There seems to be some hitch in the building of the freight sheds of the Richmond and Danville Railroad. The announcement that work would be done this week has been withdrawn.

The amount of stock to be subscribed for the Lynchburg and Danville Mail road has been subscribed. The charter was issued yesterday. Now comes the building, and it will take a new deal more subscribing of stock to start the good work.

James Carr, Hope, the sweet-tongued poet of Norfolk, has been invited to read his poems at the Culver's of Virginia and also at Washington College, Lexington, and has accepted both invitations.

Mr. Locke, having declined the Federal nomination for Governor of North Carolina, Governor Worth has practically no opposition, and was to all intents and purposes unanimously re-elected.

President H. U. Sient yesterday in Baltimore, having been invited by the Young Men's Catholic Knights-of-Labor Society to be present at the closing exercises of the Catholic Plenary Council. The president was accomplished on the occasion by his daughter, Mrs. Patterson, of Tennessee. He made a short patriotic address to the Catholics.

Charles S. Me was married in Baltimore.  Last week, our "youthful" -40 out to the bride. The situation alleged were arraigned in the courts of Toronto yesterday on the charge of manslaughter were found not guilty. The Voice of the People, the only one of the accused, was not guilty. 