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A ferry boat capsized at Prague, l. he
mia drowning 80 persons.
Moses A. Dow. founder and proprietor
Varerly Aago-i,., is dead.
Big fire works On the Monument grounds,
Washington, Monday p. m.
VIM. c. Es5 ridge, of Staunton, we'll
known bank ofiic r, is dead.
Unprecedenl, heat aud fruit crops are
reported in southwest Virginia.
Ex-President Arthur is sojourning at the
seaside near New London, Conn.
The President and Mrs Cleveland gave
an unofficial reception last Friday.
Mrs Cleveland spent Sunday at Secretary
and Mrs. Whitneys suburban home.
Over 20 hands in Il Boston City r. r. car
shops were burned to death last week.
The Senate on Monday removed the po-
litical disabilities of Gen. w. Fl. +. Lee.
Providence R. I. celebrated yesterday
week the 250th anniversary of its settlement.
The Newport News aud Mississippi Val,
lev r. R. has leased the Chesapeake and
Ohio.
The Anglo American Insurance Compa-
ny-a 2-year old Washington concern-has
failed.
Miss Rose Cleveland, the Presidents sis
ter. has become editor of the Chicago LIT
srayy LIE.
Albany, \. y. will celebrate this month
the 200th anniversary Of the grant OF It's
municipal charter.
Il. Shepperd is confirmed as revenue col
lector at Alexandria, also p. NJ. Cuttings
worth at Richmond.
Senator Kenna last Thursday opposed
Senator Logan's effort to make district
Judges salaries $1,000.
Five years tomorrow since President
Garfield was shot and % on Saturday since
the Battle of Gettysburg.
Chas. R. Burchard, cousin to ex-Presi-
dent HAYES. and former phrenologist Of
note, has become insane.
| IL. II. Swift 4 CO., sugar importers of
! New York and PernambucO, Brazil, have
| failed for more than a million.
Lamont, the Presidents secretary, has
been dubbed Master of Arts by the Sche-
nectady N. Y Union College
Virginia Theological Seminary Ordina-
tions-T. Carter Page, Arthur Kinsolving
and Allan Castlemau of Virginia.
Representative Gibbons tried in vain last
| Thursday TO have the Engraving Bureau
/ excluded from civil service control.
The b. x Q. has placed in charge of its
hotel system Mr. Geo. De DeShields, for
merly Of the Riggs House, Washington.
Justice Stanley Matthews of the Supreme
Court and Mrs. Mary X. Theaker of Cleve-
land, were married in New York last week.
Joseph Jefferson is said to be the wealth
( lest actor in America. His fortune is esti-
mated all the way from 100000 to $780,
/ 0O0.
Eleven Archbishops and "a Bishops at
tended Cardinal Gibbons investiture yes
terday-Blshop Kahn of Wheeling among
them.
English holders of Virginia bonds have
it is said an agent interviewing people at
Stanton and other points as to the pros
poets.
The Parkersburg courts have continued
till next term the case of JAS Sickles and
son who killed young Sturn in Calhoun
county.
Striking switcAmen wrecked Lake
Shore freight at Chicago-where, by the
way, it is said 1900 anarchists are secretly
drilling.
Mrs Geo. Workman of Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs is jailed at LewiSburg for
fatally shooting young man named
Walker.
A convention has been sitting at Roa-
noke representing the Lutheran synod of
Va, the Carolinas, Georgia, Mississippi and
Tennessee.
The Commercial Travellers Association
met in convention in Baltimore last week.
1t started in 50 with SO members and now
has II ,345.
The final day exercises of the Virginia
Military Institute took place on Friday.
J. " Camden, Jr., of this State is among
the graduates.
The President started last Friday on
S-days fishing cruise on the Chesapeake
Col Lamont, 2. NJ. General Villas and 9TH
er friends with him.
W. w. Carruth, private banker and so
ciety swell in Washington, is on trial in
Boston for stealing over ten thousand dol
lars from a trust fund.
BENZ Moran, late minister to Portugal,
is dead. He was private secretary to min
is'er Buchanan of London in "a and after
wards legation secretary.
Twenty-six railway postal clerks have
been bounced for trying to incite a strike
among them J. +. Dillon, Of the Grafton
and Cincinnati postofiice
The President last week sent the B. Il o.
r. r. Co. a eheque covering all expenses at
Deer Park with a letter of thanks for atten
tions shown him aud his wife.
1t is asserted that Mr. Robt. Garrett will
walk a mile to avoid being interviewed by
a reporter but when he is caught by one he
yields with grace.-Ercbaage.
Jas. Barron Hope of the Norfolk Land
marx will read poem at Lynchburg's cen
tennial fair Ia October and Senator-elect
Daniel is to make an opening address.
Isaac Cook of St. Louis. whose influence
made Stephen \. Douglas a candidate for
President, is dead aged -. He was z. NJ.
at Chicago under Pierce and Buchanan.
At the Laurensyille Is. c. College COM