THE LATE MARQUIS DE MORES.

June 22.-A new rail route between Quebec, St. John, N. B., and Halifax, N. S., is opened for passenger service. ...An international convention of agriculturists meeting in Paris calls upon the French government to propose bimetallism to other European countries.

June 25.-Wire and cut nail manufacturers at Chicago decide to reduce output during the summer months.... The Munger Cycle Company of Indianapolis makes an assignment.

June 26.-Many cotton mills in New England agree to shut down for four weeks during the summer.

June 29.-The Southern Textile Manufacturers' Association in session at Atlanta, Ga., decides on a 50 per cent. curtailment of production during the next ninety days.

July 1. -The wage scale of the Amalgamated Asscciation of Iron and Steel Workers for 1896-97 goes into effect. ....The new contract between coal miners and operators in the vicinity of Birmingham, Ala., granting an increase of 2% cents a ton to the miners, goes into effect for two years.

July 2.-The Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, issues a riot proclamation because of disturbances resulting from a strike at the Brown Hoisting Co.'s works.

July 11.-The canal carriers engaged in transporting grain by the Erie Canal from Buffalo to New York City appeal to the New York Produce Exchange for aid in securing relief from elevator extortions and railroad discriminations.

July 13.-The government of Costa Rica issues a decree changing its present system of currency to one based on the gold standard....Louisiana sugar planters organize to protect their interests at Washington.

CASUALTIES.

June 28.-Nearly 100 miners are entombed by a cave-in of a mine shaft at Pittston, Pa.

July 1. The Red Star packet boat Rahmanieh i3 wrecked in the Red Sea, and sixty persons are drowned.

July 2.-Property on the wharves at Galveston, Texas, valued at over $200,000, is destroyed by fire.

July 7.-Genuine Asiatic cholera is reported at Danzig, Germany.

July 11.-1n a railroad collision near Logan, Iowa, 31 persons are killed and more than 50 injured.... There are 321 deaths from cholera in Egypt.

July 15.-Washouts and landslides in and about Pittsburgh, Pa., cause losses estimated at $500,000.

OTHER OCCURRENCES OF 1HE MONTH. June 20.-Brooks' periodical comet is observed by one of the astronomers at the Nice observatory....A memorial of John Boyle O'Reilly is dedicated in Boston.

June 23.-A true bill of indictment is found against Dr. Jameson and his leading associates in the Transvaal raid. ....The triennial convention of the International Sunday School Association begins in Boston.

June 27.-M. Arton, identified with the Panama Canal scandal, is sentenced to six years' imprisonment at hard labor.

June 29.-Cardinal Gibbons makes public the Pope's encyclical letter on the union of Christian churches.

June 30.-The sixth annual reunion of Confederate veterans begins in Richmond, Va.

July 2.-The jury in the celebrated Peralta land grant case at Santa Fé, N. M., returns a verdict of guilty.... The cornerstone of the monument and tomb of Jefferson Davis is laid at Richmond, Va.

July 4.-Celebration of the day by the Sons and Daugh ters of the American Revolution at Saratoga ...A filibustering expedition under Captain Colby, an American, is landed safely in Cuba, and met by insurgents from Maceo's army.

July 5.-Mgr. Diomede Falconio is named by the Pope as Papal Delegate to the United States to succeed Cardinal Satolli.

July 7.-The meetings of the National Educational Association in Buffalo, N. Y., are largely attended by teachers... The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston arrives in London.... Yale's crew is defeated by Leander in the Grand Challenge Cup race at Henley.

July 8-Queen Victoria reviews the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston at Windsor.

July 9.-The annual convention of the Society of Christian Endeavor begins in Washington.

July 13.-President Francis A. Walker addresses the Bimetallic League in London.

July 14.-A lunatic fires blank cartridges at President Faure of France at the Longchamp review.

July 15.-The Canadian yacht Glencairn wins the de. ciding race of the half-rater series for the International Challenge Cup.

OBITUARY.

June 19.-The mother of the Emperor of China (wife of Prince Chun).

June 20.-George B. Bartlett, historian, of Concord, Mass., 64.

June 22.-Benjamin Helm Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury under President Grant, 64.... Ex-Congressman Thomas R. Hudd of Wisconsin....Sir Augustus Harris, theatrical and operatic manager, 44.

THE LATE BENJAMIN H. BRISTOW.

June 23.-Major-Gen. Gustavus Woodson Smith of the Confederate army, 74....Sir Joseph Prestwich, British geologist, 84....Joseph King Cummins Forrest, oldest in service of Chicago newspaper men, 75.

June 25.-Ex-United States Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, 82....Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, Conservative leader of New Brunswick, 78....Louis Charles Philippe Raphael d'Orléans, Duc de Nemours, second son of King Louis Philippe, 81.

June 29.-Naval Constructor Theodore Delevan Wil. son, U. S. N., 56....Henry Dunckley, English editor and writer, 72....Francis William Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley, second Baron Fitz-Hardinge, 70.

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July 1. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 85.... Ex-Congressman Joseph C. McLibben.

July 2-Alexander Robert Lawton, ex-Minister to Austria, 78.

July 4.--Ex-Mayor John C. Haines of Chicago, 78. July 6.-Anson Davies Fitz Randolph, the publisher, 76. . Gen. Pierce Morgan Butler Young, United States Minister to Guatemala and Honduras, 59.

July 7.-Sir John Pender, one of the organizers and promoters of ocean telegraphy, 80.. .Commodore Joseph H. Tooker, theatrical manager, 65....George Law, wellknown street railway man of New York City, 53.

July 10.-Ex Congressman Frank Hunt Hurd of Ohio, 54 Cardinal Bourret, Bishop of Rodez, 69,

July 11.-Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, formerly British Ambassador to Vienna, 73.

July 12.-Ernst Curtius, the famous Hellenist and classical scholar, 82.

July 13.-Benjamin West Ball, journalist and poet, 73. ... Ex-Congressman Gideon Reynolds of New York.

July 14.-Luther Whiting Mason, author of a system of chart instruction in music, 63.... Cardinal Raphael Monaco la Valletta, senior cardinal-bishop of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, 69.

July 15.-Mrs. Mary Harlan, mother of ex Senator Harlan of Iowa, 100.

July 16.-Ex-Gov. Will am Eustis Russell of Massachusetts, 39.... Edmond Louis Antoine de Goncourt, the distinguished French writer, 74..... William Hamilton Gibson, author, artist and illustrator, 46.

July 17.-Joseph Alfred Novello, Italian organist, com. poser, and scientist, 86.

July 18.-Ex-Gov. Joseph H. Williams of Maine.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

CONFERENCES OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

At Swarthmore, Pa., August 19-26, will be held the biennial conferences of the Society of Friends. It is estimated that five thousand people will attend these gatherings, which will be devoted to Sunday-school work, edu cation in general, philanthropy, and religion.

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of the American Bar Association will take place at Saratoga, August 19-21. The Chief Justice of England, Lord Russell of Killowen is expected to be present.

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PSYCHOLOGY. All persons desirous of promoting psychological research are invited to take part in the International Congress of Psychologists at Munich, August 4-7.

THE LATE LYMAN TRUMBULL.

ADVANCEMENT OF
SCIENCE.

At Buffalo, N. Y., August 24-29, will Occur the forty-fifth annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which will be largely attended. NATIONAL BICYCLE

MEET.

The annual meet of the League of American Wheelmen will be held at Louisville, Ky., August 10-15.

Louisville expects to entertain not less than 25,000 wheelmen during the meeting, and offers for their use "the best bicycle track in the world."

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

At Cleveland, September 1-4, will be held the eighteenth general conference of the American Library Association.