The Washington critic., 1886-07-01
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Mr.. Parnell has made another statement
in relation to his controversy with Lord
CarnarvOn.
A mail train left the track between Dub
lin and Belfast yesterday. Five persons
were killed.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will preach
sermon in DR.. Parker's City Temple, Lon
don, to-day.
Sir Charles Dilkes appeal for reopen
ing of the Crawford-Dilke divorce case has
been denied
Three Conservative candidates, the first
chosen to the new Parliament, were elected
in Liverpool yesterday.
Rev. l.. L. Mckinney has been nominated
by the Democrats of the First New Hamp-
shire District for Congress.
The RcpuJliQue Frdncdisc accuses Cen
eral Boulanger, French Minister Of War,
OF aspiring to dictatorship.
A farmer named Meerc was murdered on
the highway near his residence In Cappa-
mere, Ireland, Tuesday night.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain claims to have
information of an Irish plot to assassinate
Lord harrington and himself.
Herr Singer, the Social Democrat and
member of the Reicbstag, has been or
dered to quit Berlin by noon ON next Sat
day.
The winning horses at Shecpshead Bay
yesterday were Joe Cotton, Unrest, Ire
meDt, Bard, Bonnie s., Tom Martin and
frankie b.
Peter Hover and John Meyer were in.
stantly killed yesterday at the American
Bangor slate quarry at Pen Argyll, Pa, by
a fall Of rock.
Mrs. Rosalie Meglan, an Irish lady, was
outraged on the outskirts OF Paris yester-
1a.T II.... ill.,, l.. a
and when found she was In o dying condi-
tion.
London Truth yesterday published a
statement Of regret that it printed and cir
culated the error alleging that Mr.. Cyrus
W. Field was connected with the Wabash
swiudie.
George W. Narney, one Of the pallbearers
at tue funeral of Mrs. Baker, at Dover, N.
H., Tuesday, sank down as he was helping
to carry out the casket and died instantly
Of heart disease.
General Fitz-John Porter has received
congratulations on the recent action of Con-
giess in his case from the National Blaine
Republican Association and from the vete-
rams of Meagher's Irish Brigade.
AT meeting of the Central Labor Union
in Hamilton, Ontario, Tuesday, Messrs.
Coils, Vale and Gibson, local leaders of the
Knights of Labor, were denounced us mem
bers OF the Home Club, and US sche-
against the good of the order
j. II. Dixon OF Bradford England, for
whom q. A. Preler was travelling when
murdered by Maxwell, is In st. Louis. lie
says the charges against Preller's character
are calumrcs, and that he was a man of
exceptional purity. He thinks Preller had
about 800 with him when murdered.
John Patterson, the striking Third-avenue
car driver who attacked "scdbn driver,
WAS sentenced in New York Yesterday TO
eight months in the penitentary. Michael
Stroh and ~ Rosenberg, two of the boy
cotters, and concert hall proprietor
pleaded guilty to charge of eXtOrtiOu, and
were remauded for sentence,
The ffty-nine glass factories throughout
the country shut down last night for the
regular summer suspension. The glass
workers convention will begin at Pitts
burg, Pa, Tuesday, when the scale of wages
for the ensuing year will be considered 1t
is understood that the manufacturers will
urge slight reduction In wages.
james Cooper and Joseph Van Wrinkle
Fought an informal duel with revolVers yes
terday on Brown Creek, In Coryel county,
Texas. Bolh We're fatally wounded. They
were mortal enemies, and, meeting yester-
day, agreed TO fight to the death. They
measured of the ground, aud each with his
watch in hand waited for the moment
agreed upon FOR opening fire, when they
fred.
Thousands OF women bless the day on
which DR.. pieIces "Favorite Prescriptionu
was made known to them. In all those de-
lapgements causing backache, dragging
down sensations, nervous and general de-
bility, II is Il sovereign remedy. Its sooth-
ing and healing properties render It of the
utmost value to ladies suffering from tin
ternal feyern congestion, Inflammation or