Minor News Items

Parliament meets lor the dispatcn ol business on Thursday next. Sir Michael Morris has been appointed Lord Chiel-Justice of Ireland. The Czar and Czarina are arranging fora tour oí Europe in the sprmg. Señor Antonio Fontes, repeatedly Prime Minister oí Portugal, is dead. The Queen's jubileo is to be celebrated throughout India on the ]6th prox. Horses on eight different farms in Marshall County, 111., are affected with glanders. A special trai, carrying sixty-six tons of silks, left San Francisco for New York last Baturday, There are iorty-three logging camps in the immediate vicinity oí Fifleld, Prioe County, Wis. The Republican members oí the Legislature oí West Virginia will support General Goff ior Senator. r A fire at Readsville, N. C, destroyed the Piedmont Hotel and nine other buildings, the losses being $60,000. A Washington dispatch announces that a daughter was born to Secretary and Mrs. Whitney Sunday morning. A rich vein of coal has been struck near Clayton, Mo., at a depth of tifty-three feet. The coal is of excellent quality. R. Crampton, wholesale and retail dealer in books and stationery at Rock Island, 111., failed Monday night for $11,000. General Charles P. Stone, who served with distinction in the Egyptian army, died Monday night at New York. John Edwarcte, the leading Welsh bard of America, expired at Rome, N. Y., Thursday morning, aged eighty-one. A steamer irom Buenos Ayres, South America, arriving at Pauillac, Southern Franco, has cases of cholera on board. Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, is about to give f25.1,000 to Cornell Univorsity, to enlarge the Sibley College of Mechanlc Arts. A flood at Buffalo did great dainage in the Thirteenth ward, and caused a sion of the natural gas supply oí tHo city. The Government revenues for this month are thus fav decidedly largor than was cxpecteil, and indícate a íair debt reduction. All the coal-miners in Scotland will strike at the end of this week if an increase of wages of sixpence per day is not granted. The boiler of Jack Norris' saw-mill, twc miles north of Loogootee, Ind., exploded ■ Thursdiiy. killing Jack Norris and Wüsod MrAtee. T. B. Pannell, sheriff of Muhlensburg County. Ky., was shot dead at Paradise by a desperado, whom he attempted to arrest for murder. The Scottish Protestant Alliance haa sent to Queen Victoria a memorial cali attention to the aggressions of the Papacy in Great Britain. A sentonoc of ninety-nine years in the penitentiary has been pronouncod against Sadie Hayes, a negress, who killed a pólice sergeant in St Louis. Dr. W. S. Robertson, of Muscatine, president of the Iowa State Board of Health and a member of the faculty of the Iowa State University, is dead. The capital punishment commission appointcd by the Governor of New York ia about to report in favor of exterminating murderers by electric shocks. Whitehurst & Owens' planing mili al Kichmond, Va., was destroyed by üra Monday. The dead Doay oí a nreinau found in the ruins. Loss, f35,000. A bilí to créate a pólice pension íund in all cities and villages of Illinois by setting aside a portion of certain licenses and unes is about to be introduced at Springñeld. The Schuylkill river is gorged for miles abovc Beading, P". The water has submerged the surrounding country, and is sweeping away fences and druwiiing c-attle. G. L. Goulding & Co. 's corral at Donver, Col., together with twenty-two fine cattle, eleven mules and threc blooded horses.was destroyed by üre Sunday morning. Loss, Ï10,00ü. Mrs. S. G. Robinson, appointed a trustee of the lowa Btate Industrial School, has declined the office, and Miss Maggie Appleton, ofSiouxCity, Ia., has been appointod in her place. The Cape of Good Hope Government has iust come to a decisión which will render 18,000,000 acres of fertile land available for settlement by emigrants betweon now and June next. Reports from Lincoln and San Miguel Counties, in New Mexico, adjacent to the Pan-handle of Texas, aa# that great suflering exists among oattle, caused by the prolonged drought. Fire destroyed the cotton warehouse of Pheniey & Co., at Augusta, Ga., valued at Ï35,OOO, and the supply building of the Onondaga Iron Company, at Geddes, N. Y., worth 175,000. The United Labor party of Philadelphia Monday put up a ticket for city offlcers, a shoe-maker, a eigar-maker, a car-drivor and an attorney being nominated for the principal positions. Ice in the Wabash river carriod off the bridges at Vera Cruz and Bluflton, Ind., H nartiallv destroved the Toledo, 8t. Louis & Indiana railway bridge. The total loss is placed at $30,000. The Illinois Supreme Courthassustained the State Board of Education in its refusal to reconvey fourteen acres of land donated to the State Normal University at Normal by the late Mr. BakewelL The Phcenix Furniture Company'3 mammoth building in New York was gutted by fire Thursday afternoon, oreating a loss of 150,000. The furnituru sold by tho concern is manufactured at Grand Kapiils. M . h The Upper House of the Prussian Diet has unanimously adopted an address to Emperor William expressing tho willingness of the Prussian people to vota the means necessary for defeading the Oerman Empin'. On tho ground that the contract was bwed on a gambling operation, the county court of Milwaul '1 "ie suit of Daniel Wulls ajjainst Poter Mciieoch for 1000,000 ttUeged to be due on the famous lard deal of 1SSO