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Minor Telegrams. Two hundred Mormon apostles having formed a congregation in London, their meeting was broken up last night by a mob. Emery O. Bean has been appointed receiver of the Winthrop Savings Bank. Depositors will receive forty-five cents on the dollar. The National Council of the United American Mechanics meet in annual session in Boston to-morrow. Delegates from every state in the Union have already arrived. Captain Alons, of the British ship, Cordova, in attempting to jump off the Mobile train, in New Orleans, fell and was instantly killed, the train passing over him. Ned O'Baldwin, the Irish giant, was shot twice this morning by his partner, in a New York drinking saloon. The wounds are mortal. Columbus A. Crooks, of the firm of Sinclair & Co., upholsters and paper hangers, cut his throat in Baltimore yesterday. No cause assigned. Hon. Jefferson Davis was in St. Louis yesterday. His trip to Colorado has greatly improved his health. A break has occurred in the line of the Direct Cable Company on the fishing banks between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Steps have been taken to repair the break. The New York youth, charged with breaking into his parents' apartments and stealing eight dollars, has been convicted and sentenced to twenty years' hard labor. The workmen at Fall River, Massachusetts, have not been molested and the mills are working. The strikers are making certain propositions which, it is believed, will be accepted by employers and full work resumed. The steamers Harris, from Brazos, and Mary, from Rockport, are in port at Breshar, Louisiana, and report no damage at either of the points, although great destruction of life and property occurred in the near neighborhood.