News And Notes

-Edwin Booth has earned 300,000 siuce his bankruptcy. -Abel Rathbone of Jersey City, brother-in-law of Cíen. Grant, died on Suuday. - ïlie excess of American exports over Importe for the year endiag Feb.29 last, was $212,298,968. - Tammany has called a state convention to meet at same place and lime of the regular democracy. -General Sheriilan p&rted company with Grant at San Antonio on Friday, and moved toward Chicago. - Parnell was rotton-egged at Eniscorthy, Ireland, last week, and the populace refused to listen to him. - President Ilayes formally opened the metropolitan museum of art at NewYork's central park, Tuesday. - Grant and Blaine are making such inroads into Ohio that Sherman has goue there to look after his " f enees." -The little city of Birmingham in northern Alabama is excited over a petroleum well flowing 90 barrels per day. - Senate of Rhode Island rejected the proposed amendment to the constitution giving sulïrage to women, 13 to 20. - Ex-state treasurer Kemble and his pais of Pennsylvania, refused pardon. have fled f rom the state. All prominent republican politicians. - Dispatches from all parts of Massachusetts show that Grant is the first choice of the republicana for president, and Edmunds second. - The rascal who gave Rev. Dr. Dix of Xew York so mucli trouble has been caught. It is not the first time he has been in the blackmailing business. - Charles A. Dana is said to have renouneed his Swedenborgian views and adopted opinions remarkably similar to those held by Col. Robert Iiigersoll. - The Frencb Canadians are leaving Montreal at tlie rate of sixty or seventy a day, their destination being Michigan or Colorado, while a few are destined for California. - Three negroespassedfrom this life, Friday afternoon, at the ends of ropes - one at St. Charles, Mo., another at Fairfleld, Texas, and another at Corsicaiia, in the same state. - A judge at ltichmond, Va., has ordered the summoning of tvvo eolored men on the vonue for the next term of his eourt, the lirst case of the kind on record in that state. - A few days ago twenty ponverts to Mormonism, among the number being a young and handsome married woman who lof t lier husband behiud, wentfrom Kentucky to Utah. - Strikera are making tronble at the Cohoes, N. Y. manufacturies. 5,000 operators are idling away time. 500 workmen employed in Hermann's (X. Y.) furniture factory are on strike. - Any person entering thu theatrical profession might as wel] dissolve all marital relations. About every week soine actor or actress is on the divorce road. Boucicault is the latest traveler. -The evangelical pastors in St. Louis have adopted resolutions eondemning the present expensive funeral customs and recommending that greater privacy be observed by mourners when giving vent to their grief. - Certain prominent residents of Peru who were acquainted with Senator Christiancy and his wife, deny the latter's account of what happened there, him plenty of provocation. - A number of ex-catholic priests held large meetings at New York Saturday, looking to the establishment of an American independent church. They are encouraged by the methodist, baptist and presbyterian conferences of Philadelphla and Xew Jersey. -Charles L. Chapman, one of the clerks at the white house, has been dismissed by the president for keeping a harem in another part of the city. He has long had an unenviable notoriety as a procurer, but has managed to kiep the executive in ignorance of his true character. - Pennsylvania's board of pardon, after a protracted session on Saturday, refused pardons to Kemble, Petroff, Salter, Crawford and Iïumburger, convicted on pleading guilty to corruptly soliciting votes of members of the legislatTire to pass the famous 4,000,000 riot bill. -Miss Amelie Linkman, the bell of Sumberton, N. J.,- all Dixie damsels who get into troafelé are belles,- who soine time ago shot and killed her seducer, and who was acquitted by a sympathetic jury, has been married to an officer in the custom house at Sulliyan's islaad, near Charleston. - A young Maine farmer, whese new wife, a highly culturad Boston girl. well up in geology and mineralogy, diaappointed him by rambling over the farms, peckling at the rocks instead of attending .to the milk and eggs, experienced a complete revolntion in his feelings when she discovered gold, and he was told that his farm was worth $50,ÜU0.