Wm. M. Dustin (Lincoln, IL)

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL IN his annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30 last, General Superintendent Jackson of the railway mail service states that at the close of the year the railway post-office lines in operation numbered 871, occupying 435 whole cars and 1,760 apartments in cars. The aggregate length of railroad routes over which these cars run is 110,672 miles and the annual miles of railroad service performed by clerks was 100,923,910. CARTER HARRISON declines to run for Cong ress in the Third Illinois district. WM. M. DUSTIN, banker. of Lincoln, III. has failed, with liabilities amounting to $200,000. SHERIFF McMILLAN, at Victoria, B. C., was notified on the 28th that the law must take its course in Sproule's case. He was to be executed on the 29th. LORD LONSDALE left New York on the 28th for England. His departure was rather sudden and wasasurprise to many. It is said, however, that he will return about November 27 MAURICE, son of Sarah Bernhardt, fought a duel at Paris on the 28th with and wounded M. Lanzlois, because the latter exbibited a painting ridiculing his (Bernhardt's) mother. THE funeral of Mrs. Cornelia M. Stewart, widow of A. T. Stewart, the New York millionaire, occurred on the 28th. As parting shot at Justin McCarthy, Mr. Lewis, the unseated Londonderry member of Parliament, says he has been receive and enlisted in America by Fenian dynamiters and advocates of murder. SECRETARY MANNING resumed actual control of the Treasury Department on the 29th and Mr. Fairchild was relieved of his dulies as acting secretary which office he has held from the time Mr. Manning was taken sick up to date. SECRETARY BAYARD has completed his review of Mr. Sedgwick's voluminous report on Mexican matters in general and the Cutting case in particular, and is satisfled with it complete and valuable document. It will doubtless be transmitted to Congress with the President's message. PROF. HENRY H. LOCKWOOD, United States Navy (formerly U.S. A.), has presented to Lieutenant D. D. Brainard, the Arctic hero recently appointed to the Second cavalry, the handsome pearl-handled navy revolver carried by his late son, Lieutenant James B. Lockwood, during thetrip of exploration the latter made when he and Brainard reached the most northerly point yet attained by man. THE Marquis of Headfort has refused to reduce the rents on his estates in County Cavan, Iroland. COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE COLMAN thinks the new diffusion process for making sugar from sorghum success. Mr BLAKE, leader of the opposition in the Canadian House of Commons, says he has information that parliament will be dissolved immediately ON the 29th John eifonschneider, of New York, was convicted of eating dog meat. which seems to be a violation of the health ord finance. GENERAL Kaulbars has dispatched another threatening note to the Bulgarian Government, in which he says the gunboats at Varna will igorously affirm their importance if events render it necessary. CAPTAIN WM. S. JOHNSON, U. S. A retired, was tried by urt-martial at Washington on the charge of duplicating his pay accounts, and acquitted, but General Sheridan has disapproved the finding. Os the 29.h Michael Davitt received a cablegram earnestly requesting his presence in Ireland as soon as practicable. His lecture tour will therefore close by the end of November GENERAL LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, Grand Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic,announces the appointment of the following staff: Adjutant-General, E. B. Gray, of Ma lison, Wis.; Quartermaster-General, John Taylor, of Philadelphia; Judge Advocate-General, Henry E Taintor, of Hartford, Conn.; Assistant Adjutaut-General, F. W. Oskley, of Madi son, Wis.: senior aid-de-camp, Phil Cheek, Jr., of Baraboo, Wis. GENERAL BOOTH, commander in-chief of the Salvation Army, arrived at Chicago on the 30.b. GENERALMASTER WORKMAN POWDERLY went to Baltimore last week, and made good impression on the Catholic prelates there assembled. THE Attorney General has decided that the three per cent. called bonds can not be used as a basis for National bank circulation. A SCHEME is reported to be on foot to overthrow the Bulgarian Government and proclaim a ministy under Zankoff, with Kaull ars as head of the army. DR. VON H ARTMANN, a solicitor of Han. over, has fled to America, having embez zled moneys and securities to the extent of 200.000 marks. CO!ONEL FILOFF, the Bulgarian com. mander at Rustchuk, has been deprived of his command and sentenced to two months' imprisonment for obey ing an order of Kaulbars. ON the 30th Sam S. Payton, a grandson of Commodore Perry, was discharged.from Michigan State prison at Jackson, having served a five years' sentence for burglary He is said to have inherited a $250,000 fortune during his incarceration. DR. HERE. wealthy American resident of Paris, challenged the editor of Le Monde to fight duel on account of a slanderous article, and the latter made an apology. THE Edinburgh exhibition has awarded the silver modal of excellence to Dundas, Dick&Co., of New York, for their Men thai productions, mentholine and mentholete. REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER is at home again. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, by proclamation, has set apart Thursday, November 23. as Thanksgiving day. THE President and Governor Hill of New York have each contributed $500 to the campaign fund in the Empire State. ACCORDING to the demand of General Kaulbars the plotters against Prince A1. exander have been released. A PERSONAL friend of James G. Blaine gives it out that the latter does not want the presidential nomination in 1888, preferring to take his chances in 1892. Taz President, when applied to, refused his consent for Governor Ross of New Mexico to take an active part in the recent political canvass. THE Henry George Institute, of Glasgow, Scotland, sends greetings to those who nominated George at New York. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.