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GENERAL. NUDD'S leave-trough factory, Minneapolis, Minn., burned on the 14th. Loss $50,000. THE divorced wife of ex-United States Senator Christiancy, died a raving lunatic at New York City, on the 13th. THE Commercial Cable Company filed articles of association at Albany, N. Y., on the 12th. The stock is $4,000,000. It proposes to construct a telegraph line from New York to Cape Ann, Mass., through the New England states. Canada, and New Brunswick to Dover Bay; also from Cape Ann, by cable, to Ireland, England, Belgium, France and Spain. J. W. Mackey, J. Gordon Bennett and Hector DeCastro are the incorporators. J. P. BILLUPS & Co., cotton commission merhants. New York, failed on the 12th. Liabilities $400,000. ON the 11th, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Vanderbilt gave a private ball at their residence, New York City. About 1,000 attended. The decorations were costly and handsome, and the affair rivalled the splendor of European court balls. THE Manufacturers Bank, a state institution, Amsterdam, N. Y., suspended on the 10th. It had a capital of $80,000, and deposits of $60,000. CHRISTIAN F. RICHER, a builder, Baltimore, Md., failed on the 10th. Liabilities $50,000. A RING, similar to the Tweed ring, is being unearthed in New York city. Misleading estimates for WO to be done are given out by the board of public works and friends notified of the real state of facts. The losses to. the city as far as discovered amount to over $6,000.000. ON be 9th. Rev. Wm. H. Hoyt, an assistant priest at St. Aun's Catholic Church. New York. while saying mass, was stricken with apoplexy. He 18 70 years of age.
