Minor News Items

The Sultan of Zanzíbar is dead. lt is said that Queen Victoria will review Italian and English squadrons at Leghorn. A large number of counterfeit Un.teri States two-dollar bilis are in circulaticn in Toronto. The Central Theater and the Theater Comique, in Philadelphia, were destroyed by tire Suturday. Silver ore in paying quantities íb said to have been discovered in Scott Coun'.y, üy., near Georgetown. The State officials of Illino.s will each plant a tree on the State-House grounds "Arbor Day," April 13. Henry C. Childe, aged 77, and Jared H. Hitchcock, aged 7i, early settlers of Freeport, 111. , died there Sunday. It was said on Monday that one-half the aereage of wheat in Central Illinois had been ruined by heavy frosts. At Waterf ord, B. I., Misses Miirgaret and Annie O'Keilly (sisters) wera stnick by a train on Saturday and kille;!. Since whipping has been abolished in the convict caoips of Alabaina it is found to be difficult to maintain discipline. J. T. Hoftman, Governor of New York f rom 1868 to 1872, died in Wiesbaden, Gerinany, Saturday, aged 60 years. Lord Stanley, of Preston, Eng., the new Governor-General of Canada, will start för hls post about the beginning of June. Mrs. R. W. Thompson, wife of the exSecretary of the Navy, died in Terre Haute, Ind., Sunday morning, aged 77 years. President Carnot, of Trance, on Tuesday signed the decree placing General Boulanger on the retired list of the army. A deficit of nearly $52.000 in the accounts of the treasurer of Prince George County.Md. , was reported on Tuesday. It is reported that Judge Lambert Tree, United States Minister to Belgium, is coming home with the intention of resigning. James and Samuel Doyle (brothers) were drowned while Üshing in the Arkanas rlver some miles below Fort Gibson on Sunday. Fred Kuch, aged 12 years, was killed by an older brother at Peru, Ind., by the disoharge of a pistol supposed to be unloaded. James Kerrigan, aged 20 years, feil dead while attending service in a Cathollc church at Cheyenne, Wy. T. , Sunday nlght Gold has been discovered in the township of Cartier, Can. , within a mile of the Canadian Paciiic track. The ore assayed $800 per ton. Lyman W. Bettis, a farmer nnd stock - raiser of McLean Connty, Ui, and a halfbrother of the late Senator David Davis, died Monday. Ex-Lieutenant-Governor William Dorsheimer, the publisher of the New York Star, died on Tuesday at Savannah, Ga, aged 56 years. Félix O. C. Darlev, the celebrated signer and illustrator, died suldenly at hishomein Claymont, Dal., on Tuesday, aged 6(i yeara Two ehocks oí earthquake disturbed Nashua, N. H , early Tuesday morning. Residences were jurred and sleeping perBonB awakened. The wife of Dr. Comstock, an old physician who died recently at Shelbyville, Ind, coramitted suicide on Monday by drowning herself in her cistern. The visit of the King of Koumania to Vienna resulted in a definite treaty onder which Austria pledges to resist any violation of Roumanian territory. Captain Brockett, chief of the Government secret service under President Grant, Hayes and Arihur, died at hie reeidence in New York Monday, aged 5(3 yeare. It wa8 discovered on Friday that ü. F. Royce, the trensurer of a eavings bank in yilllmantic, Conn., had appropriated the funds to the amount of 3íl5O,OOO. Near Oweneville, Ky., on Sunday Lee Rice, a wealthy citizen, and Judge T. B. Hamilton ended their lives by suicide. 111 health was given as the cause in both cases. Passeneer trains on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie road came in collision near Wampum. Pa., on Friday, and two men were killed and nine other persons were serious]y wounded. James Davis, a Shelby County (HL) farmer, died in nis barnyard Suaday morning, it is believed of heart disease, and his body had been mutilated by his hoes bef ore it was found. Judge A. P. Kellar, third recorder of New Orleans, shot himself Tuesday becanse the Democratie parish convention, held last Saturday, failed to renominate hhn for office. The enginee and conductora on the Bspld Transit railway, running betweeu ïopeka and Oakland, Kan., struck Monday and tied up the entire line, because Engineer John Kerdy had been discharged. It is jast flf ty years since Bismarck first donned the uniform of the Truesian army. He oelebrated the anniversary of the event Monday in a little dinner, at whioh Von Moltke and a few others were present By the terms of the agreement with the Canadian Pacific by which the monopoly in Manitoba is broken the Government is to take back land to the value of $10,000,000. Thi6 amount will be üpent in improvements. The old board of the Fennsylvania railroad were elected Tuesday. The report ol the rhiladelphia and Hoadinj companies for the three months ended February 29 last shows a decrease in net earnings of $1.220.41:?. Captain Jacob Heaton uieu on Tuesday at Salem, ü., ased 80 yeari". He was well known to all prominent antl-elavery men, having been associated in the work with Horace Greeley, Oliver Johnson, Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison and others. The annual meeting of the Panama Canal Company will be held next Monday at New ïork, and it is reported that a complete change of management will be made, and that the firai of J. B. Keligman & Ca will se ver its ccnnection with the company.