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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

be married in February next, at which
time the Empress Regent will retire and
the young Emperor will take possession of
the Government.
The Post-office Department has estab-
lished free delivery service at Duluth,
Mimi, and Newport, KY.
ARTHUR ]. GROVER, who has been on
trial in the Wood County (O.) Comraon
Pleas Court at Bowling Green charged
with the murder of Granville G.. LOOMS,
was found guilty on the 18th of murder in
the first degree and was sentenced to be
hanged Friday, April 9th, 1886.
THERE is no abatement of the excitement
throughout Great Britain on the subject of
home rule in Ireland.
AN unknown Frenchman was accident
ally killed at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th
by James Barton.
Morocco offers to cede territory to Spain
and France if they will protect her against
the rapacity Of Germany.
IMPORTS of dry goods at New York dur
ing the seven days ended the 18th were
valued at 81 ,534 1866.
JOHN O'CoNNoR POWER, Nationalist
ported Gladstone scheme as fair one.
The Marquis of Harrington declares that
he has not approved the home rule scheme
as has been intimated.
IT is given out that Servia and Bulgaria
will not be represented on the commission
which is to define the boundary between
those countries.
THERE was a boiler explosion ten miles
east of Greensboro, KY, ON the 18th, at
Williams q Jolly's saw mill, by which
Henry Parish, an employee, was killed and
Engineer Burton, John A. Peck and James
| Williams were wounded.
CATHOLIC papers in Ireland are jubilant
over the prospect of home rule, and prom
Use tolerance toward Protestants.
A RECENT typhoon in the Philippine
Islands swept away 4,4O0 buildings, in
Guiding thirteen churches and the con-
vents. Eighteen lives were lost and 500
head of cattle.
WILLIAM CHAMPION was killed on the
10Th by the bursting of a 1,0O0-pound
| grindstone in the Gibbs Ball Plow Works
at Canton, o.
EDWARD COFFEE, convicted of the muir
der of Policeman Evans at Pittsburgh,
Pa, has been denied new trial, and has
been sentenced to be hanged. The case
will be taken to the Supreme Court.
The health of Emperor William is said
to have greatly improved of late.
Mr.. STEPHEN B. GUGoN, the well known
ship owner of Liverpool, died in that city
of apoplexy on the 10Th. He was born in
New York in 1920.
IRVING MILLER, one of several hundred
Southerners who emigrated to Brazil at
the fall of the Confederacy, has arrived at
indianapolis, lid, and 2jves a, sad picture
of his experience and INT of the colony
in South America, one / lndred of whom
are dead.
The closing of the Singer Sewing Ma
chine works at Elizabethport, NJ throws
$500 men out of employment whose pay
amounted to $i0,O00per week.
CHARLES w. HEMINGWAY has been
convicted at Ogden, Utah, on a charge of
libeling ChiefJustice Zane. He will be
sentenced January 4th. Hemingway is
editor of the Ogden Herald, an ultra Nor
mon sheet
been expelled from Germany.
FRANCE has ordered the susFension Of
hostilities in Madagascar.
ANOTHER death from trichinosis occur
red in the Hausmeyer family at Tarentum,
Pa, on the 10Th. The victim was Henry,
son, aged twenty -fve. The remaining
members of the family were in fair way
to recover.
A CITIZENS anti Chinese organization
has been formed in Sacramento, Cal, with
large membership, having for its object
the furtherance of legislation for Kidding
California of Chinese.
THE German States will contribute 1000
900 marks to cover the imperial deficit for
the year 1896. The deficit for the year
1869 will be 1000 900 marks greater.
CALVIN PRATT, the forger, who secured
$4,000 from the Pacific Bank of San Fran
cisco, and who is wanted for similar Of
Tense in Denver, Col, was arrested on his
arrival by steamer at Yokohama, Japan.
A TERRIBLE explosion is reported to have
occurred in the Pleijuichin mine in Siberia,
accompanied by frightful loss of life, the
number being placed as high as 1000.
Miss ADELAIDE MOORE, the English ac-
tress now making tour of the Western
States, is not only poetess and young
lady of fine literary attainments, but is
said to be very closely allied TO some of the
noble families of Great Britain. She is
warmly devoted to the hisrionic art, and
has drawn in lavish manner upon her
ample resources to properly equip her COM
pany. Her wardrobe is unexcelled by any
artistic in this country, her diamonds alone
representing a fortune of $4,000 The
veteran manager, Harry J. Sargent, is
plotting her tour, and he feels very san
guine of her success
Hon. A. M. KELLY delivered lecture at
Washington on the night of the goth ON
"Irish Nationality"
The Duke of Seville, who publicly viliaed
Queen Regent Christina of Snain- has beep