BREVITIES.A daughter was horn to Mr. an*] Mrs. Beter Million, Bank street.McNaughton’a orchestra furnished the music Monday for a I oil I given hy the L C. B. A. fCorry.—An athletic entertainment will he given at the opera house on Monday, May tor the benefit of Mrs. I. E. Morris.— lt;n account of tin* deatli of Miss Oak leaf and the closing of Colin A Oakleaf 9 store, the sale of seats for Wang will open W ednesday morning at the opera house and continue until dateMonday was the ilst anniversary of the birth of genial Charles Cannell and about twenty couples of his friemls called at his home, North Martin street, in the evening to assist him in properly cele-brating the event.--The Hkkm i) Blum township correspondent is authority for the statement that a Durham heifer aged Id months ami 10 days, owned by Willis Brown, of Lake Creek, this county, recently gave birth to a healthy calf.-It was learned Monday that s. s. 'treeter, whose deatli was mentioned in Mondv morning’s issue ol the Hkrai.u, was killed hy the cars at Tarentum. It is expected that the remains w ill be brought here today for interment.— Kev. .1. Benson Hamilton, D.D., w ill deliver a lecture at the M. E. church Monday evening 011 “The Miracbs of the Twentieth Century.” The wonders of electricity and :he mysterious X -ray will be the subject of illustration.—Mrs. Henrietta Otis, of Last Ma;n street, received word Monday of the dangerous illness of her brother, DeWitt Smith, at Syracuse, N. V. Miss Elizabeth Smith, sifter of Mrs. lt;His, lefc Mon day morning for Syracuse to be at hi-lie Iside.—Owing to a misunderstanding a;- to the manner of making bids for the building of tlie New Mansion heme, the proposals made by builders and contra* tors and opened Saturday evening, were thrown out ami new ones are being advertised for.