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Show IXKLGS. I Two more of the ltotb?chiM3 have married each other. Forty thousand emigraols aro expected ex-pected to arrive at Duluth next season. Alexander Von Humboldt was the Grst to propose a system of storm indicators. indi-cators. The Pullman palace cars arc io be ! iotroduced on the principal English railways. The Queen of Holland is traveling in Ltaly under t lie name of the Countess Coun-tess Van iiuren. Addte II. Rallou, the woman's rigbtcr, has brought a libel .suit afiainst tho Terre Haute, Indiana Gazette, for $10,UUU. Miss Belle Hammond, of Uttuinwa, j lias recently been appointed clerk to I the secretary of the Capitol commis-! commis-! ion, Iowa. i James Ham, IT years of age, in jail at Beaver, I'u., convicted of murder, in credited with the remark: "My mother's whisky brought me here." Mr. Medill, the now mayor of Chicago, Chica-go, has withdrawn from editorial connection con-nection with the Tribune, which will continue ao long as he remains mayor. A Gorman prisoner, name unknown, committed suicide, at Minonk, III., recently, re-cently, by setting lire to the cell in which he was confined, and roasting himsclK The remains of general T. Bankhcad Magruder lie in a Houston, Texas, cemetery, wilh but little moro than heaped up sod to mark the place of his last rest. Lcdru Rolliu, who left Franco with the coup d'etat, returned a few days ago to pass the rest of his life in Paris provided the Imperial spectre docs not assume reality. Ferdinand Freiligrath, the Cicrman poct, denounces, in a card which has created a profound sensation in Germany, Ger-many, the International association, of which he was formerly a member. The Montgomery White Sulphur Spring (Va.) properly has been sold to a party of gentlemen in Alabama. It is to bo converted into a female school under the charge of Dr. H. K. Cox. Jven Davis, a Big Hock, (111.) farmer, far-mer, was driving homo through the timber one evening recently, when a couple of largo wolves chased his dose under the wagon, aud even then (ried to tackle him. Man and dog only saved themselves by flight. Robert Bran ton, a great-grandson of Brant, tho famous Indian chieftain, aged 91, and his wife, aged ST, are living at Detroit, The'former was born in Philadelphia, and says ho remembers re-members general George Washington very well, but wasn't one of hifJ body-servants. body-servants. ; ; "I say, Pole, docs you know bow dey keep oysters from smelling -iu, de hottest ob wedder?'' "1 don't link 1 does, Sam; how'd dcydo 'cm?" "Why, dey cut dtu- noses off and dey can't smell nutting?" "Oh, yah! yah! yah! what an unpcnclraluni colored pusson youjs." The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal says there is almost a coal famine along the line of the Central Iload. The Fort Dodgo mines are not more than half 1 supplying the demand, and the traveler travel-er hears anxious inquiries for fuel at , nearly every station between there and Sioux City. The Omachila Telegraph says: The annual flow of immigrants to Texas has set in, and scarcely a day pastes without with-out a train of wagons , passing through on the westward march. Alabama and Mississippi appear to be the principal contributors to these additions to tho : population of Texas. |