The Majority Against The Amendment

will probably reach 5,000. Two shooks of earthquak were distinotly feit at Burlington, Vt„ Sunday af ternoon . The drought in Texas has assumed a gerious aspeot and there is great emffering in eonsequence. President Cleveland has appointed Eugene Swiple to be Qovernor of Washington Territory. He is a resident of the Territory. - - - - ♦ 1- - Kobert Lincoln will dónate th Linooln homestead, at Springfleld, 111 , to the state, if it will keep the house and grounds in repair. We wonder if the time will ever come when the county oanvassers can finish their labors in a single day. lt is said there was no necessity for adjourning over until Wedneeday. The National Amusement Proteotive Association, oomposed of theatrioal managers, actors, show printers, and others who are afFeoted by the new Interstate Commerce law- the object being to seoure such a modiñcation of that law as will remove alleged existing hardships under it - waB organized Saturday with headquarters in Chicago.