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vorthiness. He will formally accept the

No decisive action is now expected on the
silver question this winter.
The trial of anti-Chinese agtators has
been resumed at Seattle, w. L.
THE insane asylum at Newark, N. j., was
damaged $4,000 by fire last week.
THE bill for the admission of Dakota will
be reported favorably in the senate.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt in
Seneca county, n Y, Friday night
THE Ohio democrats have nominated
Thurman for United States senator.
DAKOTA had a wild blizzard last week,
with temperature of 40 below zero.
A LARGE whale captured off Long Island,
last week, yielded 900 gallons of OIL
In Wabash county, Indiana, eight hun
dred hogs have died from hog-cholera.
THE greatest cold experienced in Louisi-
ana for fifteen years was felt Saturday.
THREE persons were killed in collision
of trains at Wilmington, Del, Saturday.
TENNESSEE has had the coolest temperature
ever known in that state-3o below zero.
OF the 3l5 children in the Albany Orphan
Asylum, 1l5 have been sick with measles.
The extensive factories at Kensngton,
Penn, were burned Sunday. Loss 81 ,OOo, 900.
SEVEN lives were lost Saturday by the
wrecking of small vessels in Boston harbor.
j. B. LIPPINcoTT, the well-known Phila-
delphia publisher, dead aged seventy-one.
TRINITY church, New York. is charged
with owning the worst tenement-houses in
the city.
Two men were frozen to death while
digging out drfted train on an Illinois
railway
Fulton, N. Y, has been visited by a dis
astrous flood, and seventy-fve families are
homeless.
SENATOR SHERMAN has been unanimously
renominated by the republicans of the Ohio
legislature.
THE fire losses in the United States last
year were 800, 200 ,000-ffteen millions less
than in 1884.
IT was 81 above zero at Jacksonville, Fla,
Saturday night, and oranges on the trees
were frozen.
w. II. ROSE, book-keeper for Painter e.
Co., Baltimore, is under arrest for en-
bezzling $4,000.
LANES dormitory at Oberlin College was
burned Friday night, and 80 students had
a narrow escape.
THE United States circuit court has en-
tered final DEGREES in favor of the Bell Tele-
phone Company.
HEAVY snow-falls and cold weather have
caused much damage to cattle herds in New
Mexico and Colorado.
IL,
was a success. 1t closed Thursday with a
mock session and ball.
Four cadets at Annapolis are to be court
martiaed for numerically beating fourth
class cadet named briggs.
AT Battle Creek, Mich, DIR. White killed
his wife and two children, and then him
self, Friday He was insane.
Mr.. l.. M. LUDLOW, the Oldest actor in
America, died at his residence in st. Louis
on Saturday, aged nearly ninety.
j. G. AVER Il Co., Lowell, Mass, have
been fined $147 900 by the Dominion govern
ment for entering goods below their value.
THE New York legislature organized with
Edmund l.. Pitts, president of the senate,
and James w. Hustled, speaker of the house
The blizzard in the Northwest ragged
fiercer than ever last Friday and Saturday
Many railroads were blockaded, and at St
Vincent, Mimi, the mercury fell to 49, be-
low zero.
A BLOCK of stores in Mobile, Alabama
were burned last week Friday; loss 1913. 900
A large cotton warehouse in Louisville, Ky.
was burned-loss $1l0000-and three per-
sons persisted.
SARAH ALTHEA HILL has married Judge
Terry, who was her leading counsel in hei
suit against the late Senator Sharon. Terry
was the man who killed Senator BrodericB
in duel in 1859.
ALEXANDER GILcHRIsT, Union veteran
blind, and pauper in the Indiana penn,
almshouse. has received arrears of pension
amounting to S12, 151-the largest pension
ever paid to private soldier.
FOURTEEN inches of snow fell in Bostor
Friday night, and eight inches in Washing
ton, ID. G.. The snowfall was quite heavy
throughout New England and New Yorl
state, and the railways were badly blocked
A DOG that was bitten by the animal that
bit Kaufman at Franklin, n. j., has beer
attacked with rabies. Kaufman is now il
Paris being treated by DR.. Pasteur, and the
efficacy of the doctors theory will probably
be thoroughly tested.
Foreign.
THE war fever in Greece is violent agains
Turkey.
THERE has been heavy snow blockade
in England.
A STORM on the English coast has wrecked
many vessels.
THE Princess of Wales is Frustrated will
a serious illness.
A SEVERE snow-storm in Paris last weel
stopped all traffic.
The British parliament will be formal,
opened on the 2lst instant
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was felt il
Devonshire, England, last week
A FRENCH missionary and five hundre'
Christians have been massacred in Anam.
GERMANY has 460474 children unde
fifteen years of age supporting themselves.
THE proposed American exhibition il
London has been postponed to May LIST, 1881
A HUNDRED skaters broke through the ic
in Regent Park, London All were rescued
MONTREAL is flooded again, and nue.
damage has been done in the lower parts q
the city.
THERE was heavy snow-storm at ROM
and Vienna on Sunday. This is an unusua
| occurrence.
A NEW French ministry has been formed
with M. de Freycinet president of the coun
Gil and minister of foreign affairs.
IT is reported that Servia will decline t
consider terms of peace with Bulgaria, e>
cept upon the basis of return to the Stdtt
quo ante beliun and the non-payment of
war indemnity by Servia.
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