The Evening critic., 1884-08-15
MORNING. NEWS,

Local ana General, Boiled Down,
Worked over and Furnished up
Fresh.
Hog cholera prevails in portions of Fred
erick County, Md.
The Cambridge, Nd, Chronicle has been
sold to James +. Melvin, OF Denton, Md.
Stanley, the African explorer says that
the Congo Free state will soon be recognized by
the whole world.
Two supposed corpscs in Los Omergues,
France, showod signs OF life Just In time to
escape interment.
Secretary FoIgor left the city yesterday
for a few days, and Assistant Secretary Coon
will act as secretary.
A suit of clothes was stolen from the
wagon OF L. II. Briggs, ut tho Thyson. House
yard, yesterday afternoon.
Ex-Governor st. John, tho candidate Of
the prohibitionists for President, made a
speech Mt Lyons, N. Y, yesterday.
In the Second Maryland Congressional
District the Democratic conferrees have bal
loted 1889 times, and still there is no choice.
FIAT the meeting of tho John Wesley
Lyceum last night, Mr.. O. @. Freeman read
paper ON 'The Negro Must Remain on Amerl-
can Soil"
There will BIO game of ball at Capitol
Park Mt d;30 o'clock this afternoon between
mines from the Land once and Surgeon.Gen-
erals office.
At the meeting of the Bar Association of
Saratoga yesterday the annual address was
delivered by John +. Dillon, OF New York, and
papers were read by Mr.. Dwight Collier, OF st.
Louie, and Simon Sterne, New York.
Colonel Morton, the defaulting assistant
postmaster OF Brooklyn, N. Y, has been absent
for two weeks hey ond tho leave OF absence
granted TO him. According TO the rules OF the
service this is equivalent to his removal from
ofilce.
Tho little son of Mr.. Douglass of 707
sixth street, was run over by a village cart,
driven by a man whose name Is supposed 10
Collins, about z 80 o'clock last evening. The
driver escaped. The chiid's injuries are pro.
nounced serious.
The John w. Thompson last night, while
on her return trip one mile below Glymont
broke her machinery. Tho Armenia came to
her relief and brought her passengers to
washington. The Thompson anchored In the
stream TO await repairs.
Colonel John @. A. Herring, for many
years superintendent OF the Baltimore divis.
ion OF the Adams Express Company, has been
elected manager OF the company In place OF
the late Samuel NJ. Shoemaker. Colonel Her.
ring entered the service OF the company as a
messenger thirty years ago and has risen step
| by step.
A comparative statement of the impor-
| tation OF merchandise into the United States
| for the fiscal year ended June 80, md the pre-
y,e4s year, elbows the importation alto free OF duty
1883 s206,919,2S9, while the dutiable i'm.
ports for 1884 were s456, do6,581, ana for
| 1900 fioobolOtoo4.
| Before tho Congressional committee in.
vestigating the management of the Soldiers
Home at Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, General
Patrick, Governor, read private letters oil
General Roeecrans and General Franklin, In
which General Rosecrans fntimated "that Pat
| rick must be removed from the Governorship
for political reasons"
1t Is reported that warrant has been is
sued by United States District Attorney
Root, OF New York, for the arrest OF Cashier
| Dickinson, OF the wall.Street Bank. There
are rumors that Dickinson did not give proper
bonds and that some OF the directors OF the
bank withdrew their deposits Just before the
public announcement Of the failure.
The Reading (Pa.) Iron Works have en-
| gagged 5000 feet Of space In the Worlds Expo
| sition at New Orleans, and will display q
| sugar mill. Arrangements are being per-
| fected through the sugar planters to show the
| process OF sugar making, from grinding the
cane to barreling the sugar. largo cotton
compress will bo operated In the exposition.
There was fair audience assembled a,
Capitol Park yesterday to witness the game
| between the BBtreet commission merchants
and the District of Columbia mines. Hicks, o
the latter nine, sustained an injury to his hant
In the seventh inning, which accident lost tn,
game TO his nine. Rupert and Sershea
caught very we'll Walker and Schroth also die
well at the start. The score stood at the clos,
| Id TO ID In favor OF tho commission man
chants. The victors Vigorously cbsofed
Fob twenty years Yada spffefer during
the summer months wifbs<yay-Fever. pro
cured bottle Of EIysssefeain Balm, and was
| WRyerlY.A4.