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NEWST NOTES.
Bobert Garrett is in England.

BODert OaTIett Is III EuSlduu.
A lady in New York gave birth to a child
last week that weighed 81 pounds That's
whopper.
Mr.. Cleveland was dined by the Young
Mems Democratic Club of New York Mon
day evening.
Col. Bev. Tucker and Gen'l Lew Wallace
have been appointed Special Envoys Plen-
ipotentiary to Hayti
The late Alex. Folsom of Bay City, Mich
igan, left 100000 to the various Presbyte-
rian church organizations.
At Frederick May 10Th, James Lowe shot
Andrew Jackson. inhicting serious wound.
A woman at the bottom of it,
The Sam Jones revival meetings in Dan
Vile, Virginia concluded last week. One
thousand conversions reported.
Rev. Messrs. JAS b Craighil and Jacob
A. REGISTER attended the Episcopal diocesan
convention in Washington last week.
The bruised, dead body of DR.. p. II. Cro-
min, the prominent Chicago lrishman who
has been missing some weeks, was found in
a sewer in that city last Wednesday.
Rev. Henry Greenfield Schorr. assistant
rector of ST. Pau's z. f. Church, Baltimore,
committed suicide by shooting on Sunday
morning last in ST. Pauls Parish House.
The Missionary Office of the Southern
Presbyterian Church will be removed from
Baltimore to Nashville Rev. DR.. Huston,
Missionary Secretary, rendered his resigna-
ton.
The election for Councilmen at Cumber-
land May 90 resulted in the choice of five
democrats and one republican. Council
now stands democrats 7, republicans 4, with
Il republican mayor.
Jno. w. Harper of Fauquier has bought
the Woodshaw farm near Spottsylvania G..
II. The historic ground, the Bloody Angle
tho scene OF a deadly fight during the war
lis located on this land.
The sale of the Richmond and Allegheny
r. r. has been confirmed by the court. Ed
win Davis of ~ Y is president of the new
company. The Chesapeake and Ohio will
operate the road under contract.
Rev. f. C. Clarke Baptist his son and
niece Ia school teacher, Miss Pullen, of Shi-
lob, Va.) were burned to death in the cler-
gvman's home near Tunis Station, Virginia
Midland Railroad, in Princess Anne.
WIDE AWAKE for June might well be
called "true.story number" 1t opens
with reproduction Of Henry Bacon's beau
tiful painting, The End of Long Day"
photographed especially for Vide Arake-
lovely picture. Then come the true sto-
rics-fve of them: "a Plain Case" is by
the now famous writer, Miss wilkins. This
story is most pathetic. The scene Of Miss
Risley Stewards brilliant story is on board
an ocean steamer, and is entitled "The
Naughtiest Boy Ever Met" Mrs Gener-
al Fremont's is a California story, The
House that Jack Built" Mrs. Annie Saw
yer Downs story is of the Confederate side
in the Civil War jolly tale, The French
Member of Company b." The story by Sa-
rah Trainer Smith, Overheard in the Java
Sea" D." will go to everybody's heart. These
rials are excellent: Margaret Sidney's Five
Little Peppers Further On" has tremen-
Gus surprise for readers; "Sibyl Fairs Fair
ness" by Talbot, will be enjoyed by Vide
Awake's growD-up audience.
The number abounds with readable arti.
cles; Relics of Torture" by Mrs. +. A.
Humphrey, describes various curious ma
chimes for punishment in old times which
she saw in Eng and, Mrs. Clafilin's Letter
from Daisy on behavior is excellent; Miss
Poulsson's Two Sermons" is exquisite;
Sailie JOY Whites Volunteer Reading in
School is Of great suggestive value; Lit.
tie People in the Studio" with its eleven
pictures is charming reading for everybody.
Men and Thng." the new department, is
filled with enjoyable anecdotes and talks,
notably "The Footsteps Of Genius, Lord
Tennyson's Chalk Pits" and Fish-Catch-
ing on the Potomac" The poems Of the
number are by Clinton Sccllard, Mrs. Viii
ton-Stone, Marian Douglas, II. X. Hudson.
Kate Putnam Osgood, Alice Wellington
Rollins and Elizabeth L. Gould Wide
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