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NEWS OF THE WEEK. The East. Eight inches of snow fell in Delaware county, N. Y., on the 7th inst. Another bank defalcation is reported-that of John W. Pierce, Cashier of the Merchants' National, of Lowell, Mass., whose irregularties" will reach some $50,000. Speculation and fast living, of course. Charlestown, Brookline, Brighton and West Roxbury have voted in favor of annexation to Boston. By these acquisitions that city gains 50,000 population. Pittsburgh manufacturers have agreed to pay their employes half their weekly wages, and credit them with the remainder until financial matters look up, instead of discharging one-half of their hands. The trial of Stokes, for the murder of Fisk, commenced at New York on the 9th inst. The debt of New York city and county, which are practically the same, is $136,208,961.55, on which $6,354,009.17 is payable in interest. Vice-President Wilson's health is almost completely restored. A number of Pennsylvania iron mills have been compelled to suspend operations for the present. The workmen in the collieries in the vicinity of Mount Carmel, Pa., are now paid in gold. A press shooting-match came off last week at the Creedmoor grounds, New York, in which there were twenty-three entries. Gen. Hawley, of Hartford, won the first prize; Clark, of the New York News, the second L. C. Bruce, of the Turf, Field and Farm, the third Tnomas Lloyd, of Harper's Weekly, the fourth Charles G. Shanks, of the New York Tribune, the fifth: and J. K. McIntyre, of the Brooklyn Eagle, the sixth prize. In New York, on the 10th inst., gold was quoted at 1081, and silver 104 to 108. Ex-City Treasurer Sprague. of Brooklyn, who has been indicted for embezzlement, denies having defrauded the city out of a cent. He holds Rodman, his deputy, responsible for all the stealings. A. E. Phillips, formerly Consul to Santiago, committed suicide in New York, last week, by cutting his throat. Eighty-six horses were burned to death in Boston, last week, by the burning of Martin Hays' livery-stable. A young son of Hon. M. D. Leggett, Commissioner of Patents, was recently killed by falling from a cliff, near Ithaca, N. Y. The West. The Third National Bank of Chicago, which suspended during the late financial unpleasantness, has resumed business. The survivors of Capt. Jack's tribe have been sent to Fort Russell, Wyoming Territory. Ex-Congressman John Law, of Evansville, Ind., is dead, aged 77. Mrs. Horton, of Van Wert, O., the other day left her infant in a cradle near the fireplace, and went out to witness a circus procession. When she returned her child was burned to crisp. The Union National Bank of St. Louis has gone into liquidation. A farmer named William H. Brown, while eating his dinner at a Fort Wayne hotel, the other day, was choked to death by a piece of meat which lodged in his throat. The Constitutional Convention of Michigan has declined to admit the eligibility of women to any public office whatever, excluding them even from the school boards. Wisconsin has 225 Granges. A colored man named Price has sued the school directors of a district in Morgan county, Ill., for $10,000 damages, because they refused to admit his children into the school. Chicago's death-roll for August was 1,423; for September, 1,008. The assessments made by the State Board of Equalization on the capital stock of Illinois corporations foot up as follows: Railroads, $62,608,747; telegraph companies, 81,238,394 all other corporationa $19,658,068 total, $83.505,209. The railroads of the State have been assessed, in all, $131,765,727. The aggreagte assessment of the property in the State, real and personal, railroads, capital stock, and everything, amounts to $1,339,882,251 Nearly 75,000 people visited the Chicago Exposition on the 9th inst. Miss Reeves, a young seamstress of Independence, Iowa, took a dose of cold poison the other day, and now sleeps beneath the cold sod. The School Board of Springfield, Ill., has decided that white and colored children shall be admitted to the public schools on equal terms. The conference at Fort Sill has resulted in releasing Satanta and Big Tree, on condition that the savages represented would agree to abstain from murdering and robbing white settlers. The Michigan Constitutional Convention has reconsidered its former action, and voted to make women eligible to school offices. It has also stricken from the draft of the new Constitution the prohibitions upon fictitious or watered stock by corporations. Advices from Washington Territory state that there is very little activity on the line of the Northern Pacific. The surveying and grading on the town site of Tacoma have been suspended, and all employes, except those indispensably required, have been discharged. Two passengers on the Mississippi steamer Muscatine engaged in a savage fight, recently, and in the struggle both went overboard and were drowned. A young son of Isaac Ditman, of Auburn, Ind., while out nutting, a few days ago, fell from a tree and was instantly killed. The National Crop Reporter says reports from Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, and Ohio confirm the estimated falling-off in the Irish potato crop in the States named, which, in 1870, produced over 42,000,000 bushels. The loss at the given rate would aggregate over 16,000,000 bushels.
