The Monticellonian., 1894-12-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE safe of the missing treasurer of San Augustine county, Tex, was opened, on the Bet, and found to con tain S1.45.
 R. F. KoIB, on the 4th. completed a message to the Alabama legislature, which he signs as governor. The mes sage is also addressed to the people of Alabama, and is d long and in many respects a revolutionary document, as it recommends that his followers do not pay their taxes for awhile.
 TIE department of state has been notified, through its consular repre- sentative at Bremen, of a proposed change in the German customs tariff by which the duty on cotton seed oil will be increased DO per cent. over the present rates This is done in further retaliation against our discriminating duty on German beet sugar imposed by the new tariff law.
 OWING to the closing down of the coal mines operated by the Sunday Creek Coal Co.,. at Buckingham, O.. 300 miners have been thrown ont of em- ployment, and, with their families, are in a destitute condition. A committee was sent to Columbus, on the 5th, to secure aid.
 ON the 4th ex-Gov. Oden Bowie died at his home, "Fairview,a in which he was born November 10, 1926. at Bowie, Md. The end came peacefully while the ex-governor was surrounded by the members of the family.
 ON the 5th Senator Quay introduced an amendment to the sugar bill as passed by the house and reported to the senate, which provides for striking out the one-eighth of one cent per pound differential on sugar.
 IN the senate on the 9th, a bill was introduced by Mir. Hoar, of MaSsachu- setts, and referred to the committee on pensions, grantinga pension of S1O0 month to the widow of Gen. N. P. Banks.
 GERMANY's new reiehstag building in Berlin was opened with imposing ceremonies on the 9th.
 M. FERDINAND DE LEssEPs was re- ported seriously ill on the 5th.
 MAJ. HAnlBRoU6H, father of Lieut.. Ham brough, for whose murder Alfred John Monson was tried in Edinburgh last year and discharged on the Scotch verdict of mot proven some time since instituted suit against the Ma tual Life Insurance Co. of London to recover f20, ,000 insurance on his sons life. The jury in the case returned verdict, on the 5th, for the defendants.
 Il. A. CHAPIN, aged sl, the mil lionaire mine owner of Niles, Mich, was taken suddenly and critically i'll on the 5th. He owns the big Chapin mine in the northern peninsula of Michigan, and is reputed to be the wealthiest man in southwestern Mich igan.
 TIE cruiser Detroit arrived at Glib raltar on the 5th. She was expected to proceed in a day or two to Naples to deliver the Columbian relics loaned by the pope to the United States for the Chicago fair.
 TIE banks included in what is known as Group No. g. of the New York State Bank association, have combined for the purpose of protecting them selves against peculations of dishonest employees.
 TIE silver statue of the actress, Ada Rehan, was placed under the guard of half dozen detectives in Chicago, on the 9th, as the result of the discovery of plot to steal the valuable image.
 THE official count in Tennessee gives Evans (rep.), for governor, S4l plu. ralty.
 THE bill of Representative Knight to punish usurpers of state offices was passed by a strictly party vote in the Ala ba- 1a legislature on tic 5th.