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NUGGETS OF NEWS. The wife of Major-General Schofield died at W ashington on the 30th of paralybeart. the TO STS The fast trial trips of the new dynamite cruiser Vesuvius in Delaware bay were pronounced a success. Fire in Dongola, Ill., the other morning destroyed eight business houses, causing $35,000 loss. Cause, a defective flue. An escaped Soudanese has offered to bring General Gordon's clothes, sword and papers, which are said to be hidden near Berber. The new statue of General Lewis Cass, presented to the Nation by the State of Michigan, has been taken to the Capitol at Washington. Mrs. Concordia Muench was found dead in her room at Rockport, Mo., the other afternoon and was thou ht to have committed suicide. C. V. Lambrigger, Eving nar Avalon, Mo., has been probab'y fatallv wounded accidentally by John Kimber acompanion, while hunting. The other night the west be und train on the Cincinnati, Selma & Mobile, was derailed about five miles from Selma, Ala. Two coaches were partia ly turned over and the passengers badly shaken up, but nobody was seriously hurt. There was also an accident in the n orning near Selma, on the East Tennessee road by which sixteen passengers were bruised up. Charles Stevenson. agel thirty-three, was crushed to death un 'er a bank of earth which recently caved in on him at Wyoming, Neb. The State of Texas, it is announced, has issued its last patents for public lands. What has not been tak n up belongs now to schools, asylums, etc. Charles Shaw-L febre, Viscount Eversley, di d recently, agel ninety-four years. He WAS for many years a prominent British statesman. the uo epuu SBM uns canseles V man American Saving Bank of Burlington, Iowa, the o'her day, but it lasted only a short time and had no bad effects. A large new crayon portrait of Speaker Carlisle has been hung in the House of Representatives cham! er in place of the smaller one which has there for years. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended D ceml er 27 numbered 299, compared with 311 the previous week and 263 the correspond ng week last year. The President has ordered the removal of Edward Cushing, collector of customs, at Belfast, Me., because of charges that he had accepted money from applicants for positions. The final dividendof 20per cent., making the amount paid 100 per cent., has been paid by the Comptroller of the Treasury to the creditors of the Second National Bank, of Xenia, O. James Conley, a teamster, was run over and killed at Marceline, Mo, recently, his left arm and leg bein entirely severed and his head and face crushed beyond recognition. During a heavy fog in Nebraska City, Neb., the other morning a Burlington freight engine was wrecked and a Council Bluffs cabocse and car destroyed, but no one was hurt. Amelie Thurin, seventeen years of age, 'B u! domestic U SU employer SBM oum Chicago private family. upon retiring uj deep puner SUM pue sed 111 no meiq bed the other morning. James Macken and Nathan Gilchrist, aged nine and four years, were skating on the bayou at Toledo, 0, recently when the ice broke, precipitating the boys into the water and both boys were drowned. More battles with oyster pirates have been reported off the Maryland coast. In one of the engagements Captain Shores was wounded. In another five dredging schooners were captured by the State navy. It is said that Dr. Alexander E. McDonald, general superintendent of the insane asylum on Ward's Island, has become insane. He was one of the experts whose testimony convicted Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield. Richter calculates from recent statistics that Germany has at her disposal in the event of war an army of 3,513,416 completely drilled men, not counting the reserves and the landsturm, which are not drilled in the time of peac The past year has been a profitable one for the Fall River (Mass.) manufacturers, and closes with the market entirely clear of spot goods and the production sold well ahead to April. The dividends aggregated the greatest ever paid in the history of the city. The London Stock Exchange was active and advanced during the week ended December 29. American railroads had a sharp rise, but weakened toward the end of the week. The Continental bourses were depressed with prices tending downward. It has been announced that the vault of the United States sub-treasury in the custom house of Baltimore, Md., was robbed of$1,243 in standard silver dollars, April 15. but the robbery kept secret in the hope that the thief might be surprised and captured. The coal miners in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania have made a demand for a reduction of $1 per keg in the price of the blasting powder furnished to them. The employers are not expected to give in as their profits from this source have been enormous. At the request of the Acting Secretary of War Attorney-General Garland has instructed the United States District Attorney at Austin, Tex., to take the necessary steps for the defense of General Stanley, U. S. A., recently arrested in that city while in the execution of his official duties. Mrs. Henry Martin and Miss Kate Pow. ers, two ladies living in one of thesuburbs of Chicago, while driving across the Rock Island road track at Forty -seventh street recently, were struck by a locomotive and instantly killed, there bodies being terribly mutilated before the train could be stopped. The taxes of the Southern Pacific Rail-