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Day
23
Month
December
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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Jndge Wm. B. Wood has been nominated to sncceed Justice Stong on the bench of tbe United States supreine court. Tbe nomicatioDB of Gen. Hazen to be chief elgual officer and of Gen. Miles as brigadier general have been unaniniously confirmed. There pass over the N. Y. Central daily 60 freight trains for the east of 88 cars each, a total of 1,900 cars. For the west, 40 trains of 45 cars per day, a total of 1,800 cars. For a monUi, going east, 67,000 loaded cars; for the weet, 64,000 cars; a grand total of 111,000 car for a month. The aunual report of Joseph Nimmo,jr.,chief of the bureau of statistics on the Corelgn commerce of the United States, is completed. In regard to our export trade Mr. Nimuio says that the five leadinü mueles of export during the year ended June 30, lhbO, were as follows: Bread and breadstufls, 9288,086,885; r-otton unmanufactured, $211,5!J5,tU5: provisión, $127,O43,2Í; mineral oils, f8618,66; tobáceo and manufactures tbereof, 18,442,274. The Dnited States he says, 6urp;issed every otlifr country in the magnitude of its exporte, Ixrth of breadstufls and prorisions, and it is maintained that the maiket for Ameiiian breadstutfs and provisions in Europe can be tstill further extended. A marked decline in the proportion of commodities carried iu Americaii reesels lias taken place during the past year, tbe falliní off Imv ing been trom 23 per cent. in lhTU to 17. ö pe cent in 1880. The Western Union Telegraph coinpany announces a reduction in rates of tolla averaging about 15 per cent. Sara Bernhardt narrowly escaped serious injury at lioston in the. jilay of 'Vainille." IHiring the last act, while slie was ijioft upon a lounge, a large uiantlepiece, on which were placed the glasses, etc, Bupposed to contaiu ter medicine, begau to tutter. The audience saw the immense danger of the actreea, and suppressed acclamatious ran tbroughout the house. This probalily attracted Mis Bernhardt's alteution to the matter, aud slic quick ly left her danueroos position, jiist aslhe inautel feil witli a wMi. The cnrtatn was lo the stage cleared of the debrls, and the ileat scène completed, minus the mantel. The re ceipts in Itoston for the first nine performance are $84,435. A serious fire, attended by a heavy loss o life, occurred at Buflalo, December 17. Th fire was discovercd in the third story of th immense five-story building, oceupied h Birge & Sonsv wall paper innmi facturera About 150 men aml boys were employed at tb Eresenttime. The business demandlng eztr elp, all of the membeia were ;it wenk, and u lesa thau 20 minutes ufter the alarm was given the building was a man of Barnes. The walls crumbled and feil and prohably buried 20 to 80 of the employés. The dours to the fooms were huug to swing in aud each had a ■.; rlOHÍng Umi:, tl.rivb} retardlug egresa f Uie occnpant le building w:ih without file escapee f kim!. The terrified workmen juuipwi trúfame Windows, and man; or thwn e onped with bmken bouee, iiud bruised boiflea. Tbose Ib Hid upper stories, imalili! to escape, appcared for a moment at the Windows and then sank liack siitliii'n inl in the Buioke nuil Humes. Tlir l:irtre fivo atoiy warehousc occupieil by ]i' !■ iiptTjiilvi' si)vi' rompany, Cleveland, at the east end of the fikductjWas entlrely Imrned out at au early bom Dec 17, tbo loss to the partios oonct'nifil lieiiii; not les than 100,UOÖ. Th ttw is belleved to baw heen tnoendlary. A iiumlier of persons were injured and sevUled by the burulng of RirRi' ï Sons' wall paper inaiuifactory at Buffalo on Kriday. Polygam; Lsepreading bato [dabo. A HlUsdale mathematldan has fiíjiircd oui the ratio oï Uie electoral vote to the popular rote Id eaoh state, at the late election, and his talile shows souie curinus resulta. Kansas, for instance, lias míe electoral vote íor every 40,211 rotara while Nevada has an electoral vote for each í,220 voters; in other words, oue vote n Nevado counta for nearly a iiuich as íix votes in Kansas. The ratio iü Michigan WW oue electoral vote foreverj '31, S'sS voters. Had the ratio been uniform turough the country Michigan would have had 14 instead ol II v.iti-s in Ihe eleotOtal OOUege. As judge Cooley remarks in his new work: "Of the checks in American governinent souie have proved wholly illusory. Tliis is emphatically true of tbe electoral college." The electoral certificaos from every state in the l nion have heen received hy tlie vice president. lvlison lias oiganlzed his electric light compauy with a capital of f 1,000,000. President Hayes has requested Gen. Miles and ('rook. Mr. Williaui Stickney of Washington, and Mr. Walter Allen of Newton, Mass., to procoed to tlio Indian territory to investicate the complaiiite made about the treatment of the l'oucas. Tlie United States supreme court bas decided tbal a stockholder of an insolvent bank can not he compelled to pay more than his proporoü of the loss to make up for the failure of tht-r stockliolders to pay tlieir proportions. Jones & McDonald of Chicago, grain dealers, liled for $B00,UU0. A letter from Gov. Foster, declining to be candidato for the United States seuate, is lublished. Mts. Kate Chase Spraeue, wife of Ex-goy. prague of Hhode Island, has applied for a diorce. In her petitions she alleges adnltery u thci part of her bunband with nve different omen, uentioning their naines, at dates angiug from 1864 to 1870, and with "divers :tu'r lewd women, whose mimes are not tnowu to your petltiouer," in the years beween 1868 to 1X78. She also charges him with ross cruelty to herself, in attenipting, while rnnk, to throw her from an upper-story winow, and, atauothertime, laying hands on her nd tlireatonini; to kill her; refusin?,slnce 1S79 o próvido necessities for the suhsistence of the amily; hreaking np the furniture in the nitjlit nieand making a bonfire of it; applying to ie petitioner the vilest and most opprobrious pithets; attemptiug to have criminal intimacy 'ith servan ts and guests in the houee; and ther misconduct. Kdison's electric light is being introduced iuto ff York city. Edison lainps are now being ïade at the rate of 100 a day, but next niontii will be made at the rate of 1,000 per day. They ast six tnonths and cost 85 cents each. The ompany propose to give light to consumere at a rate of 1.50 to $1.75 per 1,000 feet. Jay tíould now has control of the entíre sys■íii of railroads iu the west. Two tramps named Metler belng given tielter for tbe night in young Mr. Brown's cottage in Honro county, Miss., rob tbe house orine the night and set fire to it, burning to fatli Broivn. liis wifo aud nfant chíld. One f the fifiids is caught aud burued alive by the neighburs. A heayy snow storm is reported in the east i, storm at Long Branch de.-troyed 80 feet of tie graat ocean pier. The great suit of the United States against alhu B. Piug8, kid glove importer, New York, or uudervaluation of iinports, on which the foveniment claimed $t20,000, has beendecided n favor of tl; defendant Dakota is knocking at the door of congreai or aihnisslon as a state. She claiuis only one iuiHlr"d thuusand inhabitauts witiiin the pro osed state liinits, whereas the necessary popïlation for a representative district under the new census wlll probably be at least 150,000. The graud encampuieut of Odd Fellows s in n called sessiqn at Colinnbus, (., to receive inatructions in the revised work of tho order. One hundredand eighty-three district deputies are present. Tbe public debt of Canada has iucreased $t),5(X),UO0 during the fiscal yeRr ending the 80th of June, 1S80.

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