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EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Condensed Telegraphic News. CURRENT paragraphs. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, reached Aden, Arabia, on the 23d. The Springfield (III.) Savings Bank has suspended. Liabilities to depositorsabout $175,000. The United States Supreme Court adjourned, on the 21st, to meet again, on the 7th of January. The Woman's National Suffrage Association will meet in Washington, D. c., on the 7th of January. The calling together of the British Parliament is considered in St. Petersburg as tantamount to a declaration of war. Flora Temple, the famous trotting mare. died recently, on a farm near Philadelphia, in the thirty-third year of her age. A call has been issued for a Democratic State Convention, to meet at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 20th of February next. John Van Hoesen, the reputed ringleader of the Albany (N. Y.) railroad rioters in July last, has been found guilty, and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Rev. G. F. Seymour was, on the 19th, elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, III. Bishop Seymour is a brother of Horatio Seymour, of New York. John A. Joyce, convicted at St. Louis of conspiring to defraud the Government of taxes on distilled spirits, has been fully and unconditionally pardoned by the President. T. S. Lambert, President of the American Popular Life Insurance Company, of New York. has been found guilty of swearing to false statements in regard to the condition of the company. Two hundred delegates to the National Reform Convention, to secure the ex press acknowledgment of God in the Constitution of the United States, assembled at Rochester. N. Y., on the 18th. The Legislature of South Carolina has ratified. by over a two-thirds vote, the amendment to the State Constitution levying an annual tax of two mills upon all the taxable property in the State, for the support of free schools. The United States Treasury held, on the 22d, $346,277,550 to secure the National Bank circulation. and $13,988,000 to secure the public deposits. National Bank circulation outstanding: Currency notes, $320,253,763; gold notes, $1,432,120. A few nights since the children of Mrs. Catherine Ryan, of Randolph, Mass., were suffocated by coal gas, and also Mary E. Burry, who was spending the night with them. Mrs. Syan herself was alive when discovered, but was not expected to recover. Thomas Rooney's house at West Point. N. Y., was burtied, a few days ago, and two children. aged;three and five years. perished in the flames. They were locked in the house during the absence of their parents, and were found, lifeless and charred, clasped in each other's arms. W. F. Endicott, President of the late . Central National Bank of Chicago, is found to be a defaulter and has left that city for parts unknown. It seems that, like Spencer, he unloaded by selling to the bank his capital stock for cash, leaving behind worthless notes. It was thought. on the 18th, that stockholders would realize nothing and depositors in the suspended concern little. A boy named Willie Hopkins, ten years old. was recently abducted from his home at Braddock's Fields, near Pittsburgh, Pa., by a man supposed to be a tramp. He is said to be a pretty boy, with full face, light complexion and hair, and rather stoutly built. The abductor is a tall man, with face pitted with small-pox. The parents of the boy are in great distress over his disappearance, the mother being almost insane from grief. The troubles in El Paso County, Tex., are said to have grown out of a dispute as to the ownership of extensive salt mines in that section, at which the people of the surrounding country have obtained salt from time
