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31
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December
Year
1875
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A HBX at Spencer, Umi., lant week, doBtroyed $100,000 worth of property Arclibia'.iop Wood, of rhüadelphia, ha.s eauaed to be read in tho churcheH of the anthnioitc región in Pennaylvania an arehiepiscopal circular formilly excommuuicatitig the society of Molly Maguire. A shocking disaster, by whieh Bcvcral peoplo lost their lives, and many othera were badly maimxl, ia reportcd from Bontou. A largo gas main running undor Federal fitreet exploded at 7 o'clock in the evening, teoring up the pavement for a distanoe of 150 feet or more. Tho Btreet was througed with people at tho time, and many were bui ied under the debrie. About a dozen persono were killed, and some nftecn eeriouely iujured. . . .President Grant dined with tlie New England Society iu New York, on Foi-efathers' Day Gov. Hartranft bas grauted pardona to Xingo Parks, and Hnveral of the minciv ooüvicted with him in Clearfleld County, Pa The Landing of the Pilgrima was commemoratcd in varioua place, on the 22d uit., by the sons of New England. . . .Harvard and Yale Colleges havo both withdrawn from the National liowing Apsociution of American Colleges. .. .The Bank of Brandywine, West Chester, Pa. , haa suspended. The liabilities of the Providence (R. I.) Tool Company, which recently failed, aro ntated at $2,783,000; asiseta, $1,145,000. Crcditors have granted an extenaion, and the bueinesa of the company will go ou without interruption. Henry C. Bowen aued the Brooldyn Eagle for libel, claimiug $100,000 damagea. The case haa just beeu tried, the jury awarding him $1,000. A short time ago Leodica Fredenburgh, and Albert Fredenburgb, her son, were coudemned to be executed at Heskimer, N. Y., Dec. 31, for the murder of Orlo Davis, an nged crippl. Tuey were committed on the evideuce of a young married daughter of Albert Fredenburgli. A day or two befcre the day set for their execution thedaughter confessed tliat she testitied falsely on the trial; that she aud hor grandmother committed tho murder, oud that lier father had nothing to do witü it. . . .Patrick Gallicher, of Providence, R. I., getting drunk on Christmas niffhf, attempted to striko his wife, but alruek his infant child killing it hiBtantly The ninety-eighth anniversary of the battle of Trenton, which occurred Dec. 2G, 1777, was celebrated with considerable apint at Trenton, N. J., on the 26th uit The Hiuiaon River Sugar Refinery. at Haatings, N. Y., was burned last week. Loss, $500,000 A Mutual Council ia to be called by PJymouth Chureh and Mr. Moulton to coufjder the two questiona aubmitted by that lady - the sufficiency and validity of the reaaena of the chureh for dropping her name from the roll ; and the auliiciency and validity of Mrs. Moulton's reaaous fur abstaining ao long from the services and sacramenta of the chm THE WEST. Two more of the Milwaukee whiaky ring- 'John S. Taft and Philip Weimar- have been convicted and senteneed to heavy finea and impriaonment George Reynolda haa been eouvicted at Salt Lake City of polygamy, and Henteuced to two years' imprisonmeut and to pay a fine of f500 St. Louis has just dedicated her new and splendid Chamber of Commerce. Those terrible Younger brothers are shooting around in Missouri again. They were recently teen in St. Clair Couuty, going north. It is believed they had a Land in the late expresa robbery near St. Louis D.B. Carson, formerly of Sioux City, Iowa, and W. Jackson, of Covington, recently met a üorriblo death near San Juan, Cal. They were caught, while deBcending a mountain, in an avalanche of snow, and carried down the mountain a dietance of 1,500 feet, and were dead wlieu taken out. The trial of W. W. Embry for Bhooting Col. D. R. Anthony, at Loavenworlh, Kan., has resuited in a verdict of acquittal. St. Louis celebrated Christmas iu a lively manner. In a flght between some boys, one shot the other in the mouth. In a domestic row a woman ehopped up a man with a hatchet. Another boy waa stabbed in the knee by a bootbiack. Two women got on a Chri&tmas drunk, and one slashed the other with a razor. The Hat of festivitiea closes with another domestic affray, iu which one mau beats another with a club almost to death Hon. William A. Richardson, a leading Democratie politiciau of Illinois, and an ex-United States Senator, died at his home in Quincy, on the 27th uit. , aged 64. Ilis diseaso waa paralyais. THE SOUTH. A HOKitir.LE niaasacre is reported near Atoka, in the Indian Nation. The bodies of four perBons were found burned on the prairie, two of whom were females. Two were buruod bevond recognition. The others were whilea." A pony, with a lady'a side-saddlo, a dog, aud a gun. were found near. They had all been shot. Three men. seen riding'niiie miles f rom the spot, are supposed to have done the shooting. The prairies were fired to destroy the Í rail. Heavv raius and damaging floods are reported throughout Southern and Western ïexas. . . . . Bichmoud, Va., and the surrounding region exporieneed a violent earthquake shock on the night of Dec. 22, caueing mueh alarm. Within the past week the revenue oföcerrf have captured fifteen illicit dmtillers, destroyed ten stills, and secured 10,000 gallons of sour mash, in the neighborbood of Greonsboro, 8. C Extensive arrangement are being made for the Mardi Gras festival ia New Orleaus and other Southern cities. Woodwaed, the dishonest School Trastee of Suelby County, Tenn., who some time ago embeüzled 8160,000 of the school fund, has been an-ested in San Francisco and taken back to Mcmphis for trial. POLITICAL. TiiEchairmanships of the several committees of the lower house of Congrens, we find by examinaüon, are apportioned among the soveral States as f ollows : BOUJHERN STATE. Virginia 3 Georgia n Mi88iíippi 1 Alábanla .. . Kentucky 4 Al-kansas WcBt Virgtni 1 Louisiana Teuuessee 2 North Carolina 2 Total ig westkbn' statfs. Illinois 4IIncliana ■! Ohio 5 _ Missouri e Total 17 NOETHEBN STATES. Pcnusjlvania 7 N.wYcrk L Marylancl -".[ ..'.'.'. '.','.'.'.'. 1 Total BASTEES STATES. None. In the !ait Congres3 the Easteru States had seven ehairmen. A Washington dispatch Btates that Pincli back has givcn up bis fight and will reeigu before tho Louiaiana Legislatura adjourns, in ordor that a succeseor may bo elected. Hpeakeu Kekk passed the holidays with a friend in Iowa The St. Louis polio have comnieueed a vigorons war against the poïcy hops of that city. WASHINGTON. Southern and Southwostern membeis dolare their purpose to oppose any bül locatiug the new mint at Indiauapolis or Si. Louia, mile8 an appropriation ia mpde to reopen the mint at New Orleans for coinage purposes The Chicago Tribum's Washington correspondent Bays the membei-s are anxiou.s for a Hliort Be8siou of Congress, and that there is talk of adjouming about the lst of May. Thk policy of the House Committec on Appropriations. aa outlined in the Washington dispatches, contemplatesareduciionof .440,000,000 in the public expenditures during the eusuiu" fiscal year. The War and Navy Departmcnts are to be reduced Sflü.000,000 eacb, tlie former by reduction of the army to a maximum of 15,000 men, and tlie navy byselling all but lirstclass war vessels Ilie "Granger" cases, involving the question of the right of States to regúlate the carrying rates of railroadx, will be further argued before the Supreme Court on the llth of Jauuary. (an. Babcock returned to Washington la-it wsok. It ia etated that the President iirmly j b3lieves in his innocence, and has no doubt I that the fortbcoming trial will fully vindícate his secretary. . . . The Chicago Ttme Waehington correspondent telegrapha that "the Gov.'.rnment people are gettiug ready for a good hard fight in Ohiflftge. They regard the whiskv men of that city as more powerful Hociallv and finaneially, t!an those of St. Louis. They know also that Chicago men in a íight have better t'tayiug ijualitiert, and it will not bo reasouable to expect tbat there will be auy pleading guilty in advance of trials, as there lius been in St. Louis. Tlie men of Chicago are bauded togetlicr for a dsaperate resistanoe, aud will uae every meanH to dêfeat the Government." The Vwll opena in Chicago on the llth of Jauuary. Tbcre are whispere in the air that soine stal tling disdOHures ai'e in store for the public, compafefl with which tlie St. IiOuis develotmients wül f all into inoignifleance Informatici! has been filed with the authorities ht WlflUirt u tl;at Spauish agente have violattd the iientrality law by enlisting Italiaus mNewïorklor service in Spanish regimeuts ia ("iiba. llio matter ia to bc investigated. A dei.koation of Texans recently called upou Preeidont Graut to urge him to take some off ective meanuicH to proteot the IUo Grande fronticr f rom Mexiuan dppredatious. The President, in roply, referred to the proposed reducüoii of tlie army, and raid that the present forco waa not sufficieut to qecupy al the territory needing protection; and, if tho army ia reduoed, it will be ïiecerfsary to withdraw troop from Territories where new mines are about to bo openeii, and where new comerá need protoction. A greater f orce on the lüo Grande, he said, is out of the queation. The ComptroHer of the Currency has ealled uponthe National Lanka f or thoir reporta showing their condition et tlie cloao of business en Friday, the 17th of Decomber. (KNBIIAL. It has been discovercd that Thompson, the dynamite demon, wlio attempted to blow up a steamer at Bremerhaven, once lived in St. Louis. The information may be of aerviee in aaKiHting the offort to aacertain how it was poewible for a human mind to hatch out the enormous sehenie which led to tho Mosel exploaion. At a recent moetiug of coal merchants in Pittsburgh, who are iutereated in tho improvenient of the Ohio River, a report was read by a committee appointed at a former meeting, in which it was eet forth that the best method of improving the Ohio would be to keep it noor to it'i unobtructed normal cond tion; to remove the wrecks, suags and other impedimenta; to place winir-danis where the water spreads too much, and at the head of some of tho islauda, to turn tho wator and iuercase the depüi in the channel side; and to require channel spans of 400 feet length in all bridgoiJ. There bas been received in Philadelphia a formal aeeeptanee by Pope Pius IX. of au iuvitation by the Oentennial authorities requesting hia Holmess to give lus recognición to the enterpriee by contribution to the Exposition works of art from the galleries of the Vatican or from the workahope over which he has control. The letters of the Pope are couched in the warmest terms of l'riendsliip for the United States. . . .The Philadelphia partiea who made the recent phipmont of fresh beef to Europe have reeeived word that it reached Liverpool in good condition. A nother Bbipment has einco been made Tke Dominion Government have under coneideration tho subject of extending the proviaions of tlie extradition treaty, so as to prevent crimináis within Canada or the United States from taking advantage of the facilities of escape aff orded by a long line of boundary. The Mark Lnne Express reports the European breadstuffs market dnll and deelining. .... The Secretary of the Centennial Commission bas reeeived a letter announeing that the editors of Indiana, with their wives, numberiog in all about 200 persons, will visit Philadelphia about the 16th of January, for the pulpóse of the Centenuial buildings Suasti B. Anthony reí uses to go to Brooklyn to testify in the Loaáer pa-jury case. FOUEIGN. Mount Vesüvius is again n a átate of eruption Henry Wainwright, who waa convicted of the murdor of Harriet Lanc, in Whitechapel road, London, was hanged at Newgate on the 21st of December. He confessed iiis crime. Gen. Jovellar succeeds Valmaseda &s Captain-General of Cuba The BteauiBhip Louisiana, from the West Indies, rccoutly sauk in the Gironde river, near Bordeaux, Franco, after a colusión, and sixteen persons were drowned, iucluding the Captaiu. . .. A late dispatch from Berlin says it is now ascertained that the total number killed by tho exploeion at Bremerhaveii ia 128, and of the wounded 56: that 20 of the injured are hopelessly maimed, and that there are 5G widows and 135 orphans of victims of the disaster, for the benent of whom it is proposed to raise a subacription of $75,000. From a Shanghai dispateh it would seem that the Chinese Government, not content witli sending one Minister to represent it in this country, as other and less pretentious nations are, haa appointed two, and their namea are Cheu Lang Pin and Ynng Heng The Euglish echool-shlp Goliath was recentiy burned at Graves9ud. Twenty boys lost their lives by the disaster. . . . Spain haa decided to send more reinforcements to Cuba. Tweed is reported tobe in Havana The Sultan of Turkey is spending all his available cash in hastily arming his force3 on sea and land The Prince of Wales was at Calcutta at last accounts, where lio liad a magnificent reception .... A serious revolution is in progress in Señora, Northern Mexico, and anarchv reigns supreme. A cable dispatch announces tho death of Earl Stanhope, the English historian and essayist, aged 70 years Ex-President Thiers has consented to stand f or eleotion as a Senator in the new branch of the Frenoh Legislature. A Vienua diapatch eays that Turkey has sent a circular to the Powers pledging herself to the execution of the reforms proraiued by the Sultan ltuasia, it ie said, v. il! shortly annex the whole of Khokaud Late advieea from Abyssinia state that a forcé of 2,000 Egyptian troops sent by the Khedive to eubjugate the Abyssimans were drtwn into ambush and nearly every man slaoghtered. The bodies of the ofticera were literally liacked tp piecea and their heads stnck on apeara and tlirown to the wild beasta. The Khcdive wifl eend a forco of 12.000 men, accompaniad by all the American officcre, to avtnge tho maaaacro. The work of reistoring the Column Vendóme, in Paris, destroyed by the Communiste, was completed on tho 27thult., and the etatue of Napoleon was replaced on the top of the column, ko public ceremonies attendad the proceedings A Christmas gathering in the village of Hallikon, Switzcrland, was overtaken by a fearful calamity. The festivities were being held in a echool house, when the flooring gaTe w, and 80 peraons were killed and 50 wounded Advices from the aeat of war in Herzegovina report a great battle at Nitehitza, las-tin nearly all diy. Fifteen thousand troops were engaged. The Turkiah forcea c'aim a deciaivo victory. The fighting on both sides was desperate, and the loases were severe. .... Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, is down with the meaBles.

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