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Show NEWS NOTES. Wendell Phillips ia reputed to be worth $250,000. The total municipal indebtedness of the towns and cities of Connecticut iB $10,976,315.70. i Regular freight trains are running between Cheyenne and Fort Collins i on the Lougmont extension. A we-tern sheriff wrote it, "By vlr-chew vlr-chew of a writ of firey fakas,' but he w;iHa't elected on the ground ol superior su-perior education. , To keep in order the trees, ihrub beries and seats upon the Paris boulevards boule-vards and in the Paris public Bquares and gardens conts every year, about $400,000. The negroes comprise only about one fourth of the population of Meni-I Meni-I his, Teun., and yet of the 1,253 deaths in that city lait year, 601, or nearly one-half, were nogroea. The Mancbc-Bter (.tingianuj scnooi b.tard have sanctioned the establishment establish-ment of penny banks in connection with their schools, and one ws opened recently. Tuere are already upwards ol 400 depositors. The nation is a great creditor as well as debtor. The six Pacific railroads rail-roads Union, Central, Southern, Kansas, Sioux City, and Western owe it $92,086,751, which paya no interest in-terest until maturity in 1897. There ia one diHguated man in New York, an hooeat tradesman, to whom a friend observed pleasantly, "Well, the Boss has mentioned your name to day, I see." Tbe indignant honest tradesman at once wrote to all the papers that whatever Mr. Tweed had written about him was maliciously false. Then he investigated tbe sub-ject sub-ject further and found that what Mr. Tweed had Baid wab that this particular particu-lar honest tradesman was not concerned con-cerned in tbe frauds at all. Moral Look before you squeak. New York World. I A Paris correspondent of the World writes: Thiers waa really Btumping the country as a candidate for the presidency when he ahould have been eking out his remnant of exiatence in his easy chair. Worry has killed him, aa it killed Horace Greeley in a like case. He waa an old champion long past fighting, but it waa necessary neces-sary to send him one more into tbe ring. Thiers was a rich man, though not so rich as when the commune ordered the destruction of his house. The money granted by the state for its restoration did not urve to replace one tithe of the art treasures it obtainedobjects ob-tainedobjects mostly dispersed and lost to the owner with the buiWiog. The greater part of his fortune was derived from a highly profitable mining min-ing enterprise. |