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News of the Week. Boston. Counterfeit trade dollars are circulating in Canon Farrar calls Scotland the most drunken country in the world. A bill has been introduced in the Pennsyl vania House making cremation a crime. Tennessee's illicit distillers are reported to be officials. preparing for a battle with the revenue Henry Disston, the great saw manufacturer of Philadelphia, died of paralysis or Saturday evening last. Captain Crapo will shorten his dory six feet and eross the Atlantic again if somebody will guarantee him $5,000. Mr. Samuel W. Small ("Old Si,") of the Atlanta Constitution, will to Paris as member of Commissioner McCormick's staff. Dr. Edward Tallman, convicted of malpraetice, was sentenced at Poughkeepsie, on Sat urday, Sing. to four years' imprisonment at Sing Mr. Bayard Taylor, the new minister to Germany, his daughter and "Mark Twain' and family will sail for Europe on the 11th prox. Mining has been resumed by the principal companies in the coal regions. Ifthey could only resume the old prices they would be happy. Lynchburg, Va., has nearly one hundred tobacco factories in operation, giving not less than 5,000 persons constant and lucrative employment. A colored man, named Taylor, detected in attempting to commit felonious assault upon a little girl, at Pilot. Grove, Mo., on Sunday, was shot dead. The manufacturers of Fall River, Mass. voted on Saturday to reduce the wages of their operatives 15 per cent., commeneing on the 1st of April. Michael La Rose, "a notorious burglar,' was shot and seriously wounded while trying to break into a house at Charlesburg, near Quebec, early on Saturday morning. The wool hat manufactory of Bollman, Hendel & Co., at Adamstown, Pa., wasburned OR Saturday. Loss $25,000. Over 100 fire. men are thrown out of employment by this Our exports of animal products during February -bacon and hams, pork, pickled and fresh beef, lard, tallow, butter and $13,655,218. cheese-were valued in the aggregate, at The announcement is madethat Mr. Charles Stowe, a son of Harriet Beecher Stowe, is to marry next May Miss Laura Pratt, a daugh ter of the Collector of Newport, R. I. The Secretary of the Treasury last week purchased enough silver bullion to run the mints about five weeks. It is said the price paid for the bullion is less than was expected by the sellers. Thirty-three firemen were discharged from the Chicago fire department, recently, and eighty five policemen. Reductions in other departments will continue until the expenditures come within the resources. There are now seventy two postmistresses in the United States, one of whom, Miss Nina Hodges, in the Des Moines postoffice, is said to have handled and paid out four million dollars and cent has fallen short. The run on the Savings Banks in Boston continued on Saturday During Friday and Saturday the Five Cent Savings Bank paid out $180,000, the Provident Savings Institu about $160,000, and the Suffolk Bank $27, 000. The Franklin Bank enforced the sixty days rule. Hayti manages to keep pace with St. Do mingo in the revolution business. The arse nal and fort in Port au Prince are now in the hands of the insurgents, and are being bom barded by the navy, which remains loyal to the government, if there is anything there worth the name. Dates from Rio Janiero to the 22d of Feb ruary state that the yellow fever was quite severe there, fatalities among the shipping reaching twenty five to thirty daily. Strin gent quarantine regulations are being enforced. Other fevers prevail in the city, where the mortality averages fifty daily. Major Robert P. Archer, an Honorary Commissioner from Virginia to the Paris Exposition, died suddenly in Richmond, on Monday, at the age of 60. He exhibited a process of manufacturing tobacco at the Centennial Exhibition, and was perfecting arrangements to exhibit the same process in Paris. A Connecticut Yankee named Ritchel, is said to have solved the problem of serial lo comotion. He uses lindrical balloon that is propelled by fans that make 3,500 revolutions a minute, and in a closed room the machine seems to work. How it would an swer in an adverse gale, is a very different matter. St. Patrick's Day parades took place on Monday in Philadelphia, New York, Wash ington, San Francisco, Richmond, Va., Albany, Quebec, and various other cities. In Washington, the parade was unusually fine, and included two societies from Baltimore. In passing the White House the procession was reviewed by the President and Secretary Schurz. On Saturday, City Treasurer Kilgore, of Pittsburg, secured a brass band, seated the members in a huge wagon, and had the ve hicle conveyed through the streets by a team of six horses. The wagon was decorated with flags and banners, and on the sides was printed the announcement, "Pay your taxes before the 1st of April if you desire to save 10 per cent. A meeting of Cubans opposed to surrender to the Spanish Government was held in New York on Saturday. President Juan Arnao presided, and General Cespedes, Senor Aguil era and others made addresses urging the continuance of the struggle in Cuba, and sug gesting the fitting out of an expedition for that island. A committee of fifteen was ap pointed to select a revolutionary committee of five to look after the Cuban interest. The Louisiana Supreme Court on Monday rendered decision in the appeal case of Thomas C. Anderson for new trial, setting aside the verdict of the inferior court on the ground that the returns of Vernon parish were not susceptible of forgery, and ordering his discharge. This ends the prosecution of members of the Returning Board. The Su preme Court ordered the release of Ander son, but this has not been obeyed, the State having five days to ask for rehearing Joseph Lapage, the murderer of Josie Langmaid, young school girl, was hanged at Concord, N. H., on the 15th. He con fessed the deed, and also to the murder of Miss Ball, school teacher. Gus Johnson, the murderer of a colored ferryman, was hanged in Rome, Ga. Thursday The exe cution was public, and a large crowd was present. Johnson showed no sign of fear and ascended the scaffold with cigar in his mouth. He confessed to four murders. He died in seventeen minutes of strangulation. A singular affair recently occurred at Mad ison, Ind. A lot of little colored boys were playing court, and sentenced one of their number to be hung He was accordingly strung up by his heels to door knob and left there, while one of the executioners went down stairs and told his mother of the affair. She went up stairs and found the boy terrible condition, with blood gushing from his nose and mouth. He had lost his eye sight, and on the next day he died. William Hayward and Daniel Dwyer, con victs in the Massachusetts Penitentiary, at Boston, broke from the guards Sunday morn ing, while passing through the yard, ran to the third story of the workshop, and fastened the door behind them. They then ran along a plank projecting from a window The inner end of this plank being fastened under steam pipe it formed spring board. From this Hayward leaped up over the wall and alighted safely on the ground outside Dwy er missed his footing and fell to the ground, breaking a leg and receiving other injuries. Hayward was subsequently recaptured in Somerville. The steamers for Europe from New York, on Saturday last, were six in number, all with full cargoes. In some instances the
