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THE EAST. Miss Susan Dickie, whose alleged insanity has been a subject of inquiry by a New York since Dec. 9, has been sound been a asyjury mind. She has confined declared in of lunatic her of brothlum seven years at the instance ers and sisters. She will at once enter suit for her property. The Free Pipe Line bill has passed third reading in the Pennsylvania House. A bill was introduced in the New York Senate on the 12th permitting pool-selling on race tracks. A collision between express and freight trains occurred near Newport, on the Newcastle branch of the Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne the 13th. Engineer the and Fireman passenger freight, Road, on Hill, of the Pflugh, and several of train, were killed. Both engines freight cars were wrecked. The President and family were in Baltimore on the 13th and attended the opening of a Methodist fair. The shoemakers' strike at Lynn, Mass., is ended, mutual concessions having been made. Mother Theresa, of the order of Carmelite Nuns, died in Baltimore on the 12th in the eighty-first year of her age and the sixty-first of her religion. Her father was Col. Sewell, of Gen. Washington's staff. the convicted and sentenced ex-President New York Security Case, of the bail Life in $25,000 Insurance Company, was admitted to on the pending his appeal. for many years the J.F. 13th, Tracy, President Railroad, of died Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at Erie, Pa., on the 13th. Daniel Webster's old mansion at Marshfield, was destroyed by on of the Navy Ex-Secretary Mass., fire Gideon the Welles 14th. the 14th at Hartford, Conn. The were simply the was ceremonies buried on number burial of service disof the Episcopal Church. A were of been tinguished C. W. Woolley, persons Cincinnati, present. has elected President of the National Trotting Association. On the 14th the steamer Richmond sailed from Philadelphia for Brazil, conveying men and material for the execution of the contract of the Maderia & Mamore (Brazil) She carries forty cabin passengers, Railway. building forty-two officers and and about sea425 Many started again olis men, steerage survivors passengers. and of the others Metrop- will next steamer. of the contractors, was one lins, follow one on the Thomas of Col- the passengers. First and Chase National of New York, The Banks, Corn Exchange, have been victimized to the amount of $19,000 by false checks issued by the clerk of deposit of the Corn Exchange Bank. been reported in the Maine House of equal A Representatives bill has giving political rights, the irrespective of sex, and granting women right to vote in municipal elections. The Schepler Brothers, of Philadelphia, of worsted goods, on the 15th. Their are payment manufacturers liabilities suspended very heavy. The Manchester (N.H.) City Savings Bank has suspended business. difficulties of the Lord York, out of the marriage to Mrs. Hicks, The growing family of settled. at the New old Sr., surrenders to amount to over Thomas gentleman -estimated Lord, have hisentire $2,000,000-to been estate who will to each of annum during the trustees, $12,000 per pay old them. the man's children Mrs. life. On his death the estate goes to Lord surrenders all right of dower. She is said to possess a fortune of over $500,000. number of cases of from an well have occurred at Vt. A infected large poisoning Rockport, steamer the morning of the 17th the Old of the Fall River & when Point Judith, Colony, On off broke New her York walking- line, which crashed the the to of beam, hold, injuring vessel through the the decks amount injured. to $75,000. Fortunately no one was The force of the fall may be imagined when it is considered that upward of twenty tons of from an elevation to It was a most escape fifty iron feet. fell marvelous of from forty from entire destruction. Block, New and the The York, Excelsior Presbyterian Twenty-third and Scotch street, Covenanters' Churches, adjoining, were destroyed by fire on the 17th. Loss estimated at $475,000. Peter Cooper has issued an appeal to the country in which he declares it to be the duty of our Government to silver also to possible remonetize to be and do all that is done to those Governments that have desilver to He that a or monetized induce suggests remonetize Northwestern the same." Southbe built to give the that silver be as a western unemployed; railroad financial restored work policy to legal that a permanent be that a judicious on all of which we raw adopted; tender; importations tariff have be levied the in and service as as material be organized abundance, specifically that the the civil military. The Plainfield (N. J.) Savings Institution has closed its doors. Operations were resumed in the Lehigh (Pa.) coal regions on the 18th. The steamer City of Dallas, laden with eotton, was burned at New York on the 18th. WEST AND SOUTH. The International Executive "Committee
