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GENERAL NEWS.

MI Os
Philadelphia spent s325,OOO
for drink last year.
1t is said that the Mexicans are
about to reform their tariff.
Barnum proposes 10 take his big
show to England next year.
Cholera is increasing in the in
fected districts ofItaly and France
The Alabama republicans decid-
ed not to nominate 4 state ticket.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is in
Edinburg enjoying robust health.
Atlanta claims to be the third
largest snuff market in the world.
Portions of Armagh and Tyrene
county, Ireland, are under martial
law.
The tories will sond so speakers
to stump ireland against home
rule.
Hungarian floods have destroy
cd $4,000 acres of crops, and two
villages.
Tho expulsion of the French
princess is creating much feeling
in France.
/ A colony of Scots with n capital
of s25O,000 Is on tho way to
Florida.
Work has begun on the new
steel towers OF the Niagara suspen-
sion bridge.
Hon. A. A. Tyler was nominated
for Governor by the Tennessee
Republicans.
Mormon Prosclytes are having
considerable success in Victoria
county Canada.
Congressman Holman, of In
diana, and Hepburn, of Iowa, have
been renominated.
Senator Morrison remains IN
critical condition. He has inflam-
nation of the bowels.
ParnclI is preparing an election
manifesto which will be addressed
to the English people.
Sir Robert Peel, hitherto Tory,
will be Gladstone candidate IN the
coming English election.
Tho general commission Of the
Irish Parliamentary fund in Amer
lea has forwarded $4,000.
Prince Blsmark's organ, North
German Gazette, praises Glad
Stones recent manifesto.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ormsbcc
was nominated by the Vermont
Republicans, for Governor.
Dement,, surveyor general of
Utah, is being severely handled by
the committee of public lands.
Crown Prince Frederick Will
liam represented the empire of
Germany at King Ludwig's faner-
al.
Ben Perlcy Poore's reminiscent
COS have swollen TO two volumes,
with an aggregate ofonc thousand |
pages.
Nashville, Tenn, is making
great efforts TO secure the next |
national eneampment of the Grand
Army,
The enlargement Of the Welland
canal IN Canada will afford summer
employment 10 two thousand |
workmrn.
Mexico is busy shooting high
wav robbers, under the new law
making them outlaws to be shot
on sight.
The London Standard says the
military advantage of the Canadian
Pacific railroad may yet be the
saving of the empire.
Seven Protestant churches of
costly construction, situated in the
most fashionable portions of New
York City, are for sale.
Roscoe Conkling makes 800, 900
a year us lawyer, and it is said
that he has accumulated enough
money TO permit of his becoming
lawmaker again.
Governor Hill of New York ve-
toed the act of tho legislature pro-
vlding for cumulative voting IN
elections for the choice of alder.
men in New York.
The ncwsboys of San Francisco
have organized a protective union.
Ten cents is 10 be the uniform price
for shine, and destitute members
will be taken care of.
New York printers are agitating
the subject of a daily 1-cont paper,
to be conducted as an industrial
organ, but they will have to apply ,
10 some rich capitalist tor means
10 start it.
A conservative meeting called in 6
The northern suburb of London to Il
the anti-Gladstone caDdi-
iates was roughly handled by a
mob, and some of the nobility
'everely shaken up.
An entire family of negroes werel
ound dead in their cabin near c
yorktown the other day, Without
loubt they wero klitod by light -,
ing during a heavy thunder storm
hat passed over two days before.
Rabbi S. IL. Sonneschoin was de-
,osed by the trustees of Share
tnroth temple of st. Louis, the
eading Jewish synagogue OF the
Vest, on account of his having
bandcned, as charged, tho state Of
Tdaism for Unitarianism.
The Orange Grand Lodge of Ire
and has issued a manifesto pro- i.
nsrinp oOoinSt Htbo hatrouoI Of Tho Il