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" > « .v - The New York Board of Trade has pre- ' ' bared memorials to the Legislature urging that i , . • t - • ' iho Erie canal be made a free water-oourae, and 1 *"»•• l»l«othat a Slate Board of Railway Commis- ; * *'••*<• *. * *'"'%«ionf>ra be organized, ^ ' JACK KEHOE, the chief of the "Mollie \ JUIagnSres" of the Pennsylvania ooal region, Itw .' . jras hanged at Pottsville, in that State, a few , :-jfwas hanged i sinca He was convicted of the murder f a Superintendent of a ooal mine, several ears ago, being the leader of a mob which boned him to death. , PATRICK ROURKE and family of five : : * t " children, reading at Cohoes, N. Y., were all .* i 1 «|i V-,. \ faaW't i|bnmed to death by fire in their home the other i , - ;||jight The official statement of the condition ?i,J|)f the sbviDgs banks of Massachusetts shows •n aggregate loss of about #27,500,000 in de- , . '.polite, and * decrease in the number of depos­ it i jp. itors of nearly 80,0001 «.* jH»K\ ' ml $0 ?'#: •art-' THE Russian cruisers built at Phila­ delphia, and whose movements have been so 'loosely watched by British agents, have sailed H".;ior foreign watera. Tbe vessels left under v^the command of an American master, Cap! At Salmon City.^p!' T., the other ^ }\' ! mght, two Indian prisoners (hostiles), who '̂ « '* ^>rere in charge of the Agent to be conveyed ^ m ^P**- Jtqju Salmon City to Fort Hall, were captnrod I,' / *'* **%y a mob and shot to death. The Agebt has ' ^ ' * ' ' ' p r o c u r e d t h e n a m e s o f a n u m b e r o f p a r t i c i - j c' » ^* • ("l)an^8 in the riot... .A snow-storm of great vio- . ,£ , lence and extent prevailed throughout the West * - Id the 14th and 15th insi, from tent thirty ^ ^ * _ ? • . - I n c h e s f a l l i n g a t d i f f e r e n t p o i n t s . C o n s i d e r a b l e "K'. j obstruction to railroad travel resulted. s AT a meeting of the representatives of ,'5 ' " jtdne railroads centeiing in St Paul, Minn., a Union Depot and Transfer Company was i^. . ti-! . .formed, with a capital of #500,000. ;NF.' , . - THAT which threatened to be a dis- < ?astrous conflagration took place at St Louis the ; ' rather night, the flames only being conquered . ,#fter they had inflicted a loss of about $150,000. > "**- THE Illinois and St. Louis bridge was v *old at the east front of the St Louis Court Rouse, the other day, under decree of court ' foreclosing the first and second mortgage bonds. " .pfe " tt was purchased in the name and authority of Cf, ', T^omas» New York, who paid #50,000 in ^ ' fold aa earnest money. The piioe paid was i'.< >*•••»<• ••"*>><**> I' £ *< r a recen^ meeting of the Iowa State I? > t -(Sreenback Council, the State Central Commit- **. -Igg wafl instructed to perfect a thorough or- > 3 Ionization of the party in every county in the ^ •"! >#tate and to call an early State convention to H > < *ominate a State ticket, and not in conjunction " \fc t . With either of the other parties or on the same 'iy'" . * #av with them The Michigan State Board of , » , .r „ CJanvaBsera have finished their official canvass liA , v #f the vota cast at the recent election. The Hote on Governor was as follows: Charles M. ,,-Mi*,- •* Croewell, Republican, 126,280; Orlando M. " - Barnes, Democrat, 78,503; Henry A Smith, ^reerback. 73,133; Watson Snyder, Prohibi­ tionist, 3,469; scattering, 1,200. A MEETING of the Potter Committee -X'\ "-r •' .'HntK' • j ' I ^ held the other day, at which it was do- ^ f 1 ^ ^Sided thatfpotter, Stenger, and Cox of Ohio fei'J ' ,rere *° New Orleans and finish taking |.c- fc '-M * fiie testimony there which was interrupted by 4 * , I ijbe yellow fever last Bummer. There .was not J * mention of the cipher dispatches. &•»* . i ~ ' REPRESENTATIVES the National party b i ~ •»*« i "v ^ew Sn^and will have a conference in Boa- WaaMngton, k* Y r ^ THE report of the investigating com- ;p : »%•>&<*• *iittee on tlie West of England and South Wales -t sDiBtnct Bank shows that the whole capital and , HSf't f peserve funds have been lost, and there is a - fkn n ^urtlier deficiency of #1,500,000, for which IPbareholders are liable. - ,.p <**-•>' : IN response to a resolution of Mr. Beck calling for information, Secretary Sher- faan has transmitted to the Senate a letter, in pfp ̂ ' . 'Jfrhich he says: " Under the existing law either *»«!<•. i 4 <old coin or the standard Bilver dollars may be ^ payment of interest on the public |[5*' j* ~%i "4 s 1 do®8 not direct which shall be ? " . ^paid, but leaves this to the discretion of the de- ( apartment, to be exercised upon considerations ' #f public policy." s * l ^HE United States Treasurer expects H ifir'tU- to have on the 1st of January, exclusive of all I 'P - i 4' '" f ̂ em»nds» #135,000,000 in own with which to re- r, .• . > f '*ume specie payments. . U A CALL has been issued by the Secre- »r, | f- 'Ylary of the Treasury for #10,996,100, being the '^JkkK J'est and tlie residue of the bonds outstanding ^ Under the act o t March 3,1865, consols of '65, , Sot included in previous calls. ii'.' THE following sub-committees of the ...j -^ouse committee to investigate the yellow-fever w" Epidemic have been appointed V> visit the * > ^afflicted sections: Messrs. Garfield, Chittenden :̂ i '"iind Morse to visit Memphis and vicinity, and Clibson, Hooker and Young to visit New Or- Y j-ai^- i ;< •> leans and vicinity. The sub-committees of the , JPouse and Senate sit and act jointly during it • f'SM&M'torn. |V , "RFIVFF ,! .A.'? A HEAVY reduction in the rates for ?f > . , $%*-/> -Yfxpre88age ̂ ween ^e East and West has been •jounced by the companies engaged in that b , I '1/ it ̂ Vl®1®"! of «"»» «ght in t -4 t , " S^tes and Canada: Wheat, 19,045,000 tisf - ' ' *>U8hel8*' oorn> «,5^,000 bushels; oats, 2,424,000 JY ^ J1 rye,1,301,000bushels; barley,5,1305,000 \ A OBNERAL Xellow-FeverCommission t "P * has been created by Congress, and #50,000 ap- v *° defray expense of its investiga- *, J- 1 ' Y,(; *onB- Thirteen prominent physicians have •>'̂ >een selected from various cities, largely those ®f the South, for service on the commission.... , Secretary of the Treasury has issued a cir- v ^nkr to the Collectors of the several ports ||hat they are authorized to cause inspection to Remade of cattle proposed to be shipped to ;,\|Jreat Britain, and to give to shippers a certifi- 010 cattle shipped are free from dig- 'Y #aae. 7 W-\'" , * fs FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. IT is intimated in cable dispatches proposes lb tntro- r t e - - f": ] ' y * . ^ >* * * duoe the principle of collective ministerial re­ sponsibility into his Government; and that a constitution, prepared hy Count Sohouvaloff, ITT'DCR LIMTRHRTIUJIM ^IVOH LILM MIIRO ST T.LVFIDHI lately, will also be put in force... .The Grand Duchess of Hesse-Davmstadt, Princess Alice of England, died Dec. 14, of diphtheria. The Grand Duchess was third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria. She was born April 25,1843, and was married to Prinoe Lud wig of Hesse July 1,1862. Her father, the lata Prince Albert, died Saturday, Dee. 14,1861. THE Senate has confirmed Aaron H. Cragin, of New Hampshire; John Coburn, of Indiana, and Marcellus L. Stearns, of Florida, to be Commissioners of Hot Springs, Ark.; Lewis^ Wallace, of Indiana, to be Governor of New Mexico, vice Samuel Axtoll, suspended under the Tenure-of-Offieo act; Col. Randolph B. Marcy to be Inspector General, with the rack of Brigadier General < IT is reported that Gen. MacPherson's brigade has occupied Jellalabad, 100 miles from Candahar. A correspondent at Dadur says Gen. Stewart has sent pressing orders for all troops to advance as speedily as possible. This probably means an advance on Candahar.... Justin E. Colburn, United States Consul General at the City of Mexico, is dead. THE Servians and Montenegrins have ooncentrated on their respective frontiers. The Turkish commanders have been ordered to watch their movements... .A St Petersburg dispatch says the Bussian mission at Cabul has been formally,; and officially withdrawn... .A dispatch from St Petersburg says the Chinese are continually murdering and pillaging the in­ habitants on the Bussian frontier. BAYARD TAYLOR died at Berlin, Dec. 19, of dropsy. The distinguished author and traveler was at his post of duty as United States Minister at the German court He was nearly 53 at the time of his death. The fatal symptoms came on suddenly. He had been out of bed, and was transacting business with the officials of the American legation the day before. His death was peace­ ful and painless....A recent cable dispatch from Constantinople reports that the steamer Byzantine, from Marseilles for Constantinople, was eunk in a collision. Fifty lives were lost IT now appears that the disaster to the steamship Byzantine in the Bosphorus was not so serious as at first reported. Nearly all of the passengers are said to have been saved Serious trouble has occurred at St. Petersburg between the Government authorities and the students at the Academy of Medicine and Surgery, occasioned by the refusal of the latter to conform to rigid class regulations imposed for the purpose of repressing disorderly dem­ onstrations. CONGRESSIONAL. 14.--The Senate was not in ses­ sion, In the. House, the Indian »Ap prop nation bill was reported from the committee....A resolution was adopted ask­ ing the Secretary of the Interior to report why the Cheyenaes who were engaged in the late massacres in Kansas and Nebraska have not been surrendered to the State authorities for trial The Geneva Award bill was discussed without ac ion. DEOEMBBB 16.--In the Senate, Mr. Beck sub­ mitted a resolution that the Secretary of the Treas- \iry appear in person and inform the Senate what reason, if any, be has for failing to answer the resolution of the 3d of December, 1878, in regard to the amount, of silver coin received for customs dues, and whether he has applied it. or any part of it, to the payment of interest on the bonds and notes of the United States, and, if not so applied, to state the reason why. Mr. Beck said that the Secretary of the Treasury had increased the bonded debt $lt)4,4H0,450 by selling bonds and hoarding gold. After a brief debate tlie resolution was laid over... .The Blaine resolution directing an inves­ tigation into alleged election frauds came up. The Thurman amendment extending the investigation to the Northern States was adopted. A motion to lay the resolu­ tions on the table was rejected. A motion of Mr. Butler (S. C.) to hold the sessions of the com­ mittee with open door* wa« voted down, and the resolutions went over.. .Mr. Coke submitted a resolu­ tion instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to examine into the expediency of repealing all laws providing for the compensation by fees of United States Attorneys, and substituting fixed salaries. Agreed to. In the House, a bill was introduced by Mr. Wood provid­ ing for the payment of duties on imports in United States notes....Mr. Brentano introduced a bill to amend the act for the coinage of the standard silver dollar Mr. Young, of Tennessee, presented a bill to extend the time for putting iti claims for bounty, ete Mr. Fort also intro­ duced a bill requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be exchanged, when in the treasury and not otherwise appropriated, United States notes for silver dollars, when presented at the treasury or assistant treasury in New York in sums of 81,000 or any multip'e thereof... .Mr. Lathrop introduced a bill to '• piace the silver coinape of the United States upon the basis of its intrinsic value.".... Mr. Kelley offered a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the amount of Government gold deposited with the banks st the 1st of each month since the beginning of the present administration. DECEMBER 18.--Tho Senate did nothing be­ yond the pasting of the resolution of Mr. Blaine directing an investigation into the recent elections in the South. In th© House, the entire day was consumed ip debating the biU to appropriate $•150,000 to meet the deficiency in the appropria­ tion for the postal-mail service, which was finally passed. DECIHBEB 19.--The Senate passed the Pen­ sion Appropriation bill, the bill giving twenty con­ demned cannon fori a Custer monument at West Point, the joint resolution appropriating $60,000 to defray the expenses of the Yellow-Fever Commission-, and the bill to amend the posse-comitatus clause of the Army Appropriation bill so as to provide that it •hall not be construed to apply to troops in States and Territories subject to Indian depredations In the House, the best part of the day was de- voted to the consideration of the Indian Appropria- tion bill... .A resolution was passed extending until the lbth of February the time within which the joint commission on the transfer of the Indian iwvir*a,\ina5r report The bil1 appropriating $50.- 0W for the expenses of the Yellow Fever Commission was passed. DECEMBER 19.--In the Senate, the Deficiency biU appropriating $450,0C0 for the maintenance of the railway postal service was passed....A substi­ tute for Mr. Beck's bill to repeal certain sections of the Revised Statutes was reported by Mr. Chris- tiancy....A bill was introduced by Mr. McDon­ ald to reimburse several States for interest t?6 lo^n - Mr. Burnside addressed the Senate in explanation of tbe provisions of the new Army Reorganization bill....The following Senators were appointed a committee, uuder the Blaine resolution to inquire into alleged frauds at the late elections: Teller, of Colorado; Cameron of Wis- coi.Mit^Kirkxvood.of Iowa; Hoar, of Massachusetts; McMillan, of Minnesota; Bay an), of Delaware; Wallace, of Pennsylvania; Bailey, of Tennessee- ami Garland, of Arkansas. Outside of a little sparring over a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the action of Judge Alexander Rives, or the Unit d Stat s District Court of Virginia, in transferr nsr two cases of mur­ der from a State court to the United States court mere was nothing of interest in the House Mr! Hale objected, and the renolution wan not received! ...-The Indian Appropriation bill wa* taken up! discussed, amended and finally passed. DECEMBEB 'JO. --The Senate pa««ed Mr. Beck's bill repealing the jurors' testoaih clause in the Re­ vised Statutes, held a brief executive session, and adjourned till Jan. 7. The House, after a brief and dull session, adjourned over the holidays--ta the 7th of January. BOSTON is a rich city, and it h&s got in the way of doing its business on a liberal scale. Its schools, for instance, oo»t an average of $35 for each pupil, against $25 in Cincinnati, $21 in Balti* more, $28 in New York (where all text" books are provided"). $20 in Ban Fran* cisco, and $12 in Chicago. TMJS INDIANS AND THKIH DEAD, f A girl about 12 years old had died, and her relatives had appointed thai evening as the beginning of the funeral. After death takes place in an Indian village the weeping and wailing tab;es place immediately, and continues among the relatives in the wildest and most demonstrative manner for many dayp. The evening before it had reached its highest pitch, the family of the dead girl had given away everything they had possessed and were then engaged in pulling down the very lodge that sheltered them, and cutting the buffalo robes that composed its sides into small pieces, while th^ mother of the girl had chopped off some of her fingers with a butcher knife and was being pounded by sympathizing friends to keep from fainting. Everybody had their facee painted black and were moaning as only a grief-stricken Indian can. The woods and fantastic lodges and weird faces of the Indians, lit up as they were by the flickering glare of a large camp-fire, formed a picture at once grotesque and startling. When, our party visited the camp in the morning, the girl's family, weak from hunger and loss of sleep, were still keeping up the barbarous wake, although the corpse had been placed upon its burial platform in some secluded spot on the prairie, where it is to be hoped the wild flowers and birds will watch over it evermore. Hiding out from the dozen or so tepees that comprised the village, Mr. Hoyt and myself made a short cut across a curve in the trail and discovered a dead In­ dian on a platform of stakes, about ten feet> above the prairie. At first, like all whites out here, we set out with the de­ termination to take what trophies might be on the rack, but upon reading the prayer of his friends, written in English and pinned to one of the stakes, that he might not be disturbed, as Yellowface, the dead man, had always helped the white man and was a friend to all who passed that way, we left the grave un­ disturbed. Tlie Indian had only been there since April, and had his gun, tomahawk, knife find beaded ornaments all upon his person.--Montana Cor. Cleveland Leader. WHEN TO EAT. In a paper read at a domestic-economy congress at Birmingham, Eng., not long ago, Dr. Wilson gave the following hints on the proper times of eating for differ­ ent classes of workers: For the active out-door laborer and artisan an early breakfast before work, a mid-day dinner with an interval of rest, and supper after the day's work is over have long been proved by experience to be the most conducive to health. For the business man, a later breakfast, a mid­ day luncheon, and a late dinner after the day's work is over, is the best ar­ rangement. For literary men, who write more in the evening than during the day, an early dinner and a light supper will be found to be the most ad­ vantageous for steady work. Idlers, to enjoy life, if they possibly can, should dine early if they intend to spend the evening at theaters and the like; but, if they accept invitations freely, they should be careful not to eat too much at the mid-day meal. The breakfast hour should be determined in a great measure by the hour of rising; but, in any case, food should be partaken of before the material business of the day is commenced. Those who like to take a "constitutional" before breakfast would find their appetite whetted and their walk made all the more enjoyable if they took a little milk or cafe au lait, with bread or biscuit, before starting. Work done before breakfast is always irksome and fatiguing, and, on that account, is very likely to be badly done. The last meal should be sufficiently late for the whole not to be absorbed before retiring to rest. To a person in health, three meals a day ought to be quite sufficient, and the practice of continually " taking something " is sure to bring on indiges­ tion. MONKEYS in India are more or less objects of superstitious reverence, and are, consequently, seldom or -ever de­ stroyed. In some places they are even fed, encouraged, and allowed to live on the roofs of the houses. If a man wishes to revenge himself for any injury com­ mitted upon him, he has only to sprinkle sonie rice or cojrn upon the top of his enemy's house or granary, just before the rains set in, and the monkeys will assemble upon it, eat'all they can find outside, and then pull off the tiles to get at that which falls through the crev­ ices. This, of course, giVes access to the torrents which fall in «u<ih countries, and house, furniture and, sWes are all ruined. JOHN and Henry Barlow)' Ind., were 81 years old John was a widower and wife. The aged broth about the wife, whose John made her husbanr finally had a fight, in whj considerably disfigured. t '» • mm. 5f ^ TWWil % THE OLD YEAR. Monroe, twins. arreled A {Jhronoloyical MecorU ef lts lm- Occurrenee8.x " jfefce Eminent Dead of 187 - 'I • OBIX^PECTBS. ' **** a 0me' « . For memory and for tears. Within the deep, " k Still chambers of the heart, a specter dim, Whose tones are like the wizard voice of Time, Heard from the tomb of ages, points its 401$ And solemn finger to the beautiful And holy visions that have passed aWay :* ? And left no shadow of their loveliness On the dead waste of life. That specter 1§|| The coffln-lid of hope and joy and love, '• And, bending mournfully above the pale. Sweet forms that slumber there, scatters dead flow- era . . „ ' O'er what has passed to nothingness. Branca, OBBONOLOQrr- _}" \ ̂ JAMJAR?--4. News of the massacre •£& Chinamen at Sashgar. & Disastrous storms on the Atlantic coast. 9. Call issued for Na­ tional Convention of .National party at Toledo, Ohio. 10. Turk a driven from Schipka pass. 11. Glovor investigation resolution passed the House. 12. A million-dollar fire at London, ; England. 14. Thirteen lives lost by wreck of ' schooner Little Kate, off Duxbury, Mass. 15. George H. Pendleton elected Senator from Ohio. 17. Four negroes killed by a mob near Lexington, Ky. 21. The Russians reached Adri&nople. 22. William B. Allison elected to the Senate from Iowa. News of grea famine in China. 28. Stanley Matthews' sil­ ver resolution passed Congress. 31. Steamer Metropolis, from Philadelphia for Brazil, wrecked off Kitty Hawk, N. C.; 100 lives lost VEBRUARY--3. Armistice between Bussia and Turkey signed at Adrianople. 4. Asylum burned at Tein-Tsin, China; 2,000 lives lost 5. The Prefect of Si Petersburg shot by Vera Sassnlitch. 8. Tornado at Augusta, Ga.; several persons killed. 11. Ship British America and Brig Carrie Winslow collided off Sandy Hook; several lives lost 13. British fleet entered the Sea of Marmora. 17. Steam­ er C. M. Palmer sunk by a collision off the English coast; fourteen persons drowned. 20. Cardinal Gioacchino Peoci elected Pope, under the name of Pope Leo XILL 22. Na­ tional party organized at Toledo, Ohio. 23. Bande, the murderer, sentenced to life im­ prisonment at Galoaburg, I1L 28. Silver bill vetoed and passed over the veto. MARCH--1 Tornado in Casey county, Ky.; seven persons killed. 5. Hot Springs, Ark, nearly destroyed by fire. 8. Seventeen per­ sons killed by colliery explosion near Glasgow, Scotland. 9. News of steamer Sphinx being burned at sea; 700 lives lost 12. Colliery explosion near Belton, England ; forty lives lost 14. Thirty-six excursionists drowned at Brest, France. 17. Treaty of peace ratified at St Petersburg. 22. Boiler explosion at Richmond, Va.; five persons killed. Thes- salian villages sacked by the Turks. 22L Steamer Magenta burst her steam pipe near Sing Sing, N. Y.; six persons killed. 24. En­ glish training ship Eurydice lost off the Isle of Wight; 350 lives lost 25. A million-dol­ lar fire in Philadelphia. 26. Fire in New York ; loss $500,000. 27. Colliery explosion in NorJJi Staffordshire, England; thirty min­ ers killed. APRIL--7. Steuben oonnty (N. Y.) insane asylum burned, near Bath; fifteen inmates perished. 13. Fifteen acres of Clarksville, Tenn., burned over; loss, $500,000. 15. Cir­ cassians massacred 800 persons at Palatiza, Greece. A terrible tornado in Kansas. 17. Three murderers lynched at Hunteville, Ala. Strike of 80,000 cotton-spinners in Lancashire, England. 18. Collision betwetsen white and black miners at Coal Creek, Ind.; several killed. 21. Many vessels and 156 lives lost on Spanish coast 22. Heavy storm in Illi­ nois and Iowa. Hurricane at Tahiti, Sand­ wich islands, killed 120 people. The Spanish coast visited by a severe H to nil; 275 lives lost 28. Twenty persons killed by boiler explosion at Dublin, Ireland. MAY--2. Five flouring mills destroyed at Min­ neapolis, Minn., by explosion and fire; sev­ eral lives and 91,000,000 in property de­ stroyed. 11. Attempted assassination of the Emperor of Germany. 13. Earthquake in Venezuela; 600 persons killed. 17. The Pot­ ter investigation ordered by the House of Representatives. 20. Fenian scare in Canada. 21. Six men lose their lives by a coal-mine ex- * plosion in Nova Scot a. 22. Pleasure steamer went over a dam at Gait, Ont; nine persons drowned. 24. Tornadoes in Illinois and Iowa; about 50 lives lost 31. Collision of German ironclads Koenig Willielm and Grosser Kur- furst in English channel; the Wilhelm sank, carrying down 300 men. JUNE--2. Nobeling attempted to kill the Em­ peror of Germany. 3. Four hundred Rus­ sians cut off by Pomaks and killed. 5. Great loss of life by flood in .China. 7. Five ne­ groes lynched at Bayou Sara, La. Explosion in colliery at Haydock, England; 280 lives lost ft Bulgarians burned nineteen villages, and committed horrible atrocities. Earth­ quake at Lisbon, Portugal. 10. News re­ ceived of a terrific storm in Canton, China: 10,000 Chinese killed. Sii lives lost in Georgia by a storm. 14. British fleet with­ drew from Constantinople. 20. Congress ad­ journed. An Indian raid into Texas. 22. Great destruction by flosds in Peru. 25, Fight with Indians at Curry creek, Oregon; 40 redskins killed. 29. Tunnel caved in at Schwelm, Germany, burying twenty-seven persons. JULY--4. Teii persons killed at a picnic by falling trees near Pittsburgh, ft Indian fights in the John Day valley and at Camas prairie, Ore,, 7. Big fire at Mandalay, India; 4,700 houses bumed. 8. Battles with the Indians at Willow Springs and Beasley's mills, Ore. England and Turkey concluded agreement for defense of Asia Minor, and Cyprus ceded to England. 13. Large num­ ber of deaths from sunstroke in St Louis and other places. Treaty of peace signed at Berlin. 18. Col. Forsyth won a substantial victory in Oregon, killing seventeen and capturing 100 redskins. A train of twenty- two cars fell through a bridge at a height of ninety feet, near Monticello, Ind., killing sev­ eral persons. 19. Intense heat and many sunstrokes at the East 25. British ship Loch Ard lost with forty-seven lives. 2ft Labor riot in Washington. Fourteen chil­ dren and three teachers drowned In Ireland. 27. Marquis of Lorne appointed Governor General of Canada. 29. Four colored men banged by a mob at Monroe, La. AUGUST--7. Collision on the Panhandle road near Steubenville, Ohio; fitteenpersons killed and forty injured. & Powder magazine ex- ploded at Fratesi, Russia, killing fifty-five persons. 9. Wallingford, Ct, devastated by a tornado; twenty-five people killed. More ^phtfngln Boftnir.. 12. Yrilow fovo» b^ame I epidemic at Memphis and Vicksbnrg. Rng_ elan torpedo boat oxploded at Nioolaieff; thirty-four persons killed. 1ft Hoedel be­ headed at Berlin for attempted assassination of the Emperor, la Memphis being scourged % yellow fever; place nearly deserted. 21 - tFackson, Miss., attacked by the plague. In­ dependence of Servia announced. 22, | funds being raised in the North for yellow- frever sufferers. Powder mills exploded at Ne- Jgaunee, Mich.; several employes killed. 2ft , |Excursion train on the Grand Rapids and In­ diana railroad jumped the track near Lock- :*wood, Mich.; several killed. 30. Another nitro-glycerine explosion at Negannee, Mich. 31. Miskolcz, Hungary, laid waste by storm; I,000 houses destroyed and 500 people lost their lives. Bankrupt law expired. - SEPTEMBER--3. Bishop McCoskry, of Michi­ gan, deposed from the ministry. A» excur­ sion steamer, the Lady Alice, returning from Gravesend to London, sunk by a collision; 700 lives lost 5. Bosnian insurrection de- " feated with great loss. 7. Mehemet Ali and twenty of his suit massacred by the Albani­ ans. 9. Nobeling, the would-be assassin of tbe German Emperor, died in prison. 11. Coal-mine explosion at Abercarme, Wales; 250 miners lost 13. Gradual decline of the yellow fever in the South noted. 14. Great freshets in the West 22. British mission to Afghanistan refused . permission to miter Cabul. 25. New Canadian Ministry inaugu­ rated. OCTOBER--8. Excursion train on\ the Old Colony road wrecked near Boston;^ killed and 150 injured. Elections in several States. II. Panic , in Colosseum Theater, Liverpool, England; thirty-seven persons crushed. 1ft Nine persons killed by a panic in a colored Baptist church at Lynchburg, Ya. 20. Rail­ way collision in Wales; twelve killed. 27. Manhattan Bank, of New York, robbed. 80. Yellow fever killed in the South by frost NOVEMBER.--3. Great strike in English cot­ ton-spinning district 5. Elections in thirty States. 7. A. T. Stewart's body stolen from the tomb. Cape May, N. J., visited by a great fire; several hotels bunded; loss, $500,000. 14. Big flood in Italy; great loss of property. IT. Attempt to assassinate King Humbert, of Italy. 18. Serious loss of life by inundation of the river Save, at Pesth, Austria. 20. War declared by England upon Afghanistan. 21. The Halifax fishery award paid. Twelve men killed by a coal-mine explpsion at Sullivan, Ind. 23. George S. Houston elected Senator from Ala­ bama. 24. Fifty persons wont down with steamship Pommerania in English channel; collision. 27. Fifty persons jumped off a ferry­ boat at Liverpool and were drowned, owing to panic. 28. Thanksgiving day. English forces entered Khyber pass, in Afghanistan. DECEMBER--1. Mississippi river steamboat Cotton Valley sunk by collision near Donald­ son ville, La.; eighteen persons drowned. 2. Congress met. 9. Archer fionr mill, at Min­ neapolis, Minn., burned. 10. Wade Hampton elected Senator from South Carolina. 12. The Afghans pleaded for peace. 18. French steamer Byzantine sunk with 50 people in the Mediterranean. NECROLOGY: JANUARY--8. John O'NeilJ, the Fenian leader, Omaha, Neb. Francis Vincent Paspail, French naturalist and revolutionist, Paris, 84. 9. Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, Rome, 57. 10. Demetrius Bulgaris, Greek statesman, Athens, 76. 16. Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, Springfield, Mass., 51. 21. Henri Victor Regnault, the great French chemist, Paris. 67. 22. E. & Collins, founder of the Collins line of steamships, New York, 75. 27. George ^P. Gordon, in­ ventor of the Gordon press, Norfolk, Va., 67. 28. Sir Edward S. Creaky, a distinguished English historian, London, 65. FEBRUARY--1. George Cruikshank, the fam­ ous caricaturist, London, 8ft 7. Giovanni- Maria Mastai-Ferretti, Pope Pins IX., Rome, 85. 11. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln, Hartford, Ct, 75. Charles M. Conrad, Secretary of War under President Fillmore, and Confederate General, New Or­ leans, 73. 13. J. F. Tracy, many years Presi- - dent of Rock Island railroad, Erie, Pa. 25. Angelo Secchi, famous Italian astronomer, Rome, 59. y MARCH--2. & F. Wade, former Senator from Ohio and acting Vice President, Jeffer­ son, Ohio, 77. 8. Count Sclopsis de Saler- ano, the great Italian statesman, Turin, 79. 9. Charles L- Wilson, publisher of the Even­ ing Journal, Chicago, 59. 12. Sir William Gibson Craig, former Lord of the British Treasury, RicartoD, Scotland, 80. 20. Isaac Adams, manufacturer of the Adams printing press, Sandwich, N. H. ,75. 24. John Allison, Register of the United States Treasury, Wash­ ington, 65. APRIL--2. William Sidney Clements, Earl of Leitrim, killed by peasantry, near Derry, Ire­ land, 72. ft Giuseppi Berardi, Italian Cardi­ nal, Rome, 68. 12. William M. Tweed, for­ merly chief of the New York Tammany ring, in Ludlow Street jail, New York, 55. 22. William Orton, President of Western Union Telegraph Company, New York, 52. MAY--1. Jonathan Walker, the subject of Whit- tier's poem, "The Man With the Branded Hand, Muskegon, Mich., 88. 2. W. S. O'Brien, the " Bonanza" millionaire, San Rafael, CaL, 46. 4. Count Basilewski, the richest man in Russia; his income was #4,000,000; St Petersburg, 92. 1ft Gen. Thomas 8. Dakin, Captain of American rifle toam, Brooklyn, N. Y., 47. Prof. Joseph Henry, Secretary of Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 81. 28. Lord John Russell, twice Prime Minister of Great Britain, Richmond, " England, 8ft JUNE--8. Pierre Magne, ex-Minister of Finance of France, Paris. 12L William Cullen Bryant, America's oldest poet, New York, 84 Gen. B. L. Bonneville, the oldest officer on retired list of United States army, Fort Smith, Ark, 85. George V., ex-King of Hanover, Paris, 59. 21. Gen. Fitz Henry Warren, Assistant Post­ master General under Fillmore, Brimfield, Mass., 62. 25. Sir George Back, English Arc­ tic explorer, London, 81. 2ft Mercedes, Queen of Spain, Madrid, 18. Sidney Breese, Judge of Illinois Supreme Court, and formerly United States Senator, Pinckneyville, HI. JULY--3. Dr. James C. Ayer, patent-medicine maker and millionaire, Winchendon, Mass., 60. ft George S. Appleton,*of the Appleton publishing house in Philadelphia, Riverdale, N. Y., 57. 17. Alcardo Alcardi, Italiap states man and poet, Verona, Italy. 20. Gen. Goo. F. Sheplev, Judge of United States Circuit Court for Maine, and ft General during the Rebellion, Portland, Me., 59. 22. Mrs. Agnes Heneage, known as Princess Salm-Salm, En­ gland. 26. Thomas Kelso, founder of Kelso Orphan Home, Baltimore, 91 27. George L. Curry, former Governor of Oregon, Portland, Ore., 57? 31. William Kuox Babington, Gen- era! in jpnglish East India service, London. AUGUST--14. John H. Raymond, Presided of Vassar College, Pouglikecpsie, 64? Count Theodore Radetzky, son of the famot Marshal, and himself a General in the Aus­ trian army, Gorz, Austria 6ft ia Geor Vining Bowers, well-known comedian, Nel York. 21. Maria Christina, Queen-dowagei of Spain, Havre, France, 72, William Niblo founder of Niblo's Garden, New York, 88 25. Dr. J. W. Waldron, one of the best-knowi turfmen in the country, Saratoga, N. Y. Johi A. Inglis.SPrasidtfftt of convention in Soutl Carolina which passed secession ordinance Baltimore, Md. Seth Padelford," forme Governor of Rhode Island, Providence B. L, 71. SEPTEMBER--& ft, H. Haight, formerly Governor of California, San Francisco. 18 Samuel Bard, a prominent Southern politi cian, Baton Rouge, La., 5a 20. Gen. Hem: Raymond, veteran of 1812, Jersey City, N. J. 87. 27. August Heinrich Petermann, the em ir-ent geographer, Gotha, Germany, 5ft OCJrOBER--8. Gideon J. Pillow, General b the Confederate army, Arkansas. 11. Fell Antoine Dupanloup, noted French prelate Paris, 76. 18. Joffevson Davis, Jr., only so of the Confederate President, of yellow fevej Memphis. David I#,ings patriarch of Boo Y tiah literature, Edinburgh, Scotland, 86. 2C Hiram Panlding, Rear Admiral in the navj and son of one of the captors of Maj. Andrt Huntington, LI, 81, 24./Charles Leopol Duke of Schleswig-Hblstpin, 65. 29. Lou Antoine Garnier-Pages, French historian an statesman, Paris, 75. Julius Hayden, brevi Brigadier General in United States arm; A. Orange, N. J., 58. NOVEMBER--ft Jean Jacques Fazy, the em nent Swiss statesman, Geneva, 82. 7. Phelps Brown, known as a " retired phyt cian whose sands of life have nearly runouj Saybrook, Ct, 55. 15. Hippolyte J. Luci French poet and dramatist, Paris, 70. 1 William B. Hill, former Secretary of State Maryland, Baltimore, 51. 20. Thomas Powers, a chemist worth #10,000,000, Phili delphia, 65. 27. William Henry Palme known as "Robert Heller," musician and pre tidigitateur, Philadelphia, 48. 29. Louis Godey, publisher of Godey's Lady's Boo, Philadelphia, 74. 30. Lyman Tremain, e: Congressman from New York, New York, 5' DECEMBER--1. George Henry Lewes, autho and husband of "George Eliot," London, 6 2. J, P. Wilmot, Bishop of the Diocese Louisiana, New Orleans. 12. Henry Well of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, Glasgo' Scotland. 14. Princess Alice, third child Queen Victoria and Grand Duchess of Hese Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 35. 19. Bayard Ta; lor, American author and traveler, and Unite States Minister to Germany, Berlin, 53. PROF. SEELEY, lately discoursing i New York, said: " The electric light supposed by many to be among th most recent of electrical inventions, bi this is not so, for Sir Humphrey Da\ exhibited it in the year 1810, employin for the purpose a galvanic battery §,000 cells. Since that time it has bee familiar to professors of chemistry an their students at all large colleges. Bi it was regarded only as a curious fac or a brilliant illustration of science. ONE remarkable circumstance attenc ant on the English racing season 1878 has been the unparalleled succet achieved by Lord Falmouth, whose" nings amount to $193,500. Unlucky the outset of his turf career, Lord Fa mouth has not had a bad year since 186! when Kingcraft scored several 2-yea old victories, and since that time horses have worn him about $800,000. THE Rev. Levi Little handed to conductor on the Old Colony railroac instead of fare, a religious tract, at tli same time explaining that, in his opii ion, a distributor of tracts ought to allowed to ride free. The conduct* demanded money, but the clergy ma refused to either pay or get off th train. A fight ensued, and, JBrpthe Little was forcibly ejected. 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