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NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States. The Vermont Greenbackers met in convention at St. Albans, nominated a ticket and adopted & platform in conformity with the principles of the party. Another elevated railroad-the New York Elevated Railroad, running along the East side of the city-has been opened to travel in New York. The jury looking into the murder of Policeman Smith, of Jersey City, N. J., brought in a verdict accusing Mrs. Smith of the crime, assisted by some unknown accomplice. Considerable excitement was caused at Readville, Mass., by the mysterious sickness of several of the operatives in a curled hair factory, two years ago, when three persons are said to have died from & painful disease, thought to be blood poisoning, from the hair of diseased animals, principally Siberian horses, many of which died from a pecular malady. A few days ago another operative died, and one other dangerously sick both evidently cases of the disease of two years ago. The annual meeting of the National Agricultural congress opened at New Haven, Conn., delegates from all parts of the country being present. They were welcomed by Prof. W. H. Brewer, of Yale College, and B. C. Yancey, of Georgia, responded. President P. T. James, of Atlanta, delivered an address on the value of scientific education to the farmers, and several other papers of interest to agriculturists were read. The Connecticut Prohibitionists, in convention at Saybrook, nominated a ticket headed by Jesse G. Baldwin for governor. At an auction sale of 50,000 tons of coal in New York a slight advance in prices over those of a month previous was obtained. About sixty paper makers from all parts of the Union met in Saratoga, N. Y., in response to a call for a convention to take action looking to relief from lower prices and over production. There are 960 milis in the United States, and it is asserted that 400 would be sufficient to supply the demand. The New Jersey Greenback party convened at Elizabeth. Members of the State conmmittee were elected and a platform adopted demanding that the greenback dollar be made a full legal tender for all debts; that all bonds be immediately paid strictly in accordance with the original contract and the issuance of further bonds be prohibited that the resumption act and national banking act be repealed that taxation of property be equal, Chinese labor be prohibited as well as competing prison labor, that eight hours constitute a legal day's work, ctc. Western and Southern States, Four men were killed by an explosion in the powder mills near Negaunee, Mich. The Masonic Savings and Loan bank, of San Francisco has closed its doors to depositors. Judge John A. Ingalls, author of the South Carolina ordinance of secession, died in Baltimore, the other day, aged sixty-five years. At Lower Boulder Valley Mountain. Montana, a man named Jackson shot and killed his wife, from whom he had been separated for some time, after which he blew his own brains out. Secretary Sherman made a speech at Toledo, Ohio, on the financial questions of the day. There were forty five petitions in bankruptcy recently. filed in the Chicago district during two days Portions of Iowa and Dakota have been visie ted by a hurricane which prostrated many buildings, killed a number of horses and did other severe damage to property. During the storm immense hailstones fell, some of th m nearly five inches in circumference. Near r Reinbeck, Iowa, one man was kilied by a falle ing barn and another by lightning. r The Conservatives of the third Virginia congressional district have nominated General n Joseph E. Johnston for Congress. Two coaches of an excursion train jumped the track near Lockwood, Mich., and rolled down an embankment. Thirty persons were d injured, fatally. several seriously injured and three From Washington. A schooner captain who recently arrived in Washington, from Para, Brazil, reports that the workmen employed on the railroad in that country, many of whom went there from the United States, are in a terrible condition for want of food and medical attention. Nearly all the 500 men who left this country to work on the road are sick and disabled. Kearney, the California labor agitator has f had an interview with the President at the White House. e The revenue receipts of late have been de creasing, being much smaller than they were during the same period last year. Foreign News. n Maria Christina, former Queen Dowager of Spain and grandmother to the present king e died near Havre, France, a few days ago, aged P eventy-two. a e The failure of James Virtue & Co., London booksellers is announced. Several failures of y nounced. firms of paper makers and publishers are an d An epidemic of typhoid fever in Bristol England-eleven deaths having occurred in one week-was brought about by the use of impure milk. a The British consul at Adrianople reports that the Bulgarians continue to plunder and out n rage the Mussulmans. The Greek archbishop e has communicated to the consul details of the e most horrible atrocities. O Severe shocks of earthquake have been felt in different parts of Germany. It is announced in an important article in r the London Times, which has been sent by telegraph to the Toronto Globe, that Secretary e Evarts has proposed in & dispatch, which he sent at the instance of Congress, complaining e of the injustice of the Halifax award, that Canada shall form a customs union with the United States. He desires that she shall adopt the American tariff. e Martial law has been declared in Russia tem porarily, on account of the increase of
