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bill has become law.
Tho extra session of the Senate
bas adj oulned sine die
Packarls recruiting Off Gers h,ve
been arrested by the Nichols police.
Senator Christiancy will not have
the Mexican mission.
The cry for cheap gas has W OH in
a number of the leading cities.
Kaiser Wilhelm, of Germany, at
tanned his eightioth birthday on the
22d inst.
The Bible Publication So ,icty Of
Philadelphia has withdrawn from
the missionary field in Rome.
A movement is on foot among the
Ultramontancs in Europe. to restore
temporal power to the Pope.
If Hayes appoints q Southern man
on tho supreme bench, cX-Gov.
Herschel V. Johnson, of Gcorsia,
may win the prize.
Tho Agricultural Department at
Washington gives notl>e that the
issue of seed for this season has
closed. So, :.
DR.. w. W. Hall, the editor of
Halls JouW0l of Uealth, died q
few days since, in New York, Of
apoplexy. He WIS sixty six years
OF ago.
Thcre is a lead lock in the consum-
nation of the treaty between Tur.
key and Servia on a matter Of eli
rnette, and Montenegro is as stub.
!ryn about the coSssion of Nicsic.
Ex-senator Logan, it is stated by
o Chicago Times. contcmplates
".A;srating to Colorado, and will
attest for seat in the United
,tntes Senate from that State.
Don Cameron succeeds his father
rs Senator from Pennsylvania. Old
Simon found it impossible to run
tho United States Senate and Il
breach of promise case at the same
tine.
Ed. Wells, a colored man who
brutally murdered n ped(ier named
OBrien, Was taken from the Jail in
Burke county, Ga, few nights
since, Ey mob, and hanged
Fred Douglass has becn'appointed
and conti,m med as United States
Marshal for the District of Columbia.
His champion in tho Senate was
Morgan, Democrat, OF Alubamr. The
appointment met with considerable
opposition from Republicans.
The New York Senate passed a
li(l allowing women to hold Office on
the school board and rejected the
nomination of General Mcclellan as
superintendent Of public works.
The Applclons have in press the
memoirs Of jefferson Davis This
work will cause Il genuine sensation
in this country and in ElTopo Mr..
Davis Is a master of the English
tongue, and no one can surpass him
in the tho energetic presentation Of
the bloody Confederate drama.
John Lee, tho Mormon recently
convicted Of the mountain meadows
massacre committed twenty years
ago, will be shot so soon as any one
is found willing to take the Job. lie
has sixty eight children, most of
them stalwart sons, who threaten
retaliation the executioGers.
The Savannah .News points out six
needed reforms to the constitutional
convention a reduction of the
number Of Senator'S md Represen
tatives, and Of Legislative expenses 4;
n prevention of continual amend
ments of the code, biennial sessions,
two years term for Governor, a
reduction Of tho homestead, and a
removal Of the capital to Atlanta.
The Ne,cs is moderate.
Bill Arp, late of Georgia, the
man who furni shed the witticisms
and odd sayings which Charles II.
Smith prepared and published some
yta:s ago, was accidentally killed
near Decatur, Texas, on March 9Th.
He fell from wagon loaded with
corn, the wheels passing over his
neck, killing him instantly He was
remarkable y. n.a1l.--perfectly litter.
nte, but replete with original ideas
and witty sayings he rarely ever
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