The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-02-27
THE MORNING NEWS,
Local and General, Boiled Down
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Worked Over and Furnished Up
Fresh.
Generals De wimpGen aud schramm, of
the French army, are dead.
Mrs. Catherine Rohr, of Charlestown, W.
Va, died last week, aged 0S years.
Mr. Arthur Wellesley Peel has been elect.
cd Speaker OF tho House OF Commons.
Prince Krapotkine, the Russian socialist,
is dangerously Ill az Clairvaux prison, France.
Tho local branch of the Royal Arcanum
gave banquet at Mr.. Edward FIck's Monday
evening.
Hon. Richard ID. Hubbard, Ex-Governor
Of Connecticut, is seriously Ill at his home In
Hartford.
Mrs. Margaret Lincoln Macveagh, the
mother OF Hon. Wayne Mcveagh, died In Phila.
delphia Monday, aged 81 years.
The Lenten season will be governed by
the same regulation by Catholics as last year
In this diocese. Lent begins to-day.
Both Houses of the Virginia Legislature
havcipassed bill Incorporating tho Lynch
burg Southwest Railroad Company.
DIR. g. V. Boarman has been appointed
company surgeon of the Baltimore & Potomac
railroad, vice Dr.. q. NJ. Ford, deceased.
w. b. Cash, son of Colonel Cash. tho
duellst, who fatally shot two men at Cheraw,
8. o., Saturday, hao escaped into North Caro-
lima.
A dispatch from Norfolk says IL Is stated
that tho Seaboard 4 Roanoke Railroad Com
burg Railroad.
The House of Lords has passed tho bill
to AFFORD better protection to English cattle
against the Introduction OF the foot and mouth
disease from abroad,
An interesting entertainment was given
by the choir and children OF the Church OF the
Incarnation at willard Hall last night for the
benefit OF the church.
Hon. Lucius j. Knowles, the senior part.
nerof the firm OF l.. ]. Knowles 4 Brother, OF
this city, died In this city Monday night Of
neuralgia OF the heart.
Mier Jarboe, aged so years, was struck
by an engine In the yard at kcyser, W. Va,
MONDAY night, and received injuries which
| will probably prove fatal.
The Carroll Institute Rowing Club gave
their nret annual musical and dramatic enter-
| tainment at their hall last evening. The pro.
ceeds are for the benefit OF the club.
| The sale Of the Stewart building, at
| Broadway and Chambers street, New York,
| by the widow OF A. t. Stewart to ex-Judge Hill
ton for 81, 100000, was recorded yesterday.
Colonel John Gibbon, Seventh Infantry
Will command tho Department OF tho Platte
| during the absence OF Drigadler.General oil
4 yer o. Howard, United States Army, on leave
A petition was presented in the Mary.
land Senate yesterday for the Legislature to
| memorabilia Congress TO prohibit tho issuing
OF United States liquor licenses In local.optlon
| counties.
In the Maryland Senate yesterday the
bill to tax mortgages was defeated by having
It's enacting clause stricken out, but was after.
| ward reconsidered and made the order for
Thursday.
In tho Whitcomb House, at Rochester, N.
y, yesterday, Mrs. L. II. Dussey, OF Troy, N.
| Y, shot but not fatally, woman who, she
| charged, was her husbands mistress. She
| found her In her husbands room.
| Articles Of incorporation of tho Public
Postal Telegraph Company, which proposes to
operate tte lines upon the type-writing sys.
L TIT VNntA ant 4. fAh tn anNI
sively, were filed in New York yesterday.
A dispatch from Minneapolis, Mimi,
| states that the worst blizzard OF the season is
raging at Crookston and vicinity, aud that
| fears are entertained for tho safety OF the pas.
sengers who left on the stage for Red Lake
Falls.
A false alarm of fire caused panic Ia the
Royal Theatre, Montreal, yesterday afternoon
Some OF the women and children ia the audi
ence were trampled on and badly bruised.
Quiet was finally restored and the play pro.
ceeded.
At Hot Springs, Ark, yesterday, citi-
zens committee ordered Hugh Beham, James
Flynn, recently engaged In the shooting ARRAY
| at that place, TO leave the town, which they
wero forced 10 do. number OF others were
| also forced to leave.
The resignation of Mr.. James b. Butler,
chief OF the appointment Division OF the Treas
| ury Department, has been In the hands OF the
Secretary since the Doth Instant. II has moi
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| tradiction OF the rumor that he is an applicant
| for the Assistant Secretaryship.
Great excitement prevailsat Erin, Tenn,
| over the discovery OF n gold mine there by A.
II. Bernathy, who, while hunting, found cave
| and evidences OF gold. Over $4,000 worth OF
nuggets are on exhibition, and minors are
| nocking to the spot. Erin is small place on
the Louisville Nashville Railroad, near the
Tennessee River.
At special meeting of the Petersburg,
| n
appointed to petition the Virginia Legislature
for authority TO Issue bonds to an amount moi
exceeding $150,000 to aid the building of tho
Virginia 4 Carolina Railroad, 10 run from
Richmond to Ridgway, n. o., 80 as to pass
through Petersburg.
General Graham telegraphs from Trinki.
tat to General Stephenson az Cairo that prepa-
ratfons for his advance have been completed
General Graham has been instructed to de-
mand from Osman Digna the release OF the
soldiers taken at Tokar, and in case OF his re
fusal TO give battle forth with. An engagement
10 expected on Friday.
The S@ngerbund gave its annual fancy
dress ball last night at Abner's Hall. The al
tendance was very large. very pretty fea
song from Balfes "Bohemian Girl" with or.
chestral accompaniment, under the Leadership
OF Professor Donch and executed by appropri
ately costumed ladies'.
Tho Philadelphia and Reading Coal
Iron Company has issued Its circular OF Marcel
prices for the line and city trade. No change:
| are made In the ruling rates, the ngures fol
white ash coal at Bchuylkill Haven being a
follows; Lump and steamboat, $275; broker
and egg, $2.S5; chestnut, SO; stove and small
stove, 1915; pea No. l, $1.4o; buckwheat, 0C
| cents.
Judge Bond, who was o warm, persona
friend OF the late Mr.. Partridge, was q
the State Department yesterday TO Inquire
there was any further Intelligence with refer
eDce 10 the death OF that gentleman. The SEE
rotary OF State said that the Department
would, II II was desired, take charge OF all tn
arrangements for bringing home the body @
Mr.. Partridge.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelt
to Animals has placed postal cards, properl
directed, with Johnston Co., at their stores
| corner Tenth and o streets northwest and Of
| Pennsylvania avenue, between Thirteenth an
| Fourteenth streets; and with ID, p Hlckline
corner Pennsylvania avenue and Third stree
for the convenience OF persons wishing to sen
complaints TO the agent.
The Senate in executive session yester
day confirmed tho following nominations: Hd
ratio q. Burchard, OF Illinois, TO be Director O
the Mint; Eugene o. Fechet, OF Michigan, {
be Consul at Paso del Norte; Daniel b. Dyer
OF Kansas, 70 BIO agent for the Cheyenne an
Afapahoe Indians In tho indian Territory, an
Henry III. Lawson, OF Texas, 10 be agent 10
the Quapard agency In the Indian Territory.
\ The last of the series of card reception
! at the White House last evening 4
honor OF the Army aud Navy wa
the most brilliant OF the Season
The President was assisted In receiving b
Mrs. McElroy and tho ladies OF the Oabine
b and the introductions were made by Marshs
\ McMichael and Lieutenant Mason. TIL
decorations were very tasteful and errectly,