Miscellaneous

Total coinage of tbe United States inints during 1880: Gold, $2,383,279; silver, $27,4W,ivD During 1.SS0 tliere werelanded n Casüe Garden Ü20.SOÍ5 immigrante. Loekport, N. Y., has liad a terribly dentructive lire. Tlio Hodge opera house, the finost in tbe state outside of New York city, and the mammoth Gargling oil bulldlngB were destroyed. The buildings were constructed about Í0 yeareago. Loss $300,000; insurance 160,000. About 100 tenants, business establishment aud lawyers were turned into the streeta. Four fireineu were seriously injured, and one tenant narrowly escaped suliocation. The pews and aisle seats in Plymoutb church BrooiJiij, reattd tuis year for $41,302. Tbe United Statep Electric Ligbtning ompany will tiave 2,000 lamps in operation in New York by February 1, at prices lower than gas. A locomotivo broke lurough tlie ice bridge at Quebec and rank in 2." feut of water. The enrand firemea heard tbe ice crack and juiniitidoff intiiue. The president has sent to the senate the nouiination of Nathan (off, of West Virginia, for sccretary of the navy. The Strafford county poor house at Dover, N. HL, burned Kriday uioming; ltVO persons were in the building, 13 of whom perisbed in the HaineB. The "quay side line" is the name of a uew lino of freight steamers from New York to Newcastlupou-Tyne, England. Four meu were killed and three others injured by an explosión at the smelting works and refinery of Edward lialdbach & Bons, on Elver street, Newark, N. Y. A boiler explosión at Alienten, Pa_ killed nlne employés and injured others. The Dundee water power and land compauy's caual at Passaic buret, doing daniace to ihe amount of f60,000. It will stop the Passaic ral weeks aud throw huudredsout of employment H(in. Eugeno Hale was unanimously nomid for enator by the Maine Republican leKislativu caucus. The Democratie caucus of the Nevada leglslature nouimated Col. Fair for United States senator. "Tnitb" uow charges Stanley Huntley with lemn forgr of tlie Morey letter. Farragnt statue will be unveiled in April at Wasliiugtoq. The price of seatsin tlie New York stock exchan't: lias advanced to $30,000. The Baptists in Brooklyp intend building a churcli to rival Spurgeon's famous tabernacle in Londüii. Corneüe llinwood, a yonng and wea'tfay planter of St Kitts, West lndies, killed himselt in Biooklyn. i-'irty eoal barges were ost in the Ohlo river, near Cindnnati, by tbe bnaUss ice. The boato were valned :u 1,000 each. Anothur culU wave passed over tbe western ■tatee. Time far nearly 7,000 bilis have been introi in the house aud placed on the cali . Both the house aud senate calendar are full. Two (eet ut bnow b:is fiülen, whlch '.dded to the two feet oii the ground, uiakes fourfeet on t'iHlaml. Work on the enlargement of the Weiland can:u Bhed f orward vigorously, and it is e: .i be completed by midsuiiiine.r The coit) pietion of tiu great work will be e iulluenca on the carryin trade oC tiie country. The. fuh villaje ou the ice in Saginaw hay is in fui uro are already I2.j iianties from X' J to 12 miles out from ttie shore. i llarrison was unanimonsly uoinluated for (Jnited States senator by tho ltepubüoans 0Í the Indiana ietfUlature.