The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-02-18

Local ana General, BOiieu Down,
Worked over aud Furnished UP
Fresh.
Prince Napoleon's supporters have held a
meeting In Paris.
Mr. Buckle, assistant editor of the Lon
don Times, has been made editor.
italian brigands attacked train on
which King Humbert was travelling.
Another test of the Weeks rocket tor
pedo was made at the navy.yard Saturday.
Bishop Burgess, of Quincy, ILL.,, Is per-
forming Episcopal duty in the Diocese OF
Maryland.
A royal commission has been appointed
10 Inquire into the condition OF the poor IN tho
United Kingdom.
Hon. Perry Belmont gavo dinner at
Chamberlin's last night TO Senator-elect Black.
burn and q few friends.
Another installment of insane soldiers
was received at st. Elizabeth's Asylum yoster.
day, swelling the number TOYS.
General Gordon has arrived at Khartoum,
where no has posted proclamation recognlz'
Ing III Madhi 40 Sultan OF Kordofan.
DIR. J. w. Sherry. we'll known Brooklyn
physician, died Friday from an overdose OF
morphine, taken to allay tho pains OF tooth.
ache.
In New York yesterday Thomas Suii-
van was shot three times aud fatally wounded
by Patrick MCGOWAN during quarrel over
politics.
Tho electrician Of the Postal Telegraph
Company made test OF a section OF that com.
pany' q underground cable lastwo and found
IL In perfect working order.
At Newark, N. j.. Saturday, John Schnei-
der, tho 16.year-old boy who I'm December last
hot and killed his brother Gustave In quar-
rel, wos sentenced to ak years In state prison.
Thaddeus Avery cut his wife's throat
Friday at Chichester, N. ", and then his own.
Jealousy was the cause. They had only been
married about year, and neither of thom was
over 81.
An association will be organized in few
days TO be known as tho Citizens Protective
Association OF tho District. The call for n
meeting has been signed by several hundred
liquor dealers.
Judge b. s. Bib, the Oldest citizen of
Montgomery, Ala, died yesterday, aged 81
| years ago, and his brother was the first Gov
| ernor OF Alabama.
An amateur performance was given Sat-
ufdny afternoon and evening at Lincoln Hall,
by number OF society ladies and gentlemen,
| for the benefit OF the Garfield Memorial H1s.
| pital and tho 8. p. U. A.
Charles II. Rugg, the negro who was un-
| der arrest awaiting trial for the murder OF the
Maybee family and the assault upon Mr.. and
| the queens County IN. W jail last night.
On Saturday few mutinous Egyptian
soldiers presented 10 the Khedive a protest
against the dispatch OF Egyptians to the Sou
officers or aliens by race and by religion. Cen
eral Wood had the mutineers arrested.
Archbishop Feehan returned to Chicago
yesterday from his visit to Rome. He was
welcomed at the railroad station by Mayor
Harrison and special representatives from
Catholic bodies, and was escorted to the epis-
copal palace by q procession numbering u.s.
| 600 persons.
iector, who claimed that he was the Victim OF
| highway robbery last week, whom he said he
| wDs knocked down in the street and robbed OF
1871 OF his employers money, has confessed
| that he planned the scheme himself and
| epent the money.
| Madame Mary Martha McNally, for forty
| years distinguished member OF the Catholic
| Order OF Our Lady OF tho Sacred Heart, died
| In the house OF the order at Konwood, noai
Albany, NJ Y, on Saturday afternoon, In the
| 10th year OF her age. She was q sister o
Father McNally, OF st. Stephens Church, II
this city.
The third lecture of the second course o
lectures under the auspices OF the Anthro
biological and Biological societies at tho Ma
tional Museum was delivered Saturday b!
| Professor II. q. Cope, the eminent naturalist
OF Philadelphia, upon tho origin OF human
physiognomy and the deyelopmental signln
canoe which attaches to 1t.
At Aberdeen, Md, on Saturday, thu
sheriff arrested thirty-nine italian laborert
engaged In rtotous proceedings L
contractor on the Philadelphia exten
| sion OF the baltimore u ONO Railroad. INT
| laborers were marched TO Belair and put II
jail pending an investigation.
The Subcommittee of the Senate Com
| miitee on Privileges and Elections continued
at New orleans, Saturday, tho investigation o
the election outrages In Copiah Couaty, Miss
| The wife and several children of j. p. Mat
thewe, who was killed at the polls on last cleo
ton day, testified to threats and outrages b!
Democrats during the canvass.
An attempt was made Saturday to blow
up the Ridgewood Park Hotel at Hunter
Point, L. /. loud explosion alarmed the pro
prietor, who discovered that q patent boml
had exploded near the building, but not clos
enough to the hotel to do Its Intended work
The bomb had been fred by q fuse. A respect
ebly-dreesed man, about 45 years old, givln.
the name OF j. Mooney, was arrested
The leading Democrats of Louisville
KY, are actively working to have that city Sc
lected ms the place for holding the next Demo
cratic Convention. At a meeting Friday
wealthy citizen pledged himself to raise $25,
| 600 to pay the expenses OF the convention
Louisville is selected as tho place. stron
delegation Will leave Louisville to-day 10
Washington to press the matter before tn
Democratic National Committee, which vii
select the place on the 22d instant.