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mon laborcrs In Mississippi and Louisiana.
LEADING Baltimore druggist Is under ar.
rest charged with selling liquor on Sunday.
1T IL rosrIMArED that 10000 children have
been made orphans by the famine In India.
Mr.. TILDES's Johnny.ca platform will be
represented at Paris. Thus reform moves
| ahead.
GEN. d. F. BUTLER has promised to deliver
the oraton at Gettysburg on Decoration day
next May.
MISE THuRsDY appeared before st. Louis
audience in oratoria for the fist time last
Thursday.
The official appointment of Verdi as musi-
cal delegate for Italy TO the Paris Exhibition
| is gazetted.
Mr.. J. NJ. CIPRrco, an American actor is per-
forming with success at the Surrey Theatre,
| in London.
BY AND ny kid gloves will have rs many
buttons Us the front Of "Old Grimes ulster.
What Krupp man!
| WILLIAM SIMPSON, q Temperance rcformer,
well.kuown in New England has eloped with
girl of Mcdway, Mass.
Mrs. BoSHAM, lady of fortune, has lately
died in England u bona Jfdc case of iGa She
| leaves q daughter of 10.
THE directors of the Paris Exposition have
scnsiby determined TO exclude advertisements
from the official catalogue.
| MARYLANDERs are complaining that great
many counterfeit quarters arc in circulation in
some portions of that State.
REV. W. II. TILLEY of st. James Cathedral,
| Toronto, died yesterday morning. He was o
son Of Gov. Tillcy, of New Brunswick.
AN Onondaga man got siIOO of honey last
| year from six dollars worth of bees. That
must have given them plenty of buzLy-ness.
PRovIDENcE has lit her city lamps by
| electricity for over two years. Providence has
lit the lamps of heaven for millions Of years.
ANOTHER Ohio treasurer has gone wrong.
| This time It Is the official custodian of the cash
Of Clermont County, and the deficit Is s2i 900.
THE Washington REPUBLICAN is nice
paper, and of course its personal column is its
best fcature.-Yerud +. l. MuL Thanks !;
| same to you.
| B. J.. FARJRoN, the novelist and Joseph
Jefferson, the actor, were given u compliment.
| AIRY dinner by the LUtus Club, New York, on
saturday night last.
| Mrs BURNETT, author Of THAT Lass o.
Lowric's," and her husband, who is an oculist,
are the latest acquisition to the literary So
ciety of Washington.
Mr.. Henry L. PIERCE, Mr.. Summers hi
ographer, "A man Of fine qualities aud OF much
culture, has been nominated for Mayor of Bos-
| on, an OH 80 watch hc has already filed.
THE salary of the Rev. Peter r. Sin. pson, of
the Methodist Church in BOllingCr, No. was
very small and he increased his income by
forging pension papers. lie is now in Jail.
KEUrP is lucky man. No matter who goes
a-warring, they all come 10 him. Essen is said
to be supplying $50 cannon q month to the
| Car, while filling large orders for the Porte.
EDMOND ABOUT and Francisuuc Sarccy were
| both challenged the other day by legal gen.
tcman who didn't like something they had
| written about him, but both refused to engage
| in duclling.
Mr.. NORMAN TAYLOR ran In his stockin
| feet from Carlisle, Mass. to LOWELL to carry
the latest election returns. The distance is
nine miles, which he made insone hour and
| ten minutes.
| 4 GENERAL inventory has been taken by the
| French Ministry of all the public libraries in
| France. More than 300 towns have been found
tn possess library numbering from 10000 to
| 10000 volumes.
| ANOTHER attempt to marry King Louis, of
| Bavaria, has failed. The handsome prince had
gone so far as to allow the photograph of the
bride proposed to be sent to him; then he OK
cused himself pretending that the lady had a
| low forehead.
THE rifle with which the Countess of DUFF.
ferin fired the opening shot at the Winnipeg
rifle tournament has been decorated with a
silver plate bearing suitable inscription and
| Is carried by the local volunteer most regular
in his attendance at drill and parade.
A MASSACHUSETTS, paper says that all the
Government bonds stolen from the office of
Sidney Tucker, in MiddlcbOro', in that State,
have been recovered, the last one having been
| found in the possession of Mr.. August Bel.
mont, who had innoccntly purchased IL.
When Charles Sumner was making his ia.
nous civil.riglIts speech, Washington negro
was heard to say to another, "Is you goin' Ia
| dc Capitol to-day to heah do massachusetts
lion roahr Chief Justice Chase heard it, and
told Mr.. Sumner, and the Massachusetts lion
was immensely delighted.
DON CAMERON looks as formidable as the
symbolic flower of his ancestral banks and
brles," and is Just such mixture of royal deli.
cacy and thorny unappr0achablcncss. In np,
pearlncc he is tall, muscular and dignhcd
with luXuriant light brown mOu 5tnchr, steel.
blue eyes, and an occasional Grown on hi
cOuntCnancc.
REV. DIR. ALEXANDER HAMILTON VIgToN
rector of Emanuel Church, Boston, for the
past seven years, has sent in his resignation
much to the regret Of his parishiOncrs. DR.
Ninton Is in his scvcnty-lrst year. and has
been in the ministry iorty-twO years. FOl
sixteen years 'he was rector OF st. Paul.
Church, Boston
Mr.. A. III. STEPHENS lives at the National
Hotel, and, despite his desperate physical con
ditiOn, is a chcCry invalid lie wears gloves
on hands as small rs those of o n-year-od
child, rcishCs rich food, though butter and
cgGs are forbidden him takes an occasional
Whit of tobacro, and when IN health has two
ounces of whisky or brandy after dinner.
His host of friends In this city win regret
to learn Of the demise of George J. Barry, Il
chief engineer Of the navy. He died in
Philadelphia on Saturday last, in the forty.
fifth year of his age. The deceased entered
III" service twcnty-onc years since, and was
promoted 10 his high grade in lSG3. lie per.
formed valuable service during tho war; and
was placed on the retired list in l-12.
Col. MOVES, the recently elected Stat,
Treasurer Of Pennsylvania, Is one Of the most
personally popular men in the State. Iii,
great sin is that he is II Democrat. lie has, Il
Is stated, utomcd somewhat for this sin by Sc
lccting Mr.. john Miller, of Chester county, u,
cashier of the treasury. Mr. Miller is a gen
tcmnn Of sterling integrity and eminent fit
ness for the important trust, aud the press o.
Pennsylvania, irrespective Of party, indors,
Col. Moves selection.
45IH CONGRESS.
Special Session.