Mrs. Grant has intimated that she will
add a sum to that raised by the committee
for her husband's monument.
The foreman of the rag-room at the pa
per works, Mechanic Falls, Maine, found a
baby squeseed flat in a bale of rags.
Mrs. Mackay, at the Queen's last draw.
ing-room, wore lace which was made ex
pressly for the Empress of the French.
A highly connected young lady of Har
risburg, Pa., has obtained $10,000 from
three local banks by means of forged notes,
The revenue steamer Bear, now at San
Francisco, is to make a cruise to Alaska to
search for the crew of the lost whaler
Amethyst.
The 8tock, Produce and other exchanges
were closed in New York Good Friday,
which was observed with general respeet
throughout the city.
The editor of the Hornet of Birmingham,
Ala., who is not yet twenty-one years old,
shot his paramogr and then attempted sui
cide, but was not suoeessful.
Sixty pupils of the South Boston public
schools struck for a single session, and
standing in line aross:the street prevented
other boys from entering the school-house.
An Irish harp several hundred years old,
which was the first instrument played be
fore the Irish King, has been sent to New
York for exhibition for the benefit of the
Parnell fund.
The last stone in the pedestral on Bedloe's
Island, on which is to stand Bartholdi's
colossal statue, Liberty Enlightening the
World, has been laid, and the statue will be
unveiled Sept. 3.
The grand jury of Henry county, Ky., in
indicted a couple of pugilists who had a
prize fight there, and a large number of
prominent citizens who aided by supplying
transportation or witnessing the encounter.
