The Evening critic., 1885-02-23
CONDENSED rELEoRAMs.

Washington's birthday was celebrated at
New orleans by tho Continental Guards, who
paraded and had O banquet salute was
flred at noon on the levee, and also by the nag
ship Tennessee. Similar celebrations oc
Cured at many other places.
The coroners jury In Philadelphia have
rendered verdict that the recent almshouse
IRE in that city was the act of Joseph Nadine
a colored patient, prompted by Potter j.
Schroeder an attendant, and that J. d. Mul-
len, another attendant had guilty after
knowledge.
Articles OF incorporation OF the East River
Tunnel Railroad Company were filed In AL
bany, N. Y, Saturday. The capital stock ie
$2,O00,O0O. The company proposes to build
a tunnel between Ravenswood, l.. l., and New
York city. The total length OF the tunnel
Will be 3,51O feet, and the estimated cost
$1,600,000.
The oregon Legislature has adjourned with
out olecting a United States Senator. on the
last ballot Hersch, the Republican candidate,
received 81 votes. The Republicans claim
that the Governor has the right to appoint q
United StateB Senator, the Legislature having
adjourned without action, but the Democrats
deny his right TO do 30.
The students OF Harvard have In contempla-
tion, as O new venture In dramatic art the
production at an early date OF "Jullus Caesar"
with costumes and accessories modelled on
those in use In Cpsar's time. Most OF the roles
have been assigned to seniors. Professor
White Will supervise the representation. The
text used Will be that OF the old folio.
new phase In the Sharon divorce case has
has notified Miss Hills attorneys that the
court would be requested on February ~ to
aDnul the award OF alimony and counsel fees
granted the plainiin, ON the ground that the
court signed tho findings which inadvertently
decided that no marriage valid under the
laws OF California every existed between the
plaintiff and defendant.
Mre. John A. King, her little daughter,
Nora, ana Mary Burns, tho servant girl, the
only persons who escaped alive from the burn
ing residence OF Mr.. King, Saturday morniug,
all n n II N DrQvQl condition. and IL
Is now believed Will all recover. Mrs. King,
however, is prostrated from the shock sus-
tained In her leap from the fourtn.story win
dow, and some fear is entertained that she
may not survive the great calamity which has
Defallen her family.
In the case OF the succession OF Mrs. Myra
Clark Gaines, Judge Houston has rendered a
decision dlsmssing both wills. 1t Will be re-
membered that two Wills were presented on
the came day for probate-one In Geographic
form, dated January s, 1886, nominating
Mrs. Marie +. Evans as testamentary execu-
ifix and universal legatee OF onc>thlrd OF the
estate OF deceased, ana the other in nuncu-
pative form, by private act, presented by
James Y. Christmas and William II. Wilder,
therein nominated as teetamentary executors.
The parties nominated to administer each OF
the Wills opposed the probate OF the other
dispatch from Paris gives an account OF
tragedy In the family OF one OF tho American
colOnists there. The husband discovered that
his wife was having clandestine relatlons with
his gardener, He discovered love lettor
from the gardener In one OF his wife's dresses.
In the letter the gardener spoke OF the vile
poisoning the husband and elOplng with her
lover TO New YORK.. Her husband said moth.
ing, but waited. Az night as tue vile snd
husband were going 10 bed the wife placed,
according to her usual custom, two glasses OF
sugar ana water-one for herself and one Tor
her husband--0n the dressing table near the
bed. just as his wife was about TO drink, the
husband asked her 10 hand him SILK hand
kerchief that was hanging on the back OF the
chair. AS his wife turned around to take the
handkerchief, the husband quickly and
adToltly reversed the tray, upon which wero
the two glasses, so that the one intended for
him stood In the place OF that Intended for his
wife. The husband aud wife drank at the
same moment. As the husband, after empty
ing the glass, calmly replaced IL on the dress
Ing table, his wife fell TO the l0or shrleking
In agony. She had swollowed the dose OF
etryohnlne that she had with her own hands
prepared for her husband.