Minor News Items

For Week Knded Marcü 32. British nt'llers are agitating in lavor of Bii import duty on foreign Hou. The report tliat small-pox is spreadin at Janesville, Wis., is exaggerated. Last year 153,000,000 pounds 'of copper were mined in the United Staten During the last week 4.06,805 Standard 3ilver dollars were issued from the mints. A fifteen days' rat hunt at Dublin, O., ended wit h a total of 19,691 dead rats as the result. An explosión in the United Oil Company's works at Baltimoré caused the death of f our persons. The Governor of Nebraska has commissioned Buffalo Bill asaid-de-camp, with the rank of Colonel. . A heavy white frost has done much damage to fruit and early vegetables iu Florida and Gso.'gii. The imported staUion King Ban, valued at $35,000, died of spinal meningitis at Lexington, Kcnlucky. José Sevilla, who died lately in Peru, left 1500,000 to establish in New York a school for poor girls. The remains of Captain James B. Eads wore interied Thursday in Bellefontaine Cemetery at St. Louis. Cardinal Manning has heartily indorsed the poliey advoeated by Cardinal Gibbons toward the Ki'iahts of Labor. Fire destroyod the Commercial press at New Orleans, with a largo amount of cotton, the total loss being ÍISU.UOO. The General Assembly of Virginia is holding an OKtit session, niainly lo take action regarding tliu State üebt. General Bragg denies the report that ha is a paralytic, and states that he has de clined a District of Columbia judgeship. Senator Curtiss' bill empowering women to vote at school elections, was rejected Thursday in the Illinois Seuate - 25 to 18. The Michigan G. A. R., in session at Grand Kapids Thursday elected L. G. Rutterford, of Hart, department commander. The cotton-seed oil company recently organized in New Jersey has made contracta for machinery for eight milis, to cost $250,000. Daniel Allen, who poisoned Henry Wright, the husband of his paramour, was i'ouud guilty Thursday night at Neillsville, Wis. E. C. Anthony's powder mili, near Negaunee, Mich., blew up Monday afternoon. L. H. Stanley and his sou Albert were killed. The business section of Rock HUI, 8. C, was almost wiped out by fire Thursday night. The loss is 40,000, with about 1100,000 insuranoe. D. Lynch Pringle, of South Carolina, was on Thursday eonimlssioned by the President to be Cónsul-General ot the United States at Constan tinople. It is thought the ci-editors of Walter E. Lawton, the missing guano magnate of New York, will receive about seventy-five per cent. of their claims. A üre in BufTalo Tuesday morning destroyed the grocery house of Miller, Greisner & Co., and the Masonic Hall. The loases aggregate 1300,000. The negro miners imported to Peoría from Grope Creek secured credit for provisions to last one month, and theu struck for three cents per bushei. The Treasury Department refuses free admission at San Francisco to the figure of a dragon 150 feet long, imported from China for use ia a joss-house. St. Louis has been designated by the Acting Secretary of the Treasury as a central reserve for National banks under the act passed at the last session of Congress. W. I. Hutchinson, once a well-known broker in Wall streef., was placed ia the Tombs oa Thursday for wrongfully conyerting stock cei-tiiicatcs worth 135,000 Frank H. Scott, recently keepor for Webster & Co., of Ne war k, N. J., arres tod on Thursday, confesseii to taking f35,000 front the firm by maVing false en tries ia the bookij. TwO stores at Fliut, Mich., were gutted by Ure Thursday alght. Peter Burrell (colored) was suffocated, and his daughter dangerouslr injured by leaping írom a winow. Suits against D. M. Sabio, Senator from Minnesota, for $253,475 were yesterday oommenccd in the Federal Court at Chicago by H. H. Porter, R. R. Cable and William Coffln. A fire on the Chautauqua (Ií. Y. ) Assembly grounds on Sunday night destroyed eighty buildings and ruined the grand old trees on the lako front. The loss is estmated at $100,009. Arohbishop Ljrncli of Torontu lias sent an open letter to Lord Randolph Churchill, in which ho begs liim to join with Gladstone, justice to Irelaud to forin ttie basU of tho proposed coalitie. . The past winter was a rery disastrona one to stockmen in Montana, tho scasou being tho soverest lenown in twonty-five years. The average loss of cftttle was said t,o bo siKty-five por cent. In somo instances entire herds perished. In the Illinois Seuate on Thursday Uia bill peusiouing polioemon when disabled while in the performance of their duty, and all pólice offieers who have arriyed at the age of fifty year9 and haring serred for a period of tweuty or more yers, waa passed.