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responding period of 1883, the clearings showed a decrease of 24.7 per cent. ON the 25th Secretary Folger called in $10,000,000 in three per cent. bonds. The East. ON the 21st reports received in Boston from 325 points in New England indicated that the hay crop this year would be about thirty per cent. less than it was a year ago. THE President of the Irish National League of America, Patrick Egan, de clines to receive the $3,000 salary attached to that office, preferring to give his serv ices 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 accumulazion of goods and low prices. THE officers of the Greely relief expedi tion were received by President Arthur at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, or the 21st. Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln and General Butler were present. LIZZIE WATSON, a young girl, was brutally assaulted and then choked to death while returning to her home from market at Yorkton, Salem County, N. J. a few evenings ago. Three colored mer had been arrested on suspicion. THE Sprague Manufacturing Company's property at Augusta, Me., which fifteer years ago cost $2,000,000, was sold a fev days ago at auction for about $200,000. ON the 21st the directors of the Firs National Bank of Albion, N. Y., were forced to suspend business, owing to the continued mysterious absence of the Presi dent, Albert S. Warner. The deposits ag gregated $154,000. WHILE tunneling recently in a mine a Shamokin, Pa., seven men and elever mules were killed by the fumes of gas. A COLLISION between two freight trair recently in the yard of the Pennsylvani Railroad at Columbia destroyed four car filled with sheep and hogs. The wrecl 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 the 22d, and the Committee on Legisla tion reported that the principles desire by the National Labor party had been in corporated in both the Republican an Democratic platforms, and they recom mended co-operation in each and every Legislative district with one of the regu lar parties for the election of men pledge to legislate in the interests of working classes. THE recent burning of a temporary stag ing used by the carvers in Cedar Hil Cemetery, at Hartford, Conn., ruined th elaberate Italian marble column at th grave of the late Govern Edwin D. Mor gan, of New York. SEVERAL houses were struck by light ning in Lansingburg, N. Y., during a hail storm the other afternoon. At Greenbusl lightning struck the house of Clark Lape and Miss Ida Lee, one of the inmates, wa badly burned. The house of John Matti son, at Cambridge, was struck, Sarah Al len killed, and a daughter of Mattison fatal ly injured. A FEW evenings ago the United State steamship Tallapoosa, with one hundre and forty officers and men, was sunk o Martha's Vineyard, by collision with tb schooner James S. Lowell. The lives of a but four persons were saved by other ves sels. The Tallapoosa was on her way t Newport to take Secretary Chandler o board. MANY cattle were killed during a recer thunder storm at Dover, N. H., and mile of telegraph and telephone wires wer torn down. Considerable damage wa also done to the crops in the Connecticu Valley. AT the session of the American Bar A sociation at Saratoga Springs on the 22 John W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, wa elected President, and Edward Otis Hinl ley, of Baltimore, Secretary. I ON the 22d Examiner Williams too charge of the First National Bank of A bion, N. Y. It was learned that Alber S. Warner, the absconding President, ha been speculating in stocks for the past fiv years. CLARK W, SANDERS, inspired by insan jealousy, a few ago entered the store ( Daniel Carr, at Montpelier, Vt., and sho him dead. When the murderer was take in charge he expressed no regret, and sai he was prepared to atone for his crime o the gallows. ON the New York & New England Rai road a train was thrown off the trac near Quinebaug, Conn., a few days ag One smoker and a passenger car fe down an embankment a distance of twent feet. Many persons were seriously i jured. AT Emsworth, Pa., ten miles from Pitt burgh, a well bored for gas was on tl 24th flowing oil and salt water, and B tracted hundreds of visitors. WHILE laboring under delirium tremer the other day Fennimore Clayton, of Coo erstown, N. Y., shot and killed his on son, aged two years. ON the 24th Captain Pratt, Superi tendent of the Indian training schol a Carlisle, Pa., returned from New Mexic bringing seventy-seven young Indians . the Pueblo tribe, ranging in age from nir to twenty years. The next term of tl school will open with four hundred pupil ALL the bodies, seven in number, ha on the 24th been recovered from the burr ing coal mine at Buck Ridge, Pa. AT Pittsburg Po. texas welking
