Congrossman Tafc, of Nebraska, died
at North Platte yesterday.
The bill to pension Mrs Meikleheim was
defeated In the House of Representatives yes
terday.
The report of the Assembly Committee
elbows n very rotten state OF afrnlrs In the gov
eminent OF New York city.
The Grace Reformed Church Sunday
school Will hold an anniversary service at z
o'clock Tomorrow evening.
The police In Pesth made general raid
upon the anarchists yesterday, aud arrested
among thcm two newspaper editors.
The British lost 81 officers and mon killed
and Ill were wounded In Wednesdays baltic
with osman Digna. over 1000 rebels were
killed.
G. ]. Ladson, of this city, was among the
graduates in dental surgery ut the University
OF Maryland yesterday. He received two
prizes.
The business failures of the last seven
days throughout the country number for the
United States I'D, and for Canada and the
provinces Do.
The Washington Art Club has issued
cards for rcceptionexhlbitlon at tho Cor.
ooran building next Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings.
Oliver Dyer, jr., of Mount Vernon, N. Y,
the Yale sophomore who was injured at their
games on Saturday, tho Sth instant, and has
cen unconscious ever since, died yesterday.
Tho Rev. w. S. Ross, A. NJ, who repre-
sents tho Irish church societies In this ooun-
try, will deliver his farewell address Mt the
Church OF the Incarnation at IL o'clock to.
! morrow.
Later reports from the Pocahontas (Va.)
mine disaster indicate that 15t lives in all
were loat. IL has boon determined 10 seal up
the entrances TO tho mlne in order to smother
tho fire within.
Last evening Mr.. A. A. Hayes delivered
an Interesting lecture at st. johns Guild, at
Twenty -eecond and Virginia avenue, on the
subject OF "The West, its Past, Present and
Future" on next Thursday evening DR..
Reyburn Will lecture.
Mr. Bradlaugh, while delivering lecture
at Bridgewater last night against perpetual
pensions, was attacked by roughs and driven
from the platform by showers OF rotten eggs,
fruit and fireworks: The roughs afterward at
tackled and wrecked the chairmans house.
John A. Rawlius Post, No. 1, of the Grand
Army OF tho Republic, the Oldest post of the
Grand Army In the United States had q rous-
Ing camp fire last evening, the occasion being
n vislt Of Department Commander Alexander
and his stan, and also the entertaining OF a
number OF distinguished guests.
Charles w. O'Neill, through his attorney,
Charles Pelham, yesterday filed an answer to
the bill OF Amelia o'Noill, for divorce, charg.
ing that he refuses to support her. Mr.. O'Neill
makes general denial OF the charges, aud
naturally refuses to support the complainant,
because he says that he never was married to
her.
The cutting of freight rites by competing
lines from New York to Chattanooga contin-
ues. The East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
announces reduction In freight rates over
their line from Eastern cities to Chattanooga
OF nearly 60 per cent. from regular rates. A
further cut by the Merchants Dispatch Line
is expected.
Tho employment committee of the Grand
Army OF the Republic, headed by Captain
Burke, has passed vote OF thanks to Seere-
tnry Folger for appointing veterans to posi-
lions In the Treasury Department. The last
appointment was that OF Colonel Dayton, of
1000 street southeast, who was gallant
of1lcer during the late war.
A very pleasant reunion took place at the
Ebbitt House last night. Tho resident citizens
OF WISCONSIN were invited by the Wisconsin
Republican Association to meet Governor
Rusk, OF that State, at au informal reception.
There was large company present, aud
senta,iyes and justices and their ladies'.
Mayor Franklin Edison, of New York
city, Comptroller Grant, Commissioner of
Public Works Thompson, Aqueduct Comms.
| sionere Spencer, Dowd and baldwin, aud En-
gineers Church, Newton and Fletey havo boon
IN this city several Days Inspecting tho now
water works extension. They left yesterday
for Baltimore, where they propose to make
similar observations. t's
A major generals salute was fred at
Utica, N. y, yesterday In honor OF the action
OF Congress IN the vindication OF General
Fitz- John Porter. AT the same time the fol.
lowing dispatch was forwarded to General
Porter "The members OF the Fifth Corps that
loved you, and which You loved so we'll, are
firing salute In your honor. They feel that
Congress has partially rIghted the great wrong
done their old commander"
The Ways and Means Committee Of the
Maryland House of Delegates yesterday re-
ported favorably Mr.. Lanes high license bill,
which has already passed tho Senate. The IL
censes for hotels, inns, taverns, oyster houses,
eating housea, &C., are to cost from SIS, whers
the rent is 500, to 1876 where 1t is over TO-
600. For selling liquor IN quantities not less
than pint the prices of licenses range from
500 on 81 900 worth In stock to over $500 on
over $4,000 In stock. For selling In quantities
less than pint from $50 to $500, according
TO population.
The Washington Gaslight Company has
been granted permission by tho Commission
efs TO lay gas mains on tho following streets :
on d, from Thirteen.aud-a.half to Fourteenth
streets; Fourteenth street, from to Maryland
avenue southwest; north slde OF Il, betwesn
Nineteenth and Twentieth streets; Twenty.
NTH, between L and NJ streets; north side OF
q, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streots
Ohio avenue, north side, between Fourtoenth
and Fifteenth streets; I, between Eleventh
and Twelfth streets nlrfeast, and Keaessw
street Dn vest c W. o. sooTT sss%s'I1 0,
Ninih.sas~ceroffhwet.s
In Philadelphia, yesterday, Joseph Glnd-
hart, an indentured apprentices, was brought
10 courtDy his employer, charged with inSub.
ordination and with wiilfully spelling work
given him 10 DO. The Court said that IL was u
pity that the old system OF Apprenticeship had
| gone out OF use, and that we are dependent
upon foreign countries for our skilled iaborers,
He would let apprentices know that thelRfn.
dentures meant something, ana aqcerdtngly
sentenced the boy to thqdebtorasprfson for 81
| hours. This, the Judgq9 Aa,ass8dld not brand
him AS criminal. ..ssksg
EASTER cards stsssJ. adhld's, d21 9th st.
s.ziE lzazucgufar monthly meeting Of tho
Washington Continentnls was held last evon.
Ing at tho armory, Colonel George Il. Tlmms
presiding. A number OF applications for mem
bersbip were received. 1t was decided to unite
with the Lawrence Barrett Dramatic Club In
an entertainment TO he given in May. The
meeting was largely attended aud enthusiastic
and considerable business was transacted, aud
II was decided 70 parade on Decoration Day.
The names OF those entitled TO the premiums
for selling the most tickets at the recent falr
were announced as followe; First premium,
gold watch, TO Miss Mary Mills; second, dla-
mond ring, TO Miss Lula Denison; third, Jew.
elry, 10 Mrs. Captain Vermilllon.
"Tiie MOuntaineer" Egcited.
An employe at the Asylum here drewH nth
Of the second capital prize OF $25,00QYfn the
Grand Drawing OF the Louisiana st9fB Lottery