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tille, Fla. Surveyor of the Port, at was He was a prominent politici well-known throughout the AT Portland, Me., the Greent Committee met and voted to ma ous and aggressive campaign, that Butler was the candidate. MISCELLANEOUS THE Expressmen's Convention at Bost elected H. W. Dwight, of the United States and Canada Express Company, President; E. M. Morseman, Vice-President and General Manager of the Pacific Express, VicePresident; Sutherland Dewitt, Secretary and Treasurer, THE police of Vienna have been ordered to arrest all Mormon missionaries detected endeavoring to secure converts. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Missionary Paul Hommer, of Nevada. ADVICES from Abyssinia stated that since the favorable termination of Admiral Hewitt's mission, King John relying upon the friendship of Protestant Powers, persecutes French Catholic missions, which he dislikes. A number of mission houses were sacked and missionaries expelled. THE first car load of California beer ever shipped East left San Francisco the other day consigned to Chicago. It was ordered on its merits, due to the excellence of California grown barley. AT New York recently the steeple chaser, Jim McGowan, was seized by the Sheriff pending a settlement in the Court of Claims of the rival owners, W. C. Daly and ex. Mayor Nolan, of Albany. THE Treasury Department on the 16th is. sued warrants for the payment of $9,000,000 on account of pensions. THE Treasury Department has been informed by one of its agents on the Canadian border that paper rags, supposed to be collected in the cholera infected districts of Egypt, Turkey and South France, were beimported into the United States through Canadian ports. They were described as low grade and likely to contain germs the disease. A large lot was recently beed to this country. C. ENO was still being shadowed by ctives in Quebec. A PLUB to blow up the palace at Warsaw during the Czar's stay was recently disJustice of the Peace named covered. Barlovsky was suspected and arrested. A quantity of and dynamite belonging to the conspirators was also found. JULIAN WHITE SONS & Co., 56 Leonard street, New Yorkswere reported to have assigned to George' Walbridge. They accommodated Edw. Yard & Co., with notes. They gave lar preferences. The firm was in the fancy goods trade. PRIVATE advices from turphysboro, III., reported the failure of Minor Savings Bank at that place. The bilities were not stated. The assets was $10,000. The citizens were excited and trouble was expected. AN incendiary fire at Lexington, Ky., destroyed the Blue Grass copper shops. The loss is $31,000, and the insurance & 4, 000. THE Grand Lodge Knights of Honor of Mississippi unanimously sustain the action of the supreme officers in establishing the headquarters of the Supreme Lodge at St. Louis. THE Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society have decided to give a grand bench show of dogs during their fair in Philadelphia which takes place September 16 to 19. AN Austin, Texas, special says the State Comptroller estimates that the reduction in the value of cattle for the assessment in the State will approximate $10,000,000 OFFICERS of the Pendleton Banking Company of Pendleton, Ind., deny that they have failed. Business was suspended for the purpose of consultation with depositors. The bank opened the following day and business proceeded as usual. LONDON newspapers heartily rejoice over the rescue of the the Greely expedition. THE President of the Board of Health recently telegraphed Surgeon General Hamilton of the Marine Hospital Service, requesting that a revenue cutter be detailed to cruise off the mouth of the Mississippi River to warn off all vessels from Toulon and Marseilles, directing them to go into quarantine at Ship Island. IN the Sharon-Hill divorce case at San Francisco Judge Sullivan refused to allow the ink used in the body of the alleged marriage contract and signature to be submitted to a chemical test unless counsel on both sides agreed. Miss Hill's counsel refused. Sharon's counsel thereupon announced their case closed. AN attempt was made recently to blow up the monument at Salisbury, England, to Lord Herbert with a box of gunpowder. The pedestal was injured. THE Fireman's Trust Insurance Company, of New York, was closed up and policy holders were being re-insured. The assets were $183,000 and the liabilities $171,000. AT Painted Post, N. Y., the other day, fire destroyed the business part of town. JOHN HOFFMAN, employed on the Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, was shot and mortally wounded by Gustav Prier recently. OVER two hundred clerks in the Pension Bureau received promotion the other day, the average advance in salary being two hundred dollars. A HEAVY vein of gas was struck on the Lee farm near Hubton, Pa., the other day, at a depth of eight hundred feet. This strike was in the new field and the pressure was said to be very strong. A SPECIAL from Cheraw, S. C., states that J. P. Hawley, of Douglass, generally thought to be the party who led the posse that killed Bogan Cash, was shot down while at work in his field. He claimed to know who did the shooting. THE steamer St. Dunstan, from Marseilles,arrivedin the Mersey on the 18th.She reported two deaths from cholera during her voyage. The steamer was ordered placed in an isolated position and all communication with the shore forbidden. THE Russian plague hasmade its appearance at Kars and other stations IL the Cau
