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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Germany and Servia are both fortifyIng their frontiers. A New York horse car was runinto by a railway train and several people injured. Alexander Mitchell, the Milwaukee millionaire, was given a hearty welcome at that city on his return from Europe. There were 8,807,556 money orders issued during the year ended June 30, 1883. The value of domestic orders was $117,344,281. W. L. Orr, of Carrollton, was chosen grand high priest of the Illinois Royal Arch Masons, and J. A. Ladd, of Sterling, grand scribe. C. E. Kuhn, an Atlanta painter and paper hanger, went to Vlrginia to get married, but instead, on his wedding day, eut his throat. The Orleanists of France are very active, and it is reported that they have raised a fund of 106,000,000 francs for campaign purposes. At the New York horse show, which has elosed, the best jump was made by a chestnut horse called Marksman, which reached a height of six feet. The manager of the Standard theatre, Philadelphia, câme before the curtain and publicly denounced Philip Hawley, a variety actor, as a drunkard and "stick." It having been asserted that the pope would decline the Paulteon, a pagan temple if a statue of Victor Emanuel, was piaced in it, the report is denied by Roman papers. The Firit National bank, of Cimcordia, Kan.: the Marshall National bank, of Unionville, Mo., and the Quarryville National bank, of Penn., bave been authorized to begin business. Dr. A. J. Leitch, of Mineral Ridge, Ohio, dipped a lighted newspaper in an unfinished oil well and caused an explosion which fatally injured himself and wounded several others. The body of a handsome woman, about 25 years old, has been found in a stream at Saugatuck, Conn. It is thought to be a case of murder, and as it stands now looks like another mystery. DeLesseps delivered a lecture before the Paris academites, in which he took the ground that all ocean thoroughfares must not be subject to the licessitudes of international politics, but be freely open at all times. There was some unpleasantness in the United States court at Trenton, N. J., where the case of Densmore VS. the Jersey Central railroad is in progress. Conkling in an undertone remarked that a witness was a scoundrel, and Gowen called Conkling a blackguard. The 'longshoremen who are on a strike at Oswego, N. Y., have resolved to insist not only that the Canadians employed shall be discharged, but that the company pay them the strikers) for loss of time. The company says it will concede nothing, and will move its business elsewhere if trouble ensues. The commissioner of Indian affairs in his report to the secretary of the interior, says the condition of the Indians is improving, He recommends that Indians be allowed to make homestead entries without payment of the regular fees; that a law be passed for the punishment of persons who furnish Indians with arms; that intoxicating liquors be prohibited on Indian reservations; that ade quate laws be passed and enforced to keep white intruders off Indian lands; liberal appropriation for Indian police; the payment of moneys due the Indians from the government without the intervention of claim agents, which intervention he denounces in strong language, and the placing of the Indians in exactly the same position with regard to the courts as other people occupy.
