GENERAL NEWS. Senator Edmund* baa l>een granted au indefinite leuvo of absence on account of illness in hi* family. A call ha* t>een i**ued for a National Prohibition convention to meet at Chi cago on the t!3il of August. A tire in the Webater Liw building, at Washington, l>. C., Sunday morning caused damage aggregating $5OOO. Commissioner Dudley say* it will take $1 (X), 000 000 to pay pension* to soldier* whose claims are to ho adjusted during next year. Petitions and applications of all sorts ' for Executive clemency in the oa*e of Sergeant Mason are pouring in upon the President from all quarters. A young couple were baptised togeth er at Troutdale, Tenn., and immediate ly afterward were married in their drip ping garments by the same clergyman. The entire incoming eastern night mail at the Madison, Wis., poatoflice, consisting of about two thousand letters, was burned up at an early hour last Friday morning. The Denver Iribune says that Mrs. R. B. Hayes' husband ha* just been re elected road overseer at Fremont, Ohio. At any rate, the other fellow wasn't counted in. Deacon Smith, of the Cincinnati Ga sette, remarks that "the Stalwart gang which made war on President (iarfield is now having its full satislacltou, if Ouiteau lelt any shortage." Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Tyler have been added to the pension rolls for $5,000 a year each. The first and the last named do not need the money, but Mrs. Polk does. There was no attempt to deceive the guests as to the ages of the bride and bridegroom of a wedding at Elgin. 111. The cards of invitation said: "Smith Jamison 84, to Sarah Seward 83." The striking spinners of Lynn, Mass., are very determined not to return un less at the old figures. No disturbance has occurred. About 350 hands are al ready out and it is thought others will join them. The report of a snow slide at Genes, Nevada, is confirmed. Mr. and Mrs. Nimrod Biwen, Mt*s Borhn and a nun ber of Indians,'variously slated at from seven to fifteen wrere killed. All the bodies have not yet been recovered. If. 8. Sieward. supposed to have come from Los Angelos, on Friday, last nslm ed off two alleged gold bricks on Peter Kiernan. the bullion clerk of the Uni ted States Mint at New Orleans, and le ceived a negotiable receipt lor deposit of 733 33 100 ounces gold, valued at $15,000. Fred W. Newhurgh, late asi*tant secretary of the Oli'o State Board of Public Works, ngnnt whom fifty-two indictment* were returned for forgeries on the State Treasury amounting to over $20,000. was found guilty. The case will go to the Supreme Court. Samuel J. Tilden managed to get through a letter on Jackson's birthday without expressing a single treasonable sentiment. And this, alter the Kepub lican press had been worrying for a fortnight lest he should give the coun try entirely away. A dastardly attempt was made at New Orleans, Siturday night, to rut the levee within the city limits. Timely discovery was made and the cut filled, the oveiflow of a large portion of the city being thereby prevented. The per petrator lias not yet been discovered. Later advices from Costa Rica prove that the recent earthquake was by no means so destructive of property as was at firl reported and that no 10->s of life whatever occurred. It is a very poor seaon for earthquakes when t'-entral America cannot do belter than this, A dog stole a piece of meat from Stranahan'a butcher shop at Holly Michigan, and the man threw a knife at the thief, which killed him. The owner of the dog prosecuted Mlrannlian for cruelty, the town became excitedly divided in sentiment, the trial employ ed the best legal talent in the county, and the butcher was finally fined $lO. Oliver John Kenyon'a house at As hantee, Wis., originally had only one story. When his son married he ad ded a story for the accommodation of the new family, and a third was put on when his grandson took a wife. He is now eighty years old. and it is there fore unlikely that the building will he further heightened for a great grand son, though hopea so. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Price is engaged in the preparation of a report to the ."Secretary of the Interior recom mending the removal of the Apache, Navajo* and Mescalero Indians now In rated in New Mexico to a suitable reser vation in the Indian Territory. In making thia recommendation the com missioner is influenced by the urgent represensations of various Indian agenla. A couple composed apparently of a boy of lfi and a girl of 12 presented themselves to a justice at Gilpin. Mo., and asked to be tnsrried. The justice replied that he waa not in the habit of joining children in wedlock, and advis ed them to go right buck to their pa rents. They asserted that they were over twenty, and so they were, being dwarfs; but they had to bring witnesses and the family record before the official would believe it. HarxsviM.x, 0., Feb., 22. 1882. I am very glad to say I have tried Hop Bitters, and never look anything that did me as much good. I only took two bnttlea and I would not take $lOO for the good they did roe. 1 recom mend them to my patienta, and get the best results from their use. C. M MMCM, M. D. IIxALTtf, hope, and happinesa are re stored by the use of Lydta E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound. It is a positive cure for all those diseases from which women suffer so much. Mend to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 223 Weatern Ave., Lyon, Mass., for pamphlets. I list* Chronic Rheumatism for one year; had been given up to die by two physicians. Fraixa cured me. We. CCBTX, Pittsburg, Pa. Miss ISABSIXA HILL, Allegheny City, Pa., bad Chronio Catarrh ; Is well from the use of Pcauxa. VALENTIN EH
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