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THE WORLD'S WORK.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TOLEDO, O., is threatened with another post-office war.
STERLING, Ill., has elected an anti-license ticket.
THE Wisconsin legislature adjourned sine die March 5th.
THE national greenback convention met in Chicago March 4th.
THE supreme court of Iowa meets at Council Bluffs on the 17th inst.
THE City bank of Oswego, N. Y., has gone into the hands of a receiver.
THE California constitutional convention after a long session, adjourned sine die March 3rd.
A BOILER explosion at Stockton, California, on the 22nd of Feb., resulted in the death of six or eight men.
THE amount of claims already me! against Archbishop Purcell amount to $3,600,000.
THE net earnings of the Union Pacific railroad for the year ending Dec. 31, 1878, were $7.931,672.
THE president's veto of the Chinese bill is strongly denounced by the California press.
THE Lincoln public school at Ottumwa, Iowa, was destroyed by fire March 4th. Loss $20,000; insured for $11,000.
An explosion of sulphuric acid near Pottsville, Pa., March 5th, resulted in the death of three men.
THE new director of the mint, Hon. H. C. Burchard, of Ill., took possession of his office March 5th.
GOV. ROBINSON, of New York, has presented to the senate formal charges against the state superintendent and recommends his removal.
An anti-liquor license ticket has been nominated for city officers at Champaign, Ill., headed by Colonel Frank Wilcox for Mayor.
CALIFORNIA will not be represented in the lower branch of congress at the extra session, the election for members not being held until next September.
NOTWITHSTANDING the women of Sabula, Iowa, labored hard in unison with the temperance men, to elect the temperance ticket on the 4th inst., the license men carried the day.
REV. SANFORD HUNT, of Buffalo, has been chosen senior book agent and publisher in charge of the Methodist Book Concern, in place of the late Rev. Reuben Nelson.
IT is reported from Winnepeg that the Dominion government are going to prevent American boats running in the Canadian waters of the Red river this summer.
THE Irish-Catholic societies of Toronto, Canada, resolved to walk as usual on St. Patrick's day this year, and intend inviting all Irish Protestants to join the procession.
THE academy at Lake Forest, Ill., (preparatory department of the Lake Forest University), north of Chicago was destroyed by fire March 1st. Loss about $12,000.
A DES MOINES special of March 4th says the city and town elections held yesterday, so far as heard from, show decided gains for the license party over the prohibitionist, this generally being the work of exciting local questions.
A "CENTENNIAL SAFE" containing a lot of photcomsumguisned "men" was locked up at Washington the other day, and it is not to be opened till 1976, and then by the president of the United States.
By the bursting of a kerosene lamp at Fond du Lac, Wis., last week, a young woman by the name of Josephine McHugh was fatally burued and died in horrible agony. She was an employe of the Patty House.
THE very Rev. Martin Kundig, vicar-general of Milwaukee, died of congestion of the heart in that city March 6th, aged 74. He was born in Switzerland, came to Milwaukee in 1842, and had been vicar-general 15 years.
NEW HAMPSHIRE will be represented by only one senator in the extra session of congress, unless the governor shall appoint a senator to act until the legislature cau elect a successor to Mr. Wadleigh, whose term of office expired March 4th.
It is said that the Texas Pacific lobby will move on the new congress, and endeavor to get a bill passed at the extra session. The leaders assert that the new congress will be more favorable to their scheme than the one which has just expired.
THE republican state convention of Michigan met at Lansing March 6th, and nominated the following candidates: For associate judge of the supreme court, the present incumbent, James V. Campbell, of Detroit; for regents of the universiiy E. O. Grosoenors, of Jonesville, and James Shearer, of Bay City.
In the Illinois senate nineteen bills are pending for the regulation of gas, express, telegraph, and other companies, in most of which the power of the legislature to regulate, suspend and oversee, as well as to fix specfiic rates of charges, is asserted in the most decided terms.
A RICHMOND, Va., dispatch says the state-debt-paying party in the legislature was forced to yield, and the bill was killed. Nothing can therefore be done toward paying the debt until another legislature is convened. It is thought the governor will call an extra session.