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GENERAL NEWS.


Italians are emigrating to
Mexico in large numbers.
One man robbed a coach
near Redding Cal, on the 9th.
Incendiary fires are reported
throughout Southern Russia.
Chicago has doubled her
population in the last decade.
Twenty pupils, in Russia,
were lately arrested for Nihi-
ism.
Since March Ist z,466,ooo
hogs have been killed in Chi
cago.
A monument to Dean STAN
ley is to be raised in Westmin-
ster Abbey.
A Vermont farmers COW
chewed up his pocket book con-
tanning Sag.
Enoch Megue, for twenty
years chief of the Cincinnati fire
department. is dead.
Being intoxicated three times
deprives a man of the right to
vote under the old French law.
The new horse disease has
broken out in Pittsburg and l.
900 animals are afflicted.
Mr.. Keene says his horse
Foxhall was backed to win
with the Cesarewitch $780,
600.
The whole of the Paris cleo
trio exhibition is to be trans
ferred to the Crystal Palace,
London.
President Garfeld's picture is
to be placed upon the FIVE cent
international postal letter
stamps.
The building for the South
western University, to be estab-
lished at Little Rock, will cost
$4,000.
Paul Boyton reached Yank-
ton Saturday evening in IS
days from the head of the Vel
low-stone.
The jockey who rode Foxhall
IN the Cesarewitch, w. Melon
aid, said to have received SIo,-
900 for his services.
David A. Wells has been
elected President of the Delta
Epsilon fraternity, to succeed
the late President Garfield.
Secretary Kirkwood, it is
said, favors filling the Offices Of
territorial governors with resi-
dent instead of eastern men.
Godalming, in Surrey. Eng,
has the honor of.being the first
town lighted entirely by cleo
tricity gained from water pow
er.
Opium kills about 10000
persons annually in China, and
missionaries refuse to admit
opium smokers to church mem
bership.
New York state had a law
passed at the last session of the
legislature providing for laying
telegraph wires underground in
every city and town in the state
According to the last census
the outlay for building and re-
pairing farm fences during 1879
in eleven Southern and South
western States aggregated SI3,-
56s,746.
The sowing of forestpine
seeds has been begun by the
Shakers at Enfield, Conn.,, and
the State authorities are consid-
ering plans for encouraging this
needed industry.
A few days ago a party Of
trackmen working on the old
Colony Railroad at Dighton,
Mass, found under one of the
ties six certified bank checks
that were lost in June.
The only brother of Mr.. Arth-
ur, an officer in the regular
army, married Miss Alice Jack
son, a daughter of one Of the
discoveries ofaneasthetic ether,
and neice of Mr.. Emerson.
Farday, the bandit, is said to
have killed a Spanish captain
and nine privates. He also
pillaged and partly burned two
villages and threatens to burn
all the cane fields if not brought
of.
The press of Arizona is al
most unanimous in condemn
Jag old Tiffany, Indian agent at
San Carlos, and charges him
with being the direct cause of
the recent outbreak among the
Indians.
From January I to October
I there arrived at San Francis
co by sea and rail 4o,78L per-
sons, and 1926 departed, leav-
ing net gain of IS,4So. But
nearly 80 per cent, of the net
gain this year has come from
China and Japan, the figures
being: Arrived. I4,I82; depar-
ted, A,3o7. &
The marriage of the daughter
ofpresident Grevy TO M. Daniel
Wilsontook place on Saturday
in Paris. The bride is s. but
doesn't look old" is accom-
plished and a Catholic. Mon
sieur is As, a politician, of Eng
fish extraction and a protestant.
1t is a real love match-an I'M
common thing in French haut
ton.
The internal revenue receipts
since October amount to S.
ooo,o3o,o7; for the same period
last year they were S7,5o5,8oo-.
63; increase, s., 4S5, o2o A. The
total internal revenue receipts
since June 80 amount to S46,-