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NEWSY NOTES.

lCrOWded ont OF last week lssuel
The emperor and empress have become
insane.
Tbo.. II. Champion, of CIagett's, Nd, is
dead-aged 10.
The recent police census gives Baltimore
population Of half a million.
Southern stove founders have organized
and raised the price Of cooking stoves.
There are over 6xe hundred negroes in
the central luua,ic asylum of Virginia.
Appointments To- The railway mall service
will come under civil service rules alter
May lst.
Geo NIas,in. of the B. * o., has resigned
20 take railroad SUPPLEMENTARY ln Nor'h
Carolina.
Dr. BENJAMIN Blackford Of Lynchburg,
is elected superintendent OF luuauc asylum
at Stauntou, vice Conrad.
Hon. Caleb Boggess, a leading member OF
the bar of This State. died suddenly sunday
night az his residence, ia CiarSsourg.
The largest natural gas well ever known
WAS struck las, week 26 miles from PITTS
burg. 1t runs forty million feet a day
The Washington Zinc Mines Co, of Bou-
sacks. Va lGen Rn,ecrans. president are
building zinc reduction worksiu Lynchourg.
An atlanta C9naafi9R special srys that
the p. N Gent will recommend the reduc-
ton of letter P0ptage 20 one cent next "in-
ter
The managers of the Confederate soldiers
home no Richmond got S4l 600 recently for
ten acres which they bought I'VE years ago
at $1,000.
The reorganization commit,e has bought
the Richmond and AlIeghans r. Il Tor hve
millions The Chesapeake and o. VIII as
sumo control
The first Arb1r day was observed in Ne
braska n years AGO. when l2OooVOu trees
were planted. There are noW growing DO
the 5 ate 60j,000Qoo
I'm Braxton county. this State. the house
of Perry Wine was demolished and DIS vile
and children killed by % falling tree which
Wine had been cutting down.
Daniel Haines. the well-kuown farmer of
Midd'eburg. Nd, was found dead Iue'l1
week han hug on @ fence oy one loot. lie
was 55 years of aye aud leave, q widow.
Baltimore is 20 have a mlHon-dollr SUE
CUR refinery with q capacity OF 100 6olS q
dav. There has been subscribed already
S400OU0-of which the CARROTS give half
An athlete named Stanley has made the
highest leap on record-lrom the Cincinnati
Southern r r. bridge over the Kentucky
river. 2Sj feet. Anybody con d have done
that
Mrs. + P. Treog'r aged so, of Manning
ton. this State. eIppeI last week with Young
man. taxing 5000 and leaving several chi.-
dren. They are bound &c is said, Tor Okla
homa
Judge Hugh Shefey carried for some
wears policy in the Mutual Life Insurance
company of New York Cor $4,000. which |
with IT'S oc,umuat.01s. amounted no DIS .
death 90 Sl250)
Ex.P President Cleveland viii be rendered
a dinner hv the Young Men, Democratic
Club of New York on May 2l-ln celehra
tiou of hi, entrance on the career of @ pri
yrte citizen iu Gotham.
Rev. Jas. Stewart. of Ty'er county, this F..
State who died recently, asSe. that DE be /
buried on che summit of Houeysuck'e Knob, .
the highest point in that section. His zee .
quest was complied with.
By Louisville iurys verdict Francis /
Fbbs his former slave and Subsequent mis- /
tre,s. IS given thc property oi JAS Roman, /
deceased farmer. Hj, win gave his estate
TO the negro but niece contested lt
Iowa surgeon, and physicians are discus
sing the extraordinary ease oi Geo. Lucas,
who fred a bullet into his brain ago, recov
cred sufficiently t0 attend % business and
the other dav bad the bali pro6-d fer and
removed. His doctor SAYS be will now re-
cover.
Burned recently.-Tbe dwellings,, barns
etc. of some fifty farmer, Boo Patrick county,
Va. bv forest fires about thirty five shops
and dwelling, no Muir. Mich; the towns oi
Camerousburg Mich, and Smitnie,d, q.
the latter au old settlement aud the meet
ing place of the South Carolina general as-
sembly in l777; Chiils tobacco factory IN
Lynchburg.
Died recently in Wa,hug,on j. Colds
borough Buf aged So Lemuel Williams,
an Old time undertaken, aged So; JAS. Nell.
Houingswortb. ior thirteen years ~upru1-
tendent of Nt. Vernon. aged 10. Geo. Oter-
mehle. q Washington tailor and the largest
individual owner of real estate there-aged
a. He paid take, on five bundled house,
aud was worth q million and half; DIR. II.
b. Noble Jr. dentist, aged Is.