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al bank notes on the Third National Bank of Cincinnati were in circulation in New York on the 20th. The note has a brown back and is of the series of 1882. HENRY B. HARRISON was nominated for Governor by the Connecticut Republicans in State Convention at New Haven on the 20th. NEW JERSEY Democrats met in State Convention at Trenton on the 20th and selected an electoral ticket. THE heat in New York and Brooklyn on the 20th prostrated twenty people, four of the cases proving fatal. ON the 20th Archbishop Ryan was inSee stalled as head of the Roman Catholic of Philadelphia. L. L. BENT has been nominated for Congressman by the Democrats of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania District. WARNER & MERRITT, fruit importers at Philadelphia, failed recently for $500,000. AT Saratoga Springs on the 20th all but three States were represented in the annual meeting of the American Bar Assoclation. PETROLEUM producers met at Oil City and to for the on account on the 21st year, resolved of stop over-produc- drilling tion. ON the 21st reports received in Boston from 325 points in New England indicated that the this year bay crop would it be about thirty per cent. less than was a year ago. THE President of the Irish National League of America, Patrick Egan, declines to receive the $3,000 salary attached to that office, preferring to give his services to the cause gratuitously. A. X. PARKER has been renominated for Congressman by the Republicans of the Nineteenth New York District. MANUFACTURING companies at Lowell, Mass., have decided to shut down for a week, commencing September 1, by reason of the accumulation of goods and low prices. THE officers of the Greely relief expedition were received by President Arthur at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on the 21st. Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln and General Butler were present. LIZZIE WATSON, a young girl, was assaulted to death to brutally while returning and then her home choked from market at Yorkton, Salem County, N. a few evenings ago. Three colored men had been arrested on suspicion. THE Sprague Manufacturing Company's property at Augusta, Me., which fifteen years ago cost $2,000,000, was sold a few days at auction for about $200,000. the directors First ON ago the 21st of the National Bank of Albion, N. Y., were forced to the suspend business, absence owing of the to continued mysterious President, Albert S. Warner. The deposits aggregated $154,000. WHILE tunneling recently in a mine at Shamokin, Pa., seven men and eleven mules were killed by the fumes of gas. S A COLLISION between two freight trains recently in the yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Columbia destroyed four cars filled with sheep and hogs. The wreck caught fire and upwards of eight hundred animals were killed. THE Executive Committee of the Na. tional Labor party met in New York City on and the on tion that the the reported 22d, Committee principles had been Legisla- desired by the National Labor party incorporated in both the Repupi:- all and Democratic platforms, and they recom t mended co-operation in each/and every Legislative district with one of the regular for the men parties election interests of of working- pledged to legislate in the classes. THE recent burning of a temporary staging used the carvers at the Cemetery, by Hartford, Conn., in Cedar ruined Hill elaborate Italian marble column at the grave of the late Governor Edwin D. Morgan, of New York. , SEVERAL houses were struck by lightning in Lansingburg, N. Y., during a hailstorm the other afternoon. At Greenbush lightning struck the house of Clark Lape, and Miss Ida Lee, one of the inmates, was badly burned. The house of John Matti. t son, at Cambridge, was struck, Sarah Al: lenkilled, and a daughter of Mattison fatalLy injure.i. e A FEW evenings ago the United States y steamship Tallapoosa, with one hundred d and forty officers and men, was sunk off n Martha's Vineyard, by collision with the schooner James g Lowell