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IN GENERAL, WALTER FEARN of New Orleans, has been appointed chief of the World's Fair department of foreign affairs. WM. P. SMITH, who acted as body servant to A. T, Stewart, will sue Judge Hilton for libel. THE whisky trust has an option on the Hergel Bros.' distillery at Pekin Ill., for $600,000. A COTTON duck pool, contemplating a stock company of $10,000,000 capital, on the lines of a trust, is said to be about to be formed. Gov. Pattison has approved the world's fair bill and named Pennsylvania's commission, which includes A. K. McClure, of Philadelphia, and T. V. Powderly. A TEST of the "writing telegraph" was made between New York and Chicago, and was fairly successful, the conditions being unfavorable. AT a meeting of the officers of the New York State Farmers' League, held in Albany, the third party movement was unanimously denounced. THE schedules of J. and G. Fowler & Co., of New York, commission merchants, who assigned the other day were filed recently, stating liabilities of $572,893; nominal assets, $996,259; actual assets, $22,772. THE Nashville Tenn., bank failure caused no surprise, as the bank has been known to be in a bad condition for some time. The liabilities are $664,843.19 and creditors are fully covered by first-class paper. THE movement to effect a consolidation of the cotton duck manufacturers of the United States is likely to be settled at an early day. The plan contemplates the formation of a stock company with a capital of from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000. THE body of Stonewall Jackson will be quietly moved from the grave in which it has been since its burial and placed in the vault built for the purpose and over which will be erected the monument subscribed by the entire Southern people and which will be unveiled July 21.