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refused to receive the applications, and each of the 20 members of the class sent an application to him by mail. D. R. Riddell, the Chicago freight agent of the Michigan Southern railroad, has left town with a shortage in his accounts of $50,000 switching fees collected but not paid over. The San Jose (Cal.) savings bank has suspended business, going into involuntary liquidation on account of lack of business. It will pay in full. A tramp, refused foodat G.S. Mouray's farmhouse, near Tuckerton, Pa., recently, set fire to the barn and it was burned, with three mules, a number of cattle and other contents; loss $10,000. There is considerable loss of cotton in Texas through a scarcity of pickers, though an offer of half a cent is made to pickers in severa instances. Jose ph K. Emmet, the comedian, is in jail at Albany, N. Y., for beating his wife, and threatening to kill her and himself and to burn his new buildings. The sultan of Morroco has sent a note to the powers declaring that all religions will be respected throughout Morocco. Fifteen inches of snow fell at Buffalo, N. Y., recently, and trains were stalled between there and Rochester, the engines being without plows. The snow was about a foot deep all the way from Buffalo to Batavia. Ignorant old negroes administered strychnine to three patients at Harwood, Tex., thinking it was quinine. Two died in a few hours and the third is reported beyond recovery. It is reported that Victoria and all his band have been killed by Mexican troops. The Spanish government has given full reparation to the Chinese consul general for the indignity which the consulate suffered through the ignorance and brutality of two government policemen last month. The exports of domestic provisions and tallow from the United States in September amounted to $11.271 851, against 6,575,168 in September, 1879; for the nine months end. ing September 30 they were $103,722,559, against $81,919,055 for the same period of 1879. A. G. Hodges, for A long time grand treas. urer of the Kentucky grand lodge of Masons at Louisville, 64 years old, and one of the best known Masons in the state, is a defaulter for $7000.Col. Allison at Fort Baford. Dak., has been authorized by Gen. Terry to receive the surrender of Sitting Bull and his Indians, who must, however. exchange their ponies and arms for cattle and go to any Sioux agency to which they may be assigned. If Sitting Bull refuses these terms, the troops will move against him. The carriage-builders' national association in session at Chicago recently adopted resolutions for the establishment of a school of technology in New York especially devoted to the art of carriage-building. The Brazilian Parliament has voted a subsidy of $50,000 to a line of steamships to trade between that country and Canada. A sensation has been caused in Paris by the Due De Chartres, a bourbon, at a military dinner at Evreux proposing a toast to France and her government and to the president of the republic. The legitimists consider this an indirect acceptance by him of the republic. The duke said that in America where he passed a part of his youth it was customary to give such a loyal toast before all others. George W. Bell, a 16-years-old Paterson (N. J.) school-boy, has committed suicide by shooting, hard study having unsettled his mind. The corner-stone of the soldiers' monument to be erected in Forest Lawn cemetery at Buffalo, N. Y., was laid a few days ago under Grand Army auspices. A device by which, it is claimed, grain can be kept good in bulk for a year has just been tested at Antwerp. It consists in covering the floor on which the grain rests with perforated sheet-iron and forcing a current of dry air through the grain. An emigrant family of one man and two women were frozen to death in the recent blizzard, while camped near Springfield, Minn. A terrific hurricane passed over Denmark recently, doing much damage to shipping at Copenhagen. Gen. Garibaldi suffered greatly during his journey from Genoa to San Damiano d'Asti. He is 80 feeble that the utmost eare and rehealth. pose are required to restore him to ordinary Despite all precautions, the nihilists have succeeded in poisoning the czar. Two of the imperial cooks have been arrested on suspicion. An escort of Russian officers passed through Berlin having charge of 8,000,000 roubles, said to be the czar's private fortune. Mr. T. M. Healy, who acccompanied Mr. Parnell on his recent trip through America, was arrested recently at Cork on the order of the attorney-general. Mr. Healy is charged with active complicity with the plots of the land leaguers, and other arrests on the same charge will immediately follow. Eleven workmen at the Gautier mills, near St. Martin's, N. B., have been poisoned from eating diseased pork. A leading Montreal bank has notified its customers that interest will not be allowed on large sums after the 1st prox., owing to the difficulty of finding investments for large sums now lying idle. The Midvale steel works at Nicetown, near Philadelphia, have been sold. The only bidder was William Sellers, who purchased the works for $450,000 for himself and others. It will cost the cotton planters about $40,000,000 to market their crop this year, of which $25,000,000 will go into the pockets of colored laborers, many of whom are women and children. The Montreal police are SO bound by red tape that they refused to interfere recently with a prize-fight in the heart of the city in broad daylight, because they had no orders. When an opportunity came to arrest the two principals next day, the police refused to do 80 because they had no warrants.
