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-Clarence Lamb and Louise Bodimer were married on the fair grounds in East Aurora, N. Y., on Thursday of last week, in the presence of 10,000 people. The officiating clergyman rode to the scene of his labors in a troting sulky behind a speedy race horse. The procession included nearly all the fast horses on the grounds, four ox carts, carrying the village officers, the Seneca Indian band, military companies, etc. Among the presents were a road cart, a barrel of soft soap, five pounds of fine cut, six bottles of croup cure, and two dozen silver spoons, the latter being donated by Hon. Benjamin F. Butler.
-Fire swept away seven of the best business blocks of Ironwood, Mich., on last Saturday, much in the same manner as three months ago its sister Wisconsin town Hurley, just across the Montreal river, was devastated. The loss is estimated at about $150,000, with practically no insurance. About twenty bulidings were destroyed, including the St. James hotel building, wherein were located the Bank of Ironwood, drug store of A. L. Downs & Co., American express office, Western Union telegraph, post office, J. E. Bean's jewelry store, and the Alhambra theatre, involving a loss of $16,000.
-The chronicler has many a distressing tale to tell. While young Sophie Ahrens was in Ler coffin in New York a few days ago certain friends and neighbors came to take "a last look" After one of these visitors-a Mrs. Day, who should have been a Mrs. Night-had kissed the face of the corpse she wiped the tears from her eyes, and leaned over the coffin again. Subsequently a garnet ring was missed from one of the fingers of the dead girl's left hand. Mrs. Day was suspected of the theft and accused; and, having been put to the pinch, she gave up the ring, which was replaced on the poor finger-itself too cold to point with scorne.
-C. C. Frost, special timber agent, reports to the General Land Office that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company has seven lumber mills in operation on unsurveyed lands in the Cascade Mountains, employing several hundred men, and working in violation of the laws and departmental regulations govering the taking of timber from public lands. The special agent says he has been informed that in view of his investigation and report to the department, and to gain time in case of an injunction, the ostensible owners of the mills are now, by direction of the railroad company, running day and night, with a double force of men.
-Preceding and during the County Convention at Binghamton, New York, on Monday week, many delegates stood in front of the Binghamton Savings Bank building, adfoining the convention hall, and discussed the political situation. The notion got abroad that a run on the bank was in progress, which increased as the rumor spread until Tuesday morning, when a ran really did begin. Hundreds of depositors anxiousty presented themselves, but, as all demands were promptly met, confidence was restored, and in the afternoon the rushed was checked. The bank is sald to be thoroughly solvent.
-Joseph Cilley, the oldest ex-United States senator, and veteran of the war of 1812, died on Saturday last, at Nottingham, N. H., aged ninety-six years. Mr. Cilley was descended from the family of that name which acquired distinction during the revolution, and his grandfather was a member of Gen. Washington's staff. Mr. Cilley studied law in Maine, and was elected to the twenty-fifth congress. He was chosen United States senator by the New Hampshire legislature in 1845 to fill the unexpired term, which vacancy was caused by the resignation of Levi Wood. Joseph Cilley was also distinguished as one of the earliest abolitionists, and he was one of the first to present petitions to congress for the abolition of slavery.
-A bull in wading in the Fiing river, Georgia, the other day, was attacked by a huge alligator. A terrific fight began, in which the latter snapped furiously with hts huge jaws, tearing the skin and flesh in big strips from the bull. The bull got his horns in the 'gator's sides and lifting his huge carcass, tossed him high and dry on the ground, and following up with a deep bellow rushed again upon his foe. The alligator met him with a terrible blow of the tail. Knocking off one horn and bringing the bull to his knees. The other horn got in under a foreleg of the 'gator, and the 'gator, getting a front foot of the bull in its mouth, they became locked and rolled and tumbled fearfully. They got into the water again where after a brief struggle, both expired.
-The Imperial Army of Germany, including the Landsturm and the one year volunteers, would make a war strength of about 2,650,000, added to which those not trained on accout of not being up to the standard at the time of drilling, the total avaliable force of all classes would be 5,670,000. The Russian army, on a war footing, numbers 2,200,000, and if the militia (untrained and levied only in time of war) were added, the total available war forces would amount to about 3,200,000. This gives Germany an excess of 2,470,000 over Russia. France has a war force of about 2,500,000 at her disposal, and, taking into account the various classes of able bodied men whose services have been dispensed with the total number amounts to 3,750,000.
