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Show LATKSf 3IAIL ITEMS. Tho chinch bugs threaten the destruction of the wueat crop in Iowa. G-jrj. KilpUrick is to lecture at Cheyenne im "Ge tlyahurg and Battle Scenes" shortly. A Richmond (Va.) lady has the remains re-mains of a liquet of 11 jwers sent to her by Gen. Lafayette. Over $20,000 have been collected for the General Lee- memorial to be erected at Richmond, V. j The Cheyenne Le vler denies the ; story that telegraph opcratots of that city have pocketed money received for telegrams. A San Francisco journal says that in that city ot J-X),0J0 inhabitants, the Mercantile Library association has only 1,000 iiibscribers. Miss Caroline Chapman, an old and well-known pioneer actress, died ! in San Francisco on Sunday evening, ! at the age of oS, after suffering ill-health ill-health for a number of years. i Chicago May day musingi : Move, brother, move with care, your wife's: bureau down the s'.aire; step up softly ' on the chairo, do not mar the furni-: luaire; move, brother, move with care. Ballotti, ono of tho Denver gang of Italian cut throats, lias been convicted convict-ed of premeditated murder, and will, ot course, stretch hemp. The other members of tho gang aro now on trial. The regular boarding prices of the principnl hotels of San Francisco for a man and wife, aro $180, $liU0, $J2-3, $300 and $.jU0 per nianthi according to tho number of rooms occupied, A petition to tho Texas legislature ;ia being circulated, askini; tho pass age of a law to punish burao thieves as follows : Finit oll'enco, whipping post; second, whipping and branding; third, hanging. Tho life of A. T. Stewart announced by I), Applelon it Co., immediately upon Mr. Sluwart's death, will not be published by that house. This is understood to ho in dtiferenco to the wish of Mrs. Stewart. Tho signers of tho declaration of independence aro to be commemorated commemo-rated by bronze medallions iuPuncnil Hall, Boston, Fifteen thousand ilol-jlars ilol-jlars have been appropriated by coin-, coin-, niDu council for that p lrpoie. A New York Udy on a viait to Europe has left two poodles in charo of a dog doctrcan, fur the keeping of i which she ia too pay $JO0 yearly and provide a cmiago once a mouth in 1 which the pels are to be aired. ! Chafes Crocker of the Central Pacific railroad ban been cited to appear ap-pear before a San Francisco court for contempt, iu refusing to appear as a witness in a suit of A. A. Cohen a'iust tho Central Pacific railroad company. The yearly sum of o,0 )0 franca ia paid by ono man iu Paris, for the privilege of laying clean, fresh straw over tho lloor ol a butler market, which, when removed, yields back the butler which is linger- d, chewed and taitrd and rejected through the day. The Washington Slur congratulates the public, in view of thu frightlul incraM) of infanticido in that city, that a conviction has taken place in the criminal court; a woman who nrgleeted her infant a1, birth from which death resulted, having boon , fuuud guilty ol manslaughter. j. |