The Washington critic., 1886-01-28
MINOR NEWS NOTES.


The Salisbury cabinet fell on the ami
versary OF the death Of General Gordon.
There are two competing local option
bills before the Virginia House of Dele
gates.
-Rov. Father Curran OF Arlington, n. j.,
relieved by n vapor bath pupil suffering
from hydrophobia.
1t is reported that Mr.. Parnell will
overturn Mr.. Gladstone's government If he
should accept office.
Strikers in the iron works at Decaze-
vile, France, killed the manager and had to
be dispersed by troops.
Collector IIedden has been requested
by the Civil-Service Commission to explain
some of his appointments.
"A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature to establish a free public
library in New York city.
The Cdthoiio Unircrsc of Cleveland,
Ohio, says Archbishop Gibbons is to be
made a cardinal by the Pope.
AT a meeting in Philadelphia $500
were subscribed to aid Mr.. Parnell and his
Irish colleagues In Parliament.
The last Of the bodies of the thlrty-nine
victims Of the mine disaster at Newburg,
w. Va, were recovered yesterday.
Mr.. Gladstone, it is said, will introduce
a measure Of English and Irish land policy
'NSiEhth W sNbNlt ,ht iiioh 'lutbbiOhs
John G. Kimbrel, farmer, with his
wife and three children, were frozen to
death in wagon, near Dodge City, Kan
sas.
The Vatican has accepted Prussia's
modus vivendi regarding the education of
cleigymen, subject to some minor modiii-
cations.
DIR. George Currcy of Nashville, Tenn,
who was regarded as one of the foremost
surgeons in the Confederate service, died
suddenly Monday last.
1t is announced that Mr.. Pierre Loril-
lard has decided to retire from the turf,
and will sell his racing stable at auction
at Rancocas, New Jersey.
The boiler of John b. Thompson's
distillery, Harrodsburg, KY, exploded
yesterday. Alex. Tasker, fireman. had
both legs broken. The loss is $4,000.
--Ex- United States Senator David II.
Atchison, who In March, 1Si9, was Presi-
dent of the United States for one day.
died In Clinton County, Mo-, aged seventy
nine years.
Mr.. Elliott J. Arthur a New Yorl; law
yer, and formerly a lieutenant in the United
States Navy, died Tuesday. He graduated
at the Naval Academy in 1869 and left the
navy about five years ago.
The cooking main at Richmond, Va,
between Philadelphia and Henrico, fifteen
| birds side, was won by the latter by n score
| of eleven to four. a great deal of money
| changed hands on the result.
COMMITTEES of the two parties In the
| Ohio Senate held conferences yesterday to
| adjust the troubles in that body. A con
| ciliatory spirit was manifested, and it is
| thought settlement will be effected.
| Several important debt bills prepared
| for presentation to the Virginia Legislature
| held hnplx npn1nU tbn Ippigipn pf tbn
| Supreme Court of the United States on sew
eral of the coupon cases recently argued
before it.
| Will jefferson, young oysterman, re-
| ports that while tramping up the Nanticoke
| river, thirty miles below Vienna, Nd, in
search of food, he and his companions
found several cows standing upright in the
mire and water frozen to death.
John S. Gillette, a commercial traveller
from New York city, died yesterday at Ma
| lone, n. Y. Two weeks ago he took sixty
grains OF morphine, and in n few minutes
was pronounced dead. Shortly after he
showed signs of life, and fingered until
yesterday.
AT Austin, Texas, on Tuesday after
noon a shower of dust fell from clear sky
and continued through half the night
There was no wind. The dust had an irri-
tating effect upon the throat and lungs of
| luc pcOplc. ~ SllllltI pucuOlcuu OCCuIICu
eight years ago.
-IIecter Bouchard q shantyman at st.
Etienne Quebec, complied with the super
stltiOn of his class that by blowing down
the muzzle of an unloaded gun while the
cap is being fixed any request he might ask
would be granted. The gun was loaded and
Bouchard is dead
The strikers in the Connellsville coke
region have ordered out the engineers Of
the water pumps. All the pumps are
stopped, the result of which will be the
mace Company conceded the demands Of
the strikers, and work was resumed In their
| hill mines.
"A convention of miners and laborers of
the Amalgamated Association was in secret
session yesterday at Wilkes Barre, Pa. The
main question before 1t was the union of
the various mining and labor organizations
with the National Federation of Trades
Union. The delegates demand eight hours
for a days work and fair pay.
Charles II. White recently purchased a
grist mill in the village of Tiverton Four
Corners, II. /. The mill is said to have
been established 200 years ago under Il pro-
vision that grant of 200 acres of land
would be made to the parties who would
maintain 1t forever Mr.. White claims that
his purchase of the mill includes large
portion Of the land upon which the village
stands.
The New York Senate yesterday
adopted Mr.. Comstock's resolution for al
investigation by the railroad committee
into the Broadway railroad franchise
granted by the board of aldermen of New
York city to Jacob Sharp. The cnnsider
alton of the resolution occupied the entire
days session and provoked an acrlmoniou:
debate.
Charles Mccarthy, trainer of Fore
paugh's trick elephant Pickannny, wagered
500 with Colonel w. c. Boyd that the ea
phant could cover three miles In thirty
minutes. The animal made a trial in the
public square at Cleveland, Ohio, yester
day, and had nearly covered the distance
having eight minutes to spare, when Nc
Carthy was arrested by the Humane So
ciety officers, and the race was declared
of.
John Muller, a crippled tailor, who wal
arrested in Philadelphia for fraudulentlN
obtaining aregistered letter containing $40
was discharged yesterday after hearing
The letter was sent by Henry Muller o
Bremerhaven, Germany, to John Muller o.
Lexington avenue, Brooklyn, and by mis-
take was delivered to the defendant, who
lived on Livingston street. BY a strang,
coincidence the defendant had also
brother named Henry in Germany, frou
whom he supposed the money came III
used 1t to buy clothing for his children ant
pay his debts.
No matter by what pain is caused, st
Jacobs Oil is a sure antidote. Fifty cents
The Masonry at the Capitol.