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Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. DOMESTIC. IN the two weeks ended on the 25th over one thousand hogs had died of cholera near Seymour, Ind., and many more were affected. ISADOR H. SULTZBACH, a retail clothing dealer at Philadelphia, failed on the 25th for $150,000. THE report on the 25th of Mr. Lacey, the Comptroller of the Currency, showed that there were in existence 3,319 National banks, the largest number since the inauguration of the system. The aggregate capital was $620,174,365. The amount of circulation outstanding was $203,663,732, of which $132,883,334 was secured by United States bonds, and the remainder, $72,379,396, was represented by the deposit of lawful money in the Treasury. Within the year forty-one banks went into voluntary liquidation and only two failed. WELLINGTON HART, of North Smithfield, and R. A. Smith, of Mohegan,wellknown Rhode Island farmers, each over sixty years of age, drove into a pond on the 25th and were drowned. A CYCLONE swept through Beaufort County, S. C., on the 25th, causing terrible destruction. At Campbell's Creek several houses were blown down, and Dick Phillips (colored) and his five children were killed and several other persons were badly hurt. A FIRE on the 25th at Edwardsville, Ill., destroyed Kehlor Brothers' mill, elevator and warehouse and other buildings. Loss, $300,000. AT Manti, Utah, on the 25th Parlane McFarlane shot and killed F. G. Hansen and W. G. Golding. The trouble arose over a game of pool. AT Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 25th the Pennsylvania Wool-growers' Association passed resolutions against any modification of the tariff. ARGUMENTS in the matter of admitting Mormons to citizenship were finished at Salt Lake City on the 25th, and the court reserved its decision. HETTIE BUTLER (colored) seventy-six years old, of Indianapolis, Ind., was burned to death on the 26th, her clothes cathing fire from a pipe she was smoking. Two MEN were killed and another fatally injured by the explosion of a boiler on the 26th at the steel works at Duquesne, Pa. McLEoD & ANDERSON, tobacco warehousemen at Louisville, Ky., failed on the 26th for $100,000. A STEAMER which left Port-au-Prince November 20 and arrived at New York on the 26th reported that five thousand Haytians had risen in revolt against President Hippolyte. A FIRE on the 26th at Leechburg, Pa., destroyed twenty-five buildings. Loss, $100,000. ON a wager of ten dollars "Dublin Dan" ate eight and one-half pies on the 26th at Pontiac, Ill., in eighteen minutes, and Patsey Riley ate thirty hardboiled eggs in fifteen minutes. Six horses were cremated in Knorr & Weisenberger's livery-stable at St. Louis on the 26th. AN express train on the Topeka & Santa Fe road was held up and robbed of $30,000 by fifteen masked men on the night of the 26th at Berwyne, Ind. T. THE last of the North Pacific whaling fleet arrived in San Francisco on the 26th. The catch this year was the poorest in ten years, and comprised 12,000 barrels of oil and 217,000 pounds of bone, THE steamer Santiago, valued at $500,000, was burned off Nantucket, Mass., on the 26th. No lives were lost. A. J. GERSTEL, a Peoria (Ill.) tobacco dealer, was on the 26th charged with defrauding creditors out of $40,000. He had fled. THOMAS DAVIDSON, a wealthy farmer, aged seventy-five years, who lived alone at a farm near Arcola, Ind., was found dead in his stable on the 26th. He was murdered. ADVICES of the 26th say that Hans Jacob Olson, of Preston, Wis., a troublesome character. was taken from his home by masked men and lynched because he refused to leave town. THE Citizens' State Bank of York, Neb., suspended on the 26th. THE National Silver convention met at St. Louis on the 26th with 350 delegates present from all parts of the country. PHILIP HOFFMAN, an aged citizen residing in Ohio Falls, Ind., was choked to death on the 26th on a piece of beefsteak he was trying to masticate. THE efforts of the prosecution in the Cronin trial in Chicago on the 26th were directed toward breaking down the alibis of Beggs, Burke and O'Sullivan. A number of witnesses testified in contradiction of statements made by previous witnesses for the defense. A FRENCH milliner of New York City was on the 26th made to pay a $1,000 fine for having imported a French wom an to work in her shop. IN Jersey City, N. J., Grand Army of the Republic posts were on the 26th raising funds to secure National flags for the twenty-one public-schools of the city.
