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TELEGRAPHIO JOTTINGS. The deaths resulting from the rioting at Pilsen in Austria now number sixteen. Mr. Lincoln, the American minister at London, has resumed the duties of his office. The emperor of Germany has subscribed twenty thousand marks to the Evangelical missions for a hospital at Zanzibar. Trixie won the 2:33 trotting race at Point Breeze yesterday, and Aline the 2:23. Best time, respectively, 2.271/4 and 2:221/4. The comptroller of currency has issued a call to the national banks for a report of their condition at the close of business May 17. The bank of Middle Tennessee, located in Lebanon, has made at assignment. Liabilities about $90,000; assets $65,000. This was a state bank. The steamer Wieland, which has arrived at Hamburg from New York, passed twentyfour icebergs on May 12 in latitude 47.47, longitude 48.44. Ellis Allen, confidential clerk of the Austin Investment company, with headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., has disappeared with $20,000 of the company's money. Charles Geer, who left Willimantic Saturday for Rhode Island, was killed by the cars at Wickford yesterday. The body was brought to Willimantic yesterday. Hon. Solon A. Carter, state treasurer of New Hampshire, reports the state debt at the close of the fiscal year $2,481,453, a net reduction during the last twelve months of $150,862. Instructions eimilar to those sent to the captain of the Bear were sent yesterday to the commander of the Rush at San Francisco to proceed to Alaskan waters and protect the seal fisheries there. The schooner Belle Higgins of Bath, Me., which was run down and badly damaged by the steamer La Champagne on February 25, has sued the steamship company for $35,000 damages. The trial began yesterday. Augustus Crocker, who was born at Tann= ton, Mass., in 1841, his father being a prominent manufacturer, died yesterday at St. Luke's hospital in New York of Bright's dieease. He has a brother living in Boston. Harry W. Bickford, employed as a clerk by Benjamin R. Bryant & Co., grocers at Boston, was arrested at his home in Cambridge yesterday charged with the embezzlement of $1,345 from that firm during the past six months. The governor of Massachusetts has nominated as world's fair commissioners Francis W. Breed of Lynn and Thomas E. Prootor of Boston, with George P. Ladd of Spencer and Albert C. Houghton of North Adams as alternates. The Nefoundland schooner Margaret became a total wreck yesterday near Little Lorain, C. B. She was from St. Johns for Sydney. When the disaster occurred it was very foggy, with a heavy sea, and a strong breeze was blowing. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad yesterday morning continued the war in passenger rates by reducing its rate from afdoes not Omaha to Chicago to $5. This fect the rate from Chicago to Omaha, which is maintained at $8. h Governor Ladd of Rhode Ieland has appointed the following gentlemen commissioners of the world's fair from Rhode Island: a Lyman B. Goff of Pawtucket, republican,ar Gardiner C. Sims of Providence, democrat. e Alternates, Jeffrey Hazard of Providence, t republican, and Lorrilard Spencer of Newa port, democrat. i, Representative Dingsley, from the commite tee on merchant marine and fisheries, favorably reported to the house yesterday the bill e to place seamen, shipped on American ves. e sels, engaged in trade with Mexico, West y Indies and Newfoundland under the same reo strictions as those shipped in American ves1 sels engaged in the foreign trade. , Mr. Gladstone, in a letter on the licensing s a question, says that the mere introduction in is parliament of the license bill which provides for the compensation of loss of licenses has already increased the value of publicans' property by probably £50,000,000. The f measure, he says, is the heaviest blow ever n struck at the cause of temperance.
