Edwin House, assistant editor of
the Western Christian Advocate, fell
dead of heart disease at Cincinnati,
May 21st. He was 51 years of age.
Wm. Butler Duncan has been niade
president and receiver of the MobilS
& Ohio railroad, to represent the
New York and foreign stockholders.
It is rumored that Disraeli will re
sign the Premiership at the close of
the present session of Parliament, as
he is growing too feeble for contin
nous labor.
Grey Beard, the most troublesome
of the Indian prisoners, en. route to
St. Augustine, jumped from the train.
He was shot by the guard, and died
in two.hours.
Hon. Jesse D. Bright, ex-United
States Senator from Indiana, died at
his residence in Baltimore, May, 20th, t
of organic disease of the heart. IIe f
was 63 years of age. 1
A buJeanl of revenue agents has e
been organized in the HRevenne De
partment under charge of detective 1
Yaryau.. It takes awvay amiea.lof the l
power of Supervisors.
The demand for Gen. Sherman's
memoalirs is so great that publica
tion had to be deferred in order to
enlarge the edition. The Appleton's
will produce the work.
The Secretary of War has given 3
formal permission to the Southern
Memorial Association to decorate the
graves of the Confederate dead at
Arlington, on June 1st.
A schooner and pungy collided in k
Chesapeake bay, a short distance he- '
low Baltimore, on the 20th inst. The a
captain of the schooner was drowned s
and a sailor badly hurt.
Major John Pressly Strange, a lead- *o
ing Memphis merchant, who served n
during the war as Adjutant General
on the staff of Lieut. Gen. Forrest, S
(lied on the 18th, of consulmption. ff
Two days' fighting occurred near
the town of Valmaseda last week.
