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Foreign Intelligence.

DUBLIN aIiyceS of the 2ad state that the
authorities had been warned of intended
outrageS in connection with the O'Donnell
vengeance fund. English detectives were
engaged in tracing holders of the money
recently sent from New York to London.
THROUGHOUT England a great storm pre-
vailed on the .:ijl, and telegraph wires we're
leveled i'll all directions. Ten persons lost
their lives.
A RECENT fire at Hamilton, Ont, de-
stroycd the office of the Spectator, the loss
being 5000.
AN invitation has been EXTENDED to
President Arthur and the Governors of the
several States to attend the winter carni-
val at Montreal, beginning February 4.
1T was reported on the 2JI that the CO flee
crop i'll Jamaica was entire failur, in
some parishes. The making of sugar wa 5
retarded by the scarcity of laborers.
ADvICES of the 9th state that six fisher
men who boarded a schooner which was
carried out of MinS's Blight, n. F., by slot
ice, ha died of either hunger cold.
IT is announced from Halifax, y. s., that
two sisters and brother OF Roger -Amrro,
imprisoned at Bos,on on Il charge of muir
der, have become insane Through grief a.
his position.
SIN persons were a few days ago shot to
death for the murder of two C:ilian SOL
diers at Quequena Peru, twenty received
one hundred Iashes each, and ten were
sentenced to death and confscation of
property.
THIRTEEN children were skating n few
days ago at Rohr, in Prussia, when the ice
broke, and all were drowned.
COMMUNICATION with the rear townships
of Ontario was cut off on the 18th, OWN :,
to the depth of snow, and it was feared the
settlers would suffer for the necessarics Of
life.
IN Europe on the 2Gth hurricane did
vast damage and caused great loss of life.
A printinG-office in London was unroofed,
and TIE glass roof on Westminster aqua
rum was demolished. Telegraph commu-
ncation with the continent and by the At
lantic CABLES was interrupted for several
hours. In Paris railway travel was
stopped in all dire ctions and many persons
We're injured in the streets.
In the English channel twenty lives were
lost on the Goth by The sinking of the ship
Simla by the City of Lucknow.
ELEVEN men were killed the other day
in an explosion III a colliery in Rhonda
Valley, Wales, and a rescuing party of
four also lost their lives.
JoHNsrox's fluid beef factory at Mon
treal, employing three hundred persons,
destroyed by fire a few days ago,
causing loss of 100000.
OK the 2Sth the bodies of the Jeanette
victims reached Moscow, where the Amer
lean residents placed flowers and wreaths
on the bers.
On the night of the 9th three shocks of
earthquake were felt at Rothesay, n. b.
LONDON advices of the cS h state that
over one hundred persons Lost their lives
in the recent gales in Great Britain.
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The New Code of Senate Rules.

WASHINGOS, ID. C.. Jan. 2S
The new code of Senate rules creates two
new standing committees and enlarges
several old ones. A committee of the Sen.
ate Republican caucus is engaged in max
ing selections for membership on ths new
committees and filling new places upon
old ones. 1t is understood that Senator
Lapham has been selected as Chairman OF
the Committee on Fisheries, and Senator
Wilson Chairman OF Committee on Expen-
ditures of Public Moneys. Senators Har-
rison, Plumb and Platt have been selected
as Republican members of this committee.
Senator Wilson is now Chairman OF the
Committee on Mines and Mining, and Sen
ator Lapham of that on Woman Suffrage.
Their acceptance of the Chairmanshlps
leaves their present positions vacant. Sen
ator Bowen has been selected for the
Craftsmanship of Mines and Mining. NO
selection as yet has been made for the
Craftsmanship of the Committee on Woman
Suffrage.
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Temperance Items.

A NATIONAL TEMPERANCE CONGRESS
for Great Britain is to be held in Liver
pool some time next summer.
A DRI I-NKAHD who was locked up in
the Tombs at Toronto on New Year $
night stated that it was the custom of
drinking ON that day which had first
started him on the downward path.
No ONE has the influence over the OPP
posite sex that our young ladies have.
If every one would use it for TcmperJ
ance, we should have no fear but that
in less than five years intempcrance
would be thing OF the past.-iSon
Erancisco Rescue.
New MEXICO has now a State organi-
cation of the Woman's National
Christian Temperance Union. 1t was
the last OF the forty-eight States and
Territories to fall into line; but this new
movement there makes the Woman's
Union national in deed, as well as
uame.
If 1T be true, as reported, that ten
thousand barrels of rum have been inn
ported in one year to the cast coast of
Madagascar, at so low a rate as to be
retailed at twelve and a half cents a
quart, it is no wonder that the planters
of the island complain that they find it
almost impossible to obtain sober and
u uol"olliiy ldDOlClS tulOnG Lilc nitlVc3.
TIE suggestion in Miss Wizards an
nual address of a Worlds w. G. L. IT,,
that shall belt the globe and join the
East and West in an organized at
tack upon the poison habits of both
hemlsphcres, created great enthusiasm
among the workers of the Pacific Coast.
The place to fight Asiatic vices is in
Asia, and European vices is in Europe,
if we would keen them from, Snroabin in n,
to America. We must 90 up as we'll as
down the stream of westward -driftino o
people of the world. There is ..light
in the window" in both Asia and Eu-
rope that beckons our jealous workers
on. The leading pastors in Paris are
anxious to have w. G. L. U. organ.
lied in that metropolis of the whole
world, and in the cities of India, China
and Japan great Temperance work is
going on among the English-speakina
population. Woman al Work,
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prisoners were removed with the aid of a
company of State troops. One man was
burned to death.
THE Cleveland (O.) Paper Company
made an assignment on the 26th to K. j..
Foster, with liabilities of $3.50 900. n. w.
Taylor, President of the institution, also
failed for $500 The company owns five
mills.
THE Union Block at Xenia, o., valued
at $1,000, containing three stores and sew
eral Offices, was recently destroyed by fire.
In Burnet County, Texas, the fence-cut-
ters were on the 10Th destroying fences by
the wholesale, and threatening personal
violence if they were put up again.
THE firm of $. b. " iIson & Co., whole
sale dealers in boots and shoes at Detroit
Mich, has failed for S15o,C00.
THE house of Ishmael Trick, in Orange
burg County, s. c., was burned few
days ago and two children perished i'll the
flames.
a LAD four years old, named Andrew
Mango, of Clevelan nd, O., was burned to
death n few days ago by his clothing
catching fire. He was the last of five chill,
dren, the others dying within short time
of diphtheria. The mother had become a
raving maniac. The father was absent
from home.
y FLEA OF not SuliIy 10 tnc lnuctnent
was made on the 2Sth by o. a. Carpenter,
imprisoned at Lincoln, H., for the murder
of Fora Burns, and motions Ey the defense
to quash that document, and that the State
elect upon which count it would proceed,
We're quashed. The trial was set for Feb
ruary !. I
FIRE a few nights ago destroyed the
Brigham Young Academy, Mormon
school at Provo, Utah, in which were four
hundred students. There were many mar
row escapes.
AT MarenGo, Ind, a bartender was shot
dead the other day by a commercial trav-
eler for asking payment for a glass of
liquor.
a MAN named Webb, in a difficulty the
other day with the three Wiiburn brothers
i'll Jackson County, Ala, killed two of
them and mortally wounded the third.
EARLY on the morning of the 2Sth John
Gray and Frank Williams, the murierers
of Grin kar.z. wero taken from Jail at
Rosita, Col, by masked men and hanged
to the rafters of u log shauty.
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LATER.

In the Senate on the 29th the bill
| repeating the timber culture law was
placed on the calendar a resolution in
| structing the Postal Committee to inquire
whether telegraph charges had been af-
| fected by stock dividends of the W estern
Union Company was laid over. Sherman's
resolution on the Virginia and Mississippi
| elections was adopted after brief discus
sion. Resolutions approprating $1,000
for improvements above the Rock Island
arsenal; inquiring to the expediency
| of admitting all printed reading matter
to the mails free, and to appropriate S1O0-
O00 for the Grow Indians were adopted. The
House tobacco rebate bill passed. The bill
| regarding titles to Mexican land grants
was discussed without action. In the
House a resolution was adopted to hold
the funeral of Mr.. Mackey in Representa-
tive Hall on the 30th. Bills were intro
duced in profusion for tariff changes, pub
lie buildings, bridges, pensions, and relat-
ing to currency and labor topics. MIR.
Hopkins offered resolution to investigate
the charge of attempted corruption made
by exSpeaker Keifer against General
Boynton. Correspondence between Keifer
| and Boynton was read and a committe was
| finally appoint ii to investigate.
THE Louisville Board of Trade or
The American Lumber Company of
Toronto, Ont, has failed; liabilities,
| 81 100000.
THE striking ribbon weavers at Pat
erson, n. j., refuse to accept the manufac
| turers' terms.
The Mississippi Valley Dairy and
Creamery Association met at the Polytech-
| mic Institute i'll st. Louis. Mo-, on the 3Ith.
The Cleveland police have arrested
| fifteen men charged with completely in
| recent series of burglaries.
MARTIN SELLERS, of Kendallville,
| Ind, committed suicide on the 18th rather
| than testify in a murder case.
REUBEN SPRINGER, of Cincinnati, O..
has added $4,000 TO the Loagworth be-
| quest for an art school.
MANY arrests have recently been made
at Kharkoff, Russia, on account of plots to
poison the Gar.
A RECENT Rothschild loan to the
Khedive is held to indicate that England
| intends to take care of Egypt.
A LIVINGSTONE (Mont.) firm has
levied on property of the Yellowstone Park
Improvement Company for debt
TIE New York Court of Appeals has
decided unconstitutional the law prohIb-
| iting the manufacture OF cigars in tene-
ments.
HENRY AUGUSTINE, who murdered
two Of bis relatives near Laporte, Ind,
three years ago, has just been arrested in
! Eausas,
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.EPITOME OF THE week.
Interesting News Compilation.
XLVIITth Congress,

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 23.-In the Senate
Mr. Sewell reported favorably the bill for
the relief of Fitz John Porter, and Mr.. Lo-
gan handed in a minority report. Mr.
Sherman called for an investiG alton of the
recent troubles at Danville, Va, and the
killing of Mathews in Copiah County,
Miss. a resolution was passed direct
ing the Secretary of the Interior to re-
port the status of land in Indian Terri
tory not occupied by the five civilized
tribes. In the House joint resolution of
thanks to Captain Gabriclson and Lieu
tenant Rhodes, of the revenue steamer
Dexter, for heroiSm at the wreck of the
steamer City of Columbus, was passed; also
resolution appropriating $4,000 for the
support of destitute Indians at the Crow
agency and the forts in Montana.
THURSDAY, Jan. :4.-Thc joint resolu-
tion for the relief OF the Greedy exped:-
tion. with an amendment that the party
lie volunteers, was passed by the Senate.
Bills were introduced for the preservation
of forests on the National domain, and to
authorize the President to pay back the in
demnity fund to the Chinese Govern
ment. The nomination of A. S. Worth
ineton To be United States District At
torney for the District of Columbia, in
place of Colonel CorkhilI, whose term of
House a bill was introduced providing
that pensions for total disability be
twenty dollars per month, without regard
to rank bill was paSssd making an aU-
preparation OF >3, 900 TO pay the claims
for rebate on tobacco.
FRIDAY, Jan. ~. In the Senate Mr.
Blair introduced bill for the free cir
culation of newspapers within the State
where published. Bills were passed: For
a Civil Government in Alaska, with
prohibi'ory liquor clause; pro-
viding for the performance by the Secre-
tary of State, Secretary of the Treasury or
Secretary of War of the duties of Presi-
dent in ca>e of the removal in any way of
the President and Vice President. Adj
journe'l tp the 2Sth. In the House, in Com
mittee of the Whole, debate the Fitz
John Porter bill occupied nearly the entire
session.
SATURDAY, Jan. 26.-The Senate was
not i'll session. In the House F. w.
Rockwell took the oath as member from
the Twelfth District of Ma ssachusetts A
bill was reported for the establishment of
a Bureau oil Animal Industry, to provide
for tie determination of rleuro- pneu-
monia. The remainder of the session was
devoted To debate on the bill for the relief
of Fitz John Porter.
MoSpAY, Jan. sS.-In the Senate Mr.
Hoar, from the Committee on Judici-
airy, reported the original bill relating to
the enforcement of the law in Utah. \
message was received from the House an
nouncing the death of Congressman
Mackey, of South Carolina, and Il COM
mittee was appointed to attend the funer-
al In the Hous. the death of L. w. NJ.
Mackey, of South Carolina, was an
nOunced- The customary resolution was
adopted, and the House, as marx of re-
spect to the memory of the deceased, adj
jouruefl
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The East.

In Pittsburgh on the 2:;d the hearing as
to James Nutt's mental condition took
place, and re suited in the prisoners release.
Several doctors were examined, and all
agreed that Mutt was then of sound mind
and fully res ECnsible, and they thought it
would be perfectly safe to res ore him to
liberty. He was then discharged, ani
in the company of friends, left the court
room for Major Browns office, where his
mother, sister and other relatives were
waiting to receive him. On the way he
was rendered a perfect ovation. The
scene at Browns Office was very affecting.
His mother and sister wept bitterly as they
threw their arms around him, and the joy
thus expressed seemed to know no bounds.
Later in the day, at Uniontown, Pa, a
large crowd had collected at the depot,
awaiting the arrival of the party there,
and We're prepared to give them an en-
thusiastic reception, but Mrs. Mutt re-
quested that no demonstration be made,
and this request was strictly obeyed.
Many, however, rushed up and shook
hands with James he passed into the
carriage. Young Mutt has made the fol-
lowing statement:
81 no more intended to kill Dukes that even
you now. ! always carried pistol An boys
pistol-shot, Many hours I have spent rrac-
ticing with pistol before my father was
killed, and after got fathers pisto! became
made such good shooting that night l cant cant
say. for am not what Is known as eooa
pistolshot. After got the mail l started
home that night, and turned into the next
wait for Dukes. for an entirely different
purpose. Coming out l saw Dukes
pass, and the time from the moment I
began to shoot till l quit is now, and always
has teen a blank to me. did not know how
often 1 fired till heard from others. None
of NV relations
Dukes. On the contrary. they always wished
he would go where none of us wonid see
him, Boys have advised me to XII! MIN, ana l
have received letters saying to kill him. put All
my relations advised me not to think OF DONG
such a thing 1 don't know yet what L shall
do am a gr aat home boy and would like to
get work where1 could be home. Will ADVISE
with Mr.. breckenridge, and he may hnd me
something to do.
On the oath three Gloucester (Mass.)
fishing schooners, carrying crews OF forty
six men, were given up as lost.
On the evening of the oath Mrs. William
B. Astor gave a dinner at New York IN
honor of President Arthur. \
The announcement was made on the 24th
that the City Treasurer of Bayonne, N. j.,
was q defaulter for $30,00).
WHILE Thomas Valley, of Petrolia, Pa,
was carelessly handling a revolver few
DAYS ago it was discharged, and his six
year-oId sister received a fatal wound in
the brain.
A. LETTER has been written by General
Gyant denying emphatically all state
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National Aid for Education.

stTi
The executive committee appointed by
the National Educational Convention, held
at Louisville last year, has prepared bill
which has been placed in the hands of Rep
resent ,tive Willis of Kentucky, to intro
duce in the House. 1t provides for an ap-
propriation of about sixty-six millions, to
be distributed among the States during the
next twelve years according to the litter
ate population between ten and twenty
wears of age. The bill contains table OF
distrs sbution on this basis which gives the
New England and Middle States 5000, 900; I;
the Western States, "A, ,000,0 900; the Southern
States, So, ,OOO, 900, and the Territories, 3d..
O{lD 900.
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The NIRYhee Murder.

JAMAICA, L, l.. jan. u.
The examination of Edward S. Tappan,
who confessed that his brother John MUIR
dered the Maybee women while he looked
on, has begun. Since the earrest of the ne
gro Rugg for assaulting Farmer Sprague
and the discovery of evidence circumstan-
TALLY connecting him with the Townsend
and Maybee outrages. there has been a
growing belief that Tappan's confession
was that of q man driven crazy bv the
bounding of detectives. Tappan, when
brought into court, was crying bitterly.
The preliminary: examination takes place
at Hicksville Tuesday. large number OF
Deputy Sheriffs and constables have been
detailed to prevent the lyneiing Of -Rugg.
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Frozen to Death in 81! !ht of Home.

DALLAS, TEX, Jan. 25.
Yesterday morning the dead body of Mr..
w. II. Douglass, a farmer. who resided iif,
teen miles northwest of Dallas, on Grape
vine Prairie, was found frozen stiff within
three hundred yards of his house. He
started out the evening before with his
team to go to the Trinity bottom after e.
load of wood. The weather being SO bitter
cold, he had started on his return home and
was overcome and frozen to death. One of
the horses was so badly frozen that it soon
died, The deceased came to this city in
1871 from Gallatin, Tennessee. He leaves
a wife and three children. Wednesday
night was one of tie coldess nights this
winter.
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A Fatal Dose.

VANDALIA, ILL.,, Jan. 21
Mrs. Mary Griffith and her husband came
from Nebraska q few days ago TO visit
friends in st. Elmo Last Saturday she
and her husband had a dispute and she told
him she intended to poison herself. Mr..
Griffith gave it but passing notice, as she
had on former occasions made like threats.
Shortly after retiring she was heard moan
ing and breathing heavily. Friends going
to her assistance tried to arouse her, but she
died shortly afterward. The unfortunate
lady was subject to spells of mental aber-
ration, caused by injury to her head dur
ing q cyclone in Nebraska. She is tho
mother of four children, the youngest OF
which Is scarcely six months old.
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Accident on the Lake Erie & Western.

CINCINNATI, J an. -J-
A mixed train on the Lake Eric IL West
ern Railroad was wrecked near Bluffton,
O., at five O'Clock this morning by broken
rail. The passenger car turned over and
took fire and the conductor saved the lives
of the passengers by extinguishing the fire
with snow. Then be went to Blufton for a
carriage to convey the wounded to hotel,
freezing his feet during the trip. Tho
brakeman had both feet frozen. The in
jured passengers are: Jas. w. Shaw, Ne
bra ska; A. J. ewens, Button; o. S. Lam
gan, Bluffton; Mrs. Langan. Several
others received minor injuries.
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Kendall S SPAWN Cure.

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IN trbs aHi ty.yrioss kinds OF strains to rlye
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KendaI!'s SPAWN Cure.

DOwNEY CITY, Los Angeles Co, Cal, Oct. 5.'S3.
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KendaII's SPAWN Cure.

DENVER, Cot, April ;,, 1852.
DIR. Is. J. Kendall Co, Gcnts:-Four years
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'lK,ENbA[L'S; SPAWN CURE
On Human Flesh.

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