Show MAINE i A cae originally involving but which hai gw allowed up tho estates of both liti ganta besides costing the country a large gum hf been settled at bath me CANADA quebec roust bo i ripe field for a temperance tidal wave three cani acks murdered a man in that city the other day for refusing to mt up the drink such conduct is depre li enible OF COLUMBIA tr conkling practices every day I with the dum bells and takes a great deal of outdoor exercise bathes twice a day and dicta himself as if he were in constant training for a prize fight A washington correspondent writes in regard to the sale af pf photograph there that mrs clayes loads all others ot the senators mr Blaine goe off best with cainar and gordon following while conkling ia far inthe in the rear even beat ing him of the representatives i speaker leads A II 11 stephens close on hia beela and gen eral ernext an extra supply of blaines wag laid in to meet the emergency of his last boston reopened its soup bouses lately the soup is not to bo furnished to tramps and station house lodgers but to poor families reported bytho policeto bo deserving ortho ph arity A boston fireman put on a sub statute christmas nigh tand promised him for every call he answered the substitute got in hia work by biving oliree false alarms during the night and thought he had mado ft good tiling out of it but the trick was discovered and hoewaa fined nd cost tho limilo hock arkansas gazette ay that ono railway has spent over within the past three year to promote immigration into arkansas and that it ia just beginning to reap the fruit of its labors ILLINOIS the wire clothes lino man has been hoard from again lie is in illinois swindling people in the same old way the person puts down the number of feekin alie order which the agent changes into dollars and alien the order becomes a note california there are chinese business houses in san francisco in the celestial directory are included biye boardinghouses boarding houses four opium shop n photograph gallery nn undertakers store and two newspaper offices alio santa barbara advertiser says that the curiosities of the pacific is an oil well at sea in 30 fathoms of water on ho coast off santo ati bara sends a constant stream of oil running to waste lie the light of the sun in all colors of alie rainbow it produces a singular and beautiful all act MICHIGAN A bankrupt at If midi was present when the final dividend was declared from ins estate which was just of yielding an even per cent to save alie coninis i lioner trouble alio insolvent magnan inious ly paid alie from a well filled pocket look the managers of the leo monumental association of richmond VA are making strenuous euberts to raise ft sufficient fund to justify the board of managers in awarding the contract for the proposed equestrian statue of the famous rebel general R the trustees of abo college of tho city of now york havo asked and received the resignations of several of leading professors because they thought alie professors behind alio age alio new york papers have discovered a who i yearn old namar is mrs mar Murph yand ahe resides in lint martof the oils known as irishtown Irish town alio cays she born in ireland on st thorn is day december alt and lind of the irish rebellion of A brooklyn minister has preferred 11 charge of against ward because lie doti ewt treat the opinions of old testament patriarchs with respects beacher will probably out a statement consigning lie reverend gentleman to the bowwow for lii presumption three tourists undertook to walk behind niagara fallen few days ago the danger is grat in winter owing to ali ice ann of the trio in picking hi way over the slippery path ran against a hugo icicle which broke olland fell on him ilo wait badly cuff and has since been insane but whether from ft blow on the head or from fright is not settled mrs mcdonald aaa up in bed in portland when she heard burglar trying to get in took revolver from under her pillow and fired ever chob at alio window through which aho atman face her jun wa t for alie even bullets went through a rinde pano of the thief took hia licad anway in line to escape injury |