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# MISCELLANEOUS.
THE anti-Jesuits' convention met at Toronto, Ont., on the 11th with about 600 delegates present from Ontario. Principal Cavin was chairman.
MINISTERIAL riots occurred at Brussels, Ghent and Liege recently. Many of the rioters were wounded in conflicts with the police.
THE doctors who performed the autopsy on Mind Reader Bishop have been held in New York in $500 bonds.
THE army of Montenegro is to be re-organized and put in readiness for service at the shortest notice.
THE destitute about Lockhaven, Pa., have been generally relieved by supplies of provisions from various points in the East.
A SENSATIONAL story from Pittsburgh, Pa., that the Chicago Johnstown relief committee had withdrawn $27,000 because of dissatisfaction is denied by the committee.
NEWS has been received in Tucson, Ariz., of the killing of ten white men 150 miles southeast of Hermosillo, Sonora, by Apache Indians.
THERE is much destitution among the locked-out miners and their families at Spring Valley, Ill.
THE bank of Wahpeton, Dak., has assigned as the result of a heavy run. The assets and liabilities were unknown.
At the recent meeting of the National Millers' Association in Milwaukee, Wis., a resolution was adopted asking President Harrison to appoint George Bain, of St. Louis, Consul to Glasgow.
THE San Francisco Johnstown subscription has reached $50,000.
THE other night at Helenwood, Tenn., a mob broke into the jail and took Lloyd and Reynolds, the double murderers, and hanged them to a tree near by. A note was pinned to the bodies threatening vengeance on any informer. Public sentiment justified the act.
THE State took control of the relief operations at Johnstown on the 12th, with General Hastings in charge.
ALL the sheep and cattle belonging to white men have been removed from the Umatilla Indian reservation in Oregon to the delight of the red men.
THE Sangamon river in Central Illinois was reported beyond its bank, had broken four levees and had flooded thousands of acres of farm lands.
MRS. G. VAN BECK, the wife of a farmer living near Hulla, Iowa, burned to death while asleep recently, the house having caught fire from a lamp.
THE Sioux Indian Commissioners left the Rosebud agency on the 12th for the Pine Ridge agency. Their work at the former place was successful.
MICHIGAN dedicated her monuments on the field of Gettysburg on the 12th. General L. S. Trowbridge, Governor Luce and War Governor Austin Blair were the speakers.
A BATHER in a creek near Grantsdale, Mont., found several large gold nuggets recently and the town was excited.
OVER 400 teamsters of Duluth, Minn., were reported on a strike. The men tried to prevent others from working, but were dispersed by the police.
THE Minnesota State prison managers have appointed a committee to investigate the question of making binding twine at the prison by convicts.
A DISASTROUS collision occurred near Armagh, Ireland, on the morning of the 12th to a Methodist Sunday school excursion train, causing the loss of 72 lives and the injury of 100.
BY the burning of Luchow in China ten thousand persons are said to have lost their lives.
GRINNELL, Iowa, was visited by a disastrous conflagration on the 12th. The loss footed up to 2,000. Grinnell was the place visited by the terrible tornado a few years ago.
NINE men were thrown from a scaffold at the new power house of the West Side Cable Company at Chicago recently. Some were fatally and the others seriously injured.
LOUIS MILLER, fifteen years old, and James Freeman, eleven years old, while out in the harbor at Charleston, S. C., in a sailboat the other day were both knocked overboard by the boom and drowned.
PREPARATIONS for the taking of the census of 1890 are assuming shape. The appropriations provide for 175 supervisors, which is an excess of twenty-five over the number employed in 1880. This excess of supervisors will go to the South and West, excepting one each to Oklahoma and Alaska. The bureau estimation of the population is placed at 65,000,000.
CAPTAIN DUVERGE, formerly of Baltimore, Md., who shot and killed Vice-Consul Stanwood at Andakale, Madagascar, last fall, has been arrested and will be tried before Consul John Campbell at Tamatave, Madagascar.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, refused to honor the requisition for Maroney and McDonald, charged with complicity in the Cronin murder at Chicago, on the ground that no direct charges were de.
