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PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A BLOCK of lavn has arrived in New York from Honolulu to be made into a monument for Gen, Samuel Chadman Armstrong, Gen. Armstrong was born on the island of Maui, Hawaii, of missionary parents, came to the United States, served through the civil war, founded Hampton normal institute for the and was Indians, Hampton, president Va., until and superintendent at his death, in 1893. FOUR indictments have been found against Sylvester Scovell, a correspondent of the New York World, recently arrested by the Spanish authorities in Cuba. GEN. ALFRED PLEASANTON, one of the most on the side Union distinguished during cavalry the officers late in Wash- civil war, died at his apartments ington at three o'clock on the morning of the 17th. His death, which was calm, resulted from a system worn out with activity and work. AN official dispatch frsm Bombay says 1835 deaths occurred there during the week ending Friday, February 12, of which 813 were due to the bubonic plague. To THE sound of martial music he loved so well, the body of Gen. Jo O. Shelby was, on the 17th, taken to its last resting place in Forest Hill cemetery, at Kansas City, Mo., and placed in the receiving vault to await its burial among the 80 followers of the 'Lost Cause" already sleeping in the ex-confederate burying ground. THE president, on the 18th, commuted to five years' actual imprisonment the of years sentence eight in 1893, the penitentiary imposed March 11, on Crandall, formerly president of the First national bank of Johnson City, Tenn., for false entries in national bank books and false reports. FRANCE and Brazil signed a protocol, on rethe 18th, referring boundaries their dispute to arbigarding territorial tration, the president of the Swiss confederation to be the referee. Italian giving his name as Ira but who tallies Matchus, AN John with Aburzzo, the picture and description of one of the three "satchel workers," who confidenced a New Orleans jeweler out of $10,000 worth of diamonds, was arrested in Chicago on the 16th. an on the 17th, for the order, THE Ottoman government mobilization issued of the Turkish fleet with the least possible delay. THE Colonge Gazette confirms the that most of the great report European of Gerpowers concur in the proposal many that the powers blockade the Piraeus. WHILE a force of workmen were engaged in lowering a boiler into the new cruiser Princess of Aswhich is being out turia, Spanish fitted at the naval yards at Cadiz, the tackling gave way and the boiler fell into the gathering of men below, killing six of them and seriously injuring ten others. THE bill granting women the right of suffrage in Oklahoma territory was defeated in the house, on the 18th, by vote of 11 to 18. It was believed the bill for an educational qualification would carry. THE general deficiency bill presented in the house of representatives, on the 18th, carries an appropriation of $8,448,937. THE nomination of J.H. Munger, of Nebraska, to be district judge of Nebaska, was confirmed by the United States senate, on the 18th, without opposition. COMPTROLLER ECKELS, on the 17th, J. D. Miller receiver of the bank of appointed First national Franklin, of the First O.; John E. Pendricks, receiver N. national bank of Griswold, Ia., and A. Phillips receiver of the First national bank of Olympia, Wash. THE Bermuda, which has gained a because of Cuban expeditions, world-wide tilibustering celebrity, passed out the from the Deleware breakwater, on 18th, and steamed seaward, ostensibly for the Bermudas. It is reported that Gen. Roloff was on was made, on night AN Carlos attempt board. the of to wreck a Big Berea. ., on a bridge 75 near the 18th, discovered Four feethigh. train by The obstructions were shortly before track walker about the eastbound fast treight was due, everted
