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Indiana have been killed.
Ex-Governor Olden, Of New Jer>
sew, died at Trenton Saturday.
Florida has 5000 white men who
have not voted since the downfall of
the Confederacy.
President Grant and Maggie Mitch.
eITare stockholders IN the Long Branch
Banking Company.
The gross value Of London is set
down at e2S, O96, 81 and the ratable
value at e23, 154,639.
Prof Marsh haa procured $500 vol
umes of .Japahes6 literature for the Ii
brary Of Yale College.
Patrick Donthue, proprietor of the
Boston Pilot, a Catholic newspaper,
has swindled large numbers of poor
Irishmen ont of large sums of money
The Chinese question hiss reached
an exciting pass on the Pacific Coast.
1t is feared that unless preventive
measures are taken, riot and blooebhed
will occur.
The Georgia press generally rSp5ft
nat the late cold spell was not as
damaging in that State as at first APP
pretended. In many sections a fair
fruit crop is expected.
The boys in Belleville, H., amused
themselves during the last snow, by
throwing snowballs at a funeral pros
cession. They didn't find it so anus
ing when they were arrested.
II i. Mcclure, Mississippi State
Senator, charged with blackmailipg the
Meridian Saving Bank while internal
revenue officer, WIS expelled from his
seat on Tuesday last by vote ftwen,
| ty-four ayes to one no.
A vast bed of mari, covering an
area of 1000 square miles, from u to
80 feet deep, ed very rich in potash,
soda and phosphorus, has been discov>
cred in Kentucky. This Is of great
Importance to the tobacco regions.
1t is reported Chat the political cam
paign is abont opening in Louisiana
in the old style. Citizens are dragged
away from Their homes on kukluz
charges, and the writs of the United
States courts are employed to produce
terror in the country parishes.
Ben Ifin has written a letter III
which he denounces as !; liar the au-
thor of a pamphlet being circulated
under the frank Of General John A.
Logon, of Illinois. 1t gives grossly
garbled report Of his speech in an
swer to Blaine, ind is as infamous in
spirit as intent.
The Uhitcd States Supreme Court
has recently been deciding several
cases Of town bonds, holding towns in
all cases liable for their issues, setting
aside demurrers on account of techni-
cal irregularity, and in general teach
ing that Tie Pcttifogsins default of
bonds for which the towns received
full value is mot strictly honest"
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times telegraphs that
Senator Keys speech on tie resolution
providing for All investigation in Mis-
sissippi was his maiden effort, and that
he did not impress bis listeners very
tavrrablt. The correspondents adds
that she read his speech from manu-
script, in an exceeding low tone of
voice, and with rEther an embarrassed
manner"
The Now York Sun says that the
Cotton Claims Ring, to bcinvestigated,
has Us headquarters in Washington,
and its working members in New Or:
leans, Mobile, Memphis, New York,
.
Boston and Philadelphia; also. that
the Government is in possession of
facts which provt The existence of as
formidable and corrupt combination
as the Whisky Ring, and that the
Treasury has been robred tf ST., 000,-
900 by it.
The Penaing postal bill, to regulate
rates on third class 1ltail matter if
passed in its present shape, L likely to
afford general satisfaction. Il fixes
the postage on all such matter, except
transient newspapers aid magazines,
at one cent al ounce for all distances
not exceeding 1000 miles, and at two
cents for all greater distances: On oc>
casional newspapers and magazines,
the rate is made uniform for all dis
tances at the low figure OF one cent Oh
packages weighing not more than three
ounces, and one cent for each addi-
floral two ouccs or fraction thereof.
The Washington correspondent Of
the New York Sun is authority for the
Statement that Il tlailn, well authenti-
Gated, presented by Mr. LILY; Of New
York; On behalf of Abraih Harris, and
referred to the committee on bxpendi-
lures Of the treasury department, of
which Mr. Ely is chairman, sets forth
that one Geo S. Boutwell,, secretary of
the treasury; paid to B. L. Butler
twenty five thousand dollars as the at
torhey Of Jayre' the revenue refcrmer.
The evidence further shows that Bout