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census report owned by Negroes in Virginia cities is valued at $3,019,950 and their personal property $454,799. In the counties the real estate owned by Negroes is valued at $8,555,964 and their personal property $2,996,089. Total in State $15,026,802. George Hutchins of New Jersey, a few years ago, left Henry George $12,000 to be used in printing and distributing his book "Progress and Poverty." The widow contested the will and after two years litigation there is $584 left out of the $12,000, in the division of which the court awards Mr. George two-thirds. On the farm of Geo. Vandevander in Highland Co., Va., was blown down, last week, an apple tree planted about one hundred years ago, and which, up to three years ago, bore eighty bushels of apples a year. It measured 10ยฝ feet around the trunk. Benj. J. Brooks, a school teacher near Americus, Ga., has just been sentenced to $500 fine or eight months in the chain gang for cruelly beating a pupil. Brooks has money to pay the fine, but preferred working it out in the chain gang, to paying it. Why do people wait until a man is sick and can't eat, to send him good things? When he is well, and would like something good, no neighbor comes in with fancy jellies, old wines, and things like that. Things are very unfair.-Atchison Globe. The bronze statue of the late Gen. Wm. C. Wiekham has been completed and is ready for delivery to the city of Richmond. It is thought that it will be placed in Monroe Park. At a circus side-show in Chicago, while Miss Uno, the snake charmer, was performing with a fourteen-foot python, it tightened Its folds on her and seized her arm with its teeth. It took three men to release her. Mrs. Ellen Moore of Williamsport, Pa., who is a member of the Funeral Directors' Association of Pennsylvania, has been in the business forty years and buried 5,338 persons. Robert Garnett of Va., a near relative of the late Senator R. M. T. Hunter, has been appointed keeper of the morgue at Washington. A London tradesman recently received an order for sixty-four pairs of shoes for the daughter of the Grand Duke Paul of Russia, a child less than a year old. Gov. McKinney says he will recommend in his message to the next Virginia legislature, a law requiring separate cars for whites and negroes on the railroads. The Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala., suspended Monday, after a run on it, caused by a false report. It expects to resume in a few days. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil man, is the richest man in America and much ahead of Gould or the Vanderbilts. His wealth is estimated at $129,000,000. The second lot of new Virginia wheat received in Baltimore, this time $280 bushels, from Lancaster county, sold at $1,50 a bushel. General Grant's sister Mw. Mary Crant.