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Col Jerome n. Bonaparte and great grand
/ daughter Of Daniel Webster entered the
order of the Sisters of the Visitation in Bal
| tim0re last week.
VIM L. Hartman, Homecoming MD
merchant is under arrest for firing his store
/ in that town on March % so as to get the
/ 5000 insurance. Six adjoining buildings
were burnedi in consequence.
Kingman +. Page, who was the confden
tial friend and yOsng adviser of President
Pierce. and Special solicitor of the Interior
Department under his administration and
BuchaLan's is dead aged -
Rev. August K ause, pastor of a German
Reformed Church in Baltimore, on sunday
morning hast whilst praying IN the pulpit
after preaching was stricken with paralysis
and died few hours thereafter.
A quarter million fire at Nicksburg last
week destroyed q dozen shops, 10 or Il law
aud other offices, the signal bureau station,
telephone exchange. Weston Union tele-
graph and the Herald newspaper
The Prohibidouists' presidential ticket
I'm IS will comprise, they tell US Judge
Hopkins of New York and Senator CO.
quijt of Georgia The former gentleman
polled $4,000 votes for governor in 80
The churches of the Baltimore on. E
South Conference AT it, late session reported
collections 10 eign missions Sl0639;
domestic - go 50 foreign woman's board
S4.0O6.O4; foreign centenary fund Sl,6ll.
Andrew Jackson of Bupcomb North Car
DINA has applied for Pension as a Mex
lean veteran. lie was orderly to Jefferson
Davis-theu colonel Mississippi Rifes-and
was several times wounded. lie is also
blind
YIN. f. Sheiss, who last Autumn dubbed
am ld adv, Mrs Miner, OF Leistersburg,
Washington county, Maryland, ia a dispute
about some hog-, causing her death. Surren
dcred himself last week 20 the HagerstOwn
authority.
Paul u Esterha1y, the New York broker,
who Was indicted for retaining S420 sent
him last September by John Dudas OF Can
Melton, West Virginia, for transmission a
broa was last week discharged on his neigh
bors' appeal.
Quantity of medicine is 10 indication
of value Ayers Sarsaparilla is conceutra-
ted and powerful; requires a smaller dose,
and is more effective, dose for dose, than
any other Ssrparii.a. IL is the best OF all
blood medicines.
Master Thomos Leoliue Jenkins has Sc
cured in competitive examination the va
cant naval cadetship in the ID North Car
oina district The tad is kiusman of Hon.
Alder, Galatiu jenkins who resigned from
Congress o. become Confederate brigadier
and was killed nc Charlottesville.
RcvDr. Jno. S. Deale, of Baltimore whose
deIth we noted last week, was aged 80. tie
entered the Methodist ministry in l649 and
bad filled occasional'appointme at Shep-
herd~town, Harper's Ferry and Cumberland
His wife .wh, survives him with , sons and
daughters was Miss Sallie BuckmasIer OF
Winchester.
Gen. john J. Perry, the New York law
yer. who died last Thursday-aged 81 wae
cot Wellsburg W. Va birth. He graduated
from Bethlehem. Va College in 1852, and
became professor Of mathematics in the
Michigan State University. A. Colonel of
the l>t Mississippi Cavalry he served under
Lee during the war.
An ex-soldier" writes the Boston Herai
that ON "a visit six weeks ago to the battle
field of Seven Pines near Richmond he saw
rc skeletons of soldiers bleaching in the
suu. The Superintendent OF the National
Cemetery near hy told him they were the
remains oi Coniederatcs- probably OF South
Carolina brigades.
k. 1. Meruck ana Attorney Vehl. var
land .'n his p''Nale capacity as '"uh9e' lot
90, state ""' next MONDAY ask Ile supreme
Count Tor 81 's"e'f'3s on ,uy N"s'"'S ." '!,,
coupon cases "'.'' S'''',''o 81 o' s''''i'''' ",.'
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w ."'" "''o -Nu"'u'' 'l'l' ' "'S "'l''''u
t'u''l 'I'"'u''iS ""' 10 "0oep' coupons
The bnt''h liou'e oil commons ona o'I on MON
day voted credit OF s2''Ooo'V'o on 'he ar
ny ana navy ACCOUNT 'ho pc P'sa' 10 sepa-
rate l.e 7"''d'n c'ed't rom 'ne circuit ,"f
Nneo''' lr'i'"I4.''','i oe'"S 'o'e'' N",
"i"i7 were i,,'l',N ""." ~ ",
"tNh C"""'v' "C,"'S" 'H0 hu9'iH"s anu
tlr AiS"'u' ana l' Was Ivi,n -ei '""' Tue
Gar was preparing 'o =" I'D MOSCOW
Tr.. .:,,,,.,,,, fours of yVe.t Vir,,ipio Inns
rendered =. decision in favor of NJ. .. Clap
man In his suit against the Pi,isburg and
~i-ubenvi.le Railroad Company, now a part
o. the Pam Handle line, tor $4,000 due ON
contract work for the con uuctiou of the
road Mr. Chapman bought up the claims
ot che contractors. The case will probably
oa appealed to the United States supreme
Court.
ll- d y Jordan of New York. friend
o. ~.mre. j TiIdep. +, appointed c. :
Treasurer vice Hon. A. d Wyman who
voluntarily resigned some weeks since to