| Show I NEWS OF THE DAY i Natural gas has been struck at Port Col borne Ont in sufficient force to light the tiwnThe The marriage has been definitely arranged ar-ranged between Sir Charles Dilke and the widow of Rev Mark Pattison The Pall Mall Gazettes recent revelations I I revela-tions of London vice have been dramatized at Vienna The play is in five acts and is r entitled Protect Our Daughters General Grant left no will It is not unlikely un-likely that the family will return to New York the middle of September and then to their house in Sixtysixth street The Detroit Journal says Secretary Whitney is a kind of surprise party The first general opinion wronged him He is not a dude he is in fact a dandy Our South American trade has been seriously crippled by the burning of Colon and the practical closing of the ports of Carthagena and Barr nquilla particularly the latter i Rev Talmage Kev Spurgeon and the Bishop of Truro have sent letters to the committee tjoa the meeting to be held in Hyde Iarkj under the auspices of the Pall Mall Gazette expressing their sympathy withlhe objects of the meeting It is felt in many places in the South that the monument to General Grant should assume the dual character of a monument to General Grant and General Lee Dr J B Hinckley of Georgia one of the best known surgeons of the army of Northern Virginia subscribes 500 for this purpose and calls upon the proper authorities in New York to give the matter this shape so that I Confederates may join in The New York World says the Sim might have allowed the grass to grow over the grave of General Grant before seeking to i belittle his reputation as a military commander com-mander and to depreciate his services to the Union Yesterday it said If there had been no Grant we should beyond doubt have found some other successful commander We had many generals of character and genius to try and choose from Last Thursday the dead body of Mrs Harrison was found in an unused well at De soto Iowa The circumstances indicate murder The family relations of the Harri sons were not very agreeable owing to the I presence of a Mrs Lowry to whom Mrs gesence Harrison objected All manner of evil rumors ru-mors are afloat and the excitement is greatly increased yesterday morning by Mrs I Lowry drowning herself in a cistern Ten arrests have been made of members I of a criminal society which has been operating oper-ating in Rome Naples and Spolito A search of tho house of a member of the society so-ciety a former government official revealed the fact that a correspondence had been carried on with agents in New York for the sale to Americans of Italian girls who had been bought for small sums in the southern provinces The prices asked ranged from 40 to ESO During the absence of the President the White House will be thoroughly renovated and cleaned Workmen are s en in all the corridors busily engaged preparing the building for the occupancy of the Piesident during the coming winter All the carpets have been taken up and furniture ornaments orna-ments and paintings have been stored away The chandeliers in the East room and in the lobby are to be taken down and made as good as new Captain Davis of the Fourth Cavalry reports re-ports that Lieutenant Day struck Geron imos camp northeast of Navkavi on August 7th and killed three bucks a squaw and Geronimos son aged 13 and captured fifteen fif-teen women and children amou them three wives and five children of Gerommo Ger onimo was wounded Besides him only two other bucks and one squaw escaped Everything Every-thing in camp was captured On the 29th ultimo Lieutenant Day ambushed a party of four Chiricahuas killed two and captured all the horses and supplies The New York Herald says Among the visitors to Grants tomb on Sunday were throngs of shop girls and their beaux in their finery Added to these were Sunday outers and poor tenement house women with their babies ana tneir rougn uunwy and friviloas conduct generally are not in the least relaxed because Grant lies here dead Is it asking too much of the Park authorities au-thorities now that it is quite certain that the gambols and silly flaunting behavior of the great Sunday mass of ignorant persons out for a Sunday lark are not seriously impressed im-pressed by the tomb that there should be a judicious enforcement of the ordinary cemetery ceme-tery rules Parkerville W Va is in such a social turmoil as has never before been known over the publication of an article in a local paper stating that upward of 500 women of this town are given over to infidelity for every three virtuous women there is one known to be impure The excitement indignation and rage increase as time passes The women of the city of all grades of society have read the slanderous article and they threaten if the men do not avenge the insult to their sex they will take it into their own hands and mete out to the editors of the I newspaper their just deserts and treat them I I to a coat of tar 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