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Sarasosas United States Hotel sold FOR
SS5O,OOO.
"And yet l am not afraid Sheridan :
father is dead.
ThOs. Carlin. Georgetown tobacconist. is
dead.
New YOrk's Fourth Avenue tuDnel is COM
ple;ed.
The last of the virginius indemnity has
been paid.
Bishop Fuller of the new Niagara diocese
has been eonsecrated.
Clark Mills is busting Bishop Ames Of
the NJ E. Church.
LonglellOw will deliver the Commencement
poem at Bowdoin College.
The National Cotton Exchange meets at the
White Sulphur Springs on July 2lst.
The Dan Bryant benefits in New York net
ted $25, 200.
Diptberia and smallpox are plaguins Co.
than.
Chicagos delinquent. tax list foOts up to
Sc, 900
Miss Anna Cunningham, Mt. Vernon's first
lady regent, is dead.
Thos. j. Ewing, Esq. has started demo-
cratic daily newspaper in Columbus, o.
Miss Imogene Rucker, daughter of Gen.
Rucker, is to marry Gen. Phil Sheridan.
The bsrned-Out Oshkoshians are appealing
for assistance.
New York's Union League Club House was
burned recently
Gen. Blount of Leavenworth is sGing tie
Chicago Tribune for libel.
Cincinnati is to have statue OF its guar
dian angel CincinnatuS.
Portage Bridge, on the Erie Road, the lar
geSt in the world, is burned.
II is believed the Bsecher-Tilton trial will
be closed before June /.
Ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown has just built
twenty-five handsome residences in st. Louis,
and has begun to collect the rents.
Robert Bonner, proprietor of ;he New York
Ledger, has given 100000 to Rev. Dr. Eall's
new church, on Fifth Avenue, in that city.
Judge J. W. F. Allen, Of Hardy county
has been lying in very precarious con-
dition. His recovery is considered doubtful.
A man IN Newark, Chic, is a murderer be-
cause he was TOO cowardy 70 be thief. lie
killed boy who would not steal parrot tor
him.
The New York Herald says Of the late Dan
BRYANT: 1t is something TO remember a
man who often made us laugh but never caused
a blush.
The retiring Spinner will summer at flick-
DRY Grove, bis New York retreat, and winter
in Florida He will 10, engage in any bust
ness whatever.
Rev. Dr. Clarke, an Episcopal divine, and
a seeming pauper, died at Ashland, n. Y,
was buried by his small flock az their expense,
and was afterwards found, by his will, to be
worth over 100000.
The New York BulletiH represents :he Dry
Goods trade as being very dull and says that
New York merchants are generally of the
opinion that they must wait for brisk sales
until the effects Of the panic Of '73 have
worn OF.
In his recent visit TO Gen John C. Breckin-
ridge Vice President Wilson was accompanied
By ex-COngressman James B. Beck, Gen.
Preston. Col. j. StOddard Johnston, and Col.
w. c. p Breckenridge. The meeting of the
two men is said 10 have been very affecting
aud they were left BY themselves for half an
hour.
A well Matched scheme to plumber the State
Of several millions has just been discovered at
Jefferson City. A War Claim Commissioner,
sitting at this place last winter allowed nearly
81 900 900 If claims, all of which, excepting
a few hundred thousand are bogus, the claim
ants, in many cases, have been dead over ten
years. The claims are not payable however,
until Uncle Sam consents 10 reimburse the
State. or, il this screw won't work, until power
is given lobby which is now forming, and
buying up these claim certificates for q mere
trife 10 sue the State for the amount. With
this authority given, aud certain court
named by the Legislature, before which the
claims may be brought, conquest for the
rogues would seem easy.
Mr.. w. H. Davis and Miss Rosa Brown,
both Of Fauquier loved each other, and got or
an elopement TO Washington last week, but
the Young lady's M found ont the game aud
to summarily squash such budding tendencie:
20 evil in her child started off with her tC
Baltimore to put her at school. Romeo, how
ever, boarded the same train and, known only
10 his engaged one went 10 the Capital with
mother and daughter. Here he stole an in
terview with Miss Rosa, and by her advice
bearded the old lady at the hotel and de-
manded her child. Love conquered, and q
minister speedily ioined the pair They re-
turned home next day. preceded, however, by
Disguised, because baf1ed, mamma.