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NEWS ITEMS IN LITTLE SPACE. Vice-President Stevenson is in Chicago. It is stated that Secretary of State Osborne of Kansas is insane. A Numidian lion in Barnum's circus went mad and had to be killed. John Thorpe has been appointed chief of floriculture at the World's fair. A panic occurred in a church at Naples, Italy, and 13 persons were killed. Prince Bismarck's cold is gone and his general health greatly improved. Frost has killed strawberries and cotton in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. The annual spring meeting of the Bennings Jockey club has begun at Washington. Dr. Talmage says $60,000 would wipe out the indebtedness of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. John S. Smith, with his wife and three children, was killed at a railroad crossing in Warsaw, Ind. The bank of Wilmot, S. D., was forced to suspend by the Millbank failure. Full payment is promised. An English company with a capital of $400,000 will develop the deposit of asphalt and the oil mills of Mexico. At the international chess match at Kokoma, Ind., the honors were carried off by Lasker, the European champion. Mr. John Perry died at his home in Alexandria, Va. He was a well known citizen, who formerly carried on the lumber business. Gilbert Dobbs, late superintendent of install tion in the Manufactures building at the World's fair, has been succeeded by C. W. Withenbury of Cincinnati. E. S. Westcott, a prominent follower of Ingersoll, at Hartford, has been asked by [the pastor of the Unitarian church at Hartford, Conn., not to attend the services. Anton Burnevich, a prominent druggist of St. Joseph, Mo., was publicly horse(whipped by Mrs. Henry Burnevich, owing to trouble about the settlement of an estate. Vinnie Russell (colored), aged 111 years, is dying at the Almshouse hospital in Washington. She was born in Virginia in 1782, and is now nearly blind and too feeble Ito walk. The people of Alexandria county, Va., will ask the secretary of agriculture to esitablish an experimental farming station on the unused portion of the Arlington estate this season. A decision in the case of the Port Royal and Augusta railroad has been rendered by which the receiver is discharged and the property is turned over to the Port Royal and Augusta company. The commissioned officers of the Delaware national guard have requested Adjutant General Hart to petition the general assembly to dissolve the guard, because the legislature failed to provide the usual annual appropriation. Members of the executive committee of the national association of machinists are assembling at Indianapolis in preparation for an important convention which will consider the amalgamation of the different branches of the business.
