The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-05-03
THE MORNING NEWS,
Local and General. Boiled Down
worked Oveg and Furnished UP

Fresh.
The Senate is not in session to-day.
The Hon. w. M. Evarts Is confined to
his house by illness.
Chevalier Wyckoa died at Brighton,
England, yesterday.
Dispatches from Khartoum report that
everything is still safe.
The President will go to New York on
Wednesday or Thursday.
Robert ID. Milhlland and Seth s. Hance,
prominent citizens OF Baltimore, died yoster-
day.
The Marine Band concerts at the Presi-
dents grounds begin this evening at $3.50
o'clock.
Over one thousand cabin passengers sail
ed from New York Thursday for various Euro
pean ports.
Senator Don Cameron, it is now an.
nounced, will reach Harrisburgh about the
18th of May.
G.. J. Mueller and w. II. Leo have been
excused for the term as petit Jurors In the
Criminal Court.
Mr.. james K. Keene is reported as say
ing that he will be able finally to take care OF
all his contracts.
The Attorney. General will entertain tho
President and the Supreme Court Justices at
dinner this evening.
The Rt. Rev. Augustus M. Toebbe, Ro-
man Catholic Bishop OF tho Diocese OF Ooving-
ton, KY, died yesterday.
Mrs. Addie Hemphill, wife of Congress
man Uemphill, OF South Carolina, died at
Cascade, Va, on Wednesday.
A match game of baseball between the
81. Johns College nine and tho kendalls was
won by the latter. Score, ~ to 2.
The business failures Of the last seven
days throughout the country number for the
United States 1f9 and for Canada 80.
The journal Memoirs of The Fdtherldnd has
been prohibited from further publication I'm st.
Dat In mi n
hostile TO social order.
The work on the Moses building, corner
OF Eleventh and Il streets, was begun last
night by electric light About forty masons
and corps OF iaborers worked all night.
Mr.. Waddipgton the French Minister to
London, has delivered additional dispatches
from his Governmental Earl Granville relat.
| ing to the terms OF the proposed Egyptian con.
| ference.
| 1t is surmised in London that nitro
| glycerine has been conveyed TO England IN
| American spirit TASKS, the customs officials
| having been hoodwinked by that method Of
| conveyance.
Jos. Linden, trading as Linden & Co., of
| Baltimore, Nd, yesterday entered suit against
| August and Mary V. Douglass to recover 81, 002
| on a judgment obtained in the Circuit Court OF
| Baltimore County, Md.
| At tho Hamilton Library sale in London
| yesterday Boece's "History Of Scotland" con-
| tanning an autograph OF James V, dated 1886,
| realized $500, and prayer.book containing
| an autograph OF Charles brought e137.
| The New York ice companies have COM
| bined to advance the price OF Ice the coming
season. Tho advance to small consumers Will
| be nearly 40 per cent, and TO all large con-
sumers an increase Of 20 per cent. will pre-
| vail.
| The President will receive the delegates
| 10 the convention OF the National Medical AS
| sociation on Tuesday evening at 3 80. The
| Marine Band will be stationed In the corridor,
and the whole lower floor will be thrown open
| TO the guests.
Gertrude Ash, the accomplice of Jesse
Williams, the negro who committed the rob-
berry and the assault upon Miss Maggie Har-
vey at tho Sloan nats, New York, last March,
was found guilty yesterday and sentenced u
IS years and months In tho penitentiary.
General John b. Gordon, chairman of the
| Central Committee, having care In Now Yorl
| OF the proposed Confederate Home, reports I
| very general and generous response to his cir
| llar asking for subscriptions. General Gran
sent a very kind letter, with check for $500
Forest fires are raging at various points
In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Now York
In Pennsylvania yesterday tho flames com
| municated to the town OF Brisbin, near Houtz
| dale, and over 800 buildings were destroyed
and more than one hundred families left des-
| titute.
The annual examinations Of the Naval
Academy this year Will only last week, DO
| ginning June q The diplomas Will be awarded
probably by Secretary OF the Navy Chandler
on Monday, June 8. The graduating ball VIII
l
evening OF JuneS.
The reduction in the output of the New
| England mills Will be inaugurated by III,
Lowell companies, which will shut down OF
sa 61G n9 eeginning THIS week @s, OF hS
States nom 5000, 900 to 1000, 900 have agreed
10 reduce production.
A concert was given at Lincoln Hall las
night by the Amateur dlee Club, a colorod or
ganization, before good audience. Tho pro
| gTnmme included solos by Miss A. j.. Thigh
man, II. II. Ford and Jos. II. Holmes, quartz
by Messrs. Plowden, Lewis, Tusley ant
| Holmes, and duet by Nine. Smallwood anC
Mr.. A. j. Hall.
A charter was granted last week to thu
Chicago, Parkersburg & Norfolk Railroad Com
pany, which Will run between Petersburg
be the connecting link OF the Black Diamond
system. 1t Will develop valuable coal, iro
and timber territory and will follow the Kama
| wha Valley for long distance.
. The Columbia Boat Club has decide
upon a series OF races for class championship
and medals on May 10 and 30, June 10 an
90, July 10 and "a, and August and u
These VIII include pair and four-oared she
, racer, etc., varied by d swimming match and
| tub race. The Potomac and Analostan club
: Will also announce number OF interestln
2 | contests.
{ At the meeting of the Alumni Associi
I tion Of tho National College OF Pharmacy la
evening w. 3. Thompson, ]. Il. Major, G.. G 4
: simms, i. d. Ferguson, j.. d. o'ponnel, W.
: d. Bowling and o. j. Milburn were elected
: honorary members. The association decide
!. to give banquet in honor OF tho graduate
4 class OF 81.
The report of operations of tho Enc
gency Hospital for the year ended April
I shows; Number OF now patients treated
: white, 1920; colored, $685. total, $40
!, Number OF operations pe a5a 2Sa. SuI
. scriptions compounded, 20,222. Some, ofsfi
! emergency cases wera a q dssResass Dnatu