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martial fame is now clerk In Pitts
burg store.
Oil has been struck near Parkersburg,
Ind, at the depth of 100 feet, while drill
ling for water.
An epidemic OF diphtheria has broken
out among the Indians at the Wind
River Agency.
The net cash balance in the Treasury
is nearly $3i ,000, 600 or 81, ,000, 600 greater
than New York.
Philadelphia capitalists are going TO
construct an independently street
car system in Boston.
jury in Eew York acquitted man
who spat Tobacco juice on a 5000 picture
In the Metropolitan Museum OF Art.
Rev. Thomas Dixon OF New York In
his Sunday sermon declared the lottery
small evil compared with horse racing.
Reports from the Southern States are
that the cotton crop is from 15 TO % per
cent short and from one to two weeks
late.
Howard Gould has been elected direc-
tor OF the Gold and Stock Telegraph
Company in place of his father, Jay
Gould.
The long distance telephone from Chi
cago to Boston is nearly completed.
South Bend, Ind, has already talked to
Boston.
President Young of the National Base
ball League says either salaries must be
reduced or professional baseball must go
to the wall.
Harmony reigns over the disturbed
water corporations OF Denver, Col, and
Omaha, Neb., and the $20,000,0 900 law
suit is settled.
Valuable discoveries OF onyx have
been made at Bridgewater, Rockingham
county, Va. II 10 abundant and of
superior quality.
1t rained peas at Baltimore the other
day. 1t is believed that they were
scooped up by the wind from truck farms
in an adjoining county.
The Kiowas and Comanches are ready
to take lands in severalty. This will re-
suit in the opening of more than 2,0J0,-
600 acres to settlement.
Walter Sloan of Burlington, N. j.,
who was supposed to have been lost in
the Johnstown food, has Just turned up
at Mount Holly to receive his share of
legacy left him by his aunt.
In the twenty-eight years that the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers
has had existence Chief Arthur states it
has disbursed over $3,000, 900 to the wild
ows and families of deceased engineers.
At Puebla, Mexico, an undertaken
billed the town with huge posters. say
frsv ha ,.,o,xld raduoa HE fuuarol cha
If the cholera became epidemic there.
This melted scare and he was arrested.
At Clarksburg, Miss, the negroes were
reported to be in insurrection, and had
sworn to kill the whites. A sheriff's
posse found that two negroes had been
killed aud several wounded when they
reached the scene.
The theft OF $44O, 900 from the Auer In
i candescent Light Company by Tyndale
Palmer, former newspaper man, in
which he was joined by hotel keeper
named Freitas OF Rio Janeiro, has been
brought to light at Philadelphia. Palmer
sold the patent rights in Brazil or $780,
600 and reported the sale at $4,000.
The chief astronomical event Of Octo-
Der will be the eclipse OF TIE sun, which
i Will Jake pIhNe Oh tuo SULus aSu W Niti-
Bile throughout the greater part of North
America. ALI the United States may
see it, except the western part OF Oregon
and California. AS it will only be par
tial eclipse, the Western Cssst will not
be jealous Of the Eastern Slope.
The Chicago Telephone Company at
Chicago is going to issue an order that
all the girls in the operating department
must wear black uniforms, to give the
room an artistic appearance. Two hum
dred and fifty girls in the central Office
have donned the uniform, and, as the
idea meets with success, q general order
affecting all Offices will soon be issued.
Bradstreets says: During the past
nine months the business failures in the
United States-South Dakota excluded,
owing to the State law practically pro-
hibiting the collection of statistical in
formation-which have been strictly
mercantile or industrial in character,
not emitting those OF banking institu-
tions, but eliminating carefully those ol
ell other descriptions, have aggregated
1873.