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ment, for submitting false entries to the U. S. Treasurer and for perjury. stockholders of the Sogamore mills at voted on the into bankruptcy. It is concern Fall The River, Mass., 7th proved to put that the Hathaway stole $60,978 and issued $138,000 of bogus paper of the corporation. The Republican State Convention of Vermont will be held at Burlington, May 22. The National Temperance Society held Will- its annual session at New York on the 7th. iam E. Dodge was re-elected President. The National State Convention of Pennsylvania met at Philadelphia on the 8th. F. W. Hughes was Chairman. The following nominations were made: For Governor, S. R. Mason: Lieutenant-Governor. Chris, Shearer; Secretary of Internal Affairs, James L. Wright: Supreme Judge, S. Bentley. The platform adopted declares that the Government should furnish aid to families desirous of settling upon public lands; favors rigid economy in the administration of public affairs; demands an eight-hour system of labor; abolition of the prison contract system,a agraduincome tax, wholesome ated and of permanent American tariff laws for the protection education should be no except what belongs to industry; property free, the taxation: and Govshould be exempt from have equal ernment women should civil and based politcal rights; national paper money, on the two and but upon the entire innot gold, alone metals, wealth be silver issued and of the nation, should in to revive our sufficient tegrity quantities tender industries; for all this money should be a legal debts, public and private. The American Home Missionary Society on the 8th re-elected the officers of the previous year. The Union Savings Bank, of Providence, R. I., is enjoined from doing further business. Thomas T. Eckert has been elected President of the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Comof pany. The Home Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., will close up its affairs. The Union National Bank, of Lewiston, Me., has suspended. A.Syracuse (N. Y.) dispatch of the 9th says: " about 250 men are engaged in the Fenian claiming At Peabody movement, connection border.' They with a general movement along the say they await orders from Gen. O'Neill. On the 9th Russian naval officers were in consultation with the Russian Consul at New York. The Vermont Democratic State Convention will be held at Montpelier, June 20. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has refused a writ of error in the case of Dennis Donnelly (a Mollie Maguire), sentenced to be hung on the 22d. In the Reformed Episcopal Council at NewN. on the 9th, the on reported against ark, Amusements J., Committee in theatrical all enteramusements, games and dancing, tainments sanctioned by the church, and discouraging the frivolous and worldly modes of raising funds; also requesting communicants to abstain from such entertainments. Shearer, the National nominee for Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, declines. The Executive Council of the National party met on the 10th at New York and discussed plans for a systematic organization throughout the country. Gratifying reports of the condition of the party were announced asreceived from all sections. The Permanent Exposition at Philadelphia was reopened to the public on the 10th. The customs duties collected at New York the past ten months aggregated $78,350,311. The Maine National Greenback Convention will be held, June 5, at Portland. On the 11th six men were publicly whipped in the yard the New Castle (Del.) jail, receiving twenty lashes each. The Directors of the Fall River (Mass.) Border City Mills report the assets of the cor- is poration $962,219, liabilities $1,205,545. It supposed that m irregular paper is out. Baron Albert Blanc, Italian Minister to the United States, was married at New York, on the 11th, to Miss Dolores Terry, daughter of a Cuban of distinguished family and great wealth. Ex-President Hall, of the Whitehall (N. Y.) Merchants' National Bank, was arrested on the of 11th on the charge of embezzling $100,000 funds. Catherine E. Beecher died at Elmira, N.Y on the 12th, aged seventy-eight years. A notice of reduction in wages has been given in some of the Manchester (N. H.) mills. In anticipation of a Fenian raid on Canada four companies of infantry and a battery are ordered to be ready to march from Fort Erie at any time. Edington Fulton, for nearly thirty years died connected with the Baltimore American, on the 13th. h h The Reformed Episcopal Church Council The h will hold its next session in Chicago. I church now has 17,057 regular attendants, 5,808 communicants, and owns $800,000 worth of church property. e