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Show LiGmm'erLASiiES. The trial of Kate Stoddard begins next month. The New York Lotus Club will fete Wilkie Collins. Prof. Donaldson made an exhibition exhibi-tion balloon ascension at Brooklyn, on Saturday. Memphis had seventy deaths from yellow fever in the twenty-four hours ending one p m. Saturday. Several steamers that were expected expect-ed to be delayed at New York, for want of cargoes, have secured full freights. A bronze bust of John Howard Payne, author of " Home, Sweet Honie," has been presented to Brooklyn Brook-lyn by the Faust club. Capt. James, of the steamer Scotland, Scot-land, has been instructed to pick up the survivors of the crew and passengers passen-gers of the ill-fated .Vatiray, at a point between Pierre and Port au Basque. Wilkie Collins is to give one hundred hun-dred readings in New York beginning October 7th. Lie then goes west as far as St. Louis, and will remain in this country until March. He is expected ex-pected to visit the Pacific slope. |