New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-17
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

.... The banks of Europe are generally re-
ducing their rate of interest -, ~,
A. C. Days peg factory, &c North Chestef
Mass, has been burned. The lose Is t2,ooo
$500. A lad named Winslow broke through the
ice at Valley Falls r. l., yesterday, and was drowned
1.-The weather for the past week has been
unusually cold not only IN England but throughout
Europe.
Major Howson, for the past eight years
Deputy State Controller of California died suddenly OIL
Tuesday.
Private dispatches from Europe represent
that senator failing rapidly and that lie cannot
survive the journey home.
A resolution was introduced in the Vir
GINA House yesterday asking the Go'crncht 10 accOu
belligerent rights to Cuba
AT a special election on Tuesday the cit
liens of Binghamton, n: y, have decided 10 erect
free Academy at u cost OF $4,000.
The billiard match between Rudophe
and Deery for the championship OF America has been
postponed until the 5th OF March.
Andrew Blair and Patrick Cunning have
been sentenced to 10 years Imprisonment each for rob
bing citizen in the streets Of Boston.
Yesterday q still exploded in the Crystal
OIL Works OF Livingston Bros. in sharpsbnrg, Peln'
which destroyed the treating house. The loss Is >oVoo
and Is insured
Several counterfeit 500 notes on the Ma
tlopal Bank OF Commerce of New-York have been re-
ceyed at the subIreasuy in san Francisco during the
past two weeks.
Tho Louisiana Senate yesterday passed
the Three Million Dollars Leyee Bond bill IL now goes
TO Governor. Tie House passed the Mixed School
Educational bill.
THE losses by the fire at Huntington,
Wooden Mills and the Huntington MarseileS FACTORY
amount 20 t222,JO0. - -
49, The friends of the present Prohibltory law
met IN Boston last evening ana pSsss1 upon
prohibitory principles
49,. On the arrival of the Monarch at Annapo-
lis her officers will be allowed the privileges oil the nHI
in the Legislature, and the Baltimore Cly CouhoH Will
tender them the Inequalities VI tlat CITY
The body of John Williams, q seaman
aged 40 employed as keeper OF vessel was iounn N se
board IN attempting TO from the wharf 10 the vessel
Mr.. John Reynolds of Providence. was
arrested while Intoxicated in Pawneket AID 1nr Tss
jury censured the town for maintaining such
lookup
....Of the three Cincinnati Judges who de-
lvered opinions the question regarding the blDe IN
the Public Schools Judge storer 10 an Eplscopaan
Judge Hogan Methodist, and Judge Taft " Liberal
The Mayoralty trouble in Mobile still
continues, and Mayor Price VIII not yacate his office
without struggle IL is said that Mayor Harrington,
to toS ai sP Ri% Oh 'n' '0'''N''' WIN 80" ~
....Adam Bairele, we'll known brewer in
Chicago has abscSnded He had SesSm s,a en ny
left His liabilities are about $4,000 and his assets arc
said 10 foot UP 100000
THE Western Freedmen's Aid Commission
Over 500 coloed teachers have been furnished the
mon schools Of the South. The Commission complain
that while the demands on them have increased, their
receipts are falling on | -
....A Holland family named Bankema, resd-
ing IN Chicago, consisting OF husband wife and two
children, last night poisoned In home mysterious
manner. When discovered, the win and child were
The man will recover The csss will DO Investigated
AT a meeting of the stockholders Of the
Cincinnati and Baltimore Railroad Company In Ctncin-
natl yesterday, tho following directors were elected
William T. HcCintook, Kenser Gerard. W. H oldham
Henry G. Lord John King. 1r John Donnel smitn, y
Oliver O'Donnel The Board organized by cleeting VIM.
T. McClntock. President &C. T. Low, secretary, ana Wm
T. Jones, Treasurer. -.+
49, In August of 1863, William Harper, while
crossiug the track of the Northern Central iroad IN
carriage, struck by passing train and received III
ures which resulted In paralysis, and be has now nst
tuted Ia Baltimore against the Company for $4,000
dainages When this 10 concluded hra Harper VIII
commence proceedings for like amount OF damages Tor
Injuries recei we'd on tho name ocosbion-
THE case of the Connecticut State Treas
urer against the Connecticut Mutual I4fe InsurAnee
Company Of Hartford 10 TO DO heard before tho
Supreme Court Of Errors next week IL relssse 70 ne
taIing Of Governnent bonds In the hsnds OF mutual
Insurance companies and involyes directly and
Indirectly much Tho main question rais:a under
the seeIon Of the Tar law which the sun u Drought
Is whether the upon the franchise or upon me
property. and there " n incidental point wnether
asoertained osscs and dividends declared but not
pad part Of the proceeds Of insurance CON