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NEWS PARAGEAPHS. The invested funds of Harvard University amount to $3,138,128, and the gross yearly income Is $218,715. John Lick, the BOL of the deceased millionaire, is an illegitimate descendant, but proposes to contest the will of his father and break up the trusts if he can. He was left $150,000 by the eccentric old Californian. The Methodist Episcopal Missionary Committee, among others, made the following appropriations: Nevada, $2,500; Rocky Mountains, $6,000; Southern Calirornia, $2,000. The Younger Brothers were brought into court at Fairbault, Minnesota, on the 20th inst., and contrary to expecta tions, plead guilty to the indictment for the murder of Haywood, the Northfield bank cashier. There was no excitement or demonstration. After a vain attempt by the counsel for the prosecution to secure a jury, who, under the Statute, can pass the death sentence in a case like this, the Judge sentenced them to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for life. It is proposed in Boston to raise $50,000 to secure a scries of Moody and Sankey Meetings. The celebrated bull, Duke of Airdrie, the property of Emory Cobb, of Kanka. kee, Illinois, died recently. He was valued at $20,000. John Prouty, an old and widely-known farmer in Cass county, Illinois, failed, with liabilities of over one hundred thousand dollars. His assets are less than than fifty thousand. E. H. Alden has been appointed Agent for the Indians of Fort Berthold Agency, 10 Dakato, yice C. M. Darling resigned. The steamship Russia, which arrived from Liverpool last week, brought £280,000 of gold coin. The flow of water from Sutro tu: n lis 225 minets' inches. Number of feet driven during the month of October is s 321; total teet driven in the tunnel, 14,835. e Ta'em, of Lewis and Clarke will be the only Republican in the Upper House of the Legislature this winter. 3 ) A gentleman who has interviewed 3 Tweed, in answer to inquiries, said: "He B is crushed and broken in spirit, has lost 3 his old buoyancy and defiant spirit. He is suffering from pleurisy now, and is 1 actually ill. He seemed wearied, and only anxions to know about his old ac: quaintances. He is entirely in the dark as to what to do, and is even without I legal advice. He needs medical advice more than anything else now. f 8 The total number of troops ordered to , Washington is from 800 to 900. Tois int cludes the companies of batteries now here and tour companies of infantry which has orders to come east from Fort : Sill. 8 Tilden's majority in Indiana, 5,424. The Marine Bank of St. Paul has suspended. The President has signed a pardon for : Wm. O. Avery, now confined in the pen8 itentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., for 6' complicity in the whisky frauds. The , friends of Wm. McKee express absolute e confidence that he will be pardoned witha in a day or two.
