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smallpox Mt Lowell, Massachusetts.


WORCESTER, MASS, Sept. 16.-Twenty-
of the delegates elected here are hostile to Gen.
Butler. The Butlerites took possession of one
ward and elected delegates whose seats will be
contested.
LOWELL, Sept 16.-The City Council held a
meeting to-day, to consider the prevalence of
smallpox, which pervades all classes There
are eleven new cases to-day
OMAHA, Sept 16-Gallagher, the Democratic
candidate, is probably elected delegate to Con-
gress from New Mexico, by 500 majority. e Z
LEXINGTON, Sept. 15-The track was bad.
Ginger won the first heat time Al, 4S9i.
Longfellow won the second time, 2:2l4. Pc
gram, Longfellow, Beulah, Nelley Gray, and
Morgan Scout were entered for three mile race
on Saturday. - VI q r FT n
CHIcAGo Sept. 16.-Judge Chase is here.
lie is quite thin but his eyes are bright and his
figure erect. His speech slightly affected from
disease,
General Beauregard visited Chase to-day. ,--
NEW YORK, Sept. 16-The injunction against
New York authorities cannot be dissolved un-
Ill the general term in December.
NEW YORK, Sept. l6-Goy. Hoffman had a
private interview with Hall and Connolly to-
day. Friends of Connolly propose a mass meet
ing to protest aguinst the action toward Con-
molly by the three other Tammany chieftains.
Specie shipments $250,0O0.t 4 E-e1 3 Va.
E1-Judge Stuart, the celebrated criminal
lawyer, died of typhoid fever.
BosToN, Sept. 16-Chas. T. Simonds, Treas
urer of the Chelsea Gas Light Company, at
tempted suicide and will die.
CINCINNATI, Sept 16--Three special trains,
with Templars from the South and West, leave
tonight for Baltimore.
New YORK, Sept. 16.-Professor II. MakOn
West Point educator. and one ofthe most dis
tinguished military Oficery officers of the day,
suicided, by jumping from a boat from West
Point hither
Another meeting of the committee of seventy
was held at the Chamber of Commerce yester-.
day The only business of impor tance was the
appointment of a committee to draft an address
to the people of the State, advising them Of the
necessity for a new city charter.
The Joint committee o f citizens and supervi-
sors report no over-issue of city or county bonds
aud that the debt was correctly stated in August
at seventy-one and three-quarter millions. The
subcommittee, for the investigation of the de-
tails, will report next waek
MONTGOMERY, ALA, Sept. 16.-In the U. S.
Circuit Court, Judge Woods refused the APP
pointment of receiver on the application of
w. F. Drake a second-mortgage bondholder of
the Alabama and Chattanooga Road, upon the
ground that the State courts had possession OF,
and jurisdiction through, receivers. .. r
Judge Woods, upon the petition of w. A. c.
L lo,Jbo1J,, Co.
hundred thousand dollars, granted an order to
show cause, on the first Monday in November,
before the U. s. District Judge why the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad should not be
declared bankrupt. e. ~E n -
SAN Francisco, Sept 16-The surveyors Of
the South Pacific Railroad have reached Pc
tropolis, thirty miles from Los Angeles.
The Democratic State Harbor Commissioner
is elected. -.-
BURLTNcrox, VT, Sept 16.-Lyman Com
ings, the Oldest lawyer in this city, is dead aged
7S years - e
a negro barber, for attempting to outrage the
wife of Alderman johnson, was held to bail in
the sum of $4,000.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-The injunction don't
clog the municipal affairs, there being twelve
millions free in the treasury.
The World says it is, of course, totally i'm
possible that Comptroller Connolly should re-
main in Office now. His retirement is merely
question of an hour time perhaps, possibly,
of days, but certainly not of weeks, if he does
not resign. Now the Mayor cannot avoid i'm
peaching him and the stigma affixed to his ad-
ministration by Judge Bernard, who foreshad-
ows the sentence that would inevitably be pass
ed on him by the Court of Common Pleae, If
he is fool-hardy enough to brave trial he hat
no reason to expect that the Court of Common
Pleas would treat him with more tenderness
than Judge Bernard. We are confident that he
will not stand such a trial and we hope to hear of
his resignation il course of the day, fE E q