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Beware of motto lozenges
Several Birmingham (Ct.) factory girls have been poisoned by them. The First National Rank of Granville. Ohio, has suspended. The depositors will be paid losers. in full. Holders of the bank's paper will be The prohibitionists of Ohio will hold a convention for the nomination of candidates for 20. state officers in Columbus on Thursday, Feb. Gov. Pillsbury, of Minnesota, is candidate for a third term, his friends say, at their earnest request and at a heavy sacrifice to his private interests. It is said the Manufacturers' Gas Company of Fall River, Mass., of which Charles P. Stickney bankruptcy. was treasurer, have decided to go into It is estimated that 20,000 emigrants will reach this country within a few months. All the steamship companies report a large increase in the number of prepaid passage tickets. In a fight at McBean station. Georgia, Monday, between M. H. and D. H. Nixon. brothers, the latter was shot and killed. The difficulty grew out of a horse trade. Mr. Billy Monahan, of Decatur, Ill., staggered into a temperance meeting and with tears in his eyes took the pledge; then, in his rapture, hauled out a little black flask and took a drink to the success of the Murphy movement. Col. Thompson of the Savannah News, author of "Major Jones's Courtship," and other humorous sketches of Southern life, is the most prominent candidate for Congress, vice Julian Hartridge, dead. By resolution of the common council, all liquor-dealers of Racine, Wis., have been prohibited from giving, selling or permitting to be given or sold liquor to James Freeman, once a leading lawyer of the state but for for some years hopelessly addicted to drink. Eggs forty cents a dozen! Are hens aware that the war ended fifteen years ago, and that the government resumed specie payments on Jan. 1? Farmers should acquaint their poultry with these facts.-[Norristown Herald. At Joliet, Ill., one day last week, the 2,500 children attending the schools. and their teachers, were taken out for a sleigh-ride in nearly 400 sleighs and cutters, headed by a band of music, fifteen barrels of apples being distributed to them at the review ing point. A remarkable cure is reported from Austin, Tex., of a man who had long been an object of pity because of his weak lungs, from which he spat up blood freely. The city marshal put him into the chain gang, having relieved him of a package of brickdust, and the sufferer has entirely recovered.