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cents a pound in New Orleans.
The next meeting OF the American Agrl,
cultural and Dairy association will be helo
at Philadelphia Sept. IA, 1888.
The three daughters of the late F: A.
| Drexel nave nearly 81, 600, 600 each. They
give away most OF the income.
Sydney Bartlett, aged eighty-two, is the
leading Boston lawyer, in active practice,
adm is worth 100000 a year.
A Fort AssinabOine special says Little
Poplar, chief Of the Cree Indians, who
| figured 50 conspicuously in the Northwest
ern rebellion, was shot and instantly killed
about one mile east OF AssinabOin by a
halfbreed named Ward. The killing IS
supposed to have been done in selt-detense,
asPoplar took a hand in the firing with a
six. shooter of the same pattern as was
used by the mounted police, when Ward
| opened fire with a Winchester rifle, firing
three shots, each OF which took effect, one
through the head and two through the
breast.
Ben: PerIey Poor: 1t is noticed by the
ladies that Mrs. Folsom invariably let's
her daughter take precedence. When the
president and his wife take Mrs. Folsom
to ride they occupy the comfortable seat OF
their Victoria, while the mOther-in-law sits
on a front seat designed for children, back
to the horses.
| Senator Bcck's wife brought him a change
OF linen to the senate chamber, the other
day, after he had been speaking and was
drenched with perspiration.
Kate Chase, when at the White House,
wore q black grenadine skirt with over
skirt OF black lace, a tight,itting white
Jersey covered with tiny pink roses, and a
becoming hat, over her light brown hair,
pretty well Sprinkled with gray.
Mary Carrier, daughter OF a poor shoe
maker at Detroit, Mich, has brought suit
against William Benson, a capitalist lum.
herman, asking support for her child, Of
which she says he is the father. Benson
denies the charge.
The drowning OF Mrs. Evenden, at Han.
nibal, Mo-, has revealed the scandal that
she and other married m went in
bathing with two male friends entirely
naked.
Commissioner Squire and Maurice B.
Flynn are arrested in New York on indict-
ments brought by the grand Jury.
Four ~convicts try to escape from the
pen~itentiary at Anamosa, Iowa. One is
killed, another badly wounded, and but
one gets away.
An unpublished letter OF Gen. Meade is
made public, criticising Gen. Sickies' on
duct at Gettysburg.
An exploding thresher engine at Lake
Mills, Wis, kills five persons.
The resolution offered at the grand en-
campment of the G. A. R. at San Francisco
favoring the passage by congress OF an act
giving every surviving soldier and sailor OF
the war a pension was defeated by a vote
OF 1927 to So.
A settlement has been reached in connec
ton with the large Newberry estate at
Chicago by which the heirs will divide be.
tween themselves 81, 400, 900 and the re-
maiader, equal to about the same amount,
will be at once devoted to the establish
ment OF a public library,
The appointment OF Daniel Magone as
collector OF customs at New York, vice
William L. Hedden, resigned" was an
nounced at the White House, and created
considerable excitement. Mr.. Magone is
described by treasury officials from New
York to be a moded civil service reformer,
an extraordinary keen lawyer, q modest
politician and a model business man.
The president has lately received advices
which will give him renewed hopes that Sec
rotary Manning may he able, after all, to
reconsider his determination to retire from
public life.
Postofices established: Minnesota-L4.
noble, Winona County. Wisconsin,
Burke, Dane county. Postmasters Com
m~issioned: Observation-Disclosures, J.. MUIR
ray; Richland, M. Clark. Iowa-Adair. M.
Lynch; Jolley, &c. Mallory. Wisconsin,
Boyd, R. Patton.
Susan b. Anthony has started the
"Women's National association" for the
advancement OF women in the District OF
Columbia.
Acting Indian Commissioner Upshaw
denies that the Leech Lake Indians are
suffering for food.
Mrs. Luella May Pavey, widow OF the
late Detrave Pavey, naturalist and sur
geon OF the Greedy arctic expedition, has
donated to International museum the relics
collected by her husband on his trip to the
arctic regions. Mrs. Pavey recently re-
ceived the las tinstallment other husbands
pay Tor his services in the Greedy expedi-
ton, thus showing that the government
recognizes her as his lawful widow.
COMMISSIONS Sparks has shown his ap-
probation of the fact that congress is not
in session by demanding the resignation OF
Maj. Clark. the recorder OF the general
land office. Mai. Clark has been in the Of
flee for twenty years.
1t was stated at the general land Office in
reply To a question concerning the dis
charge OF a clerk at Mitchell, Oak, land
office, that the action was due to- a failure
on the part Of congress to make the neces-
sary appropriations for the clerical work
OF the department.
The wheat crops OF France is estimated
at log. 000, 600 hectoIitres against no.
000, 900 in 1885.
John Ruskin's illness has decreased. His
condition is now pronounced to be that oil
convalescence.
The Canadian Pacifc's gross earnings for
June were 1896, 933; working expenses.
S5l9,473; net profits, $376,450. The net
profits from Jan. l to June 80 were ST.
293, 615.
The returns issued by the British board
OF trade shows that the imports for the
month OF July decreased f2.15O0On a.