The Evening critic., 1884-08-21
MORNING NEWS,
Local and General, Boiled Down,
worked over aud Furnished up


adeIphia yesterday with imposing ceremo'
nice.
The steamship Hermann brought i73 |
stecrngo passengers from Bremen to Dalu' |
more yesterday. |
Present steamship mail arrangements
from England 10 New York Will be continued
for another year.
The German flag has been hoisted over
territory south Of the Congo belonging TO Ham
burg merchants.
Police Officer Charles Hood has been
dropped from the force for absonting himself
from his beat for an hour.
Another iron clad for the Chinese Navy
was launched Of Stettin Tuesday. II Is fur
nished with the electric light.
Madame Patti has signed contract with
Colonel Mapleson TO sing In America the com.
ing winter and next summer In England.
Recent publications about the Greedy
Arctic experiences have boon Btigmatized In
England as disgrace to American Journal
lem.
Harry Crowley. of Johnstown, Pa, was
held for trial In Now York for obtaining IL
legal board at the Fifth Avenue Hotel for
month.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
be held at Rochester, n. y, September II
and 10.
Samuel Howard, brakeman on the
Western Maryland Railroad, was killed at
Willlamsport yesterday by being crushed be.
tween the cars.
A grey eagle, measuring seven feet from
tip TO tip, was killed recently at Hackett5
Point, Nd, and Is preserved as curiosity as
well as monstrosity.
Two boys of Isaac Beard, of Springfield,
Ohio, while playing with matches, flrod the
house. The elder boy escaped, but the
| younger, f1ye years old, was burned to death.
The largest shipment OF. melons at ono
| time from Anne Arundel County this season
went to Baltimore Tuesday. They were from
| the farms OF Stewart Griecom, and num-
| bered $500.
An alarm of fire from box % summoned
| the Fire Department 10 W. II. Sauter's furni-
tuIe store, 101l Seventh street, at . o'clock
| this morning. Tho flames were extinguished
without serious damage.
The Old Time Telegraphers Association
met in 81. Louis yesterday. Tho cities repre-
scented were New York, Baltimore, Chicago,
New orleans, Memphis, Louisville, Omaha,
Denver and Kansas City.
Judge Bartlett, of New York, yesterday
granted an attachment against the property OF
John p. Dickinson, the defaulting cashier OF
the Wall Street Bank, in suit brought by tho
bank tor the recovery of 100000.
Henry Gomez steward of the schooner
Julia a. Baker, who Is wanted for particlpat-
ing in the murder OF Captain Lewis, has takon
passage on the steamer Cienfuegos, from Mas.
hau for New York, under an assumed namo.
Six Roumanian Jews, believed to be as
sisted emigrants, arrived In New York on tho
steamer Amerique from Havre yesterday.
| unlees they can show that they have friends
here or means OF support they Will be sent
back.
Major d. p. Heap, u. S. A., engineer Sec
rotary OF tho Lighthouse Board, has been ap-
pointed member OF the board OF examiners
OF the International Electrical Exhibition, and
| delphia.
Tho funeral of Mrs. Mary Clemmer
Hudson took place at A o'clock yesterday from
her late residence, No. 131 Pennsylyania
avenue, and was attended by large number
/ CltlZeng. OUerlnge
were handsome and numerous.
Town Marshal jesse Offutt, of Franklin,
Kentucky, was fatally shot IN the back three
times Tuesday by Henry Taylor, whom he had
arrested for drunkenness. After the trial the
two men went TO a store for cigar, and while
Quits back was turned Taylor shot him.
A wooden model of the Washington river
front and Georgetown harbor, as they Will
| appear after the completion OF the present
| project, is being carved and painted In natural
colors at Colonel Haine' onlce. II VIII DO
| placed on exhibition at the National Museum.
The horse and wagon of John Deyo, q
butcher of Greene County, N. u, was found
standing In the road yesterday covered with
blood. Near By lay bloody neckiie and an
robbed and murdered, though tho body was
not found.
1t is rumored at Cumberland Nd, that
the Are in the old mine at Pompey Smash, or
Vale Summit, supposed TO have been extin'
guished two years ago, has broken out afresh,
and that tho Consolidation Company, which
|
meets, are getting ready TO fight the flames.
The seventeenth annual meeting of the
Connecticut Peace Society opened at Mystic
Conn.,, yesterday. The presidents addros'
OF the Deaf Mute School. message was sen
10 President Grevy and Marquis Tseng, I'm
ploring them 70 arbitrate their differences.
In the contempt proceedings against tn,
managers OF the Newark Savings institution
yesterday Hugo Fraentzel, one of tho man
ayers, testified that he did not know OF tn
loans 70 =. II. Hartman 90. or Fiske
loans alleged in tho complaints against thu
managers.
The Solicitor of the Treasury has decided
that where Congress limits the amount 10 b;
expended on building, as In the case OF nj
Syracuse public building, and subseque ltlI
apptopriates Nh amount In excess OF tina
n limit that the subsequent legislation annul'
Q the former and tho full amount appropriated
may be expended.
0 AT meeting in Dublin yesterday of thu
: Irish Land League, MIR. Harrington read
cable message from Patrick Eagan expressing
the support OF the American League IN thi
!, cause OF Ireland. Mr.. sullivan expressed tn
q pride and pleasure OF Ireland at the election
Of Mr.. Eagan 10 the presidency OF the Amerl
can National League.
In the habeas corpus case of Patricl
Kearney, an assisted immigrant, who arrives
in New York from ireland July 10, with hi
WIZ SI s ssSsn Jqdge New y6 IN a
terday discharged Kearney from detention
holding that the commissioners had no au
thority to hold immigrants for examination
after they had been allowed TO land.
At Mill Lane Station, on the Cheste
Valley Railroad, Tuesday night, nine Hun
garian and Italian laborers employed In
quarry were robbed OF their earnings, amount
Ing 10 500, which they kept hidden In theii
!, rude hut. while they were at supper four
masked and wellarmed men appeared, and
producing revolVers and pistols, demanded
The money, which the foreigners handed over
Lieutenant John w. Danenhower, thu
distinguished Arctic explorer, will be relieved
|" IRON duty on the Minnesota September j, anC
will assume charge OF the departments oil
electricity, moteorology and natural phiioso
ply at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Lieu
tenant Danenhower Will spend few days II
r Washington before entering upon his nov
duties.
A reflector was placed behind one of thu
> electric lights on the Smithsonian last nigh
enCet was very beautiful, specially so from
the river, the Monument being Illuminated Il
dazzling whiteness, casting a dark shadow
that fell on tho water, ana at times the bas
disappeared in the darkness, while the uppe
, portion was illuminated and seemed to swim
IN the atmosphere.
A very quiet marriage occurred at Ian
caster, Pa yesterday In which Mr.. F. W
Larner, OF this city, and Miss Alcinda David
son were the contracting parties. Among
those present were Miss Clara Walker, Mis-
Clara Hauer, Il, NJ. and Carrie Larner, an,
ceremony. The bridal party returned 70 tnl
city last evening. The wed nj wa