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demic form in New York City. For the week ended Dec. 24, eighty-two deaths occurred from the disease. HASKELL, HARRIS & Co., private bankers at Hillsboro, III., have suspended, with liabilities of about $115,000 and availa. ble assets of probably less than half that amount. The concern was an old established one, of good repute, but seems to have been run for years with little or no capital. Two men charged with murder, robbery and arson have been lynched in Southampton County, Va. THE steamer Paris C. Brown exploded her main steam-pipe when eighteen miles above Arkansas City, on the 26th, scalding thirteen persons, two very badly. Several rousters jumped overboard, and three are missing, supposed to be drowned. Only one pa-senger was slightly injured. JOHN EDMONDS, an old and respected citizen of Fairmount, Leavenworth County, Kans., died from the carelessness of a young physician. Dr. Coffin, who administered powdered opium by mistake for powdered rhubarb. IN attempting to cross the Kanawha at Charleston, W. Va., Peter Herring and his two sons were drowned. AT Fort Concho, Texas, on the 26th, a street shooting affray occurred between a gambler and a bartender, in which both emptied their revolvers regardless of the passers-by. Mr. John Pendleton, a wellknown citizen, hearing the shooting, came to his door and looked out, when one of the flying bullets struck him in the breast, piercing his heart and causing instant death. TWELVE prisoners èscaped from the Shreveport (La.) Jail on the night of the 27th, by making a breach through the iron cage and then piercing the brick wall of the Jail. Three of the escaped prisoners were under sentence of death for murder, two of them to be hanged on the 30th. It was believed they would he recaptured. MRS. M.F.KAPPEGE, of New Orleans, gave her four-year-old boy a pistol to play with, at the same time showing him how to aim it. The child pointed the pistol at his mother, it was in some way discharged, and Mrs. Kappege fell to the floor dead, the bullet having pierced her brain. Of course she 'did not know it was loaded." A SANGUINARY encounter is reported from Round Oak, Jones County, Ga. A young farmer named Jack Wm. Gray interfered with a negro dance and was fatally stabbed by three negro brothers, Bob, Henry and Aik Jackson. Gray fired into the brothers, killing all three, one dying on the spot, one before reaching the door, and the other a few hours later. Gray crawled out of the house and died on the steps. A TERRIBLE tragedy is reported from Bellefont, Ala., a small station on the M. & C. Railroad, forty-four miles from Chattanooga, resulting in the probably fatal shooting of W. D. Martin, his son John, and C. M. Fennel. They are the only merchants in the place, and the difficulty originated through jealousy. IT is reported that a Col. L. M. Bell, residing in Ashley County, Ark., .near the Louisiana line. has been hung by a mob. It is alleged that Bell habitually abused his wife, an estimable woman, and that on Christmas she died a victim of his cruelty. Her death aroused the neighborhood, and the sequel was the lynching of her husband. THE capture and execution of Chief Arzate, long a terror of Presidio Del Norte and vicinity, and thirty of his band, near Chihuahua, Mexico, is confirmed. AT Biddeford, Me., on the 28th, Lean Moore, a young man, shot and killed his affianced, Miss Belle Cushman, and then put a bullet through his own head. Moore was a clerk in a Boston store, at home on a holiday visit. Miss Cushman was a schoolteacher. Each was about twenty-one years of age. Their families are highly respectable. It is supposed jealousy was the cause of the tragedy.
