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NEWS OF THE DAY GENERAL ITEMS. -Forty-three fishermen and seven vessels belonging to the Gloucester district were lost during the fishing season of 1881. -It is rumored in Washington that General Kilpatrick, the American Minister'to Chili, is dead, and that if he is not he will be recalled It is also rumored that President Calderon, of Peru, has been arrested by the Chilian Admiral Lynch. A new eomet, the seventh of 1881, has been discovered by Professor Swift Horace Kimbell's Woollen Mill, at Pascoag, R.I. was burned Thursday. cost $150,000. -The full vote of Pennsylvania for State Treasurer at the late election is given by the Philadelpbia Times as follows Baily, (Rep.) 265,293 Noble, (Dem.) 258,387; Wo'fe, (Ind. Rep. 49,969,Jackson, (Grbk.) 14,946; Wilson, (Proh. 4,512 For President last year Garfield had 444,704; Hancock, 407,428; Weaver, 20,668; Dow and Eat tering, 1,986, At Washington it is reported that Secretary Lincoln will be succeeded by General Beale, that Mr. Emory Storts will be the new Attorney Generel, General Longstreet Secretary of the Navy, ex Senator Chaffee Secretary of the Interior, and Mr. Chauncey I. F1 ley Postmaster General. At ten o'clock Wednesday evening the body of Miss Ellen Kesner twenty years of age, a Normel School pupil, was found in a suburb of Chicago with the head out off -There was run on the Howard Savings Institution at Newark, N. J. but the bank paid all depositors who applied and had a surplus at the end of the day of $250,000. Fifth Auditor Alexander reports from Weshington that the consular serviee is not only self-sustaining, but contributes in a measure to the support of the diplomatic service, the excess of receipts over expenses last year being $25,243.65. -M. Maretzek has sued Adelina Patti for about$40,000 damages for an alleged breach of contract to sing in Mexico in 1861. -Burglars at Youngsiown, Obio, blew open a safe in the house of Jesse Bald win and stole between $30,000 and $40, 000 in gold. Dr. J. L. Cabell, President of the National Board of Health in his annual report/says that yellow fever appeared in only one locality in tbe United States during the summer just ended, at Key West -The President has commissioned the following Postmasters for terms of four years : J. H. Templeton, at Mil lerten, N. Y. E. T. Semans, Naples, N. Y Fanny L Bacon, New Lebanon, N. Y. Wm. H. Hastings, Hammondsport, N.Y.;J. P. Cowperthwaite, Toms River, N. J., and J. F. Ten Broeck, Perth Amboy, N.J. -A sharp earthquake was experienced Tuesday noon at San Jose, Cal. -Since the Buffalo Convention the United States Lend League bas sent to the home executive $127,835.74 -Aconvention of alleged tariff reformers met in Chicago on Tuesday and elected McKinley, of Ohio, a high tariff man, President Senator Jones, of Nevada, Congressman Kelley, Seth Low Senator Hawley, and Senator Morrill the father of high tariff, are among the -presidents choser The delegates represent nearly every industry protected by the tariff. R solutions were offered favoring bounties to sbip-build ers, derouncing British free trade and demanding the repeal of all internal revenue taxes except those on spirits tobacco, fermented liquors and national bank cirulation. Lieutenant Ray reports the suc cessful landing of his party and materi als for a Signal Service station at Point Barrow, the northwestern extremity of Alaska. About five adres of land near Cleve land, Ohio, slid into a ravine, and the movement continues. Secretary Folger assumed charge of the Treasury Department on Mon day. Col. J. Howard Welles, of No. 365 Fifth avenue, New York, was arrested Sunday afternoon after posting a black mailing letter addressed to Jay Gould. The prisoner is accused of having sent a number of tbreatening let ters to Mr. Gould with a view to extorting information about st locks. Colonel Welles admitted his guilt end threatened to take his life if Mr. Gould decided to prosecute him. -J. Howard Welles, who attempted to blackmail Mr. Jay Gould, waived exmination and was remanded to await the action of the Grand Jury -Snow has fallen in large quantities in western Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico and trains are greatly delayed. In other portions of the West very heavy rains have fallen. The Attorney General of Pennsyl vania applied to the Dunpbin County Court for writs of quo warranto looking to the dissolution of grave-yard insurance companies for violations of their charters. The hearing was fixed for November 25. Near Albany, Ga., E. Faircloth, merchant, refused credit to Aleck Mc Elwin and wife (colored), when they at tacked and killed him, cutting him and striking him with an axe handle on the head. -In Washington an entire reorganization of the Cabinet is expected before the close of the year. -Ten boilers in a factory near East Saginaw, Mich., exploded Sunday, killing four workmen. Mrs. Edwin Booth died Sunday at residence of her parents in N. Y. City. Senator Beck will present at the next session of the Senate a resolution offered twenty- five years ago touching the insufficiency of statutory provision for a Presidential vacancy. -Mr. Nelson, of the Signal Service detachment, sent to Alaska, has returned with valuable results from his labors, The Arctic steamer Rogers is to winter at St. Lawrence Bay. A sledge party remains on the Siberien coast to communicate with nativor in the spring.
