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ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. The loss of the bark Hawthorne costs Boston insurance companies $162,000. Wm. White, of Memphis, suicided with laudanum Wednesday night. The Bank of Oswego, Oswego, N. Y., has gone into the hands of a receiver. The Rhode Island Senate protests unanimously against the law restricting Chinese immigration. At Santa Rosa, Cal., yesterday, Joseph, youngest son of Ex-Gov. Boggs, suicided by cutting his throat. Rev. Dr. Reuben Nelson, Sr., publisher and agent of the Methodist book concern, died at New York city yesterday. W. L. Greenfield, furniture dealer of Memphis, fell from the third story of his store Wednesday night, and was instantly killed. So far as known the only loss of life in the San Francisco harbor ferry boat disaster Wednesday was that of two Chinamen. A meeting of patentees was held at Louisville, Ky., last night, to inaugurate opposition to the Senate amendments to the patent laws. A New York telegram says merchants declare themselves decidedly opposed to the recent anti-Chinese legislation, and fear its effects upon trade. Harry Hulze, supposed to be the man who outraged little Hattie Hoburg, at Cincinnati, Tuesday last, was arrested yesterday, and placed in the station house. The Spanish steamship Louisa, from Galveston, Tex., with cattle, foundered ninety-five miles out. The crew returned after four days of exposure in an open boat. Berlin correspondents continue to predict an overwhelming defeat on the proposition that the reichstag sanction the arrest and punishment of socialist members. Mrs. Marion West, of Indianapolis, was arrested at Washington, Ohio, Wednesday, for forgery, having raised a check of $20 to $2,000. The check was given by a farmer whom the woman had in her toils. The bill in the Montana legislature exempting the Utah & Northern railroad from taxation for twelve years, which passed the house, was defeated in the council. A dispatch from Queenstown, Ky., says a cooper shop and warehouse, the latter containing 170 hogsheads of tobacco, owned by James Clark, burned Tuesday night. Loss $40,000; insured in a Louisville agency. The Senate of West Virginia has adopted a resolution directing the attorney general to proceed against the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company by quo warranto for alleged violations of its charter in the matter of excessive charges.