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men will be taught how to shoot, so that when they shoot a dog they may not hit a man. A funeral in Indiana was indefinitely postponed the other day because the occupant of the coffin, a woman, got thirsty and sat up aud asked for a drink. The Japanese Minister at Washington says Japan doesn't want Hawaii, nor any other outlying territory. If this be true somebody must have been lying about Japan. The State Bank of Kansas City has closed its doors. J R. Coleman, the cashier, is a des faulter for about $30,000. The Mississippi river is at its lowest point at St. Louis in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, and navigation is practically suspended. One man in Chester, Eng., has been before the police justices 30 times for drunkenness or assaults; his father was up 35 times, one sister 67 and another 29. The cost of prosecuting the family and keeping it in prison has been over $10,000. The managers of the Atlanta Exposition have decided to give a Cuban day and Gov. Mathews, of Indiana, has been invited to deliver an address. A peasant woman has been arrested in Sicily charged with poisoning twenty-three children. She has confessed her crime and says she did it to avenge the death of her two sons. There is a row among the Georgia militia as to what command shall act as escort to Press ident Cleveland on his visit to the Exposition. The Cuban revolution is spreading westward; three bands of insurgents have appeared in districts heretofore quiet, and near Havana. Rev. I. W. Avent, of Wake, a member of North Carolina Conference, M. E. Church, South, is 75 years old and preparing to marry. W. B. Mills, postmaster at Pea Ridge, Polk county, was shot and severely wounded by a drunken youth, Lad Edwards. It is said that Mr. & Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt will remarry soon after the marriage of their daughter Consuela to the Duke of Marlborough, a reconciliation having been brought about. The Governor of Arkansas says the prize fight shall not take place in his State; if he cans not command force enough to resist the prize fight crowd he will resign as Governor. The Atlantic hose reel team, of New Berne, wins third place in the contest at the Atlanta Exposition in competition with ten other teams; it is declared the champion of the Southern States. An exchange says that the action of the Louisiana Republicans in repudiating the negroes and in calling for a white Republican party has caused indignation among the old time Republicans and negroes and they threaten to go over in a body to the Democrats. William Norris, an Alabaman, is said to be the oldest counterfeiter in America. Norris is 100 years old, and has been engaged in counterfeiting for years, his age causing the United States officers to be merciful. It is said he has great mechanical 1 ability, and makes anything from a needle to a whiskey still. The latter he can improvise out of a wash tub. Human life is held too cheaply when the individual who needs a tonic for his system, seeks to cover his wants by purchasing every new mixture that is recommended to him. Remember that Aver's Sarsanarilla has