The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-04-04
THE MORNING NEWS,

Local ana General, Boiled Down,
worked over nnd Furnished Up
Fresh.
The loss by the fire in Paternoster Row,
London, was S1,25O,OOO.
The gas-lamps will DO lighted at 6A5 p.
m. and oxtlnguished at 15 a. M.
A constable was assaulted in tho street
in Dublin yesterday and fatally Injured
Colonel and Mrs. Rodney Mason, of De-
troit are on q visit to Commissioner West
The Corcoran Cadets will hold fair at
Masonic Temple from April 81 to April %.
Henry Wise Garnett has been appointed
an additional policeman to prevent cruelty TO
animals.
The application of John Deuringer for
bar.room license has been approved by the
Commissioners.
Fifteen men have been released from the
workhouse on giving bond to go down the
river for the spring fishing.
A childreu's fair was held last Saturday.
under the direction OF Miss Marion weatsast<
the benent of the Industrial schsssrwhich
onILDnEN's Easter s,sss-ss 4. saks 4 CO.'S.
The DelaYassrA1pa.J County Republican
Conyegtisas'se yesterday instructed delegates to
| thalSeNe Convention for Blaine aud Lincoln
| FOR President and Vice-president.
Bishop Carbery, the new Catholic bishop
| OF the Diocese OF Hamilton, ont, arrived at
Hamilton yesterday, and was Installed by
| Archbishop Lynch and Bishop Walsh.
George, alias "Babp" Jones, the colored
| boy murderer, convicted OF killing John Fos-
| ter, also colored, was hanged In the county
| 1ail.yard at Pittsburgh, Pa, yesterday.
Lieutenant Commander William NJ. Fol-
ger, of the Naval Experimental Battery at An
| napolie, has been ordered TO Washington to
report to the chief OF the Bureau or ordnance
| on temporary duty.
The counsel for the defendant in the case
OF MIR. Halet Kilbourn against Hon. John q.
Thompson, wherein the former recently
secured a verdict for $4,000, have filed q
motion for q new trial.
Reports from all parts of Cuba describe
the situation as daily growing worse. New
bands OF revolution SITS are reported to have
riser, and 1t is thought the government
troops will soon DO insufficient to cope with
them.
In the House of Commons yesterday Mr.
Gladstone said that tho time had not yet ar
rived for sending peremptory orders to General
| Gordon TO retire from Khartoum. General
| Graham discredits the report thatgOsman
Digna is mastering fresh force.
| The Republican convention of the Eigh-
teenth lpa) Congressional District elected
| Blaine delegates to the State convention yes
| terdny. The credentials were not given to the
delegates until they signed a written plodb o
10 support Blaine for the Presidential nomina-
tion.
"MR. PoPcoRN JIMsoN" has something
| TO say in the Hdtchek out tomorrow.
| The proceedings brought by Laura G.
| Jones against the Rev. Grimth II. Humphrey,
| OF the Welsh Presbyterian church, New York,
| TO compel him TO acknowledge the paternity
| OF her child, ended yesterday. The Court re-
| quired the defendant to furnish $500 bail to
| pay Miss Jones 50 week.
Mr.. George G. Henning, who is member
| OF the Humane Society, has written the Com.
| missioners long communication In which he
| makes some pertinent suggestions about the
| preservation OF game In the District and
| which he wishes to DO substituted for House
| bill 5612, for the preservation OF game.
The steamer Rebecca Everingham, Cap
| tain George Whiteside, was burned to the
waters edge at Fitzgerald Landing, on tho
| Chattahoochee River, forty miles below Co.
| lumbus, Ga, yesterday morning, and a mum.
| Der OF lives were lost. The passengers, who
were saved escaped in their night clothes.
Mrs. Ellen Lloyd Blunt, widow of the
late Lieutenant Simon Blunt, OF the United
States Navy, and ninth child OF Francis Scott
| Key, author OF 'The Star.Spangied Banner
died at Fenby, Wales, on the Both ultimo. IT
Turner, NTH child OF Francis Scott Key and
wife OF DR.. Daniel Turner, of North Carolina
died on the nth ultimo in San Francisco.
| A thunder-cloud from the south and
| west passed over Snow Hill, Nd, Wednesday
at about IL O'Clock, which produced darkness
unprecedented at that time OF tho day
Persons indoors could not be recognized few
feet apart. Lamps were lighted In some OF
| the business places. There was heavy fall
OF rain and hail. Tho storm lasted about
thirty minutes, and was not accompanied BY
| much WIND.
A conference of colored soldiers and sail
ors was held last evening in the parlors OF Car
sons Hotel for the consideration OF various
| pension and bounty bills pending In Congress
| OF the reunion, fraternal meeting and conven
ton OF colored soldiers and sailors In Balti
more August 10 next; OF the proposition OF a
National Industrial school, and the erection OF
monument 10 the dead. Action was taken
toward making arrangements to pay their re
spec,s TO General Grant.
The National Rifles monthly bushes;
meeting last evening was largely attended anC
enthusiastic. Five active and two honorary
members were elected arrangements for Q
week OF opera at the National Theatre, by thu
Ideal opera Company, commencing May 90
were approved; the profits OF the winters en-
tertalnments were reported to have been $3.50
ard fino crayon portrait OF Lieutenant Oys
ter, by Miss Bates, was accepted with thu
thanks OF the command and assigned to plac,
OF honor in the library.