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Show ('()!( U K X S K D At A 1 1. NEWS. .Mark Twain's last is a daughter about two weeks old. 1 An Irish colony of 500 families will I soon settle near Council Rlufl's, Iowa. At Li Crosse, Wis., Hon. J. L. i Lude, Democrat, was elected mayor. Samuel S. Wycoff, a prominent Now Yorker, died in that city on Tuesday. Tues-day. At Rome a new literary and artisiic ! paper has appeared. Its title is "The ! Globe. " i li. li. Falkenburg is the nominee of ithe temperance party of Indiana for ' governor. ; Pauline Lucca will come to America 'in She has been engaged by Strakosch. I The "spotted fever" is epidemic in Brooklyn, and more fatal than the : small-pox. 1 Richard Mar-hall, one of tho pioneer i settlers of Saline county, Missouri, died ; la-t week. j The lialtimore American has had thirteen libel suit-), and has been victo-i victo-i rious in all. Senator Scott stock for tho viee-pres-' idential nomination at Philadelphia is ' on the rise. j John Hutchinson, died iu Brooklyn, i New York, recently, at the advanced a.e of one hundred and six years. I Duke Alexis has promised, God willing, will-ing, lo attend the centennial of American Ame-rican independence at Philadelphia, in ISiti. An unknown individual drew a $.j0,-000 $.j0,-000 prize in the Louisiana lottery two months ago, and has never yet applied for it. In the Ohio legislature, the amendment amend-ment to tho appropriation bill, appropriating appro-priating $14;;, 000 to pay what is known as the iMorgan raid claims, was vo'ed down. The Pacific National bank of Council Coun-cil Bluffs city has been created the clearing house of the different railroads rail-roads centering there, including the Union Pacific. Michigan made nearly luO.000 tons of pig-metal last year against 900 tons in 1S5-J. Nearly ona-third of the pig-metal pig-metal produced in tho United Slates is now made from Michigan ore. In Newark, N. J., last week, a woman wo-man seduced the watchman away from the jewelry store of lvlenitz & Co., when a confederate of her's burglarized the establishment to the amount of &,G0U. A late London club joke is that the marquis of Ilipon (formerly earl de Grey), instead of being advanced ibr his services in making the Washington Washing-ton treaty should have been De-Groy-ded. Mr. Sumner has the reputation of being the most constant attendant upon up-on his official duties among all the senators. Since his illness last spring he has been compelled to be frequently absent from his scat. A pirl naraed Nellie Randall, of Now Haven, was found one night Inst week in a hallway on South Fifth avenue, iu New l'ork, apparently dying from the effects of an abortion performed by herself, A fight occurred over a game of cards in the jail at Bowling Green, Ky., between two horse thieves, iu which one, named William Thomas, was struck on the head with a board by the other and killed almost instantly. in-stantly. The Baxter lead excitement, in Kansas, Kan-sas, is becoming moro intense. Land that sold for $5 per acre one week ago is now selling at $ 1 00 per acre. Tuo lead deposits uro said to bo very rich. A number of capitalists i'ram Kansas city have gone there to proswVpriawr A letter of inquiry sent t? Hubbard, Hub-bard, the Democratic candidate for governor of Connecticut, by the leaders of certain fishing interests within the State, was promptly answered, and accompanied ac-companied with a bill for professional opinion in order to screen his reputa-1 tion from the very suspicion of seeking : to buy votes in any manner. A call is issued signed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Hooker, Susan B. Anthony nnd Matilda Gage, for a convention of all citizens at Steinway hall, May 9:h and 10th, for a new political poli-tical party to demand an honest administration, admi-nistration, reform of social and political abuses, emancipation, labor, and the enfranchisement of women. The Swedish calony in Maine lias a professional opera-singer, a Mrs, Now-man. Now-man. During the winter the Swedes dress warmer than their Yankee neighbors. neigh-bors. Skin jackets, fur-lined overcoats, and fur lined boots arc worn. Tho wooden snowshocs used enable tho Swede, with the aid of a pole he carries, car-ries, to glide over the snow in utter defiance de-fiance of drifts. It is said of Mary Rose Gathreaux, the lady superior of the convent of the Sacred Heart in Chicago, recently deceased, de-ceased, that she had been so little out-jsido out-jsido of the convent for thirty years that she did not know what a street car was, and that it went on rails. During the great fire she asked her servant to order a "street car," as there were no carriages to be had. |