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NOTES. Pasteur's hydrophobic Russians are recovering. Asst. Treasurer Capt. Nutt, who was shot by Dukes, in Pennsylvania, has been found $42,000 short in his accounts. The First National bank of Wah peton, Dak., has closed its doors. All the street cars in Pittsburg, Pa., have struck. Snow storms and floods are reported from Dakota. The bank of Minneapolis has just closed its doors. It is said the failure was caused by losses made by officers of the bank, who speculated in wheat. Sir Henry Taylor, the English dramatist, is dead at the age of 86. W. O. Cushman, of Passumpsic, and E. B. Chalmers, of Newbury, are among the newly elected members of the editorial board of the Dartmouth. Stephen Neal, whose mind originated and whose hands penned the fourteenth amendment, is living at Lebanon, Ind. Secretary Lamar is the only member of the Cabinet who is not keeping house. He has a suite of six rooms upon the sixth floor of the Portland Flats. The Portland Flats building has the general appearance of a large ship, and Mr. Lamar lives in the bow of the ship. It is a remarkable fact that in less than one year, 1843-4, Maine had six different governors, which number has probably never been equalled in any State of the Union within a similar period of time, as follows: Governor Fairfield for the year 1843, resigned; Governor Kavanaugh, President of the Senate, 1843, died, succeeded by Governor Parris, President of the Senate, 1843 ; Governor Dunn, speaker of the House, 1843, suspended by Governor Dana, president of the Senute, 1844; Governor Anderson, elected for the year 1844.