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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
PersnnaI and ifernrY.

Colonel Tom Scott is President of
IA corporations.
The widow of President Tyler as
sisted the wife of President Hayes in re-
ceiving guests one day recently.
The late George Cruikshank was
nearly 80 when he died, out looked a
hale and hearty man of 65.
Mark Twain is going to Europe
with his family next mouth for quite q
stay, taking in the Paris Exposition, of
course.
1t is said that the London Graphic
and the Illustrated Ne1OS gave $4,000
apiece for the right of reproducing Mr..
H. NJ. SANKEY'S sketches.
Miss Emma Stebbins, for several
years the most intimate and trusted
friend of Charlotte Cushman, has near
ly finished her life of the great actress.
Mrs. Southworth and Mrs Ann S.
Stephens are out of favor with the man.
ayers of the public library in Provi
dence, none of their works being found
on it shelves.
Mrs. Mary j. Holmes, the novelist,
is described as being a tall, fine-looking
lady, with dark hair, eloquent eyes,
beautiful mouth, a graceful carriage,
and stately presence.
The young Miss Sherman who is
about to marry Senator Cameron has,
it is said, a fresh, blush-rose face, spark
ling dark eyes AID brown locks. She
is twenty-five years old. Mr.. Cameron
is forty-five.
-Flotow, the composer of Martha"
is a man of &C, with long, white hair,
beard, and moustache. His cheeks are
round and full, and he makes constant
use of perfumes. He is about to pro-
duce a new opera entitled, Rosellana."
sc She is not handsome" says Geo.
EHot's latest photographer. " Her face
is long, pale, with sensitive mouth.
Her eyes are vivid, warm, blue-gray,
full Of depth, now keenly perceptive,
now dreamily interpretive, always full
of sadness. Her hair, worn low, gives
a womanly effect to finely intellectual
forehead. Her general expression is
that of wearied constituencies.
DR. Schliemann is at Athens, where
he is building a new house. He is short
and rather stout, with Il large, queerly
shaped head, fine skin, and rudy,
healthy complexion. His eyes are
small, and, moving necessarily, give
him restless look. He is enthusiastic,
and speaks in eXtravagant, high-tiown
language. He calls his daughter An
dromache, and his servant-maids Pene-
lope and Brisseis, is proud of being an
American citizen, and hates Germany
cordially.
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Washington Personals.

Writes the Washington correspond
ent of the Cleveland PlaiAdeGler: The
President and Mrs. Hayes received IN
the Blue Parlor, the venture OF recelN-
ing In the East Room proving failure,
and as usual Mrs. Hayes's guests and
their friends formed party back OF
those receiving which was exceedingly
pleasant. Mrs. POstmaster-Genera hey
wore toilet of pearl eolored silk which,
with beautiful jewels in her hair and IN
the laces on her corsage, looking charm
ing. Her jet-black hair, worn in waves
and puifS, is a crown of glory. Mrs Key
held her last reception before Lent on
Tuesday at the Ebbitt House. The
General is an elegant looking gentle
man, with a good, generous face
Mrs. Tyner, wife of the Assistant
P0stmaster-General, is lovely blonde,
with beautiful hair, and when she speaks
or smiles has pretty dimples. She has
a fine form, is graceful and agreeable,
and rs sensible rs she is charming. Gen.
Tyner is appointed one Of the Commits
siOners TO the Postal Congress at Berlin,
and Mrs. Tyngr will leave Washington
about the middle of March for Indian
apolis to visit her friends, previous to
sailing for Europe on the 18th of April.
Mrs. Kew goes to Chattanooga, Tenn,
sometime in March, To- visit her home,
but will be away but few weeks. Both
these ladies will be greatly missed.
Gov. Lane md Mrs. Lane, of Indian
apolis, have been spending some weeks
in Washington, and enjoyed meeting
old friends very much. Gov. Lane was
formerly Senator from Indiana. Mrs.
Senator Dorsey is one of the most beau
tiful of all the Senator'S wives. | should
say she was about twenty, her face is so
fresh and youthful. She has tender
black eyes, perfectly oval face, rosy
cheeks and purpleish-black wayy hair,
1.-the figure and charming address Her
voice is musical and her cordial greet
ing irresistibly pleasant.
Mrs. Speaker Randall, daughter and
niece were among the guests ut the
Riggs House on the evening OF the nOta-
BILE pound reception. Mrs. Randall is
looking splendid, and her toilet on that
evening, of fawn cOlOred silk combined
with brown and scarlet flowers on her
hair, made lovely combination. Her
daughter wore pink dGmGSSc, very be-
coming; her niece elegant white silk.
Speaker Randall was social and enter
tanning. Mrs 5. 5. Cox, one Of the
most active of the Reception Commit
tee, looked very graceful in light silk
with scarlet garniture. Hon. :. >. Cox
was as lively as if the thousand guests
were all members of the House, and he
trying to entertain them with his dry
humor and droll wit, and he succeeded
admirably. Hon. Ohio and Mrs. Sim
gleton, both looking unusually well, en-
tered heartily into the pleasures of the
evening. General and Mrs. Banning,
both much interested in the success of
! this pound charity, were untiring in
their efforts to make their invited guests
enjoy the evening. Mrs. Lander and
I Mrs. Kimball, wives of members of the
House, were among the Reception Com
mittee, and Mrs. Spofford, generous, no
bic and self-sacriicing, was perfectly at
home among the twelve hundred guests
who contributed to this charity.
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THE WAR TROUBLES.

Con%ratulatory messages passed between
the Sultan and the Emperor on the Sd, and
amicable relations are resumed.
The coming Conference of the Powers will
probably be held at Berlin instead of Baden
Baden.
A telegram dated Constantinople. 10th,
says: Raouf Pasha and Gen. Ignatieff start
ed for st. Petersburg to-day. Hobart Pasha
will leave for Crete Tuesday. The visit Of
the Grand Duke Nicholas to the Sultan has
been abandoned for the present. The report
Is again current thatthe AuStrians are about
to occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is
uncontirmed, but it is understood that Aus
trian plenipotentiaries will. with the con-
sent Of Russia and Turkey, bring the ques-
ton of the future position Of those provinces
before the Congress.
Advices from India, said TO be trust
worthy, are to the effect that the Mohamme-
dams are greatly excited about the overthrow
of Turkey. Serious trouble is apprehended
unless the Government takes some anti
Russian action shortly. 1t is believed that
100000 Moslem volunteers to serve against
Russia could be raised without difficulty.
An Athens dispatch says the instruction
continues active in Thessaly, Epirus and
Crete. Fresh outbreaks in Macedonia are
reported.
A report comes from Constantinople that
Suleiman Pasha, who, at the time OF the
signing OF the armistice was the Command
erin Chief of the Turkish armies, has been
drowned as punishment for his part in a
conspiracy to dethrone the Sultan.
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FOREIGN.

Cardinal Franchi has been confirmed Pom
tifcal Secretary of State; Cardinal Simeoni,
Project Of the Propaganda; Cardinal Meri
chini, Camerlengo; and Cardinal BartOini,
President of the Congregation of Rites. 1t
is said that the Pope and Cardinal Franchi
have determined on policy Of reconcIing,
as far a. possible, interests Of the Church
and State in questions pending with the va
riouS Governments.
BY proclamation of the Spanish authOri-
ties in Cuba, all slaves who have served in
the ranks of the Insurgents in any capacity
are to be given their freedom upon applying
to the proper authorities. Another procIa-
nation announces that Cuba will hereafter
have a representative in the Spanish CorteS
on equal terms with Porto Rico, according
TO the population Of the island.
A colliery explosion occurred near Glas-
gov, Scotland, on the Sth, bywhich Il min
crs lost their lives by being buried alive.
A dispatch from Trieste says the Austrian
steamer Sphinx, from CavallO, with $500
Circassians on board, caught fire and went
ashore near Cape Ellis. Five hundred lives
were lost.
The San Domingo revolutioniStS have de-
feated Baez's main army, capturing many
prisoners and all their artillery and ammu-
milton.
Gen. Grant was at Athens on the 9th and
was formally presented to the King and
Queen of Greece.
The Archduke Francis, father of the En-
perOr Francis Joseph of Austria, is dead.
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shot his wife in the back Of the head, killing
her instantly. He then left the house, and
going TO the woods near by, committed sui
eide.
The steamer City Of Chester, OF the An
Choir Line, was burned at Memphis on the
morning Of the 7tb. She had arrived from
st. Loui- about midnight, and had on board
a number OF passengers and a large cargo of
freight. Three lives were lost--John Ker-
nan, Of Memphis, mail agent, g. A. Zeller,
Of Memphis, passenger, and Albert Brown,
the colored barber OF the boat. The origin
OF the fire is unknown, and in five minutes
after II was discovered, the flames spread
from stem TO stern,
The Louisiana Legislature, whose term
expired on the eth, was reconvened by the
Governor for Is days.
BY the explosion Of a gasoline machine
located under the Post-ofiice at Harrison,
O., on the evening of the Sth, +. Kupp and
Katie Amer were killed and nine other per-
sons seriously injured. The building was
set on fire and extinguished with some diff
ficulty.
The failure Of Howell, Gano a Co., Gin
cinnati, large hardware firm, is announced.
Liabilities not stated.
Hon. Charles L. Wilson, proprietor Of the
Chicago EreHjRg journal, died at San An
tonic, Texas, on the 9th, where he had gone
for his health.
Trains on the Union Pacific, Denver Pa
citic, Kansas Pacific, and Colorado Central
roads were completely blockaded by snow
drifts on the 9Th, many of the cuts being
level full.
The Farmers and Traders Bank Of Lex
ington, ny, has suspended on account Of the
financial embarrassment Of certain parties
connected with the institution. The condi-
ton Of the banks affairs is not stated.
The authorities of Hot Springs, Ark,
have issued an appeal for assistance TO the
sufferers by the recent confagraton in that
city, large numbers of whom are destitute
of food and clothing, St. Louis, Chicago,
Little Rock, and some other cities have sent
contributions.
A mail and baggage car, together with
its entire contents, was burned on the Lake
Shore Railroad on the morning OF the
18th. The train was the westward bound
express, and most of the mail was destined
for Chicago.
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Mrs. Anna II. LeOnowens will teach
Sanscrit at Amherst this summer, and
next year return to reside in Europe.
Adrian College, Michigan, has re-
ceived windfall in the shape of dona-
ton of $4,000 from Mr.. Tompkins, a
wealthy resident of Rockland County,
New York.
The Woman's Bible College at
BinghamtOn, n. Y, which affords a
free University course to the daughters
of disabled or deceased ministers, with
out regard to sect, is full to overlooking.
Sturgeon, the great London preach
er, has broken down in health, and has
been forced to abandon theministry. 1t
is anticipated that the largest congre-
CATION in London will thus be broken
up.
Mr. Leander |. Mccormick, of Chi
cago, has offered his great telescope to
the Virginia Legislature for the State
University at Charlottesville The Leg
islature are discussing a bill to provide
fOr accepting the gift, and to erect an
observatory for it at cost of $4,000.
Bishop Scott, of the Methodist
Church, is 76 years of age, and will not
be able much longer to perform full du-
". OF the other Bishops, two. Haven
and Peck, are troubled with malarial
diseases, and Bishop Simpson has much
sickness. Two Bishops are abroad, one
in China and one in Mexico.
Bishop Haven has appointed the
Rev Royal J. Kellogg, of Bethany, Pa,
Principal of the Monrovia, Africa, Mis-
sion, and the Rev. Melville Young Bo-
ward, of Glenwood, Ind, Superintend-
ent of the new mission to be planted at
Boporo, in the interior. The Rev. Joel
OsgOod has also been appointed to the
same mission.
The Association for the Promotion
of the Higher Education of Women, re-
Gently formed in Cork, held its inaugu-
raj meeting, February ?, in the theater
of the Royal Cork Institution and was
very well attended. The opening ad-
dress was delivered by DIR. Sullivan,
President of the Queens College.
The Rev. Arthur P. Adams, of Bev-
erly, Mass, has been suspended from |
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal |
Church for holding and teaching doe |
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itively, all that we will consent to pub
lish of about seventy-five poems upon
the vernal season, already received.
DON'T" remarks the newspaper
moralist, "don't be constantly remind
ing your wife of her faults And as
we gaze upon the sea of bald heads that
glisten in the gas-light at church and
theater, we can't help thinking that the
philosopher should have started out with
that advice about % years ago.-Hal0b-
eye.
We don't know Ruth Natalie Crom-
well, but we judge she is a very nice
girl to have for an acquaintance. She
POLITICALLY signs, Kiss me, love, kiss
me ever, Till dream no dream but this,
Till the world on golden lever, All its
minutes stepped in bliss Turns upon a
rosy kiss" We don't believe. it can be
done, Ruth. The young man would be-
come exhausted before the world had
half tm ned--NOrriStOt0 Herald.
-''Life insurance, presume, sir?''
courteously remarked one passenger on
an outward bound steamer to another as
they met on the deck. Eyes, sir; quar-
terly returns" replied the person thus
addressed. ''YOur face seems familiar
I must have met you. In the same
business, sir?" ''No, sir," haughtily re-
piled the other; ''savings bank-$260,-
000-=first cabin, sir," and he stalked
over to the privileged side of the quarter
deck.-N. 7. World
-'What is q carnivOrOus animalP'
Professor Miller asked the boy with sew
en- warts on one hand and a sprained
thumb on the other. This boy, who
stood near the head of the class, when it
formed "left in 'front.'" and who had
played hockey the day before, paused,
stood on one foot, looked up at the cell
ing, glanced anXiously at the professor,
and said, in tone that indicated some
doubt on the matter, "a carnivorous
animal is one that eats mardi gras.'
Then the school went into a short exec
utive session, and the professor passed
the rattan bill over the boys veto. Sew
eral times -HdUkeUe.
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How the New Dollars Are 20 Be Cir
culated.

The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Herald telegraphs to that
journal as follows:
1.-The Philadelphia Mint will begin 10
stamp silver dollars about the 18th of
March, and the Western MINIS on the
LIST Of April The Treasury will proba-
bly. as soon as several millions are coin
ed, transport them to the different Gov
eminent repositories and give public
notice that on certain day they will
be paid in exchange for greenbacks.
This will be with the view of letting the
lovers of the Dollars of our Daddies all
over the country have a fair chance at
it. The coin certificates authorized IN
the act will, when issued to depositnrs
of silver dollars, be dated and made
payable only at the Office where the
dollars have been deposited. Fl this
were not done the Government would
be put to the great cost of transporting
silver dollars from one end of the land
to the other for the convenience of spec
ulators who would deposit dollars, say
in San Francisco, and mail their certih-
Gates in New \ ork, there to demand the
dollars. The certificates will be, in
fact, like bank-notes, redeemable only
at the place where they were issued"
j. NJ. Wallace, a well known resi-
dent of Sterling, H., recently elected
Alderman, hanged himself, rs is sup
posed, on account of financial embar-
observation-disclosures Zeiss, a l3-yeIr-Old
son of Louis Zeiss, of Springfield Town
ship, Allen County, Ind, hanged him
self in his fathers barn. He had been
accused of stealing lead-pencil from u
store in Maysville, and was greatly NOR
titled, and, to avoid arrest and disgrace,
took his own life.-AIiss Libbie Spencer,
aged 10, beautiful and accomplished
Young lady of Morton, Waukesha
County, Wis, drowned herself
in shallow stream of water near her
home. The unfortunate girl had 'Ioved
not wisely, but too well,' and took her
own life rather than bear the shame of
publicity.-At East Cambridge, Mass,
Josiah Wheeler and Kate Wheeler, hus-
band and wife, became tired of fighting
against poverty and misfortune, and
both lay down in front of railroad
train and suffered ecapitation.-lt is
not often that a cOlored man kills him
self on account of love, or in fact from
any other cause, but Samuel Valentine,
Il handsome, bright mulattO, aged 10,
lay down on the track of the Richmond
and Petersburg Railroad, near Phillips's
Crossing, Va, and was instantly killed.
A letter was found on his person from
his sweetheart, disearding him, ard his
friends state he said he was tired OF life.
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-Garibaldi will visit Paris during
the Exposition, and be the guest of Vic
tor Hugo.
"A Paris journal estimates at $4,000
the number of American visitors who
will spend freely the dollars of their
daddies at the Paris worlds fair.
The German Government is about
to commence experiments with the tele-
phone, with a view to introducing that
instrument into the governmental tel
egraphic service.
The Italian exploring expedition,
which attempted to penetrate into the
interior of Africa, has been attacked by
the King of Shoa, and compelled to re-
turn to the coast.
Col. FOrney says that study of
the faces of the members of Parliament
shows them very like our own Congress
men, "with this marked difference
not one of them was tobacco-chewer,
and there was not symptom of dissi
patton"
The st. Petersburg Gaze cite celebrated
its 152d anniversary last month by pub
fishing fac sinile of it first number.
The language of the initial number was
a mixture of Russian and Slav, and is
found difficult of comprehension by
modern Russians.
Every editor of a paper in Madrid
has received the grand cross or COM
mandery of Isabella the Catholic, and
among other recipients of favor COM
memOrative of the royal marriage are a
musical critic, painter, and large
body of professors and inspectors of
schools.
The fghting-editors of the Paris
papers practise fencing during their
leisure hours. A sale d'GrneS has been
opened in the offices of the lie Figaro,
and the brain-workers frequently drop
their pens, and, DOMINIC plastrOn, mask,
and gloves, find relaxation in invigorat-
ing exercise.
The name of DTsraeli has never
been borne by any other family than that
of the present Lord BeacOnsfield, and,
as he has no living relatives, will expire
with him. Among the 600,0 900 Jews eX-
PEELED from Spain in the sixteenth cen
fury was an ancestor of the Premier,
who at that time assumed the name of
DIsraeli. The father of BeaconsfielI
withdrew from the Synagogue in Lon
don because he had heen fined f40 for
refusing to serve as Warden.
AT the recent royal wedding in Ber-
lin, a special attraction of the supper
was two gigantic wedding-cakes which
the Crown Princess had ordered from
England, and which were new to Ger
man eyes and mouths. At the royal
table, Princes and Dukes handed about
and poured out the spark
ling wine. These important functions
are hereditary, and appertain to some
of the most distinguished families in the
land.
Edward King writes of bumptious
scion of royalty now in England: "The !
young Crown Prince of Austria has not |
made many friends here personally, |
however people may feel toward him |
politically. He is altogether too exact |
ing, and can not understand why it is !
that noblemen and gentlemen don't bow
and scrape before him as they are COM |
PEELED to do in Austria. When he is /
riding after the hounds, if any one dares |
to get ahead of him-as many people A..
do, for an earthquake would not stop an
who is about to clear a
fence-he flies into a frightful rage.
Folks began by laughing at him; they
are concluding by being very angry with
him for his assumption"
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trines contrary to the articles of religion
of his Church. He preached the near
coming of Christ, and held that the eff
ficacy of the redemption scheme is de-
pendent upon the resurrection. Christ
can onlybe complete Savior, he taught,
after the resurrection.
The General Conference of the
Methodist Church South will be held in
Atlanta the first Wednesday in May
The general business of the Conference
will embrace many interesting subjects,
prominent among which will be: First
The relations to each other of the two
great branches of American Method
ism. Second-The adjustment of the
presiding-elder question. Third-Tem-
perance and great moral subjects, in
Guiding perhaps the questions involved
in the discussion Of the subject of dane
ing.
The Rev. DR.. Alexander Burgess,
of Springfield, Mass, who has been
elected Bishop of Quincy, H., is a de-
scendant of distinguished Rhode
Island family, the youngest son of the
late Chief-Justice Thomas Burgess, of
that State, and brother of the late Rev.
DR.. George Burgess, who was Bishop of
Maine for Is years. DR.. Alexander
Burgess was born in Providence, and
was graduated at Brown University in
1898, and from the General Theological
Seminary in New York in 1871.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, on the 9TH, number Of bills
OF no public importance were reported and
disposed Of Senator Beck called up the res
olution submitted by him on the 2lst of jan
uary, declaring il ineXpedient at this time to
levy and collect taxes for the maintenance of
a sinking fund, and spoke at length IN favor
of the resolution. senator Morrill, replied to
senator Beck, and moved the reference of the
resolution TO theCOmmittee on Finance which
motion was adopted.-....In the House, Mr..
Marsh offered a resolution Teciting that the
Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad
Companies owe the United states So, eco 600
OF accrued interest on bonds guaranteed by
the United states, and that the earnings OF
said companies lave been consumed by diyi-
dends declared on the capital stock, in VIC
latiOu of their charters, and directing the Ju-
dietary Committee to report whether il is eN-
pedient 20 enact such laws as Will prohibit
the payment of dividends on said stock until
the indebtedness TO the United States Is liq-
Undated. Referred. BY unanimous consent
Mir. Kelley took the floor and made "A speech
upon The resumption question, replying to
one made by Mr.. Garfield some months ago.
In the Senate, on the 9th, Mr.. Plumb, from
the Committee ON Public Lands, reported
with amendments :he senate bill defining the
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Odds and Ends.

The question of the hour-What
time is it?
Measurements of 100, 900 Ameri-
can white men give ) fect74 inches as the
average.-Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.
An exchange asks: "Was Hamlet
Mad?" He was. Some fellow threw
vegetable at him in the ghost scene
NOTristOUn Herald.
=" What viii the present year bring
forth?'' asks an exchange. Bring
Fourth of July, of CONSTITUTION
Times. 1t will bring April, fool.
-" Spring has comet" This is, pos