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# News of the Week Condensed. The Senate bill repealing the bankrupt law has passed the House. Immense floods are reported in the Black Hills region. The House has passed Fort's bill for-bidding the further retirement of legal tender notes. Yeas, 177; nays 35. The run on Eastern savings banks continues, and many of them are enforcing the sixty days clause. The House last week passed the Pacific Railroad funding bill as it came from the Senate. There were only two dissenting votes. Thirteen business houses at River Falls, Wisconsin, were burned Friday. This included the entire business portion of the place. The Matapan paper mills, at Hyde Park, Mass., the oldest in New England, have shut down, owing to dull times and a lack of orders, for the first time in one hundred years. Another Indian raid is reported on the Northern frontier of Texas. Raiders have been seen between Forts Concha and Stockton where the mail rider was killed last week. The New York and Erie Railway Company has ceased to exist. Since the sale last week it has been reorganized as the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company. The Treasury Department has decided that Mexican silver dollars are not legal tenders in the United States, and that persons who accept them at their nominal value do so at their own risk. On the 22d of April the Fourth National Bank of Nashville, Tenn., announced that it had resumed specie payment, but not a single note has been presented for redemption in gold. The House Committee on Education and Labor have agreed to report favorably the resolutions authorizing a conference between the United States, Great Britain and China, on the question of Chinese emigration. The gas main leading into the Detroit Free Press building exploded Monday morning, and the whole edifice burst into flames. The twelve presses in the building were more or less damaged, and $40,000 worth of job type and material entirely destroyed. The entire loss to the company is estimated at $50,000. Insurance $40,000. The Veteran Club of Chicago composed of Union pensioners have memorialized Congress against the passage of the pending bill for the transfer of all pension agencies to the bureau at Washington. They think that the new plan will be just as expensive as the old, and will cause great delay in the payment of pensions. Large deposits of phosphate of lime have been discovered near Wakeeney, 321 miles west of Kansas city. Similar material is found in Georgia and some of the southern states, and is shipped north and to Europe; it is used as fertilizing matter. It is a most important discovery, and will prove of great value to Kansas. James Baynes, cashier of the Frst National Bank of Salem, Indiana, disappeared mysteriously last Thursday, but a letter which he left, and an examination of the bank accounts, show that he is a defaulter to the amount of twenty thousand dollars. All of this was lost in stock speculations on Wall street with H. Clews, & Co. The Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes temperance society, last Friday night dropped the name of the organization, on the ground that though Mrs. Hayes discountenanced wine at the Duke Alexis and other dinners at the executive mansion, she countenanced the use of claret punch at a dinner on the excursion of the steamer on Delaware bay, during the recent presidential trip. Matt. Weaver, retiring cashier of the Citizen's National Bank, of Urbana, O., is reported to be a defaulter to the amount of $70,000. He had been dabbling in Chicago wheat margins. His property to the amount of $10,000 to $25,000, and his wife,s personal effects have been turned over to the bank, which will suffer no impairment of credit, its stockholders being wealthy. The Republican Congressional Committee have determined to make an energetic campaign in the Southern States. Special attention will be devoted to those districts in which colored voters predominate. It is proposed to test the sincerity of the Southern Democrats by attempting to conduct the campaign with the same freedom that they are conducted in the North. There are at least twelve districts now represented by Democrats that are Republican if a vote without intimidation can be had. The amount of United States notes retired the present month in consequence of the issue of national bank notes will be about $12,000. The Secretary of the Treasury orders that this amouut be replaced with silver dollars, to be paid out in the course of business. The sum will be distributed among the various sub-treasuries and public depositories, so that to this extent silver dollars will be paid out for currency obligations. This payment of silver dollars will not interfere with procuring silver dollars in exchange at par for gold coin at any time. Notice. The Marshall County Teachers Association will meet at the Word