The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1885-02-20
CONDENSED TELEoRAMs.

The bill to punish wite.beaters by whipping
was defeated In the Pennsylvania Senate yes.
terday.
Property in Shanghai has Deprecated
within the past year $4,000 900 owing to the
Franco Chinese war.
The steamer silver Star sunk In the Stone
River, 3. O., yesterday, but all the pa55e myers
were landed in safety.
The Matsnzas h ssbsnille Railway Com
pany Of Cuba has Just granted freedom u all
the blacks, thirty-six In number, It still held
In Bervltude.
The Missouri Legislature has passed law
providing for the teaching in public schools OF
the effects OF alcohol and narcotics on the
human system.
Cleveland, Ohio, OF tho Great Western Dis
patch, the Erie K Pacific Dispatch and South
Shore line, died yesterday OF paralysis OF the
heart.
banker, took place In Philadelphia yesterday
at st. Mary's Catholic Church. The remains
we're deposited In the Drexel family vault, ad-
Joining the church.
A dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa, says W. l..
Scott, one OF tho largest coal operators on the
Baltimore Ohio Road, notified his miners
yesterday that he would hereafter expect
them 10 mine for ~ cents.
The State Trade and Labor Assembly, in
session at Columbus, Ohio, has adopted reso-
lutions against license laws, against the use
OF tho words Grades unions" by anarchists,
ana disclRiming any afllliation with nfhillst
ideas.
James d. Fish, ex.president OF the defunct
Marine National Bank OF New York, was ar
Iaigned yesterday on charge OF approprlat
Ing tho bank funds. He pleaded not guilty,
and his bonds were increased from SJO,OOO TO
$4,000.
Jonathan J. Wright, ex.Assoclate Justice of
Tho Supreme Court Of South Carolina from
1870 to ls77, and the only colored man who
day, aged ID years. he was a native OF Penn
sylyania.
Della Donohoe, aged 30, said to BIO from
Cleveland, Ohio, became Insane on the east
bound train near Utica, N. Y, yesterday. 1t
is said she loft for Omaha on Monday with
Joseph Lord, and became insane when ne dis
appeared.
The New York Medical Record states, on the
authority OF General Grants attending physi-
clan, that the ulcerations on General Grants
throat ana tongue are much better, and that
all fear OF grave complications are for the
present at an end.
The assets OF Ohaffee * Powell, New or.
leans, cotton merchants, who failed Wednes-
day, are 1882 ,260, and their liabilities $780,
New Orleans, have also sol asked for al esten,
sion, with assets OF S464,O00, and liabilities
OF 100000.
A cablegram has been received at Bloom.
ington, ILL.,, stating that Carl Herman, Ger
MANA American resident OF Bloomington, who
was ON visit to Germany, has been seized by
the police at MagdeDurg and is about 20 be
forced into the German army. Herman went
In Pittsburgh, Pa, yesterday, Judge Stowe
refused TO grant an Injunction restraining tho
natural gas companies from bringing gas Into
the city, but said unless the mains near the
ecene OF the recent explosions were made safe
within fortyeight hours an Injunction would
be granted as 10 that part OF the lines.
Edward 8. Gould, 20 years of age, while
crossing Broadway, New York, at Park Place,
yesterday, was Knocked down by horse,
whose feet crushed his skull and cut his face
| in horrible manner. There is little hope OF
his recovery. The Indignant crowd which
| witnessed the accident made threats OF lynch.
| ing the driver. Mr.. Gould 10 a weil.knoWn
literary man, both as translator and author.
Three ballots for United States Senator In
| the Joint session OF the illinois Legislature
yesterday resulted; John A. Logan (Rop.,
| 100; William II. Morrison (Dem.), OF; u. M
HaiDee, (Dem9, a; scattering, @. The House
| then took a ballot, In the course OF which Rep.
resentative o'shoa DemJ said no could NOT
| vote for Morrison on account OF his freetrade
| principles, and Representative Bittig said he
could not vote for Logan under existing cir
| cumBtnnces.