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News of the Day. GENERAL NEWS. GOLD closed in New York yesterday evening at 1393/4. LATE Georgia and Mississippi advices represent the corn crop as very fine, and the cotton crop will be tolerable if the weather continues good. IN the match game of base ball between the freshmen nine of Yale and the freshmen nine of Harvard, played on Thursday morning, the Yale nine won. Score, 38 to 19. FREDERICK BAKEMAN, of the village of Freedom, in Cattaraugus county, N. Y., celebrated his one hundred and seventh birthday on the 4th instant. HON. CONSTANT Cook, of New York, has offered a subscription of $20,000 towards building a new church edifice (Episcopal) for St. Thomas' Church, at Bath, N. Y. LAST year eleven churches in Boston gave $259,000 for benevolent objects, and three hundred and eighty-two churches in the State gave $400,000. THE Boston Congregationalist and Recorder laments the unusual amount of drunkenness in that city on the 4th of July, in spite of prohibition. THE trustees of the old Charleston Savings Institution have been made to refund $2500 claimed by loyal depositers, on an order from General Sickles, threatening them with imprisonment unless they produced the money. THE great Shipbuilders' Bank case, at Rockland, Maine, which has been pending more than seven years, has been decided in favor of the stockholders. This action was brought by the receivers against the stockholders collectively to recover about $85,000 and interest for ten years, making this time over $135,000. AN exchange says that a Western man recently removed the remains of his son from a cemetery at Fortress Monroe, and after getting safely home he wrote to the executive officer as rollows: "The old coffin in which my son was buried was left in the dead house. I want to know how much the Government is going to allow me for it?" HARPER'S Weekly contains a "railroad measure," as a simple table of a new system of arithmetic. It begins: "I excursion train equals 2 accidents; 2 accidents equal 1 official inquiry; 1 official inquiry equals 1 signalman discharged," &c. This is not altogether correct. It requires at least twice two accidents to make one official inquiry. THE number of children in Connecticut between the ages af four and sixteen years is set down at 118,018, and the number of public schools at 1,651. The school fund amounts to $2,043,025, and the total amount expended last year was $716,203. The average wages per month of male teachers, including board, is $45, and of temale teachers, $23.
