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turned out, anu, Dy WORKING OeepeIoCely, man.
aged TO save the forts.
The Providence Savings Bank and
Trust Company, OF Providence, Pa, has
suspended, being unable to meet its obliQa-
tons, after having taken advantage Of tho
Sixty Days law. Liabilities, e75, 600; nomi-
nal assets, 100000.
On the afternoon Of the l4th, the lit
tie Town Of Collinsville, In Madison County,
Ill.,, was visited by acyclone, which centered
in the village. Fifty houses were Frustrated,
and every structure in the town more or less
injured. Three persons were killed outright,
and several more or less hurt. The cemetery,
Just outside Of the village, was laid waste.
and every tombstone in It leveled to th
ground.
THE mercantile agency of r. G. Dun
q TO. gives the number Of failures In the
States and Territories during the quarter end
ing March 81, 1879, at 1884, with liabilities of
4a112,6 65 For the same time last year the
failures numbered 1855, and the liabilities
amounted to $50 $685.
Miss JULIE E. SMITH, the survivor
Of the celebrated Glastonbury (Conn.) sisters,
was married, few days ago, to Mr.. Amos g.
Parker, of New Hampshire. Both groom and
bride are eighty-six years old.
JOHN P. PHA1R, lately hanged in
Vermont, left last statement, since pub.
lished, IN which he insists upon his innocence,
and declares that justice was not done him.
At the Talmage trial, before the
New York Presbytery, on the 14th, motion
was made to dismiss the charges, but the de-
tense strongly opposed 1t, insisting that Mr.
Talmage should have the opportunity to show
the utter groundlessness of the charges, and
the motion was withdrawn.
In the United States Court at Charles
ton, 8. e., on the 18th, Judge Bond denied the
motion of defendants, in the election-fraud
cases, to set aside the juries as Illegally
drawn; also motion for continuance and
motion to prevent the application Of the
test-oath to jurors. His associate, Judge
Bryan, dissented, and Judge Bond announced
that, pending appeal on these issues to the
Supreme Court, the accused, If convicted,
would be admitted to bail.
In the absence of Vice-President
Wheeler, on the 18th, he having been called
away by sickness In his family, the United
States Senate elected Senator Thurman, of
Ohio, President pro tenn. The Republicans
voted for Senator Ferry, of Michigan.
At Springfield, ILL.,, about one
O'Clock on the afternoon of the 18th, some
thief entered the Office of the State Treasurer,
and, while the clerk was changing bill for
him, reached over the railing and secured
package Of currency containing 5000. Moth
ing had been discovered Of the thieves up to
e1~lnsI 10 k>sSkAs 1nS tnA
on suspicion.
ACCORDING to Vicksburg (Miss.)
telegram of the 18th, the negro exodus con-
tinued, every st. Louis packet taking numbers
of emigrants. Negroes were awaiting trans
portati0n at almost every landing between
Vicksburg and Memphis
The returns of the late special Con-
gressional election in the Sixth Texas Dis
trict for successor to the late Mr.. Schleicher,
indicated, on the 10th, the election of Epson
(Dsm.) over Nancy (Greenback) by about
1900 majority.
The Refugee Relief Committee Of
g. Louis made further appeal, on the 10Th,
for aid, stating that the tide of colored emf
grafton from the South had again set in, and
the committee were not only out of money,
but were several hundred dollars in debt. So
far over {, 700 emigrants had arrived there, of
whom about 1900 were able to pay their way
to Kansas. The remainder were sheltered,
fed and partially clothed while in st. Louis,
and their passage was paid to Wyandotte,
Kan. Aid in money or clothing may be sent
to Rev John Turner, 1919 Morgan street, or
Rev. Moses Dickson, 1911 Morgan street.
THE Iowa Republican State Conven-
ton for the nomination Of candidates for
Governor, etc., will be held at DesMoines on
Wednesday, June II.
The full official returns of the late
Wisconsin election, show that Judge Cole,
the Republican candidate for Justice of the
Supreme Court, received majority of 81, 1888
votes.
PROF: CYRUS THOMAS, State Ento-
mologist of Illinois, has been offered
and declined the position of Entomologist of
the Department of Agriculture, at Wash
lngton.
The Illinois House of Representa-
tives has DISCHARGED Frank E. Nevins. the re-
calcitrant reporter, from imprisonment.
To recent application for the issue
of ratlons to feed the colored people who
have lately arrived at Wyandotte, Kan, Sec'y
McCrary replied that he had no authority to
grant the relief asked for, and suggested ap-
plication to Congress. The Citizens Relief
Committee Of Wyandotte has issued en- appeal
TO the public for contributions to aid the suf-
fering immigrants.
The Attorney General of the United
States has affirmed recent decision of the
Assistant Attorney General for the Postof-
ace Department, that regular publication,
designed primarily for advertising purposes.
cannot be sent through the mails at rates
charged legitimate newspapers.
A New YORK dispatch of the 18th
announces that syndicate composed of
banks Of that city and Boston had subscribed
for $150,000,0O 4-per-cent. Government
bonds and e40,0oo,00O funding certificates,
this being the largest single subscription
ever made to q Government loan in this or
any other country. The subscription was
made according to the terms prescribed by
sec'y Sherman in his circular Of the 10th.
HEzEK1AH SHAFFER, wife-murder-
er, was hanged at Chambersburg, Pa, on the
18th. He was carried to the scaffold in q
blanket, the loss Of blood consequent upon
an attempt at suicide, few nights before,
rendering him unable to walk.
The jury in the Olive murder trial,
at Hastings, Neb., on the 18th, brought in 4
Ierdict Of murder in the second degree
against J. p. Olive and Frederick Fishe, and
the Judge sentenced both the prisoners to
the Penitentiary for life. The crime for
which they were tried was that of numbering
Luther Mitchell. by shooting and burning, in
Custer County, in December last. -Four other
parties were to be tried for the same crime.
A TERRIFIC tornado passed over the
lower portion Of South Carolina, on the 10th,
causing great destruction to life and proper
ty. In the Village of WATERFORD, more than