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out of New York on Saturday. A rich vein of gold ore is reported to have been found on farm near Gainesville, Georgia. Eleven business buildings in Dublin, Georgia were burned on Sunday. Loss, $40,000. A number of persons in Atlanta Ga., responded to a parrot's cry of "fire" and discovered that a house across the way was in flames. Thirty divorces were granted in one day during the recent session of the Supreme Court at Manchester. New Hampshire. All the ore handlers in Marquette, Michigan, struck on Monday morning for higher wages. Nearly 300 men are out. Samuel Weitzel. of Rouzerville, Pa., on May 24. became insane over the death of his employer and was taken to the county hospital. Adam L. Brown, postmaster at Bloomfield, New Jersey, has been suspended. and a deficiency of $1,200 is reported in his accounts. Joseph Battin, who failed in business in 1837. advertises in Philadelphia newspaper that he wants to pay all his creditors. He is 83 years old. John Filey, Sr.,aged 83 years, hanged himself in Southampton township. Franklin county. Pa., on May 24, because he believed himself ill treated by his family John C. Bradley eashier, and Charles W. Palmer, teller, of the Merchants' National Bank of New Haven. Conn. have caused the closing of the bank by speculation. The marriage of ex-Secretary Bayard and Miss Mary Willing Clymer, it is announced. will take place on the 12th of June, in St. John's Episcopal Church, in Washington. Dwight W. Lord, cashier of a national bank in Omaha, arrived in Pomona California on Saturday and stated that he had been robbed of $1,300 in cash and $5,000 in notes on the train. A cloud burst occurred at Nashville, Indiana, on Thursday of last week. Cellars were flooded. and the first floors of business houses and residences covered to considerable depth with water. The vault in the registered letter division of the postoffice at Chicago was robbed on Sunday night of 80 registered letters. It is believed the robbery was done by some one familiar with the office. The negroes in Richmond. Va., have organized an independent party to which no white man will be admitted. They propose to act in all political mat ters through a council of leaders of their own race. At Shelbyville, Indiana, on May 28, Mrs. Mollie Corwin was granted a divorce from Joseph Corwin her seventh husband. from whom she was divorced last Winter, and to whom she was remarried soon after. Colonel W. H. Chelton. for 15 years commercial editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, died on Sun day. aged 41 years. He entered the Confederate service when boy and became a Colonel in Jack son's Brigade. A testimonial concert given in New York to the family of the late Civil Justice Michael J. Norton, at the Academy of Music, on Sunday night, netted $19,000 of this amount $15,000 was taken in before the doors wereopened. A storm. eyclonic in its nature did considerable damage in Quincy Illinois, on Sunday afternoon. The full force of the storm struck cemetery in the southern part of the city and nearly every monu ment in the grounds was demolished. Never has there been so early and general an exodus from New York to Europe and the country as there is this year. The rush to Europe is unparal leled. Places on the principal steamers have all been booked up to the middle of July. A. Leonard Mercer ex Mayorof Phoenix Arizona, charged with absconding with about $6,000, belong Ing to Wells, Fargo & Co., was arrested on Tuesday morning at San Francisco on the arrival of the steamer from Victoria, British Columbia. The Roanoke Water Worksand the gas light plant and franchises, in Roanoke, Virginia. have been purchased by & Philadelphia syndicate There has been no stock of either on the market for years on account of the handsome dividends paid. James B. Green a blind lawyer, has been awarded a verdiet of $12,000 by jury in the Circuit Court in Richmond, Virginia, against the Richmond and Danville Railroad. Mr. Green sustained injuries in an accident near Culpepper Court House. These resulted in paralysis of the lower limbs. A fire in Reno, Nevada on Sunday, destroyed the theatre. Ploneer Hotel, Pollard House, Pyramid House, N. and C. depot, roundhouse of the Central Pacific Road, several business houses and number of dwellings. Loss, about $300,000; insurance, $123,000. George M. Wood, Clerk in the Special Sessions Court in New York city, was short in his accounts $7,283, representing fines collected by him, but not turned in The shortage is attributed to carcless ness. Clerk Wood's father. Col. E. T. Wood, made good the amount Col. Samuel Shoch died as his home in Columbia Pa., on May 24. aged 92 years. He was a pensioner of the war of 1812, and was clerk of the State House of Representatives in 1833. and of the constitutional convention of 1807. For many years be was cashier and president of of the Columbia National Bank Laura Bridgeman died on May 24 in the South Boston Asylum. where she had dwelt many years She was (1) years of age and had been deaf. dumb and blind from her second year. She was made famous by Dickens in his American Notes." and by many public references to her wonderful intelli gence. In Washington, on Monday. & committee representing the surviving members of the Philadelphia Brigade, presented & handsome new silk ftag. of the regulation size and containing e stars, to the Pickett Division of Confederates Addresses were made by John W. Frazier, Colonel Reilly, Colonel R. B. Berkely, Postmaster General Wanamaker and Pension Commissioner Tenner Carnegie, Phelps & Co., of Pittsburg. Pa., have finished two steel plates, each nine inches wide. 180 inches long and three inches The finished weight of each plate is sexe pounds, and the test shows 60,000 pounds tensile strength. Krupp. of Germany was first asked to manufacture the plates, but had no rulls large enough to turn ont such steel plates. A despatch from Ishpeming Michigan, says that the lake shipments of are continue heavy and the figures at the five forwarding ports show that nearly 900,000 tous of ore have been shipped since narigation opened, nearly a month ago. The volume of shipments is unprecedented, and the only unsatisfactory feature from the producers' standpoint is that much of the ore is unsold The large barn of John Zimmerman, of New York, at his country seat at Dingman Ferry, Pa., was burned on Saturday with its contents, and the loss is estimated at $10,000. It appears that the barn was overrun with rats, and the proprietor and a few friends organized & shooting party to destroy them. A burning wad from gun fired the hay. and the structure and contents were soon in ruins H. G. Dodge, of Bar Harbor Maine, while waiting in Mr. Halford's room at the White House Wednesday for chance to see the President, fell to the floor in a swoon. When sufficiently recovered he was sent to his rooms in a carriage It understood that he left sick bed togo to the White House, and, when informed that the President was too much engaged to grant him an interview the shock was so great that he fainted. The Seranton City Bank in Seranton, Pa., closed its doors on Saturday its financial affairs being in badshape. A great deal of money has been lost by investments in coal lands and in loans made on in sufficient security. George A. Jessup, Vice President and also acting cashier of the bank, was arreste on a charge of embezzling $100,000. Mr. Jessup gave bail in $25,000. Dr. B. H. Throop, the President of the bank, becoming his surety A man alleged to be John H. Hillman who disap. peared from Lawrence, Kansas, nine years ago, has been arrested at Tombstone, Arizona, on the charge of defrauding insurance companies. The dead body of man was taken to Lawrence from the Indian territory, was identified by number of persons as that of Hillman, and was buried by Hill man's wife. Hillman's life was insured for $40,000. and, after long contest. his wife was awarded $87. 000, but the companies contended he was still alive. compiny.of militia ordered from Jollet to
