The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-10-04
THE MORNING NEWS,

Donot Pfeffer, a restaurant keeper at
Warrenton, Va, and noted for his eccentrlcI.
Ties, died Thursday night.
The late Countess Rose, of Cassel, has be-
gueathed f39,000 to the Berlin University for
the dement, OF poor students.
Captain Dave Kenyon, acting FIRE mar
shall OF Chicago, wae fatally Injured yesterday
by being thrown out OF his buggy.
Naval Cadet Frederick s. Strang, of Ore
gon, who recently submitted 10 an operation
Tor strargulated hernia, died at Annapolis
yesterday,
1t has been shown by experiments In the
hospitals OF Paris that sulphlde OF carbon Is
the best agent 70 restore normal action In
cases ofcholera.
John Gerlach, q German shoemaker, com.
mitted suicide In Baltimore last night. Grief
over the death OF his wife caused Temporary
mental alteration,
A fire at the Principle Iron Furnaces, In
Cecil County, Nd, yesterday destroyed two
eheds and large quantity OF charcoal. LOSS,
10000; not Insured.
Parties have leased 5000 acres of land In
the rear OF West Elizabeth, few miles above
Pittsburgh, for oil purposes. This territory
has never been tested.
Do not DO deceived ask for and take
only u. II, Douglass Sons Capslcum Cough
Drops for Coughs, Colds and sore.Throats, b
5. and Trademark on every drop.
A fire occurred yesterday ON the Langton
deck, Liverpool, among the cotton which had
been lapded from the steamship Indiana
Fifty bales OF cotton were injured.
Mr. Baird, of Newcastlc-o on Tyne, Eng
land, offers to match James Percy TO run aud
row any man OF do years and upward one mile,
for $500 to $4,000. He prefers that Percy shall
meet an American.
Mr.. Samuel T. Adams, a well-known cit
zen OF Baltimore, died suddenly at IL 40
o'clock Thursday night at his residence, No.
66 North Paca street. In the ga year OF his
age, OF paralysis OF the heart.
1t is reported that General Gordon has
| Effected the recapture of Berber, aud that the
| population OF the city has ned. General Cor
| don may now BIO reached from Dongola. The
reported recall OF General Wolseley is denied.
The. recent 10 per. cent. reduction of
wages BY the Columbia Iron Company at Con-
neilsvllle, Pa, has been extended to the Mer-
rill Wheeler coke works, and the miners and
coke workers, upward OF 400 men, have
stopped work.
Albert Brown, colored, janitor of the
New Haven, Conn, postorice, has confessed to
stealing letters from the mail boxes, among
them the registered letter from George Crosby,
New York, containing los shares OF Overland
Telephone stock.
Yesterday was the first day of the fall
meeting OF the Latonia Jockey Club at Gov
ington, Ky. The winning horses were Modesty,
Gold Ban, Berlin, Binnette and Galaxy. The
winning horses at Brighton Beach yesterday
Woodnower.
The Astors paid their taxes for the cur
rent year In New York Wednesday, their contri.
button TO the municipal revenue being 1926.
200. The Goelet estate paid, IN part $780,
OOOi James Gordon Bennett, $20,500, and tho
New York Central Il Hudson River Railroad
Company, $4,000.
Benjamin Thomas, Narragansett Indian,
and last president Of tho indian council In
Charlestown, was found dead Thursd ay night
near Wood River Junction, on the New York,
Providence 4 Boston Railroad Line, having
been struck by passing train.
dispatch from Copenhagen says that a
IRE Is raging In the royal castle of Christians.
saal chambers, which are occupied by the
Rigsdag, and the whole structure will proba-
bly, be destroyed. is hoped that the paint.
be saved.
Daniel 0rt, who has been living with
Emma storch, concert saloon GIRL In New
York, shot at the girl In the Delmonico Con.
sef t da TS last night, and then killed him.
fusal 10 lend him money he fired at her. Tho
giri fell In faint and ort thought he had
killed her.
At the Chicago Driving Park yesterday
commodore kittson's PAGER Johnson lowered
his record Of 2;10, pacing the mile in O8
The last quarter being paced In 31A, or at the
rate OF 2!O5. The pacing mare Minnie RI
hitched TO wagon with n running mate, made
a mile In 2 !O3fi. The best time at this way
OF going is Westmonts, 0i4s.
Wash Fletcher, colored, was hanged at
Paducah, Kyr yesterday for the murder OF
Amanda jackson. Fletcher addressed the
crowd for an hour. The Rev. Mr. Kiss preached
his funeral sermon from the gallows. Fletcher
protested his innocence TO tho last, and knelt
on me trap and prayed for everybody, especi-
any Tor gamblers and whisky drinkers.
General Sheridan yesterday telegraphed
from Fort Leayenworth the result OF tho BIZ
ennlhl army contest as follows; First prize
First iieutenant Merriam, Fourth Infantry;
second prize, First Lieutenant II. j. Clay,
wooliord, Nineteenth Infantry, ioGrth prlze'
| Sergeant Barrett, Battalion OF Englneersi min
prize, Sergeant J. Chaplin, Seventh Infantry;
sixth prize, Captain u. II, Rogers, thirteenth
Infantry. Tho Army skirmish gold medal
was won by First Lieutenant Merriam, Fourth
| Infantry.
The will of the late Private Charles B.
| Henry, Of the Greedy Expedition, who was shot
for stealing provisions, was filed for probate
| In Chicago yesterday. 1t is written In pencil
on ecrap OF paper about the size OF postal
| card torn from blank used In the Navy. ills
dated at Camp Clay, Ellesmeres Land, May o.
| 1854, and 10 as follows; 81, Charles ID. Henry,
belng OF sound mind and health, do hereby
aeSiare ms 70 DO my last will and testament
| All my property, pay due and that may be-
| come due, Dequeath 10 my parents, brothers
ana sisters tiers, now alive, 20 DO equally divided
tenant Kislingbury and Private Bender.
A meeting of the Charity Organization
Society Of this District was held last eyenin q,
| The treasurer, George Ryneal, reported re.
ceipts, Slb0,06i expenditures, $1,000; bal
ance In treasury, 500 80. The secretary,
1 Robert u. kinsell, reported the treatment 81
| lO7 cases applying for aid or referred TOR In,
| yestigation. About 5000 cases OF applicants
| Tor aims had been obtained aud wore on ils
for reference. The following were elected
| members Of tho society; +. s. Hutchinson, n,
| Ross Perry Mrs, A, i, Butler, Horny w. Gar.
| nett, John a, Baker, Thomas Jarvis, Mrs. *. q.
| kinsell, william A. Gordon, M.W. Gait, OharLss
| II. Butler, william u. Jackson, o. q. Green,
| William NJ. Colt, Frank K Ward, Gesfee W.
| Cochran, George Truesdell.
| "The plays the thing,
"Wherein IN rRqh th9<conscence OF the
And equally true hthat DR.. Plerce's "Pleas.
ant Purgative. siNlSls" the original Little
Liver Pills arc thd nioet erectual means that
can DO uson 10 reach the seat OF disease, cleans