Fires

Milwai'krb, Dee. 31. On Saturday night a fire broke out in tiie Lake Michigan Mills, owned by Nichols, Britt & Co. The building aud contente, consisting of fice hunded barrels of flour and seven thousand bushels of wlieat, wore dostroyed. Los $35.000 ; iusured for $20,000 The flamea coramuniented to the warohouse occupied by Collius & Andre, destroying the building, valued at $15,000 ; insurauce not aecer tained. At 2 o'clook on Saturday morning another fire broke out iu the building eornsr of Huron aud East Water streets, ooeupied by city offices. Loss on building 850,000 ; fully insured. George Deyer & Co.'s saddlery and harnees establishmeut was consumod. Loss 840,000 : insured for 80,000. All the record9 and valuable documanU deposited in the City Clerk's office were destroyed. We are unable to asoertain the los to the eity until the safes, which coutaiu two huudred thousand dollar ia chattel naortgagas, are taken froin the ruina. Second Dispatch. - It has been ascertained that the two hundred tbousaud dollars in bouda aud mortgages were not kept in the safe, and are consequently destroyed. Five persons are missing. It is fuared they ar buritíd. Esertious are being made to fiad the bodies, but the heat will uot peruiit rauch progress. Boston. l)eo. 31. The Orthodox Chureh at South Bramtree was destroyed by fire last night.- Loss $7,000 ; no iiiHurance. flÊf A blooming youn; widow, living in one of the southern States whieh is trongly iu favor of seoession, sends word, through a lady friend, to a spry widower 'up North," but who is not in very robust health at present, that "she is for unión." To which he replied, "And so am T, but duo regard must be had f'ir the eonetitiHion,"'