General Notes

Whitelew Raid decliued the Berlín mission. Mrs. Oliver moved for a now trial, but was denied. - Powell, the great walker, took $20,000 from thia country. - Mr. Colfax wagged his leoiurial jaw to a 10,000 profit in 1878. Queen Tictoria travels in cotnpany with the Empresa of India. Ex-Secretary Belknap is in Washington as agent for a lettor stamp. A Philadelphia paper accuses congressman (Jonger of writing pcetry. ■ - Eli Perkins says John B. Gough drinks sherry and egg before lecturing. Ben Butler started to study for the Baptist ministry, but got badly switched off. ■ - AsSitnonCameron wouldsay : " Another one of thetn d- d Hterary íellers goes to Berlín." A. groat Catholio paper, to be printed in seven languagea, will shortly appear in Borne. In Boston gtrawberries are now within the reach of every inillionaire. Price, $2 per box. - It is intimated in ono or two papers that Anna Dickinsou is studying for the ] i Methodist ministry. Thos. Weloh, a St. Louis architect, wants $100,000 of the St. Louis Times for saying he was insane. Ex-Governor Shepherd, of the District of Columbia, hopes to repiir his broken fortunes in New Mexico. Gen. Fitz John Porter can not be re-instated without re-appointment by the President and confirination by senate. -The people of Florida boast thnt the River Bt. John, in that State, is the only navigable one in the United States running north. The New York Star is hopoful that the Talmage trial will be ooncluded soon enough to leave ampie time for smallpox and base ball. A western editor, in response to a subsoriber who gruuibles that his paper is intolerably damp, says it is "because there is so inuuh due on it." Ex-Postmaster General Creswell is President of a national bank in Washington and one of the commissioners for winding up the Freedmeu's bank. - Dennis Kearney, the big-monthed blatherskite, was unmercifully beaten at Santa Anna, Cal., last week, by a man whora he had vilifiedin his speech there. -Daniel Martin of Bellefonte, Ala., aged 75, has married a girl 12 years and üO days old, and started out in life with overy prospect of success and happiness. AU Irislimen do not ooine to America. 41,028 leftlreland last year, which is 401 more tban left the year before. Yet of this number 18,048 wentto England and Scotland. - Gen. Stephen A. Douglas.theyoungI est son of the late Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, lias removed from South Carolina to Chicago, where he has ed to becoma a partner in aloading law I firm. -The Kansas Central Railroad, narro w guage, running west froin Leavenworth eighty-five miles, will besold April 14 under mortgage foreclosure. The road cost $1,000,000 and is appraised at $275,000. - There's hope for Texas yet. At a recent election theie were but three votes for license in the town of Waxahaohie, and in another placea man had to pay f 40 for swearing in the prescnco of a lady. When the verdict was announced to Mis. Oliver she cried and said, ' I'ra not done with Cameron yet," and rushed out of the court-bouso and took a street car not waiting to consult with her counsel. Xf country editors must abnse each ether let them do it as nea-tly aa it was done in Grand Rapids, in this State, recently. Orie editor said of the reporter of a river paper, that he was a man of "almost human intelligentie."