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DOMESTIC. IT was reported in St. Paul on the 21st that the log-cut in the Northwest this season would fall from fifteen to twenty per cent. short because of the continued warm weather. JOHN LEE, a white man, was taken from the jail at Rockingham, N. C., on the 21st by a mob and hanged for the murder of Solomon Welch. EDWIN GOODE and William Wheeler, residing near Jackson, N. C., fought a duel on the 21st with pistols, both men being fatally wounded. THE names of the United States Grand Jurors recently discharged at Salt Lake City have been published by the Mormon papers SO that they may be boycotted. THE hotel, post-office and a dozen buildings at Bartlett, O., were burned on the 21st, entailing heavy loss. THE explosion of a boiler on the 21st in a distillery at Beaver's Station, O., killed two men, wounded three others, and destroyed property worth $5,000. RICH discoveries of iron ore have recently been made by accident in the Vermillion district of Minnesota. ESCAPING coal gas suffocated Simon Steinberg and his wife at Indianapolis, Ind., the other night. MRS. PRESSLY BERRY was burned to death at Spring Hill, Ky., on the 21st, her clothing taking fire from the stove; and James Starling, a farmer, fell into a vat of boiling water near Chattanooga, Tenn., and was roasted alive. THE issue of standard silver dollars during the week ended on the 19th was 629,211. The issue during the corresponding period of last year was 454,995. THE recent billiard tournament in Chicago between Schaefer, Slosson and Vignaux for the championship of the world resulting in a tie, another contest began on the evenling of the 21st. ANOTHER cave-in on the 21st stopped the work of the men who were endeavoring to rescue the twenty-nine buried miners in the Nanticoke (Pa.) colliery, and all hope of taking them out alive had been abandoned. THE State Veterinarian of Pennsylvania on the 22d found six cattle infected with pleuro-pneumonia in a herd at West Willow. ERASTUS WIMAN, of New York, on the 22d secured the release of F. O. Ross from jail, where he had been detained for six years, by compromising his indebtedness of $90,000. He then secured employment for him and sent for his wife. JOSEPH WALSH, aged fifty years, was crushed to death by machinery in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) sugar works on the 22d, and Frederick Bird, aged forty-five, fell dead from horror at the sight. THREE men were killed in a collision of trains on the 22d near Asheville, N. C., caused by a conductor's watch being one hour slow. THE iron market at Pittsburgh was on the 22d reported materially stronger, and orders for material were plentiful. Prices had been raised, and a further advance was anticipated after the holidays. GUSTAVUS MEISTER, collector for a Buffalo (N. Y.) brewery, absconded on the 22d. and his books showed a deficit of $17,000. THE locked-out employes of the Singer sewing-machine factory at Elizabethport, N. J., numbering 3,500, were set to work on the 22d. THE New York Produce Exchange on the 22d figured the visible supply of wheat and corn at 58,761,953 and 7,338,256 bushels, re spectively. A CITIZEN of New York has brought eight suits in Indianapolis against bondsmen of township trustees who have issued illegal warrants and fled to Canada. THE annual report of the State Auditor of Indiana, which was filed with the Governor on the 22d, showed that the debt of the State was $6,008,608.34. IT was announced on the 22d that nine collieries near Pittston, Pa., would soon suspend operations, throwing fourteen hundred employes out of work. Dow, SHORT & Co., bankers at Syracuse, N. Y., failed on the 22d for over $100,000. PHILLIP BRADY and his wife were killed by the cars a few days ago while attempting to cross the railway tracks in a carriage at Goshen, N. Y. They had only been married four weeks. A SNOW-SLIDE on the 22d near Silverton, Col., did much damage to property and killed two men. MR. PATRICK EGAN says that the Irish National League of America has forwarded $80,000 to Mr. Parnell during the last two months. AT Greenville, Ga., Chunk McLenden during a dispute on the 22d killed his father-indaw, Judge Rufus Johnson, but himself received fatal wounds. AT Chenango, N. Y., nine buildings were burned on the 22d, among them the Che-
