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General News Items. Adams & Leonard, Dallas, Tex, bankers, have failed for $300,000. Salt water has spoiled a number of natural gas wells about Pittsburgh. Boston at bay: there are 24,000 young women at the Hub studying music. Prof. Selwyn of Ottawa says the story of another great lake in Northern Quebec is a hoax. A social sensation is to be created in Philadelphia by the "widows' and bachelors' ball." The North Chicago Rolling Mill company will shut down throwing 1,800 men out of employment. There has been found in Manchester a Bible in which are two autographs alleged to be Shakspeare's. The new custom house at Cincinnati has cost $4,641,431, exclusive of the $750,000 paid for the ground. The liabilities of the busted banking house of Hyatt, Levings & Co., Washington, Ind., are $122,000. James W. Bonton, New York, importer of books, has made an assignment with preferences of $28,000. At Dubuque, Judge Utt decided that saloonkeepers could not be enjoined as nuisances be. fore conviction under the prohibitory law. The town of Newington, N. H., has no store of any kind, no liquor saloon, no debt, no law. yer no doctor, and nobody in the poorhouse. A fine new Masonic hall at Watertown, Dak., was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. Judge Gifford, grand master of the territory, was among those present. A meeting of clergymen of all denominations was held in New Haven to arrange for a congress of American churches. The congress will be held there in May, 1885. The founder of the association is Bishop Clark of Providence. A registered certificate of the city of Boston 5 per cent water loan for $100,000 in favor of the United States Trust company of New York, trustee for Caroline S. Astor, has been issued. This is a gift from William Astor to his daughter, who was recently married to Marshal O. Wilson. The convention of Unitarian and Independent churches of Wisconsin elected the following officers: President, Pro. William F. Allen, Madison; secretary, the Rev. J. H. Crooker, of Madison; assistant secretary, Mrs. F. B. Cook, Janesville; treasurer, the Rev. G. E. Gordon, Milwaukee. Carr & Hobson, limited manufacturers of agricultural implements, Bayonne, N. J., have assigned to Norman S. McNellis, without preference. The January statement showed assets of $307,000; liabilities, $100,000. The company's capital is $250,000. They are expected to resume shortly. The annual convention of the Young Men's Christian association of Minnesota and Dakota will be held at Northfield, Minn., Dec. 4-7. President Cyrus Northrop, of the University of Minnesota, will deliver the opening address Thursday evening, and the exercises will close with a farewell service on Sunday evening. The will of Chanfrau, the actor, who died recently, gives the widow all the property, real, mixed and personal, she to give his sister, Mrs. Mary A. Stewart, a home as long as she lives, and his wife's sister, Miss Mary Baker, a home as long as she remains unmarried. The personal property is valued at $45,000, and the real estate at over, $200,000. In the United States circuit court in New York, Judge Brown decided that Ah Kee the Chinese cook arrested for leaving a vessel and coming ashore in violation of the act of congress, was not a laborer as specified in the act, and discharged him with the understanding that he leave the country in thirty days. Upper tendom society in Chicago is shaken to its very foundation by a rumored elopement in high life, extending from Chicago to Boston. The parties to the sansation are Mrs. Mable V. Pervere, the handsome, petite, attractive and highly cultured young wife of Herbert L. Pervere, agent for an Eastern lace house at No. 163 Fifth avenue, and Dudley Hall, of Dudley Hall & Co., tea importers of Boston, who is said to be worth $1,000,000. Judge Deady, in the United States circuit court of Portland, Oregon, issued a mandatory injunction in the case of Wells Fargo & Co. VS. the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The injunction orders that defendant be required to furnish plaintiff such facilities as it furnishes any express company, over all its lines between Oregon and St. Paul, and connecting lines and links, plaintiff giving bonds in the sum of $25,000, that all costs, damages and charges which they may pay or earn will be made good if the end in the case is decided in favor of defendant. The express company is to be granted the facilities ordered on all lines west of Helena on and after the 1st of December.