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THE visible supply of cotton is 2,281,184 bales. against 2,518,924 last year, and 2,575,825 the previous year, Crop in sight 6,659,786 bales against 6, 587,653 last year W. F. DULMAGE, crown timber inspector at Rat Portage, Man., left town suddenly a few days ago, An investigation shows him to be $20,000 short in his accounts. THE Bank of Montreal declared straight dividend of five per cent without any bonus, on the 24th. A BIG oil well was struck near Legion ville, Beaver County, Pa., on the 25th. The oil gushed out to a height of 115 feet Six hundred to eight hundred barrels the estimated fiow. THE King of Roumania, on the 25th, officially announced that his nephew, Prince Ferdinand, would be his heir, and that residence for him would be built Bucharest. MESSRS. KASSON, BATES AND PHELPS, the American commissioners to the moan conference at Berlin, departed from London for Berlin on the 26th. THE Ohio Encampment G. A. R., in session at Dayton, on the 25th, elected General Samuel H. Hurst, of Chillicothe, Department Commander, and passed lutions favoring a pension of eight dollars per month to every soldier, with cent per day per month in addition for over ninety days' service. SECRETARY NOBLE, on the 25th, directed an investigation of the reports that Government officials had used their authority as officers to secure entry to land in Oklahoma Territory. SEVENTY-FIVE of the striking street-car men of Minneapolis, Minn., accepted the company's terms, on the 25th, and went to work. Cars were run on every line in the city with a full quota. CHARLES A. BERRY, of Malden, Mass., whose foot was cut off by a train on the 24th, died in Boston on the 25th. The deceased was employed as a drummer by John H. Pray & Son, carpet dealers. ON the 25th, Secretary of War Proctor visited the Watervliet Arsenal on business connected with the building of a new :Apunoj unS GENERAL MANAGER HICKSON of the Grand Trunk railway, on the 25th, ordered that no freight trains be run on Sunday, except those carrying live-stock and perishable goods. It is stated that the Delaware & Hudson Railway Company is in sympathy with the movement. THE newly-appointed Minister to Spain, ex-Senator Palmer, of Michigan, was tendered a farewell banquet by the citizens of Detroit, irrespective of party, on the night of the 25th. It was a brilliant affair, and continued to a late hour. THE funeral of Mrs. D. C. M. Pierce, the "big woman," of Dover, N. H., took place on the 25th. It required eight persons to place the body in the casket, and all the trimmings, handles, etc., had to be removed to allow the casket to pass between the doors. MARK MAGUIRE, familiarly known as "Toppy" Maguire, the oldest reporter on the New York City press, died at his home in Hartell on the 24th. He was seventy-five years of age. The cause of his death was a carbuncle, which first appeared a year ago on the top of his spine. He was born at sea August 1, 1814. DANIEL A. GROSVENOR, of Ohio, was, on the 25th, appointed chief of a division in the office of the First Comptroler of the Treasury Department. Mr. Grosvenor is a brother of Representative Gros".1000 THE acting Comptroler of the Currency, on the 25th, declared a second dividend of fifty per cent. in favor of the creditors of the Lowell National Bank, of Michigan, which failed September 11, 1888. This makes in all ninety per cent. paid to the creditors of the bank on claims proved amounting to $88,835. EMMA RATH, seventeen years old, was 'A N at 66 March uo buried Her father believed that she had been buried alive, and a few days ago he the discovered that his
