The Washington critic., 1885-10-28
MINOR VIEWS NOTES.

aud Jim Donnelly of plttsburg. Boyle won.
Theodore Thomas will produce Gou-
mods oratorio "Mors ct Vita" for the first
time in America at st. Louis on Friday
night by his orchestra and a chorus OF 527
voices.
The dry goods store Of Mabray, John
son & Co., EastOn, Pa, was seized yester-
day to satisfy executions amounting to
$1,000. The assets amount to about
10000.
Eighty lodgcswere represented at Cleve-
land, Ohio, yesterday, at the celebration of
the seventeenth anniversary Of the organ
i2ation Of the Ancient Order of United
Worlmen.
About sixty representatives OF the
whisky manufacturing interest of the coun-
try met yesterday at Chicago for the pur-
pose OF reorganizing the old pool or form
ing new one.
John Buford, son of William Buford
well-to-do farmer, living eight miles
from Shelbyvillc, Mo, shot his father on
Monday, innlcting n wound from which he
died In few hours.
The Gautier steel Works of the Cam
bria Iron Company, at Johnstown, Pa,
have been ordered closed for an indefinite
period after Saturday. Five hundred men
are directly affected.
Considerable excitement prevails at
appointment of postmaster of that city
was obtained through fraudulent petition
sent to Washington.
DR.. Samuel q. Armor, one of the best
known medical professors of New York
and dean of the faculty of Long Island Col
lcge Hospital, died yesterday In Brooklyn
of pneumonia and npoplexy.
In the case Of Curtain McLanc, son
fenced to be hanged in Miflln County, Pa,
for MURDER the pardon board has recon-
mendcd commutatiOn OF the death sem
tcnce to imprisonment for life.
President Costello of the Coal Miners
Association OF Pittsburg is contemplating
the adyisnbility of calling n convention Of
railroad diggers for next week to demand
an advance In the price Of mining.
Peter Frankenbach Of Chicago, H.,
recently president of the Kappes Furni-
ture Manufacturing Company, and Nicolas
Simon, lately treasurer Of the same corpo-
ration, have been arrested on charges of
arson made by Fire Inspector Morris Shay.
The American Church Sunday-school
Institute, in session at Philadelphia, yester-
| day elected as president Right Rev. Wm.
| Bacon Stevens of Pennsylvania, and Rev.
| Campbell Fair, ID. D., of the Church Of the
Ascension, Baltimore, member of the cX
| ecutive committee.
| About one hundred and fifty feet of the
bridge OF the Plcasantville and Atlantic
| City Turnpike Company, at Atlantic City,
fell IN yesterday afternoon while about fifty
people were on it. Many of them were
thrown into the water, but, fortunately,
none were drowned.
"A special to the Chattanooga Times
from Gadsden, Ala, reports a shooting af
fray between Major j. II. Wiley and j. ID.
| Young, two prominent citizens of Gadsden.
Young met Wiley on the street and slapped
his face. Both drew pistols and eight shots
were fired. Young received wound in the
thigh.
| Reports received from ten counties in
| New York by the Woman's Suffrage Con-
vention at Albany show that large number
| of women will attempt to vote at the cleo
| tion next Tuesday. Nearly fifty women
presented themselves at the registering
| places at Ithaca, and requested to be regis
| tered as voters,
Employers at Montreal, Quebec, con-
tinue to refuse employment to persons
| without certificates of vaccination, and the
demand for certificates is consequently
brisk. Forty-two new cases of smallpox
were verified on Monday. Ovid Corbcll was
fined SO yesterday for tearing down a
smallpox placard.
The plans for the Canadian Theological
College at Rome have been prepared. The
| buiAhihS WIN Np9' '-N''oNoi uiAN W ~ bO ~
Gated ON the "Corso.n The Pope has con-
secrated the work, and the British Govern
mont has conferred upon it its especial
protection. 1t is expected that the college
Will be completed IN two years.
The American School of Opera will be
opened in New York within sixty days.
Parke Goodwin was yesterday chosen presi-
dent, August Belmont, vice-president and
Richard irwin, 1r., treasurer. Mrs. f. b.
la al,n Nf tl,a ti,r
committee. Mons. D. BoulTy OF brussels
will be professor Of opera in the school.
The Jewish Minister'S Association of
America. I'm session in Baltimore. Yesterday
adopted resolution to hold a MendelssohI
celebration on the 4th of January, 1886. Ad
dresses will be delivered on the life OF
Mendelssohn In the synagogues on that
day and on the following Sabbath the
childIen will be addressed on the same sub
ject.
The colored State fair at jackson, Miss
was declared open yesterday by Governor
Lowery in brief speech, IN which he paid
tribute to the progress of the colored race
ana comPilmehteu D. N, bruce, the coloreo
eN-ohiteu states senator, VINO was aiss
present. an ai,uslou 10 the peacelul ano
happy rei9tiohs between INC t"o races Wa'
applaudeu.
Samuel &. sehaeifer, well-known rea
estate agent OF Kansas City, who has beer
ON trial for three weeks there, charged will
defrauding John j. Blair, capitalist o
Blairstown, \. j., OF large amount o
money, Mas lounu guli'y insI n'gnt, 'a
Jury lAihg tne sentences ~ cighV ycurs II
n,p .ne pei'i,cn.'',,S; Nv, hio'ion ior he" 'i'
VIII pc "isueu ih"'S""S.
Articles OF incorporation OF the TuXed,
Park Association were filed in New Yorl
yesterday. Among the incorporators i
Pierre Lorillard, Jr. The objects are to pro
cure lands and waters Tor the purpose 0
breeding and preserving game and fish an'
Tor recreatiye purposes In Monroe and Ram
apo, New YORK state: The capital stock o