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VOL. . The St. Louis Star-Sayings believes that Germany is threatened with an anti corn law agitation. I A. very large acreage is devoted to grape growing in New Jersey, and the area is extending yearly. It has been stated that the cipher used by the United States Navy Department cost SSOOO, and is so complicated and intricate that it absolutely defies so lution. Four thousand women are employed in the various Government departments at Washington. “They get good salaries, have easy hours and do good work,’' asserts the New York World. The New Haven brakeman who was crippled in October last and recovered SIO,OOO damages from the company at his first trial, is probably glad now, opines the New York Commercial Adver tiser, that the court granted anew trial to the railroad, for the poor fellow’s sec ond verdict is for $27,500. Doctdr Emil Laurent, a well-known scientist, has taken General Boulanger for the subject of an elaborate criminal anthropological study. He finds the General’s skull to be of a similar con struction with the skulls of the assassins Ravaillac, Balthasar, Gerard and Jacques Clement. “Moral sense, rudimentary; forehead, very weak; selfishness, enor mous.” This is Doctor Laurent’s final judgment. The height of novel heroes continues to increase. According to the Speaker, out of one hundred and ninety-two of these gentlemen who were “reviewed” between October and June last, no fewer than eighty-five stood at least six feet in their stockings, while many were con siderably taller. The average height of heroes of romance has, in fact, been raised three-quarters of an inch duriug the period in question, as compared with what it was in novels published between January and September, 1889. The memorial over the grave of Ben digo, a prize fighter, was unveiled in England a few days ago in the presence of a crowd composed largely of prize fighters and Methodists, Bendigo having been a Methodist preacher in the latter days of his life. The monument is a sleeping lion of gray stone, and is said to be very imposing. It has the inscrip tion: “In memory of William Thomp son Bendigo, of Nottingham, who died Aug. 23. 1880, aged 69. In life always brave, fighting like a lion. In death like a lamb, tranquil in Zion.” Montagu Williams, one of the best known of London magistrates, has pub lished an interesting volume of his ex periences. As humau nature is much the same everywhere, so these reminiscences are of value everywhere. Mr. Williams says that the greater his knowledge of the starving poor, and of the criminals who are too often the victim of their circumstances, the more he is disposed to deal tenderly with them. He is all in favor of mind sentences, and is persuaded that, except with confirmed reprobates, leniency is more powerful for good than Severity. New York City is making a deter mined move to establish cheap lodging houses for women, and seems likely to succeed, hopes the Chicago Uerald. Houses not managed on a philanthropic but on a purely business basis are to be established throughout the metropolis. For from fifteen to thirty cents a woman can secure in one of these houses a de cent and private lodging for the night, and can get her breakfast for ten cents in the morning. If well carried out this Will be one of the grandest of benefac tions. The want of decent surroundings drives more women to crime than any other cause. It is frequently asserted that the col lege baccalaureate sermon is a distino tively American institution. In the main, admits the New York Commercial Advertiser, this is true. But something much like it has lately been adopted at the English institutions of Oxford and Cambridge, though the sermon is more oJ a general theological nature and less an address of counsel to the graduating class. This change is peculiarly worth notice, in view of the fact that Mansfield College of Oxford has this year broken all English precedents by inviting an American clergyman to deliver the clos ing address of the college year. As 'k / THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Or Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. Dom Pedro, ex-emperer of Brazil, is very ill at Vichy. There is great excitement about El lensburg, Wash., over the discovery of gold. A sailing yacht, containing seven per sons, capsized off Victoria, B. C., Mon day. Six were drowned. The London council of arts, on Mon day, received the Chicago world’s fair delegates—Butterworth, Handy and Bullock. Monday’s dispatches say: The strike of railroad employes in Paris has col lapsed. Most of the men have already resumed work. The government of France has come to an understanding by which Hayti will pay the indemnity demanded by France on aceouut of the shooting of Rigaud. The firm of Thompson, Stewart & Cos., dealers in millinery goods, at Cincinnati, O, made an assignment Monday to Thomas Mclntyre. The assets are $50,- 000; liabilities, $70,000. Ex Queen Natalie, of Servia, has en tered suit against her husband, ex-King Milan, in the courts of Paris, for $3,000,- 000 francs, which she claims as a portion of her personal fortune. Postmaster General Wanamaker, on Monday, issued an order assigning to duty the new fourth assistant postmaster general, Rathboue, and recasting the work of the entire department. Architect Bell, superintendent of the construction of government buildings, has received an appointment placing him in charge of the construction of the fed eral world’s fair exhibit building. The funeral of General Benjamin Kelley, of West Virginia, who organized the first loyal southern regiment of the war, took place at Washington, D. C., Sunday, with imposing ceremonies. His remains were interred at Arlington ceme tery’, beside General Crook. The street car strike at Toledo, 0., was settled Sunday morning. All con ductors and motormen are to receive SI.BO per day, of twelve hours; drivers of horse vacs. $1 .60 The men struck for $2 instead of $1.55 aud $1.45, hence the settlement is a compromise. A New York dispatch sny r s: The party of Georgia editors who have been in this city for several days on a pleasure trip, after their anuual meeting in At lanta, left tor home on the 2.30 train Sunday afternoon. Some of the party will stop at Washington for a day or so. The village of Roundhead, in Hardin county, Ohio, was destroyed by fire Sat urday morning. A large wheel factoiy was struck by lightning, and the whole village nearly destroyed. No particulars have been received as yet. The town is inland. The loss is estimated at $500,000. A cablegram of Sunday from Lisbon states that the scarcity of coin in Portu gal is severely felt. Commercial houses both at Lisbon and in Oporto are accept ing 2,500 reis notes, which they take at a heavy discount. The premium on sovereigns is now 13 per cent. flhe plate mills of the Springfield Iron Company at Springfield, 111., burned Sunday morning. It was to the Carbon Iron Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., and used in making steel p'ates for armed cruisers being constructed by the government at San Francisco. A telegram of Thursday from Beards town, 111., says: John Merrifield and a fellow-brakeman were riding on the pilot of a locomotive, near Rockbridge, when the engine ran into a bunch ot horses. Merrifield was killed instantly and the other brakeman fatally crushed. A cablegram of Friday says: The city of Santiago, Chile, has ju9t been visited with the severest fire ever known in South America, the los being esti mated at more than two million dollars. The British legation was completely consumed, inc'uding all of the archives and personal property of the mini dor. The Central Bank of Kansas City, Kan., failed Monday morning. The failure was due to the failure of the First National bank, which was taken charge of by a bank examiner last Thursday. Liabilities are $35,000; assets $65,000. The bank was organized under the state law. The First National bank of Wyan dotte, or Kansas City, Kan., suspended business Thursday, and is in the hands of Bank Examiner J. D. Wilson. The president of the bank is very reticent concerning the cause of the failure and the condition of the bank. He does say, however, that the assets are $200,000 and liabilities SIOO,OOO. The Higganan Manufacturing Com pany of Middletown, Conn , made an assignment Monday to ex-Governor P. C. Locnsberry and Clement S. Hubbard. The company manufactured farming im plements. State Senator George M. Clark is president, and Clinton B. Davis, chairman of the democratic state com mittee, secretary and treasurer. A St. Louis disp tch of Sunday rays: The attorney general of Texas is pre paring to bring suit aga inst the Texas and Pacific railway and Messrs. Charles Canola, Simon Drake and William Strauss, of New York, for the recovery of 700,000 acr. sof land. He has sent to Jeff Davis cour ty the first papers look ing to the cancellation of the patent. On Satmday night the village of Saw yersville, Osceola county, Michigan, TRENTON, GA„ FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1891. co sisting of thirty houses, one genera! store, one large sawmill, a shingle mill aud lumber yarJ, all owned by a lumber company, was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is between two hundred nud fifty thousand dollars and three hundred thouscDd dollars, partially covered by iusurauce. Au express car of the Pacific Express company, which left' Tex irkatia, Ark., attached to a southbound Texas Pacific passenger train Thursday evening, was boarded as it was leaving the local yards and robbed, Messenger Ryan being held up at the point of a revolver. Only one man seems to have been engaged in the robbery. Only a small amount of money and vulunbles were secured. A London cablegram says: The court, ou Monday, gave judgment aeainst Mrs. Maybrick in the suit for SIO,OOO insur ance on her husband’s life. The court said she could not recover, as her hus band’s death was earned by poison, for whose benefit the action was brought. She is the American woman whose trial excited widespread inteiest and resulted in conviction and life imprisonment. Lynn, Mass., had another disastrous fire Friday night. It is thought $300,000 will be the amount when all the losses are known. The third story of Blake’s brick block, corner of Union and Mul berry street- 1 , and a five-story brick block adjoining, owned by Strout Bros., were burned completely. A five-story brick block, owned by B. W. Cutrier, caught fire, but was only partly destroyed. An appeal was entered in the United States circuit court at New York, Satur day, by E. T. Mason & Cos., protesting against the imposition of the duty of 14 cents per square foot and 20 per cent ad vilorem on jute carpetings imported by them. They claim that the McKinley act under which the duly was imposed is unconstitutional, in that the bill was not passed iu the manner and form provided for in the c .institution, and was not signed by the president. A Pittsburgh, Pa., dispatch says: Two hundred pounds of nitroglycerine, which S. J. Bigley, a torpedy man, was taking to-Mount Morris oil field in a two-borse wagon, exp'oded near Washington, Pa , Frid iy morning, blowing Bigley to atom 3 , killing the horses and wrecking the dwelling of Lee Minton and Mark Hughes, Sr. The concus-ion shook every house in Washington, and caused great excitement. A singular feature of the exp’osion is that, although there were a number of people in the vicinity at the time, all escaped with slight inju ries. Bigley was forty years of age, and married. BUSINESS REVIEW. Dun & Co’s Report for the Past Week. R. G. Dun’s trade review says: Busi ness failures occurring week ended July 17, number for the United States 244, Canada 39, a total of 274, aguinst 247 last week. Business clearly grows some-, what more active, although midsummer dullness is stiii the rule. At eastern cities there is noticed more demand for manufactured good, with larger sales of materials. At the west trade is enlivened by the large yield of winter wheat al ready harvested, and by the very bright outlook for other crops. At the south, however, though crop advices are also favorable, no improvement appears in business, which is duller than usual, even for the si ason, and at some points is pronounced quite unsatisfactory. There is a remarkable increase in the production ■ f pig iron, almost to the un precedented figures of last year. The sudden increase in production is not in all respects a favorable sjmptom. A corresponding improvement iu the de mand for manufactured products is yet seen, and stocks unsold at only a part of the furnaces are now recorded as amount ing to about four hundred and eighty thousand tons, showing a very large in crease, particularly iu coke non. Unless the demand rapidly improves the market must soon weaken so far as to test severe ly the ability of some of the concerns to continue production. The rcce pts of wheat, dressed beef, wool and hides at Chicago show a great increase, and new wheat comes in liber dly, 85 per cent of it grad-‘ ing N<*. 2. At Nashville trade is fair, but dull at Memphis, unsatisfactory at Little Rock, falliug off at Savannah and sluggish at New Orleans, though a better demand is seen for cotton. At Jackson ville trade is better, with crops in' good condition. The collapse in wheat specu lation has come with a fall of 8 cents during the past week but corn is scarce and cents higher. While oats have declined about one cent, pork aud hog products are higher. Coffee has risen A cent and oil the same, but cotton is un changed and the general course of prices has been downward, as is natural at this season, the fall during the past week having averaged nearly f eff 1 per cent. The money markets are genS||liy in fair shape and collections fair for the season. A MANIAC MOTHER Kills Her Three Children and Suicides. Tom Lockridge, a prosperous young farmer living near Spring Hill, Tenn., made a horrible discovery when he re turned from church at 1 o’clock Sunday, finding his wife and three little children lyiug side by sde each with a ghast’y hole torn in the breast by a shot gun. Mrs. Lockridge had written a lung h tier, bidding her husband farewell, assigning bad health as the cause for her crime. She had then pulled the clothing of each child up over its shoulders and dischar ged a shotgun against its breast. The three children were aged four yeass,three years, and four months. THE WAR IS ON! MINERS CAPTURE BOTH SOL DIERS AND CONVICTS. The Situation Assuming a Se rious Phase. A Knoxville telegram says: The crisis came at Briceville Monday about 11 o’clock, when the miners and a crowd of sympathizei s fr. m the contiguous country surrounded the camp of the state militia and captured the troops and convicts, matched them off to the depot, and put them on a train and shipped them to Knoxville. The camp was on a little knoll in a hollow, and surrounded on all sides by mountains. The miners and their friends, to the number of twelve or fif teen huudrid, were divided into four equal sqUads, and approached on the f> ur rides of the square which the camp was formed in. The miners sent up a flag of truce, and sent in a committee to the officers in command. The committee notified the officers that they come to take the convicts; “Peaceably, if possi ble—by foice, if necessary.” THE BOYS SURRENDER. The officers parleyed awhile, and then agreed to suirender. The troops were allowe 1 to keep their arms and ammuni tion, aud then the troops and convicts were marched to tho train. There they were loaded in box cars, or whatever Could be had, and the entire lot were sent to the city. The troops to the num ber of 107, all told, went to the armory of the Knoxville Rifles, where they now remain awaiting the orders of the gover nor. The miners made them promise not to return to Coal Creek. The oonvicts were taken to the jail, locked up and fed. An immense crowd met the troops at the depot. They were freely cheered as they marched through the streets. The r-ien had been on duty nearly five days in the rain, and had seen but lit' le in the way of provisions, and but little equip ment. Their faces were bronzed, but they presented a soldierly appear ance as they marched up the street. The city is now intensely excited. The leaders of all p litical parties say the law must be upheld. The mob celebrated its victory by cheering, carousing and shooting, ANOTHER MOVE BY THE MINERS. Immediately after the release of the , convicts at Briceville mines aud the t’oops and convicts had been placed on D c train, the mob wont to the mines of faD Knoxvtiiu Iron Company, surrounoed the stockade and c 1 the 125 con victs there, with the guards. They also were shipped away to Knoxville. THE NEWS IN NASHVILLE. A Nashville dispatch sayi: Monday’s developments in troubles at Briceville have c useinul the immediately available military in the state to lxJ|illed out by Govern* r Buchanan, and uW less than fourteen companies of the national guard, well armed and equipped, are scurrying toward the scene by special trains. A HALT ORDERED. A later telegram says: Governor Buch aflau has ordered the militii to wait at Knoxville, pending further instructions. This is done because he desires to have Atto’ney General Pickel’s opinion as to his . uthority to quell the troubles inde pendent of the Anderson county offi cials. GOLD AND SILVER. Production of the Precious Met al in the United States. A census bulletin relating to the pro duction of gold aud si.ver in the United States was issu and Friday. Production during the year 1889 was: Gold ounces. 1.590,869; coinage value, $32,886,744. Silver, ounces, 5,354,851; coinage value, $06,396,988. Total valu*, $99,283,732. In gold this is nearly 28 per cent of the world's product, and in silver 41 per cent. The expense of production through the year is $63,451,136. A table of the approximate dis tribution of the gold and silver product shows the following values: Alabama, gold, $2,539; silver, SIOO. Georgia, gold, $107,605; silver, $404. North Carolina, gold, $146,795; silver, $3,879. South Carorina, gold, $46,853; silver, $232. Tennessee, no report. Virginia, gold, $5,100; silver, sl3 California produced the greatest amount of gold and Colorado the great est amount of silver, and Colorado is second in gold production, while Mon tana is second in silver. Nevada is third in the value of gold production and Montana fourth. Utah is third in silver value and Nevada fourth. Next in the order of value of product come Idaho, Dakota, Arizona and New Mexico, IT EXCITED CURIOSITY. How the Building of a Wall Engendered Trouble. A Dallas, Tex., dispatch of Saturday says: Last fall the commissioner’s toutt of Dallas county contracted with S. L. James to build the new courthouse at a cost of $3G0.100, James built a wall around the premises, which caused so much suspicion on the part of the inhab itants of the county that oue of the county coinmissonc s has been badly beaten, and the policeman in charge was almost f t.lly shot, the trouble in each instance grow in.; i tit of morbid curiosity. .Matters came to such a crisis recently that James, the c >utractor, turned over the job to the c •mmissioners less 15 per cent of the who’e coat'act retained by ti e county. WEATHER AND CROPS. The Outlook as Reported for Past Week. The weather bureau’s weekly crop bul letin for week ended July 18, says: The week has been cool in all districts east of the Rocky mountains, except in New England, New York and southern Texas, where a normal temperature has pre vailed. Condition of crops in the various sections are as follows: Alabama—Farming interests in excel lent condition; crops doing well in most sections; cotton in a few localities is suf fering from disease. Mississippi—Heavy showers at a few places in the central part of the state, elsewhere none, or very light; favorable weather for cultivation and growth of cotton and corn. Virginia—Low temperature and de ficiency in rainfall, injurious to corn; tobacco promising. Arkansas—General weather conditions favorable, although the rain was badly distributed, particularly in the eastern portion of the state; cotton somewhat retarded by cool weather; corn excellent and the crop assured; fruit will be an average crop. North Carolina—Heavy rain in some portions of the state, generally favorable to corn and tobacco, which shows a slight improvement, but weather too cool and cloudy; cotton 13 at a stand still. South Carolina—Cool, dry weather, uufavorabie to cotton and corn. The drought continues in some poitions of the state. Louisiana—Rainfall deficient, but ben eficial; the corn crop is made and the yield promising, coffon is fluffing well, cane growing luxuriantly. The laying by of stubble cane is nearly completed; early rice heading; crops somewhat grassy; all reports favorable. Texas—VVaun and dry weather have injured cotton m west and southwest Texas; in other portions good showers have great y benefited the crop, which promises a heavy yield. The corn crop is below the average. Tennessee—Wheat mostly threshed; in good condition aud fine yield. Cotton blooming late; bad stands nud prospect poor. Corn and tobacco doing well. Oats but half a crop. Hay crop large and fine. A FIEND INCARNATE. Horrible Murder of a Young Lady by a Rejected Suitor. A dispatch from Hanover, N. 11., says: As Miss Cristic Warden, accompanied by her mother, her Bister, Pumriv, and Ivoxiioo Goode', was returning on foot to their home, located one mile Lom the village, at a late hour Saturday night, Frank Almy, about thirty years of age, jumped into the road in front of them, and seiz ing Christie by the arm, said: “I want you 1” The mother i.nd si ter attempted to defend her. Almy fired at them, but missed. They ran for assistance. Then Almy dragged his v ctim into the lushes from the road and shot her twice through the head, one shot tearing out her left eye. V hen help arrived, the girl w s dead, aud her body was stripped of nearly every article of clothing Almy bad fled. Miss Warden was a beautiful and most estimable young woman about twi nty five years old, a graduate of the state normal school, aud a popular teacher. Almy was a former employe of her father, and his attention to Miss Christie had been repulsed. The town of Hanover offers SSOO reward, aud Miss Warden’s father offers SSOO for the murderer. CHARGES OF FRAUD. Suit Against the Estate of the L. & N.’s Late President. A dispatch of Tue-day Iroui Louisville, Ky.,says: Francis M. Murray and others, of New York, stockholders in the Louis ville, New Albany and Chicago railway, have brought suit against the estate of the iate president, E. D. Str.ndiford, of the Louisville and Nashville road, for $550,000. It is claimed that at the time of the consolidation, in 1881, of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago with the Chicago and Mdianapols Air-Line, then beiug built by Henry Crawford, of Chicago, fraud was perpetrated, which placed in Stand ford’s hands $550,000 of the road’s stock. Btaudiford, it is charged, sold this stock at par, and failed to account to the company for the pro ceeds. WHISKY SEIZURES. Prominent St. Louis Liquor Dealing Firms Raided. A St. Louis dispatch of Friday says: Revenue officers sent on from Washing ton have made extensive seizures of whisky belonging to the Nelson Distill ing Company, Tausches & Cos., A. Scharff, John Bordenheimer and about a dozen other well known liquor houses. The grounds upon which the seizures were made, as reported from the office of the United States revenue collector, are the changing and defacing of government brands and marks upon barrels of whisky sold to retail customers and a discrepancy in the proof whisky after its proof had been stamped and certifie 1 to by the government. American Artists Honored. The judges at the international art ex hibition at Berlin, Germany, have awarded great gold medals to the Amer ican artists, Forbes, Stanhope Shannon and McEwen, who were among tho ex hibitors. Waterhouse, an American ar chitect, has also bi en awarded a great gold medal. Stewart, Bridgemen and Story, American painters, aud Pettie and Stone, English artists, were awarded small gold medals. ALASKA. Ice-built, ice-bound and ice bounded— Such cold seas of silence I such room! Such snow-light I such sea-light confounded With thunders that smite as of doom I Such grandeur!such glory, such gloom! Hear that boom! Hear that deep distant boom! Of an avalanche hurled Down this unfinished world I lee-seas! and ice-summits! ice-spaces In splendor of white, as God's throne I Ice-worlds to the pole! and ice-places Untracked, and unarmed, and unknown! Hear that boom! Hear the grinding, the groan Of the ice-gods in pain! Hear the moan Of yon ice-mountain hurled Down this unfinished world! —Joaquin Miller, in Northwest Magazine, PITH AND POINT. The forger frequently gives a bank a bad name.— Pittsburg Dispatch. Jagson thinks that half a loaf ia better than no vacation.— Boston Herald. The man who thinks the boy who live* next door to him is a good boy has not yet been found.— Texas Siftings. A man is obliged to die before his will amounts to anything, but that of a woman is always in force.— Shenandoah News. “Who is the author of tho saying: ‘There is always room at the top?’ ” “The hotel clerk, I believe.”— Boston Gazette. The diplomat who said that tale-bear ers could not occupy high places never saw a monkey go for a cocoanut tree.— —Elmira Gazette. A merchant advertises “good all round baseballs.” This seems foolish. Base balls that are not all round are not good at all.- -New York Recorder. “Excuse me, said Gus de Jay, “I was wrapt in thought.” “Your own thought?” asked Miss Sharpton. “Cer tainly.” “Were you not afraid of tak ing cold?”— Washington Post. If some of our good subscribers don’t settle up pretty soon we will have to send out our night collector with his “jimmy.” A word to the wise should be sufficient.— Prison Mirror. Hicks—“lt’s too bad we are not a family of Esquimaux.” Mrs. Hicks— “ How would that benefit us any?” Hicks —“Johnny furnishes blubber enough foi the whole family.”— New York Herald. Hicks—“ See here, waiter, it’s an hour since 1 ordered my luncii, ana u imsnc come yet. I can’t afford to sit here all day." Waiter—“ That’s all right, sir. We never charges no rent for our tables, Sir.”— Harper's Bazar. Question for Philologists to Decide: “Now, Willie,” said the Boston boy’s new governess, “let me hear you spell participants.” “P-a-r-t-i-c-i-p-a J say, miss, oughtn’t you to say partici trousers?”—Washington Post. “1 am truly sorry, Johnny,” said the friend of the family, meeting the little boy on the street, “to learn that your father's house was burned down yester day. Was nothiug saved?” “Don’t you waste no grief on me,” replied Johnny. “All of paw’s old clothes were burned up in that fire, and maw can’t make any of ’em over for me this time. I’m all right.”— Troy Press. A Mad Sculptor’s Wonderful Work. When the young sculptor, John B. Leoni, during a fit of temporary insanity, was held in waiting at the Burlington (N. J.) Jail pending the results of in quiries as to his identity, he obtained possession of a common bar of washing soap and proceeded to astonish the jail ers. With the nail of his index linger he began to dexterously carve the soap into the shape of the ‘'human form di vine,” and within an incredible short time, considering the magnitude of the undertaking and the unbalanced condi tion of his mind, had produced a won derful model of an Alpine huater. The figure, which is now carefully treasured, is said to be equal to anything ever exe cuted by either Mercou or Vidouquet. It represents a man with his right arm outstretched, the fingers of the hand en circling the neck of a duck, which is as carefully reproduced aud as true to na ture as the figure of the hunter. The left hand hangß by the hunter’s side, holding a shotgun, while at his feet lies the figure of a dog wistfully gazing at the game his master holds aloft. Taken ill in all it is a most remarkable work of art.— St. Louis Republic. An Old Timepiece. Asa reporter of thi3 paper was making his rounds on the South Side this morn ing his attention was attracted to an odd piece of fuini'ure setting on the front porch of G. T. Alger’s residence, on Union street. Upon investigation we found it to be a clock, which has been in constant use for over 250 years. It was brought to this country from Ger many by Mr. Micwoenger, and has been in that family ever since. It is the prop erty of Mrs. Raymond, the grandmother of Mrs. Alger. It stands about eight feet high, encased in mahogany, and is a very pretty piece of furniture. It still keeps excellent time, and could not be bought at any price. It is certainly a curiosity in the way of a relic.— Hannibal {Mo.) Courier-Post. Omaha, Neb., has been selected as the place of meeting of the Methodist Epis copal general conference ot 1892. NO. 13.