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PERSONAL AND GENERAL. THE treasury balance, on the 21st, was $32,916,603, the lowest point reached since the new form of stating the balance was adopted. OWING to the tightness of the money market the bank of Waynesboro, Va., has suspended payment. It is not thought that depositors will lose anything. OVER fifty cadets and about twenty officers, being one-fifth of the whole number of cadets and officers of the naval academy at Annapolis, Md., are in the clutches of the grip. THE duke of Devonshire died in London, on the 21st, after a long illness. His successor in the peerage is the marquis of Hartington. A DISPATCH from Cairo says that Father Oherwalder and Sisters Catrina Chinearina and Elizabeth Venturini, who recently escaped from Khartoum, reaching Koroko, near Wady-Halfa, in safety. have now reached Cairo. Father Oherwalder and the two sisters mentioned formed part of the AustrianSoudan mission. who were made prisoners when Kardofan was captured by the rebels in 1889. ON the night of the 21st a banquet wasgiven at Delmonico's in New York city by the New York state commissioners of the World's fair-Chauncey M. Depew, John Boyd Thacherand Gorton W. Allen. Mr. Depew was chief host, and acquitted himself gracefully. Many notable public men were present. Speeches were made by Mr. Depew, Gen. Palmer, President Smith of the chamber of commerce and others. REV. ANDREW JONES, of New York, the preacher who prophesied the Johnstown (Pa.) flood, preached at New Bedford, Mass., on the 20th. During his sermon he predicted that another fearful disease would sweep over the country, following la grippe. LOUISE LEE Bayard, youngest daughter of ex-Secretary of State Bayard, was married. on the 21st, at her father's home. Delamore place, near Wilmington, Del., to Dr. Frank Angell, professor at Cornell university. THE Allegheny county (Pa.) grand jury, on the 21st, indicted Mayor Wyman of Allegheny City for embezzlement of city funds, two counts, and with the extortion in the matter of witness fees, two counts. Ex-Mayor Pearson was also indicted for embezzlement of city funds, two counts. Market Clerk Hastings of Allegheny City was also indicted for embezzlement of city funds, one count. MINISTER EGAN. on the 21st, officially requested the Argentine minister at Santiago, Chili, Senor Urriburn. to note the presence of Chilian police agents in the immediate vicinity of the American legation, as also the attempted arrest, on the night of the 19th, of Frank Egan, the American minister's son. JEROME I. CASE, Racine's (Wis.) foremost citizen, died on the morning of the 22d. He had been suffering for six weeks from diabetes. He was one of the best-known men in Wisconsin, and his phenomenal horse, "Jay-Eye-See," spread his fame all over the civilized world. Mr. Case was one of the largest manufacturers of threshing machines in the country. ALBERT JOHNSON kidnaped a 6-yearold adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis. of Boston. on the 21st, and took him to Exeter. N. Y., where Johnson and a woman named Watkins were arrested and the boy recovered. It is believed the ooject of the kidnaping was to secure a ransom, as Ellis is wealthy. IT is stated with much positiveness that the president has decided to appoint ex-Congressman John H. Baker,
