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THE NEWS IN BRIEE.

The weekly statewwu. of tb# Bank of France, shows an increase oCI2JSBO,000 franca in sold, and a decreaasTof 3,959,000 franca in silver. The Chicago board of trade has voted by a Urge majority to erect a new bailing on the vacant lota just south of the Grand Paeifle hotel. It is reported frooaDeadwood, D.T., that the HomestabUoTOphny has p«rehased all the Deseret and Gopher mining company's property for $1.000,000. The total losses in the fisheries from Gloucester, Mas*., the past year comprise * nr schooners and three boats, valued at $21,000. Ffty-flve lives were lost.- * The Albanians have decided to demand the evacuation of Dulcigno, and in the event of a refusal by Prince -Nikita, to declare,war against Montenegro. President Hayes has decided to renew the appointment of Secretary Ramsay, as acting secretary of the navy, m>m time to time until the 4th of March. The wife of Edwin Monnett, one of the wealthiest citizens of Crawford eounty, Ohio, has eloped with a young men named Fox, who had been in the employ of Monnett. It is supposed the British steamer Montgomery, for Philadelphia from Cardiff, bound to Signapore via Suez canal, has been lost with her crew of thirty men on the coast of Portugal. Fire at the Mason depot, Tennessee, destroyed the store and dwelling of J. Watkins. Loss, $6,000; insurance, $4,800. The saloon of R. Drury was also burned. Loss, uninsured. A large number of the leading lawyers of Milwaukee have signee a petition to have Judge Coakey, of Michigan, appointed to succeed Justice Wayne on United State supreme bench: . • Mrs. Sophia Frieken, wife of a wealthy tobacconist of Hoboken, waa found strangled in her bath-room. The authorities are unable to determine whether it is a case of murder or suicide. Tne only grist gruill at Deerufock. Lenawee county, Michigan, burned with 600 bushels of grain. It was owned by Posten & Cannon, and had j lust been thoroughly repaired. Lose, j $7,000; insurance $4,000. rThe Spanish government has noti-1 fied General Blanco to abandon hi! ! prosecutions pending Itefore Cuban tribunals for crimes connected with the insurrection of the Autonomists and the negro rebellion. John Breens, German, twenty-five years of age, employed ny the Memphis brewing company, in cooling the ■ side of casks with brewer’s pitch, a cask exploded, killing Breens, and slightly injuring two others. The stdck mill of the Springfield blanket company, at Holyoke, Mass., was partly burned by rags in the milling machinery. Loss, SIB,OOO, mostly in raw stock. The building was just finished. Uuinsured. Mrs. Sarah Young, one of the oldest residents of Paris, 111., met with a fearful death, her clothes catching fire from a stove. Before help could reach hep-the lower part of her body was j churned to a cinder. She was 87 years j old. * , j Twenty six murders and fifty seven j suicides were committed in St. Louis j during the past year. Of the persons j murdered five were women and two • were infants. There now eighteen ! murderers confined in jail awaiting; trial. The port list of St. Louis the past j year snows 2,871 steamboat arrivals aud 4,860 departures. About 2,000 barges also arrived and departed, j Freight received by river outside of lumber 805,860 tons, shipments by i river, 1,037,330 tons. ’•C. S. Lord, for ten oca re connected with the New York Sun, and among j the best known ami most brilliant men oh the New York press, succeeds | Ballard Smith as managing editor of! the Sun. Mr. Smith retires on ac-1 count of his health. The dykes between Nieuwkuek aiul j Vlymen, in the provence of north | Brobant, Holland, were broken, and j eighteen village* flooded. The dam- , age by inundation is immense. A j committee for the relief for. the sufferer* has been formed. < -j Mrs, Earner Foster, an Jnjrtate of) a house of ill fame, at Pttodnirg, was shot and fatally wounded, by M. (*. Hail, an insurance man, who claims to be her husband. . Mrs. Foster was formerly, of Cincinnati; where her mother,’ whose name is Wriglit, is still living. Jealousy. ' Tewfik Pasha, an artillery officer, who was recently appointed ‘minister of finance and financial administrator of Turkey, is now entirely controlled by military men, and all the available* resources of the country are devoted to military preparations. The board of directors of the Ladad AFort Scott railroad have awarded the contract to the Keystone construction company, who will build and equip the road in a first class manner, receiving therefor the first mortgage bonds of the company as the work progresses. West Virginia is cursed with an organization of ruffians known as vlgllents, or red men. They have recently committed many diabolical outrages in Ritchie and Roane counties, aud is probable that another organization will soon be formed for the purpose of exterminating them. A Belleville, HI., dispatch says: A little settlement called Twist Hill, some eighteen miles from here, was much excited on Saturday last by the discovery of the dead body of Mrs. Salter, a widow, lying in bed between her children, little girls six and four years old, and the dead body- of her infant in a basket in the -rear of the house. It appears that Mrs. Suiter was confided some time during Friday night; that she placed the baby in the outhouse, where it was frozen to death, and that she returned to her bed aud died of • hemorrhage. The payments at the New York clearing house for the year, 1880 were not only larger than ever before, but* larger than tho«e of any other city in the world. They exceeded the entire amount received and expended by the United States government from the first establishment down to tho.present time. The aggregate receipts of the United Bt»tes treasury on all amounts have been51R570,348,647, and the payments $18,334,864,202. while the pavments at the New York clearing nouse by exchange* alone since January 1, 1880, have been $38,644,240,578, and the balanee paid during tbj . same time have amounted to $1,561,200,000. v

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GENERAL TELEGHAMS.

Santa Fe, Dec. 28.-rH refy *erWU» disturbance exists to-day a* Saeafla} N. ML. The authorities refused to »*> rest the murderer of Conklin, editofbf the Sun, and tbo»cltMici«; finding go recwqrse at law, have arrested m l btfdjhy force the sherfSUnd ffk others,- ineluding/ the niurdcTbrw < onldm. A rescue of Iho. pHteuexi & threatened, and Woodshed t* imminent A requeat has bofn'ittul* pn the military commander Of. the dilf/ict for troops, and although tnoop* cannot be used as a po**e com!talus, jet a company has been ordered-from Colorado, N.M., as a means of protection for public property and the property of .citizens. Bodies of men are being armed at .Aloaqusrque, and at 'fijlier points in the vicinity, and will go to Hacarro to-uight. Grave results may be expected to-night All the women and children have been moved out of town. Acting-Governor Rich is doing all in his"power to preserve order ana secure proper action of the law. Cincinnati, Dec., 28.-The Gazette’s Tiffin, Ohio, special say* a collision occurred near that place this afternoon on the Cincinnati, Bandusky A Cleveland railway, between a passenger train going north and a freight train going south. Hie two engines were wrecked and the mail, express and baggage care thrown together and burned, consuming the mails. The express matter and baggage was nearly all saved. Wm. Woodbury, fireman on the passeuger train, was killed.outright. He had been recently married [ aud Ilia wife was aboard the train. | Robt. Haylor, the engineer of the passenger trkin, was seriously injured. J. G. Ellv, express messenger, right leg broken;A. Stewart,maH agent,seriously hurt in the back. No passengers were hurt except one lady, whose face was slightly cift by a broken glass. Fr. Monroe, December 28.—A disturbance occurred Friday evening at Smithville, fifteen miles west of here, between a white man named Dunn and a party of colored men. One of the men caught Dunn by the whiskers and slapped his face, whereupon he drew a single barreled pistol and killed the man. Dunn then ran to a store and re-loaded his pistol, when the [ erowll, headed by Dan Cook, with a drawn sword, attacked him. He shot Cook dead, after which y he seized a butcher knife and cut lila way out. One man named Ed Drew was badly cut in the abdomen, and will prabably die, while others are more or less injured Dunn gave himself up and is now in jail nt? Williamsburg. Intense excitement prevails among the colored 1 people on the peninsula. Cincinnati, Dec., 28.—Negotiations are pending and will probably be completed soon for the purchase by a' party of Cincinnati capitalists, among whom aft Chas. W. West and M. E. Ingalls, of the Kentuckey Central railroad. The plan is to build a road to connect this one with the Knoxville and Ohio, and with combinations with existing roads to make a through line from the north west to the seaboard. It will be independent of the Louisville A Nashville. Troy, New York, Deceiul>er 28. — H. D. Cunningham, editor of the Troy Telegram, was arrested this afternoon and lodged in a cell at the second precinct station, on a warrant charging him with criminally libelling Mayor El ward Murphy, jr. The libel, it is claimed, consists in a statement by that paper, to-day, that the mayor attended a dog tight yesterday, and that ihe Was said to own one of the contestants.

Hackensack, N. J., December 28. Congressman Voorhis was arraigned in the Bergen county court this morning for trial, on a charge of embezzlement. The case was set down for the next teem of April court. The bail remains the same. It is the impression that this, ends the matter. Washington, December 29. —Two separate conferences were held at the interior department before Secretary Sherman, between the Cheyenne river and the lower Brule Sioux delegations 'and representatives of the ChieagoA North Western and Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul railroads, infregard to obtaining the right of way for a continuation of the two lines of railway through the Sioux reservation. In tlve morning a conference was held with tlisT Cheyenn©- siger delegation. Four Bears, at tbs outlet, renewed his prMßal of yes ten lay, by 'adking $7,000,G0t for the Befessary . lands. S«cret4ni Schur* Mated that * the 'railroad ooaqtany ; flfered' to' pay -rffcarly five dojhw- per tore for the nerohiary strip o£janu, "illA h« salmwafcHyearly four times as mueh as the government (sot iinsd for wild lands. He endeavore&to point out to them, the advanrofte width- would oresulLfrom bavinjftorailrojidbuilt through ®heir reservalffin, owing to the fact that it would bring their crops nearer market and thus enhance tne value of thelr land adjoining tbe railroad. If tfoey wanted to be civilized the railways were great civilizing agencies. Rattlingßib asked whether they could or *conld not get the* price asbad. Secretary. Schurz informed him tiiev could not. In the afternoon the Lower Brule delegation met the secretary and the railroad representatives. at the department. Captain Dougherty, Indian agent at their resrvation, produced and read an agreement prepared at the reservation, at which it is agreed to pay the Indians $4.50 per acre for the land along the route of the proposed road for a distance of 170 miles. This agreement Captain Dougherty stated the Brules had atrreed to sign when they reached Washington. After readirtg this agreement some conversation occurred, but nothing definite was agreed upon, further than a conference was arranged for to-morrow, ——— . The excess of exports imports for the month ending November 30, 1880, was $35,894,340; for the-month ending November 80,1879, $28,836,794; eleven months ending Novfember 30, 1880.1144,361,002; eleven months ended November 30, 1879, $230,279,987; twelve months ending November 30, 1880, $162,638,044; twelve month* ending November 30,187^,^260,245,038.' DuDlin, December 29.— Several traversers, including Parnell, were not present at the respun ing of the proceedings in the state trials io4lay. The law officer of the crown continued his address,explainingthe law bearing upon the case. The law officer of the crown referred to the humble occupations of most of the traversers, and said doubtless they found the agitation more profitable. He warmly denounced the agitation as an intsierobie The intention of the government, he snick in instituting these proceedings waste protecttherk h and! poor alike from the frightfuLtyrapny that respected naitherjife nek ptoperiy. People had been told not to acceptTi’Connells dictum, that no reform wan worthy a drop of blood And a few* days after they were thus advised, Ferrick, the bailiff, shot at BklMnrohe. The r •marks of *he law i officer ntjfufis point caused considerable feeling in court, especially when he .quoted the reported words of J. W. Nally, one of the traversers, that ' r Ffefriek'B murder

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-n* proceeding* of the land leaguer* were further stigmatized, by counsel a* a capital plan, for reducing society to it* original chaos and bringing about communism. He particularly pointed to Brennan, Boynton, Gordon, Sullivan and Nally ft* agitating with a view to pecuniary profit. He quoted Nally’s violent speech which immediately proceeded Ferrick’s murder, and then proceeded rto deal With Violent speeches attributed to DUfon aud IJarnejl, both of. Whom had *al<|the people had a refoedy for their grievance* fn their hands. The former, he said, had advised than to put no faith in the British parliament, but. to drill. He cited various -furtko# passage* of speeches by these two members of parliament as exasperating the people in its spoliation and murder. He quoted, amidst general laughter, from a speech of Biggar, who said he did not recommend the shooting of landlords, because the wrong man had been sometimes shot. After quoting Harris’ recommendations to .the peasantry,. to.emuJate the example of vibe French 4n 1792, he AH in Award,itha land Jaagwurte ounded umi; a basis of sedition ,and tseason. Parnell, who was given Ao ■xpressing moderately, bad himself declared thalUther tfi a milord* or the people must go, ftfld iFteonid be for toe people to decide *'bich.j? The court then adjourned >t 3:30 p. in., because the law attorney general was fatigued. Parnell was loudly cheered on leaving court. London, December 29.—The remains of Mr*. Croes (George Eliot} were buried, at High Gate cemetery to-day during a pouring rain. A large npmber of friends of the novelist were rifevertheless present. The mourner* included tire husband of the deceased and Professors Tyndall, Bosley and Calvin. . Berlin, December 29.—1 tis generally understood that Bismarck intends to propose an increase of the duties on coru, brandy and tobacco, the prospected tobacco monopoly having been postponed. The Behlesiftche Zeitung, the chief organ of tbe anti-Jewlsh organisation, states that the government and Bismarck have repeatedly remonstrated with the emperor against too proceedings of Chaplain Stolicker, but without success, it being represented that the latter is guilty of no breach of the law*, and that only the ecclesiastical authorities can proceed against him. Nevada, December 29.—Yesterday afternoon Aaron Happ. near here, while using a chain to load logs, was seriously injured by the chain breaking, allowing the log to roll upon him, crushing his right leg into a jelly, and being unable to extricate hnngelf. Several hours passed before he was discovered. He was badly frozen and almost dead. Dunkirk, December 29.— This morning, near this place. Jacob Farison, aged forty-five, was found in his orchard frozen to death. Having been ill for some time, the supposition is that he fell, and being too weak to rise, perished from cold. He leaves a wife and five children.

New York, December 29. —The table manufactory of Brown A Bliss, 336 Cherry street, a five story brick factory, was destroyed by fire this morning, as were also the adjoining buildings, 328, 330, 332 and 334 Cherry street, occupied by various manu : factoring firms. All the buildings were owned by Mrs. Allen Simpson, of 307 Madison street. Loss estimated at $100,000; probably insured. The firemen, with great difficulty, saved the immense Schrencksen furniture factory on Monroe street. The damage this establishment by water is SIO,OOO to $15,000. The destruction of Brown A Bliss’ factory was complete. Providence, Dec., 29. —Fire at Mystic River, Conn., this evening destroyed the Merchants block and the adjoining bnildings ofE. D. Evans, A. Ryan and F. M. Manning & Co., Merchants blocjc contained the dry goods and grocer}*store of W. P. Bugbee & Co., (where the fire originated from a bursting lamp,) F. Averys drug store, the post office and various offices, in one of which were the probate records of the town. Total loss estimated at over $50,000. Half covered by insurance. Topeka, Deoeinber 29. —A special to the Commonwealth from St. Marys says the Catholic church at that place burned this afternoon. Insured. Milwaukee, December 29. —The blacksmith shops of the Bay View rolling mills burned this forenoon. Loss, $5,000; partially insured in Chicago companies. • Detroit, December 29.—Mayor Adams’ foundry hnd machine shop, at Marshall, this state, burned last night. Lobs, $15,000 to $20,000; 4nsured for $4,000. Milwaukee, Deoeinber 29.— The dry goods store of John C. Smith A Co., at was destroyed by fire this morning. I josh, $4,600; inshred for SI,OOO. ■ J - • * ' Utioa, December 29. —The skin dressing mill of W..S. AM. S. Northrup, in Johnstown, burned this evening. Loss, $40,00; insurance, $20,000. Two hundred employes are thrown out of work. ■„ y ~ T . POUOHKEPbiK. N. Y., December BQ. —The evenlng'train on the Rhine book A Connecticut railroad ran on a broken rail three fniles east of RhineTSSck this afternoon. Ten empty coaches, the mail car and a passenger car were hurled down a twenty foot embankment. The mair car tooit fire and half the mail bags were destroyed.. S. L, Magoon .cut in the head and badly injured in the hip and *houlders;Fred Catting, mail agent, was struck in the breast Dy a falling stove, but was not fatally hurt; John Donahue and one or two others were slightly injured. Dublin, December 98. —The proceedings in the state t/i*U continues to elicit little interest. The travelers straggled into dobrt this* morning. Parnell arrived quite an hour after toe opening. The ptooeedmgs were delayed nearly half boor by want of punctuality on the part of a Juryman. Justice Fitzgerald informal him that he wtuH be fined one Uu* 1 red pounds if the oflbtice wftshgfiiffTorimilttefl. Mr. Law ’attomay general continued his Speech. He dealt with' the speeches of Dillon, Biggar, Sullivan aild Brennan, advising the people to pay on Griffith’s valuation, and declared the, traversers had conspired together to inaugurate red republicanism and communism.’' / j y, . Mr. Law complete the reading of seventy-seven extracts, from the speeches of the traversers, showing they aIL counselled the people to withhold their rent: He then quoted the judgment of Chief Justice Cockburn, to the effect that the conspiracy was the act of twr> 6r more persons combining to injure a third party, and that it was not necessary that acts to be done by a criminal, a mere combination to effect a Civil injury would come within |helaw. ■ He proceeded to explain the panfefcmenta which the traverser* advocated for tiMfe*’ ‘•**l <r it took evicted ; farms,

» n J dedaiwimMbiMrthe traverser* had beeq eontinped Uwhis post as a paid agent toe; Ufodjeague after having held the persons up by name to popular exgpQMtoki murder. He dwelt, with jdiiikeflntap the point that the traversers had given prominence to the statenfßt 30,000 persons were enrol fed hi toe land league, and no army qould enforce the land laws. Mr. iidkTrtfeeffwas not concluded whehinl ‘court twe. A large numberDf the constabulary and government, reporters who took notes at the meeting oftbe land league are in attendance at the trials. A barrister has been salt to tfcte west of Ireland on behalf of the..traversers to collect evidence for till defence. Madrid, December 3b.— The king, in opening tbe Cortes to-day, sahL he was actuated by no ambition abroad, and fettered by no fears at home. sss^SaEraacti^£ America and Europe, and would neglect no afibrt to obtain tom foreign nations equal advantages Vith those which Spain has granted by treaties of commerce. The htag* to conclusion, said the resuite of &e Morocco conferences ware satisfactory, and the relations between Spain ana the Vatican were most cordial. The king said it was necessary to augment the naval forces and strengthen the national defences. In consequence iqf the heavy burthens caused by the civil war and the redemption of short loans, the government had to meet an expenditure beyond the strength of the country, and it became necessary, in order to restrict the deficit and render the financial obligations of the administration, to create fresh taxSfe and increase isting taxes, without, however, casting burdens upon- the land. Bills will be Introduced for paying off all the Cuban debts incurred prior to the 1878, and for modifying differential duty on merchandise conveyed in foreign bottoms. Const atinofle. December 80.—The Porte is about to address a circular to the powers, containing the conditious of toe acceptance of which, it is believed, can not avert a conflict between Turkey and Greece. Cincinnati, 0., December 30.—A dispatch from Jeflferson, Texas, says Abe Rothschild, who murdered his mistress some three years ago, and whoso case has attracted a good deal of attention to different parts of the country, was acquitted there to-day. St. Louis, December 30.—A warrant has been issued charging Miss Mary Grover, the young lady who S laced her baby in a vacant lot last unday night, where it froze to death, with murder in the first degree. The warrant hks not been served yet, as Miss Grover is still confined in Ded by sickness, but will be as soon as she is well enough to be moved. Major J. L. Mahan, of the Indian department, has arrived here from the Colorado Inclian agency, en route to Washington.* He says there is no doubt of the death of Victoria, the Apache chief. Major Mahan said the famous warrior’s wife is at Saucarlos and that she was in mourning, and had cut off her hair, a sure sign that her husband is dead.

New York, Dec., 30.—L. J. Roses’ two year old trotter, Sweetheart, will trot in the summer of 1881, against Fred Crooker on the Pacific coast, mile heats, three in five, for SIO,OOO a side, half forfeit; or Sweetheart will be matched for SIO,OOO a side, half forfeit, not only against any three year old, but against any horse one year older. She will trot one race east of the Rocky mountains early in the summer, SI,OOO to be allowed for cxEenses, or SI,OOO will be allowed to any orse going to the Pacific coast from the Atlantic seaboard, providing it must be taken np on or before January 15. St. LouiSj December 30.—Benjamin Miller, of this city, mysteriously disappeared from East St. Louis last Monday, and he being known to have considerable money on his person, suspicions of robbery aud murder were aroused, the police made a vigorous search for nim. To-day his dead body was found buried in the snow in the outskirts of East St. Louis. Circumstances indicate he got drunk and froze to death. Cleveland, Q., December 30.—A Leader special from MCadviile, Pa., says the coroner’s verdict in the mysterious case of death, in a neighboring township, was abortion, and warrants have been issued for all known to have any knowledge of the case. The physicians were arrested and gave bail. The deceased young woman gave the names of Hattie Ackley and Annie Brown, which are supposed to be assumed. Detroit, December 30.—The Post and Tribune will contain to-morrow morning the annual statements of the the produce of this city for the past Sear. The receipts of leading items ave been as follows; Flour, 341,187 barrels: wheat, 9,939,000 bushels; corn, 428,000 bushels; Oats, 507,000 bushels; Barley 800,000 bushels, butter, 2,450,000 pounds; cheese, 533,000; wool, 4,800,000 pounds. New York, December 30.—Owing to the intensely cold weather which continues to-night, a great number of people were at the hospitals throughout the city and at the drug stores to have frost bites attended to. The most serious case was that of Pierre Victor Lambert, a young Frenchman who was found in Battery park with both feet mueh frozen. Louisville, December 20.—An extraordinary and rare phenomenon occurred this morning in this city, commencing shortly after sunrise and lasting till morning. The sky was remarkably clear aud the weather intensely cold. There appeared in the eastern heavens three sans and a beautiful rainbow halo. The phenomenon is knoirfi perihelia* and is a precursor of cold weather. J j J New' York, December 30.— A1l denominations were among toe clergymen present at, the funeral services to-day over the remains of Rev. Dr. Chapin. Addresses were made by Revs. Robert CoDyer. Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Dr, AWnitage, and Rev. Mr. Hallman. The portion* of the church set apart for the people were ereWdedrin every partWA sir i NGTQNt •B*-4b»«December 30. —A court martial for, the 'trial of the case of Cadet WhitSker has been ordered to convene at West Point, on Tuesday, January 18. following is the detail for the court: Brigadier General N. A. Miles, of the court;. Colonel H. A. Morrow. Third infantry-pjeutenant Colonel Pinck, ley, First infanteijrjSjetatenant ColoM.Brannon, FirstmrtiUery; Major Lewis Merrill, Seventh cavalry; B. Suliuier, Fifth cavalry; Captafaß F. artillery; ( aptain'J.N. C»te, Tenth infantry; Captain Mccrttt,.Sixteenth infantry; Major A. B. Gardner, Judge advocate of theouuft. :j* q ««* rj The-Gheyen he River and Lower Btol® Sioux who were to hold another conference at the interior department

to-day, dodeeming the proposed railroad rights of way through their reservation, sent word from their hotel to the department this morning that tiiey wero **too tired 4<r talk to-day.” but thought they would be “sufficiently rested to talk to-morrow.” >tv }f w A. 8. Logan, a lineal descendant of the historical Indian chief, has been appointed to a position in the laterior department. Judge Freeman, assistant attorney generm for the post office department, has written to the paarmaeter general, taking the ground that printed commercial papers, filled out in writing, are legally subject to letter rates of postage, and that therefore section 232 of the present postal regulations (allowing such papers as bills of laden, invoices, way-bills, Insurance documents, deeds, circulars, and hand-billi to poss through the mail as third-class matter) should be annulled as contrary to law. Cincinnati, Dec., 30.—The forth coming report of Superintendent Maxwell, to the chamber of commerce,says of the whisky trade of that city .the past commercial year: It has been a season of singular prosperity which has Come'hot from great profits, for competition has been very active with other markets, and goods have been sold generally on slender margins; but It nas arisen from the largely increased business, unusually good credit, and from faithfully collected revenues. It is believed that in twenty years there has been no such exemption from bad debts. The production in Hamilon county for the year ending July 31, 1880, including nigh wines and continuously distilled spirits, was 11,783,270 proof gallons, showing an increase of 1,400,000 over the preceding year. The aggregating production of this country ana the district across the river, which, in a business* sense, belongs to CinCinati, was nearly 15,000,000 gallons. The taxes on this aggregate amounted to $12,300,000, showing an increase of $1,250,000 over the preceding year. Rectified goods show an important increase in production, having reached 10,250,000 in Cincinnati and 3,750,000 in Covington, Icing an increase in the two places over last year of 2,960,000 gallons. In the extent of the business of rectifying, tills city stands ahead of any other in the United States. Of the 61,674,000 gallons of spirits rectified in the whole country, Cincinnati produced 10,424,000. The shipments from this city were the largest in the history of the trade here, with exception of one year during the war. They aggregated 456,403 barrels, being an increase 59,000 over the proceeding year. Detroit, December 30.—A young man named Harry D. Wright, was found dead in bed this morning, having committed suicide by taking laudanum. His parents live in England. He came here about eight months ago from Canada, where he had lived several years, and has been acting as a book-keeper. The cause of the suicide is believed to be the refusal of a young lady to carry out an agreement of marriage with him on account of his drinking habits. Ira Fullerton, a young farmer of Roxand township, Eaton county, Michigan, lias surrendered himself to officers, saying “I killed a neighbor named Gilbert Dutcher yesterday.” Fullerton claims he was assaulted by Dutcher with a club, and that in self defense he struck him with and axe, disembowling him. Boston, Drcember 30.— Consider able opposition has arisen towards the law passed by the last legislature, imposing a tax of one half of one per cent, per annum on capital on the reserve of all life insurance policies held by residents of this state. Contrary to anticipations of the originators of the measure, it is said that the effect, unless it be modified or repealed, will be to close the doors' of every Massachusetts life insurance company, and to drive from the state every other company doing business here. Owing to the assessment of the new tax, three or four companies have announced their intention of withdrawing their business from the .state. Several other states under what are termed reciSrocal tax laws, have notified all the lassachusetts companies doing business in their borders that they will be required to pay the same tax on the business done there which Massachusetts imposes on outside companies. The immediate result of the continuance of this law will be a falling off of about seventeen per cent, in dividends of policy holders. Several of the companies will test the constitutionality of the new law. Such assessments as have already been paid are paid under protest. Nashville, December 30.—The solicitor for Robinson B. Smith appeared before the chancellor and dismissed, at the cost of said Smith, the bill heretofore filed to enjoin the increase of the capital stock oftheLouisr ville A Nashville railroad company, and also consented to the dissolution of the injunction heretofore granted against the increase of said stock, and that the proceedings for contempt heretofore instituted agaiust the Louisville A Nashville railroad should be discharged. All the suits and differences between the Louisville A Nashville arilroad company and the'Adams and Bourthern express companies have been amicably arranged upon a basis eminently satisfactory to the Louisville A Nashville company. Cheyenne, December 30.— This morning’s east bound emigrant train on the Union Pacific railroad parted near Long Pole station, Nebraska and on the portions colliding eight cars were wrecked and five passengers hurt, though none fatally. The east bound express train on the same road, collided with a water train this morning near Rock Springs, Wyoming. Both engines were demolished. No passengers were hurt. The engineers and firemen escaped, with slight bruises. New York, December 30.— the evening Post has the following special from Hackensack, N.J: Cashier Berry was brought into court to-day and retracted his plea of not guilty* to eight indictments charging him with embezzlement and larceny from the Bergen county savings bank, and entered a plea of non vult contendere, a legal phrase, meaning he will make no defense with reference to the indictment for peijury. Berry’s counsel have filed a demurrer, praying for thirty days delay. The court said the case would have to go over for the term. No action was taken on the charges of embezzlement from the bank of Bergen county. Cincinnati, December 30.— This afternoon books were opened and stock to the amount of $300,000 subscribed in a few minutes for the formation of a company to introduce the Maximus electric light in Cincinnati, Covington and Newport. It is the purpose to introduce light in manuiactorles and other placee where steam power is used, and supplying private houses by providing engines for generators at convenient points.

INDIANA.

The -oltvaii county Commissioners have ordered a new jail and Sheriff’s residence to be built. Al. Phelps, a brakeman at the Lake Shord depot, had the fingers of, one hand jammed off at Laporte. Richard Graham was badly and painfiilly burned In the face by a “flash” at the New Albany nilmill. Hamilton Kearny, an old citizen, shot himself at the Baughman House, CoatsvUle. The cause of his act is unknown. George W. Menser, of Madison, who lost both his hands and one eye firing a salute to Governor Porter, has received $25 donation from the gallant General Straight. The Laporte Improvement Association has organized by the election of P. King.preisdent; John Richter, vicepresident; A. Lomax, secretary; J. T. Klockstem, treasurer. An infant child of Victor Webb, of Lotion township, Perry county, crawled from its cradle, and failing into the fire, was burned to death. The mother was temporarily absent from the house. Prof. Jordan, of the Indiana Btate University, will leave Indianapolis about the first of June for a tramp in Europe. He will be accompanied by a number of teachers desirous of taking views afoot of the old country. A liltle child of Thomas Statts, who lives a few miles from Bedford, had its clothing take fire while Its parents were absent at a neighbor’s house, and was burned to such an extent that it died from the effects soon afterward. Hon. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, owns a one hundred and sixty acre farm in Cass county, which he entered thirty years ago. He has never improved*it to the value of one cent, but nas paid hundreds of dollars in the way of taxes. So bad is the aoourtlc construction of the qircuit court-room in Floyd county’s $150,000 coart-house that it has been found necossary to order a change to be made, so that the court can hear the witnesses and attorneys. A Salem dispatch says Hugh B. Neely was assaulted and terribly beaten at Rush Creek by a man named Bince Loudon. Neely’s injuries are’ very serious, confirming him to his bed. Louden fled, and has not yet been arrested. C. B. Murray, an old citizen of Hagerstown, fella distance of thirty feet, striking on his head and crushing his skuliin a horrible manner. He was employed at the Louisville Ice Company’s house in that city. His recovery is doubtful. At Anderson John W. Lovett, wife and daugeter, and Mrs. M. 8. Robinson, were thrown from a sleigh, while driving on- Anderson street, Mrs. Lovett and Mrs. Robinson both receiving severe cuts and bruises about the head and face. Barney Ryder, in descending a flight of stairs, at Plymouth, stumbled and fell the entire distance of thirty feet to the stone pavement at the bottom. He was picked up hadly injured and insensible. It is feared that his injuries are fatal. Elijah Neff, of Rochester, terminated a drunken row by firing five shots at Dennis North, two of which took effect. One passed through the lower part of the left lung; the other pierced the left thigh. The wounds are fatal. Neff is having his preliminary trial. The other morning as Wm. Chambers was riding to Anderson on horseback his animal slipped and fell upon him, breaking his right leg in two places below the knee. Mr. C. is a live-stock dealer, axd resides six miles north of the city. Peter Whistler and Jacob Rohrar got into a dispute at a shooting match, at the residence of Whistler, near New Lisbon, Henry county. Whistler ordered Rohrar out of his house, and undertook to eject him by force. In the scuffle that ensued a little boy of Whistler’s was knocked oft the porch, and had his skull broken in three places. i William Bowerlv, an employe at Siddall’s saw-mill,North Vernon, was run over by a log-truck, and one of his legs crushed in a horrible manner, it is thought, rendering amputation necessary. He was working on the track of the incline plane, when the chain broke, letting the truck, with a large log upon it, run back upon him. s.' : ‘ Miss Anna Sparks, an estimable young lady of Shelby township Jefferson Co., attended the wedding of a friend in usual health. While returning home, in company with her lover, to whom she was soon to be married, she was seized with sudden hemorrhage of the lungs, fell to the ground and immediately expired. The other evening, at Summltville, Amos G* Allen entered the drug store of R. A. Munafer, passing to tne back part of the store to get a drink of water, took up a small glass-drug-gists’ mortar instead of a tumbler—and drank from it. The mortar contained a tincture of corrosive sublimate and red oxido of zinc. Antidotes being given at once, he may recover. . John Graham, sr., aged 78 years, and residing on his farm, 2){ miles west of Leavenworth, went to his stable about 8 o’clock in the morning to feed his horses. Not returning to the house as soon as usual, his family went in search of him, and about 9 o’clock he was found on the floor of the stable. His sudden death was caused by apoplexy.

Father of Forty-one Children.

from tbs Bssdiof (Psoa.) Hafir. “Yes, it’s so,” Bald the man. “Oh, John,” yon must be mistaken/’ replied his third wife. “Well, I tell you it’s so, I ought to know,” was the emphatic reply of John Heffner, who lives on Maple street, between Chestnut and Spruce, this city. A reporter for the,Eagle had called upon Mr. Heffher, to learn the correct history of his much-talked-about great brood of forty-one children. Heftner is sparingly built, smokes a short pipe, and makes a living in the rag business. He is sixty-five years old, and has a pleasant smile and a cheerful greeting for all friends. The story of the man’s married life, as related by himself, is probably the most remarkable one on record. He was born in Germany in 1815. When 25 years old—lß4o—he married his first wife, who lived eight years. She became the mother of seventeen children in that time, having twins in the first year of their marriage. The next year another pair of twins were bom. Each succeeding year for four years thereafter Mrs. Hellher became the mother of triplets. The seventeenth

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year vu aignalizori by the birth o' only one ahild. Mrs. Heftner died ana was laid away in. the villagi church-yard in Germany. The widower had now a family of seventeen children, the oldest only seven years of age. Three months thereafter a young lady took charge of the children, and in course or time she h* - amethe second Mrs. Heffner. The first bad died in February, ls 4& in February, 1849. this second wife presented Mr. Heffhei with a boy. On Christinas day of ths same year the nineteenth child was added to the Heffaer flock. The family was now larger than any other In that past of the country. Five yean passed on and Mr. Heffaer’s household was increased by the addition of ten more children—a pair of twins being bora every year. There was now a rail, and for three years thereafter only one child was born unto them. In 1864, he came to this country with his family, and the last three children were bora in America. In 1857, his wife died, having been married nine years. He was now the father of thirty-two children, twelve of whom had died, leaving twenty to be taken in charge by a widow whom he married in 1858. .Mrs. Heffaer No. 3 had one child by a previous marriage. She became the mother of nine more children in ten years by single birth. None of the first set of seveteen children survive. Two of the fifteen of the second wife’s children still live and three of the third wife’s nine. In a period of twenty-eight years—from 1840, when he first married, to 1868. the date of the birth of his last child—he became the father of forty-one children. The five who are still living are girls. With the step-child added to the list, forty-two children have called John Heflfaer “father.” The old man has long since forgotten the names of his numerous progeny, and can only recall those born in late yean.

Maud S. in Retirement. Turf. Field and Farm, Dee. 10.

Mr. Bair, the trainer of Maud 8., dropped in upon us Friday last. He had been spending a few days at Harrisburg with old friends, and came to New York for the purpose of seeing Mr. Vanderbilt. His first thought of building a paddock in Chester Park for Maud S. was abandoned. He reasoned that she would be better contented with company, and so she was given the run of a field with Kate Middldton. The first time she was let out she made straight for a small pond, waded in and laid down. Bhe seemed to take great delight in the bath. She and Kate Middleton are very fond of each other and get on very well together. They are given the freadom of the field at 11 o’clock each day, and taken up at 1 o’clock. A groom always watches over them. The shoes of both have been removed, but Maud 8. wears tips. She is kept strong with grain and is in the best of health. Mr. Bair has ordered a light wagon for her, and he says that he will easily beat next year the wagon record of Hopeful. He think she can drive her, rigged In four wheels, in 2-13. He also says he would like to see her matched against St. Julian. He argues that she has as good speed as he has, is a good rater and will step better. On the first of January he will take the young queen up and commence jogging her. He says he made a mistake at Chioago, when she trotted in 2:10 3-4. He should have driven the first quarter in 22 1-2, insead of seconds. Had this l>een done he claims that the half mile would have been trotted in better than 1:04 and that 2-10 would have been beaten. He says that Maud S. is as sound now as she was one year ago. When he first broke her she was inclined to amble but she never paced: and she does not amble uow. He believs that she would tret without toe weights but claims that it would be risky vo leave them oft when starting for a big performance, as the weights are light, four ounces, the strain upon her is not great. Katie Middleton is doing very Well. She has recovered her temper and acts like a sound mare. If she stands up next year Mr. Bair hopes to drive her a very fast mile. She is a mare of wonderful speed. She and Maud S. wil be hooked double some time after the Ist of January. A New York correspondent of the Medical Record writes to that journal that he has lost the practice of many families by aceeeding to the law which compells physicians to report to the Boatd of Health all cases of contatageous diseases. We have never quite discovered the way to reconcile the law with the pledge of secrecy, which is an understood thing between ail physicians and their patients. Every physician on graduating, if he takes the Hippocratic oath, as most of them do, pledgee himself not to reveal the matters confided to him by his patients. Fortunately we are not called upon to come to any practical decision aatowhiehof these laws should have the preference, for our practice does not include the cure of acute contagious diseases.— Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. A man threw a couple or superannuated eggs at an actress in a PhiladelKhia theatre, and he was fined SSOO for is little diversion. This is $3,000 a dozen for eggs, and not. very good eggs at that. We seem to he getting back to war prices.

Guilty of Wrong.

Some people have a fashion of confusing excellent remedies with the large mass of patent medicines, and in this they are guilty of a wrong. There are some advertfsrd remedies fully worth all that is asked for them one at least we know' of— Hop J itto • The writer has hod occasion to use«... Hitters in just such a climate as we have most of the year in Hay Cfty, and has always found them to be first-class md reliable, doing ail that is claimed for them. Tribun

Something About Ice.

Besides the fact that ice is lighter than water, there is another curious thing about it which persons do not know, perhaps—namely, its purity. A lump or ice melted willalwaysbecome purely distilled water. When the early navigators of the Arctic seas got out of water they melted fragments of those vast mountains of ice called icebergs,and were astonished to find that they yielded only fresh water. They thought that they were frozen salt water, not knowing that they were formed on the land and in some way launched into the sea. But if they had been right the result would have been just the same. The fact is, the water In freezing turns out of it all that Is not watter—salt, air, coloring matter, and all impurities. Frozen sea water makes fresh water lee. If you freeze a basin of indigo water, it will make It as pure as that made of pure rain water. When the cold is very midden these foreign matters have no time to eecape, either by rising or sinking,and are thus entangled with the ice, but ao not form any part of it.

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KOMIC KUTTINGS.

Floating Ain—Boat riding. • Puck: Mr. Mrs. Langtry is here. Said he: “Let us be one.” And she was won. A strain of music—tightening the strings of a violin. New York News: A finished performer—the dead actor. A man may be as sturdy as an oak and still be Wooden headed. “Come! come! rest on this bosom,” as the shirt said to the flatirou. Beneath the mistletoe an old girl always stands Arm. She's a veteran. People so dislike slippery sidewalks that they’re always sitting down on them. ♦ New Orleans Picayune: Darn the stockings that catches no Christmas present. When an Irishman wants to give his landlord a jacketing, he calls it boy coating him. Pressed corned beef, in a cultured family, goes a deal farther than pressed autumn leaves. The young man who was kicked out of his girl’s house very properly styled her father a free hooter. Shipwrecked mariners on the English coast ought to be able to get something to eat out of the chops of the channel. A Georgia man named his mule Lotta, and the next day it kicked a wagon in seventeen different directions at once. An Ohio man has taken the smallpox from a pet pig. When once this disease gets into a family it is pretty sure to go through it. A little Florida boy tamed an alligator, and the ugly reptile learned to like the little fellow—not however, until the little fellow was all gone. The news from South Africa seems to indicate a descent on some editorial sanctum. The dispatch says “the Boers are assembling in large numbers.” These sausages are hardly up to the mark?” Waiter^—“They ain’t eh? Well did you expect Italian greyhound and thoroughbred Scotch terrier for two bits ?” A married man in Newburg has invented an India rubber rolling pin that wilt roll out the dough very evenly and yet bend to the head when it dikes. These cold mornings are favorable .'or abbreviated salutations.. • The latest is: “Good morn” “Morn.” Horn thismom?” “Nohorn.” “Good norn.” Powder and gloves are the last thing i >ut on a girl going to a party.— Bazar. You are not going to get us to ask vvhatis the first, if we never find out. desides, we dou’t want to know. An inquiring man thrust his fingers into a horse’s mouth to see how many ceth it had and the horse closed its mouth to see how many fingers the man had. The curiosity of each was ully satisfied. The ice crop is growing quite satisfactorily, ana with careful weeding md an occasional running between the tows with the cultivator, it will be ready to pick some time in the latter part of January. Said a Harlem school teacher: “If [ have ten apples and give you five 5 md your big brother five, what will be .eft?’’ “I’ll be left.” responded ttie /ounger brother, ‘‘for he will get iway with all of them.” Cambridge is proud es a young wonan so innocent and pure-minded hat she remarked to her intended the lay previous to their marriage: “Now iiina! I wou’t have a baby brought into the house.” “Don’t you find that it hurts your lawn to let yeur children play on it?” asked a friend of a suburban, the other day. “Yes,” answered the gentleman addressed; “but it doesn’t hurt the children.” ■ . In the me Notre Dame de Nazarete, Paris, is the following curious sign: “Bureau of Reconciliations.— Madame Toumier undertakes to act as intermediary between angry spouses, also for prodigal children.’’ » “Is that the way God makes men ?” asked a small boy, looking at a skeleton, yesterday. “It is the way he made me.” said Sarah Bernhardt, indignantly—rand the small boy at once became a citizen of Ohio. Wishing to pay his friend a compliment, a gentleman remarked: “I hear you havo a very industrious wife.” “Yes,” replied the friend, with a melancholy smile, “she is never idle. She always finds something for me to do.” ‘ “Very intellectual boy, that of yours. Mr. Gorging; I should like to examine his head.” Proud father—- “ Johnny, what bumps have you got?” “I’ve the bump that Billy Hopkins gave me on the nose, but I’m laying for him, father.” * * The wife of a man living on Galveston avenue read out loud in the morning at the breakfast table that a Baltimore man had thrown a cup at his wife and killed the infant in her arms. “You don’t say!” he ejaculated, “you must be oareftil not to lend the neighbors any of our new china set.” Three little boys, on a Sunday, were stopped on the street by an elderly gentleman, who, perceiving that they had bats and balls with them, asked one of the number this question: “Roy, can you t§Jl me where all naughty boys go to who play ball on Sunday?” “Over back of Johnson's dam!” the youngster replied. The sawdust of a mill at Victor!* Harbor is burned in a kiln eighty feet high made of boiler iron. Carriers, on an endless chain, convey the refuse to a door forty feet from the ground and dump it into the fire within. The other day an employe named Payne, who looks after the carriers, got cn one of them to go to his place at the door above. Everything went all right until he got close to the doors, when he found that his feet were caught and he was unable to extricate himself, and that he was gradually going to meet a sure and horrible death. He managed to attract the attention of some of his companions, who stopped the machinry just as he was entering the flrev furnace. He was* severely scorched before he was rescued from his perilous position. Cablyle, who is going down to the grave gradually but easily, only regreats that he eannot do more work before he goes. To a recent visitor to his home He said, “Ah! I eannot work much more, and that of all grieves me before going.” Referring tohisprobable death, fie said: “lam not ill: I never was ill—l’m only going—going —going.” ■ '