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The East. 4 FIRE broke out a few days ago in the residence of James Savery, of Green Township, Pa., and he rushed in to save his children and succeeded, but he was burned to a crisp. IT was reported on the 21st that Charles R. Chubbuck, confidential clerk for John I. Robin, a New York custom-house broker, had absconded with $14,000. AT Erie, Pa., revenue officers captured an illicit still and three Burdick brothers on the 22d. THE other night Patrick Dodd and wife, of Attica, N. Y., blew out the gas in their hotel-room in New York, and were suffocated. ON the 22d the National Bank of Rahway, N. J., suspended payment. The authorized capital was $500,000, but only $100,000 had been paid in. IN New York City on the evening of the 22d Henry Ward Beecher presided over a tariff-reform meeting, and pronounced the protective system terribly oppressive to the poor men of the country. JOHN STEINHIBER shot dead Thomas Kerns, aged seventeen, at Ashland, Pa., a few days ago, alleging that he mistook him for a desperado. Kerns narrowly escaped lynching. SUIT was commenced in the Federal Court at Boston on the 22d by the National Home for Disabled Soldiers to recover from General Butler $18,375, for which he had failed to account. JOHN MCKEON, United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, died on the 22d. JOHN CHISHOLM was hanged on the 22d at Newark, N. J., for the murder of his wife. AT the wedding of Maurice B. Flynn and Miss Florence C. Moss in New York City a few days ago Father McDowell officiated, and received as his fee a check for $5,000. A DECISION has been rendered by the Massachusetts Supreme Court that a wom an may be legally appointed on the State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity. This decides in the affirmative the question whether or not a woman is a person, under the statute. IN a Brighton (N. J.) newspaper office on the 23d a Democratic politician named J. L. Van Syckle shot the èditor, John Cheeseman, in the breast. The wounded man threw his assailant to the floor and fatally pounded him. ON the Pennsylvania Railroad near Philadelphia an express train struck a wagon a few days ago and killed Mrs. Christiana Frey, aged fifty years, and her son William, aged twenty-four years, and fatally injured Willian Frey, Sr. A VERDICT for $10,000 damages has been awarded Mary O'Connor, who was employed in a mill in Philadelphia, and leaped from a window during a fire, and was permanently disabled. THE discovery was made on the 23d that A. B. Johnson, who recently killed himself in Utica, N. Y., appropriated $800000 belonging to the MacDonnell estate, of which he had sole control. Mrs. MacDonnell is a sister of the dead defaulter. ON Jack's Mountain, near Allensville, Pa., a forest fire was raging on the 23d, and had extended over an area of several thousand acres. Over twelve thousand cords of wood had been burned. GOVERNOR BUTLER has pardoned Bernard Boland, who ten years ago was sent to the Massachusetts Penitentiary for life, on conviction of murder, because of the discovery that the statutes will not permit a boy to be sent to State Prison. A VERDICT for $4,500 has been secured by J. W. Wiggins, of klyn, against Edward Day for calling him an old fraud. Fogs have compelled the close of navigation on the St. Lawrence River, and boats went intowinter quarters on the 23d. ON the night of the 24th James Ruddy and his wife, son, and a lady visitor were murdered at Laconia, N. H., and the house set on fire. Thomas Salmon, a boarder, was suspected of the crime, and was in jail. His trunk was searched, and was found to contain the mangled remains of a Mrs. Ford, with whom he had previously boarded. A WAGON containing William McIntosh, a venerable farmer, and his wife, of Lanesville, Vt., and Rev. Joseph House and his daughter Mary, of Berlin, was struck by the engine of an express train a few evenings ago, and all four were killed. THOMAS EVANS & Co.'s extensive glassfactory at Pittsburgh, Pa., was destroyed by fire on the 25th. Loss, $100,000. THOUSANDS of acres of forest trees were destroyed by the recent gale on the New Hampshire and Maine border. The loss in Chatham alone was on the 24th estimated at $100,000. In many instances the homes of wood-choppers had been ruined, and much suffering among them would ensue this winter unless relief was given them. A GIRL named Phoebe Jane Paullin was murdered in some underbrush near Rose-
