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MISCELLANEOUS.
The ice has commenced breaking up at St. Louis.
The First National bank of Granville, O. has suspended.
Subscriptions to the 4 per cent. loan, Jan. 23d, $4,080,600.1
Subscriptions to the 4 per cent. loan January 24th, $3,795,100.
Navigation has been resumed by local packets from Wheeling, W. Va.,
A St. Petersburg telegram says the plague is reported in or near Moscow.
There was an incendiary fire at Wheeling, W. Va., and another at Quincy, IIL, Jan. 234.
A terrible gale with snow is reported as raging in all parts of the provinces of New Brunswick.
Two men in Cincinnati were killed by the falling of a wall of a burned building. Both leave families.
At Washington, D. C. the demand for silver dollars January 26th, amounted to $25,000 for the month $497,000]
An Ottawa, Ontario telegram of Jan. 21, says a large number of connterfeit $4,00 Doninion notes are in circulation.
William O'Brien and two sons were burned to death in their camps at Millbury Brook, New Brunswick a few days since.
Gold Bros., proprietors of the Boston Cloting House, Milwaukee, have made an assignment. Liabilties $41,000, assets $24,000.
A stock panic took place in Montreal, Jaa: 23, caused by the reported failure of one of the directors of the local board of Toronto.
At Hyde Park Pa., a few nights since Mrs. Davis and a child one year old were burned to death by the explosion of a kerosene lamp.
At Boone, Iowa, January 24th, a fire destroyed the bowling alley of Samuel S. Ives, who in attempting to save his books and papers was burned to death.
At Milton, Pa., a confectionary es-tablishment was burned Jan. 24. During the fire an explosion took place which killed one man and injured several others.
At Paris the manager of the Lanterne, newspaper has been sentenced to three months imprisonment and to pay a fine of 2,000 francs for libelling government officers.
A London telegram of Jan. 27th, says it is estimated that one seventh of the looms and spindles in Blackburn are stopped and that from 4,000 to 5,000 operatives are idle and destitute,
A smash-up occurred between two freight trains on the New Jersey Central railroad, at Tulleytown, Jan. 25th, killing the conductor and fireman, and smashing four cars, the locomotive and tender.
A destructive tornado, Sunday evening, Jan. 26th, struck the town of Lockport, Texas, demolishing forty houses, including churches, court house and Masonic hall. A child was killed and several persons badly hurt.
In the fear of possible riots and assaults on the United States treasury building in New York city, vigorous and active measures are being inaugurated to strengthen the vaults in which $100,000,000 or more of treasure are always stored.
The comptroller of currency has called for a report of the condition of national banks at the close of business, January 1, 1879. The report is called for at that date for the purpose of obtaining as nearly as possible the condition of the banks the day of resumption of specie payments.
A Fort Robinson Nebraska telegram gives an account of a late skirmish between United States troops and the Cheyenne Indians. and says only nine Cheyennes, all of them wounded, were captured. The balance of the party, twenty-three in number, were killed. Seventeen are still unaccounted for. It is supposed some died from wounds and others escaned.
The Seecretary of the treasury estimates that it will take $150,000,000, to meet the requirements of the new persion law, just passed both Houses of Congress, but not yet signed by the President, and says if that amoant should go out of the treasury, it will create a deficit. The cabinet has had the bill under consideration but came to no decision as to how it should be dealt with.
At Toledo, O., January 24th, Dayton & Michigan company's elevator B, with contents, consisting of 100,000 bushels of grain, mostly corn, was destroyed by fire. Estimated loss $85,000. The building is insured in Cincinnati for $25,000. Insurance on grain $40,000. The fire started in the cupola and is supposed to have been caused by friction in the machinery.
In New York city January 24th, Augustus Phillips, alias Oofty Toofty, and his mistress, Mary Hopeley, quarreled at their residence, 142 West Sixteenth street, and she shot him in the side, it is thonght fatally. About four hours later Phillips attacked the woman and beat and kicked her so severely that her life is said to be in danger. Both were taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
A Faribault, Minn., telegram of Jan. 21. says the examination of Bryant, the teacher, through whose instrumentality Sammy Crossett's leg was broken has been closed, and from the eyidence of the score of witnesses examined, it would seem that it was an entirely uncalled for transaction, and f a disgraceful affair all through. The most brutal feature of the whole affair was the utter lack of common humanity as displayed by the teacher, who, when it wss well known that the child's leg was broken, did not offer to take him home or seem to care much about the case any way.
In a session of the Potter committee Gen. Butler made a statement that certain dispatches had come into his possession early last spring. He found them upon his private table, but had no knowledge how they came, these dispatches, it was said, were part of those printed in the Tribune. If so he had nothing to do with their publication. They had been furnished to the Tribune before they came into his hands. During the summer they were missed for several weeks and subsequently they were found again, when he had thern numbered and stamped and put in a place of safety, He was willing to place
