The examiner., 1882-02-04
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Congress has passed bill giving Mrs. Lincoln pension of $5, ,OD0 per anhum.
 The widows of Presidents Tyler and Polk, will probably be allowed pensions during the rest of their lives.
 There seems to be financial crisis in Paris which threatens disaster. The bank CTS are making strenuous efforts to avert it.
 Rev. H. O. Hoffman, pastor of the First M. B church in Bloomington, Ill, has been found guilty of seduction by com mittee of the church.
 Charles s. Riggs, who fatally stabbed his son-in-Iaw, Rollin s. Bunnell, in August last has been found guilty of mur- der in the second degree.
 The bill to retire Justice Hunt from the bench of the United States supreme court has passed. His age and intirmities dis able him for further service.
 The present Roman Catholic bishop of New Jersey, like his predecessor, forbids the body of a drunkard to be buried in consecrated ground, and adds to the prohi- bition the body of liquor seller.
 During the strong gale on Friday last g large barn was blown down in Sufield and several buildings damaged. A chimney of the middle building of the Connecticut Literary Institution fell and broke through the roof of the building.
 M. Gambetta's career as Premier of the French Ministry was very brief. Finding some of his measures, specially the scruti,a de Hste, unsupported in the Chamber, he resigned and is succeeded by M. DeFrey- cenit.
 A reservoir burst in Calais, France, on Monday. The torrent swept away a school house and two dwellings with their inmates. Twenty-seven dead bodies have been recovered. It is feared that others perished.
 Principal Hall on Thursday opened the safe that was kept in his office in the High school building, and found that none of the valuable document kept in it had been injured, save by slight discolorations, and all the records can be rebound. The czar of Russia is threatened in his palace at Gatschina. A few weeks ago he found some of the pieces of wood designed for his stove charged with dyamite. He | does not dare go near his conservatory, which has been one or his favorite resorts, for he has been warned of danger there and it is believed that the plants are pois- oned.
 The old Philistine city Gaza with pop ulation of 20, 900 people, has had no mls- sionary until within three years. The Church of England now has dispensary there where the poor receive medicines and advice free of charge. Each applicant is required to hear portion of Scripture read and to carry away a Christian tract in Arabic. Four schools have been opened for Greek and Moslem boys and girls.
 The state prison warden reports that there were in the prison on the 1st of December last 237 prisoners same time i'll the previous year there were 261. The decrease in the year was 24. The number discharged during the year was 129 received, 1O5 The income of the prison the past year was $27, O93 GA the expenses, S32. 353 45-showing deficiency of $5, 259 81,
 A man of notable attainments as physician, chemist and geologist, Dr. Joseph Barrett, died in the insane hospital at Middletown, Wednesday, aged 86 years. He was a native Of Englaud, came to this country when he was 26 years old, and became professor of botany and mineral ogy in Partridge's academy at Middletown, an institution which developed into Wes- leyan university. Some years since he suffered softening of the brain. His life was devoted to scientific researches.
 Miss Clara Louise Kellogg recently dined at 8 hotel in Milan, Tennessee. Miss Kellogg's maid is colored woman, and when dinner was announced mistress and maid entererd the dining room to- gether and sat at the same table. This social equally did not suit MT. Miller, the proprietor, and he ordered the maid to another table in 8 different part of the house. Miss Kellogg told the landlord that if her maid could not sit beside her at the table she would go to another hotel, and Miller relented.