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eunday morning. Major P. ore was born in 1820, near Newburvport Mass, and after learning the inter's trade removed to Athene, Ga, when 21 years of age, and assumed the editorship of a paper in that town. The following year M-. Hillyard. who was minister to Germ: chose him for his secretary, and he went abroad for live years. On his It turn he be came Washington correspondent of the Boston Atlas. He enlisted in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston when the war broke out, and he was commissioned major, and assigned to the duty of drilling recruits in Washington. In 1862 be was appointed clerk of the Senate committee on prin' ing,and has held the office ever since, and has also acted as correspondent for a number of newspapers. He was a Mason of the 33d degree. An accidentoccurred on the Penn. sylvania Railroad, near Kittanning Point, Pa.. by which several person were killed and a number injored. T. A. Rayburn, a notorious pension swindler, was prrested at Lime Ridge, Columbia county, Ps. A cyclone visited Calcutta, India. Four ships are reported missing and one foundered. The local elections in Virginia show but few p ,litical changes. Shenandoah county, which usually goes Republican, elected the Democratic county ticket with one exception. The Rockingham Bank, Harrisonburg, Va., will go into liquidation. It is perfectly solvent. The American Baptist Missionary Union held i 8 seventy-third annual meeting at Minneapolis, Minnesota. The treasurer reported receipts, from all sources, of $406,463. Count Magrie and wife the latter better known as Mrs. General Tom Thumb, arrived in New York Friday from Bremen. Fire in New Orleans destroved thirty-two small houses. Loss $25,COO, There is not much likelihood that the South and North Presbyterian churches will be united very soon, judging from the action of their Gen, eral asse blies, which are in session at St. Louis, Mo., and Philadelphia, Pa., r spectively. Buffalo Bill and a number of his Indians were given a reception by the Savage Club, in London. Seventy-five miners were killed by an explosion in a collierv in Scotland. Many of the corpses taken out of the mine were unrecognizable, limbs hav. ing been blown off and the bodies being horribly charred. John L. Sullivan's arm will not be in fighting trim for a year He broke his left wrist a few months ago. Twenty-three new lawyers were admited to the bar in Baltimore Sat. urday. Most of them had just graduated. Baltimore and Ohio mail facilities are not improved by the new schedule. Baltimore and Obio deal talk is revived. Efforts h ve again been made to induce the President to call a session of Congress in October. The civil-service commission want a ermanent central examining board. The annual examination at, the Na val Academy commenced Monday. It 18 reaffirmed that Gov. Hill, of New York, will not be & candidate for the presidential nomination in opposition to President Cleveland. The Hon. Samuel Loring, of Mas Fachuretts, committed suicide at Fortwess Montoe, Va. According to the signal service bureau, Saturday was the hottest day experienced in San Francisco for 15 years. The mercury shortly after 12 o'clock noon mounted up to 96 9 10 degrees. the highest previo us record being 95 2.10, in June, 1883. The following is the French cabi net as re-formed by M. Rouvier M. Rouvier, president of the council: minister of fina ce and minister of posts and telegraphs; M, Flourens, minister of foreign affairs; M. Falile res, minister of the Interior end of public worship ; M. Bousquet, minleter of justice ; M. Spuller, ministe of public instruction; M. Heredia, minister of commerce: M. Barbe. minister of agriculture. The war and marine portfolios have not yet been alloited, The culture of cotton has been be gun in the southern part of Russia. The residence of Dr. Groff. in Hoboken, N.J, was entered by bur. glars Saturday night. They forced open a safe and carried off its contents, consisting of $700 in money, $2,700 in Adams Express bonds and about $15,000 worth of silverware,
