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the in nung United States during 1877. -There are 41,656 pupils in attendance on the public schools of Chicago. -Five steamers salled from New 1 ork : m on Saturday, carrying heavy freights. OT et -The Vine street brewery, Cincinnati, was damaged $15,000 by fire. on Satur167 day, oh -The mortuary list for Chicago for at OF 1877 foots up 8,026, being 547 less than O in 1876. -It is the Oriental savings bank, of IT New York city, not the Oriental bank, which is closing up its business. Il -Abraham Lipman, a well known nt pawnbroker at Chicago, has failed. Liaag W bilities, secured, $60,000, unsecured. $80por 000. W. et -At Memphis, Tenn., a negro teams hyi ster was found frozen to death on the sp. 1 morning of the 4th. ed aar -One of the Murphy orators refused 0 to speak at Sloux City because the All an people would not pledge themselves not rat to drink cider. or by -The suspension of Clemont, Morton an ( & Co., of Chicago, creates a had feeling in the woolen trade at New York. It Ful was a surprise. -The United States steamer Kears [ sage floated off Beacon Ledge, in Portstio mouth (N. H.) harbor, on the rise of the rear tide last Friday night. fide inf -The merchants' national bank, of ion dis Chicago, has paid out $40,000 in silver G. itv trade dollars within the past ten days, at edio a profit of $2,000 bus hos me -The Grand Trunk has purchased the and Chicago and Lake Huron road-rolling yo 0398 stock and all-and before spring, Chicas with go will have another outlet east. that 6b W my -There were 1.166 deaths by accident, 1 y disaster, suicide or violence im New York rept is city during 1877. There were 162 suiwi of e cides, 48 murders and 164 drownings. 16 -August Hemenway, class of 1875, Harvard college, has given that instituC tion sufficient money to erect a new gymnasium that will accommodate three hundred persons. IT -Louis E. Dorion, city treasurer of Quebec, has been suspended for advances fier to of public money, illegally made, to Peton eleb owd buildings. & Co., contractors on the new parliament bat of is -Four passenger conductors on the yo Galena division of the Chicago & Northvart western railroad have been caught a n't "knocking down," and discharged. It is sa reported that others are involved, and ife will be discharged. hest are for -The railroads sold under forcelosure Unit during the past year numbered fifty-tour. of F embracing 3,875 miles, and possessed capital stock of $79,045,700, their bonds 00 F and debts amounting to $198,984,400. -In Carthage, Mo., there is a row rell between two rival factions of the tempersh to ance people. One wears the red and the rgat on other the blue ribbon, and each claims the to be the only genuine reform club." th $1 pay -A verdict wasentered in Judge Blod inst gett's court at Chicago, Saturday SAI rume against Chauncey T. Bowen for $45.000 the debt, and $4,093.98 damages. This suit ben be was bought upon 455 shares of stock of heir PEC the Cook county national bank of Chi IOR eago, standing in the name of Bowen. to r aget you -At Bowling Green, Ky., on the 4th Addre Frank Briggs and Gus Sublett, two colELI ored men, were engaged in shooting paper wads at each other while on CO hunting. Briggs, forgetting to take hi suane Co ram-rod out of his gun, fired and in the at stantly killed Sublett. atiff a -The United States circuit court a MONT Count Chicago has enjoined the St. Louis bee Bland dit of eanning company from making or sellin the article known in
