The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-04-26
HANS weather Predictions.
THE MORNING NEWS,
Local and General. Boiled Down,
Worked over ana Furnished Ur


Dr. Willard Parker died in Now York
yesterday, aged 80.
Fanny Ellslor, the celebrated dansuese, is
dangerously Ill IN London.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Homes is preparing
memoir OF Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The gas-lamps will DO lighted at 7:i5 p.
m. and extlnguished at $3.50 a. m. s..gS
The returns Indicate a majoyitEof 10000
for the Democratic STAT Slsss'n Louisiana,
ne rs soS SaRna aa y RsHEi'eman Bros cor
A caaistef of powder exploded without
Jay; - 49, wv '''''
The death is announced of NJ. Demos
themes oliver, the French statesman, aged 30
years.
Mr.. John O'Connor Power has abandoned
the Parnellites and Joined the Independent
Liberals.
The total subscriptions for the proposed
Jeanette monument Mt Annapolis up 70 this
time aggregate 1850.
The leading steel works in Prussia will
reduce the number OF working hours on &C.
count OF overproduction.
The business failures throughout the
country for the last seven days number for the
United States 16S and for Canada 81.
The reported suicide of Prince Kung and
OF tho Viceroy OF Yunnan, both or whom were
recently degraded In China, Is denied.
Joseph +. Tucker, general manager of
tho Illinois Central Railroad, has resigned.
Mr.. Tucker has been In the service OF the I'LL.
nois Central for % years.
Frank James was acquitted of robbery Mt
Huntsville, Ala, yesterday. He was immedi.
ately arrested, to be taken to Casper County,
No., for trial for robbery there.
VIM. Daily, on trial at Pittsburgh, Pa,
for the murder OF John Thornburg at Mans.
field, Pa, about six weeks ago, was found
guilty OF granddaughter yesterday.
The committees of the First Corps Wi}is
Parties deaiiing 10 accomnanv nsss,],S No. ,ha
| bai,ie.,eids are ,nvted 10 hssyytesent w '"'
THE Ratchet NH AvrVF bc. cigar. aeorpes.
| $50 Il st, -.srefI
| ui-~r53yruil L., o., ......, -,
49,, ~ n uss.ni ageu %, c9mmitteu sui
Gue az tne hotel Brunswlck, syracuse, N. W
epiy oi ngn1, py nangiIg ne was ior
| merry wei SHOWN railroau man. temporary
insanity was 'he cause'
thirty boys employed In Gleason glass
WORKS, at oreenpolnt, n. " struck Yesterday
inoinins ZOE IN aaxa ds from 800 70 sl,Zo
partially stopped by the strike. '' ''p''' % 10
A disease resembling pleuro- pneumonia
has broken out among the cattle In Washing.
| ton County, Pa. Veterinary surgeons pro-
nounce It contagious, and have recommended
Governor fatlisoh 10 quarantine the district.
| 1t is reported that the English Govern
ment will send an autumn expedition for the
rescue OF General Gordon. Turkey Insists that
the proposed Egyptian conference shall settle
the political as well as the financial question
Germany will not consider the political cues.
tion.
Mrs. Honorah O'Keefe, widow of the
late Edmund O'Keefe, and grandmother OF
Mr.. L. D. Wright, OF tho local bar, died yester-
day at the residence of her daughter, in her
day morning.
M al ,o..,. r A. ,.
Inc mai lecture OIL the free course given
oicg,cni aeIetes WI eli, Inc e I ena
j. W. Powell director OF the geoiaSicai smryev
|
| snbIect will he Tho exnloration Of the oaio'
rado River. WV
E1:acyernor !, Marcus L. Ward, Of New
teroay rom naiarlai Ieyer contracted In
SsIss sSS 4spsSs,ss ss sSs'i hf f.
elected Goyern9r l In 1865 for three years, and
10 congress IN 1871
The suit against William B. Gill, SUPER
tntendent, and other EN- ployes of the Western
Union Telegraph pho COMPANY IN philadelphia,
| ern iInion ana Raitimnrs (, nhin taIoaronh
companIes for deskroom in n broker's ofIIca'
WAS dismissed Yesterday. owing to the ahsence
of the prosecutor.
The gold medal of tho military service
| Institution Of the Initial states has haen
| awarded TO Iieutenant wagner. Sixtb In.
Snntry' for tho heat easav oS ,hn .sM,,,a ~, u,
ior a a1e ,b Se f Essay on inc MI
Proyisions for Meetine Them'" The tndges
who made tho award were Generais Shermsn'
Franklin and Tower. '''
The enternris;no bicvclers bovo d;soov.
| cred mai II "a a pleasant SUNDAY nastime m
| ride 10 Baltimore on tbeir siient steaas ana
| return by railroad. Tho trin 10 tho viii AGA Of
| Ashton ia becominr ponnIer no Inc distancs "a "a
| better euited TO t6e bicivcier tban that 70 10
| Frederick or Mariboro'' the ride to Graat
Falls possesses the greatest ' natural l adT s
tages.
The Washington Graduate Association Of
the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity held its snrine
meeting last Tuesday night at the residence
OF Rev. Mr.; Wyncoop. The association chose
as their delegates TO the hfty-second annual
convention the following members: HSHsdeo
q. Round, Robert j. Mitchell, q ihe Second
Comptroller's onice, aug Rrotesc5r Francis A
Springer.
SMOKE the HstcAsfeS{Xr, sc. Georges, s2C
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Av,,9or a n,oot,n,ho f tho par,h,,o.r
Central Comm,,iee NJ Shea,s w Hail Ppo.D,,h,
stoned NV a. NJ SiIan nv nresiaant ava y,
Greenar secredar1 hpnPp ,sa, @n N.Y. ~,
nose Of me ynea;yna 10 to cns'dar ,s,h p,s,
ness interests Of he co no and a,hn