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Bishop Johns, dissolving his connection with 
the ministry of that church “ on account of the 
growing tendencies of the Episcopal body 
throughout the United States to ritualistic 
practice,” For the present the rector does not 
join tiie Cummins movement, although he 
approves It. 
A lad In Worcester, Mass., has been flned $5 
and costs, amounting to $14.50, for stealing a 
copy of u daily newspaper from the door of a 
subscriber. 
It la rumored that Harry W r Genet, who es¬ 
caped from the Sheriff of New York after his 
conviction and before receiving sentence, is in 
Montreal, 
A poor man recently killed his two children 
in London, being utterly destitute, and feeling 
a grout repugnaneo at the idea of their being 
sent to the work-house. He then gave himself 
up to the authorities. 
The Iowa Senate has adopted a resolution 
asking Congress l o provide for amending the 
U. S. Constitution so as to forbid members from 
increasing (heir pay during their term of office. 
The State debt of Rhode Island, according to 
the Governor's messsage, is $2,563,500. 
At Bennington, Vt„ Jan. 20, the leakage of a 
gasoline pipe and the ignition of gas from the 
boiler fire caused tho explosion of H. E. Brad¬ 
ford's knitting mill and ihc death of eight 
women and severe injury of several others. 
Saratoga Lake has been selected for tho next 
college regatta. 
The Chief of Police of Boston believes it to be 
gross injustice to punish women for “ night 
walking” while men are not amenable to the 
law- for the same offense. So it is. 
The Supremo Court of Mississippi has decided 
the general elect ion in that Stat e last November 
constitutional. 
Tho other day t he curtains in tho house of 
Bret Hat to, in Morristown. X. .T., took fire, and 
in pulling them down Mr. Hurto disengaged 
the heavy cornice, which fell, striking him on 
tho head and inflicting a painful hun. The lire 
was put. out. So was Bret. 
Louisiana, which before the war was behind 
Bomo of tho other States in tho production of 
cotton, now surpasses every other State. Its 
crop this year will be 1,200,000 bales of the 
3,000,000 bales raised in all the South. To do this 
the State has largely abandoned the cultivation 
of sugar. 
WHAT SOCIETIES ARE DOING. 
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contrary, any subscriber, or other reader of the 
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By showing a number of the RUBAI., and talking to 
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We will send all requisite aids, hut If not received 
you neod not wait their arrival—and a little Timely 
Effort will secure you a VahtahU Premium, 
President White of Cornell University hav¬ 
ing been reported as advocating the establish¬ 
ing of a National University at. Washington, 
denies that lie is in favor of such an institution 
but Is in favor of a more complete system of 
Industrial education in the various States. 
The reputable newspaper correspondents at 
Washington are demanding that Director-Gen¬ 
eral Goshern shall at once make public rim 
names of the correspondents or pretended 
correspondents who he asserted demanded 
money from him for advocating the legislation 
a.ikedfrom Congress in behalf of the Centennial 
Exhibition. 
The Boston Homeopathic Medical Society 
have appointed a committee to consider tho 
project of asking tho churches to take up a 
collection ooe Sunday in the year for the differ¬ 
ent hospitals. This plan has been very suc¬ 
cessful in England, 
Tho Methuselah of horses is still living, 
hearty, fat and active, in South Durham, Vt. 
He is the property of a Mrs. Pinkham, and in 
hla 42d year. Every fair Sunday lie may be 
seen on ills way to church—an example to all 
old horses. 
Tho “ Mystic Crew’" of Memphis have issued 
invitations to their Mardt Gras festivities in 
the name of King Mom us. 
The Trustees of the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology at Cambridge advise the discontinu¬ 
ance of the office of Director of tho Museum— 
a post which only Prof. Agassiz could fill. 
The Rev. Dr. Do Koven of Racine is now 
thought to be the most prominent candidate 
I or the Bishopric of Wisconsin. 
Ex-Gov. Henry A. Wlsoof Virginia is danger¬ 
ously ill. • 
Senator Carpenter, in a two days speech has 
been exposingt.be mal-ad ministration of public 
affairs in the United States Senate. 
There is a good deal of protesting on the 
part of the Territorial Authorities of the Dis¬ 
trict. of Columbia against any Congressional 
investigation of their administration. There 
6 eeins to be abundant reason for such inves¬ 
tigation. 
Gov. Kellogg of Louisiana has made a requi¬ 
sition upon the Governor of the District of 
Columbia fort he person of Ex-Gov. Warmouth. 
It ts a phase of the Louisiana squabble and 
js reported to be “ an effort to carry out a des¬ 
perate plan for the suppression of important 
letters compromising Kellogg, Judge Durell 
and Attorney-Gen. Williams," 
A dispatch from Minneapolis, Minn., June 
30, saysThe millers of this city lately sent 63 
barrels of flour to the sufferers by the grass¬ 
hoppers In tho southwestern counties. To-day 
they sent 110 barrels more. The suffering is 
very severe. The Legislature has appropriated 
$5,000 to the sufferers, and will probably loan 
them $25,000 on two, three, and four years time 
wli hou l. interest. The Eastern stockholders of 
the 8t. Paul and Sioux City Railroad have con¬ 
tributed $1,500. 
The inhabitants of Lynchburg, Va., are very 
proud of the fact that on the same day were 
elected two United States Senators, hoth form¬ 
er residents of Lynchburg and natives of the 
county— Thurman of Ohio, and Withers of Va. 
On the same day. Gov. Allen of Ohio, also a 
native of Lynchburg, was inaugurated Gov¬ 
ernor of Ohio. Furthermore, on the same day, 
three citizens of Lynchburg " received com¬ 
plimentary votes at Richmond for United 
States Senator." 
A little boy In Dubuque who found $3,200 and 
honestly returned the money to the owner, re¬ 
ceived as a reward an old silver watch and a 
15 air of skates. 
Two cleaver-men in Wilmington, Ohio, the 
other day, receiving permission to show what 
they could do In cutting up hogs, actually dis¬ 
membered 100 good average animals in 30 
minutes.* They now offer to perform the same 
feat In 25 minutes. 
The coai mines or Arizona snow remarkable 
development. The coal measures are found to 
cover almost the entire foot-hills from tho 
northern to the southern boundaries of the 
Territory, and to reach well out Into the plains. 
A Western exchange says that the railroads 
entering at Chicago have apparently settled 
down to the determination to utterly disregard 
the railroad law passed at the last session of 
tho Illinois Legislature. They have secured 
able lawyers, and declare that they will not 
stop short of the United States Supreme Court 
in testing the constitutionality of the law. 
The dinner-hell once owned by the mother 
of George Washington was recently sold at 
auction. It hears date 1607, weighs six pounds, 
and is said to have a “sweet, silvery sound," 
as do dinner-bells in general. 
Judge Poland’s proposition to amend the 
rules sq as to prevent unpleasant investigation 
by referring all Inquiries to standing commit¬ 
tees does not meet with much favor outside of 
Congress. 
Many of Mr. Grant’s Victoria Colony in 
Kansas have left him and taken up Govern¬ 
ment land, which they can get for nothing, 
while Mr. Grant sells at $5 to $10 per acre. 
The degree of risk in traveling on English 
railways is evidently not very great. Last year 
there were 400,000,000 passengers, and of these 
only 1,500 suffered from accidents. . 
J. T. Latone, Rector of St. Matthews Episco¬ 
pal Church, Wheeling, W. Va., has addressed 
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Inducing some active, wide-awake nod influential 
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CURRENT TOPICS 
A Meteor In Nevada. 
A METEOR Of uncommon brilliancy was seen 
at Virginia City, Nev., about 6 o'clock on tho 
evening of Jan. 0,1871. A spectator, describing 
it, says, that suddenly there came a flash of 
light., so dazzilngly white and bright, that. It 
caused him, for an Instant, to close his eyes. 
Opening his eyes, almost instantly ho beheld 
railing perpendicularly from tho heavens, a ball 
ol what seemed white Ore, of intense brilliancy', 
about the size of a wash tub. Tho huge meteor 
descended as swiftly as a flash of lightning, ap¬ 
parently falling directly to the earth. Just 
before it passed down, the meteor divided into 
a great, number of fragments, apparently about 
the size of a man's fist. These, darting and 
showering down from the main globe of Are, 
presented much the appearance of the ribs of 
an umbrella when stripped of Its covering, tho 
Htreaks of Are streaming down on all sides of 
where the main ball or nucleus had been seen. 
Although the meteor was of a pure, dazzling 
white color. It threw' a. bright blue glare upon 
the buildings. 
FOREIGN NOTES 
The elections in Ontario and Quebec have 
resulted iii returning a large majority for the 
now Go . eminent. Si" John A. Macdonald was 
elected, however, by » majority of 46. 
A telegram from the City of Santo Domingo, 
says:—"Gen. Gonzales, the temporary ITesi- 
dent of the Republic, accompanied by his Cab¬ 
inet, arrived in the capital on the 18th inst. 
They were received with much enthusiasm by 
the populace, and a Tc I)mm was sung in the 
Cathedral. Tranquility continues, and political 
refugees are returning to the country." 
Tho Parliamentary Campaign in England is a 
lively ono. Mr. Gladstone Is reported a speak¬ 
ing from the hustings, bareheaded In the midst 
of mist and fog. Mr. Odger is a candidate for 
Parliament from Southwark, and ids friends, 
Jan. 26, broke up a conservative meeting, taking 
possession of the platform by force. The Con¬ 
servative candidate in Abingdon was mobbed 
and stoned by the Liberals the same day. 
In Japan, Jan. 14, Minister Iwakura, while 
returning from the palace of the Mikado, was 
attacked by a party of assassins and slightly 
wounded. 
MM. Elmo Mario Caro, Alfred Mezieres and 
Alexandre Dumas wero elected members of the 
Freuoh Academy Jan. 29. 
The Committee of the British Board of Trade 
created to inquire into tho collision between 
the Loch Earn and French steamer Vllle du 
Havre acquit the captain and crew of the Loch 
Earn of all blame, they having strictly followed 
tho steering and sailing rules governing all 
ships at sea.’ 
The Kiug of Saxony, suing personally—that 
is, as a private individual—has commenced an 
action against, the Polttik of Prague for libel. 
Tho Baroness Burdet-Coutts has been pre¬ 
sented with the freedom of the City of Edin¬ 
burgh. 
Queen Victorias eldest grandson, Prince 
Frederick William of Germany, is 15 years old, 
and lately passed nu excellent examination In 
his studies at Berlin. 
Advices from Havana, Cuba, dated Jan 29. 
state it to be the general expectation that the 
Captain - General will formally declare the 
Island in a state of siege and that a heavy con¬ 
scription of creoles will follow. Jovellar is 
quoted as saying that he will finish the insur¬ 
rection this year or it will finish him. Twenty 
thousand more men are regarded necessary and 
if Spain cannot send them they must be ob¬ 
tained on the Island. 
The Government of the Province of New¬ 
foundland resigned Jau. 30. 
The result of the elections wbich have so far 
taken place in Great Britain is unfavorable to 
the Liberals. Of 18 members returned during 
the week. 28 are Conservatives. The Conserva¬ 
tives, with one exception, have been victorious 
In all the olections where they wore formerly 
successful, and in addition, they have elected 
their candidates in eight boroughs represented 
by Liberals in the last Parliament, 
The Ohio Constitutional Convention and 
Chief Justice Waite. 
Chief Justice Watte has resigned his posi¬ 
tion ns President, of tho Ohio Constitutional 
Convention and that body unanimously adopted 
ihefollowing resolution: 
Resolved, That in accepting of the resignation 
of the Hon. M. R, Waite we bear testimony to 
his character as a citizen, Ills distinguished 
qualities as a jurist, and his ability and impar¬ 
tiality as presiding officer of this body. In re¬ 
tiring from this Convention to accept the 
exalted position to which he has been called, 
he carries with him the affect Innat e regard of 
those with whom he has been officially associa¬ 
ted, and we feel confident that In the exercise 
of the duties of the highest Judicial office of 
the Government he trill manifest the same de¬ 
votion to duty and the same faithfulness to 
public trust. 
Trlchlnee Poisoning In Indlana.- 
It is reported that sevenjpersons are lying at 
the point of death at Aurora, Ind., from having 
eaten fresh pork with trichina* in It. Two 
weeks ago. Mrs. Henry Trainer had two hogs 
killed for family use. A few days after eating 
oT the meat Mrs. Trainer and ono of her chil¬ 
dren were attacked with what appeared to be 
typhoid fever. Mrs. Benter, the wife of a Ger¬ 
man minister, visited her, and with two of her 
children partook of the meat. In a few days 
jfil three were attacked with the same symp¬ 
toms, which attracted tho attention of physi¬ 
cians, and upon an examination of the pork 
they found it literary alive with trichinae. Mrs, 
Trainer and three children and Mrs. Benter and 
two children are not expected to live. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS 
Rev. J. P. Newman In Japan. 
The Tribune learns from a private letter from 
Japan, that “the Rev. J. P. Newman, in the 
course of his tour of Inspection among the 
consulates of the world, took a walk one day 
in Yedo, and passing a criminal court, during 
the progress of a trial, attempted to enter. In 
this he was repulsed, so he wrote upon his card, 
‘Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman, Chaplain of United 
States Senate, and Special Friend of President 
Grant,’ and sent, it to ihe authorities inside. 
The card was taken in with great ceremony, 
and soon an answer came back, expressing the 
agonizing grief of the court that, there was no 
one present of sufficiently high rank to receive 
the visit of such an august American." 
Oats, lnish. 219,100 Butter, pkgs. L..00 
Grass seed, bush... l.MOiCUeese, pkgs. 6 009 
Rye. bush. 28,2W|Peanuts, bags. l.itJfi 
Barley, bush.. 11,800.Eggs, bbls.. . i.(t>5 
Roans, bush. 6,625 Malt, bush . 730 
Corn meal, bids.... 5,890] Dressed Hoes. No.. t< .100 
Corn meal. bags... 6.200' Wool bales. S5i 
Beaus and Peas.—Exports of beans for the past 
week, 174 bbls.i do. of peas, 2.260 bmli. The bean 
market expresses u firmer feeling, uiul though no 
important advance can bo noted, there is none of 
the depressed feeling that attended the inarkit re¬ 
cently wlii ii heavy receipts uccflinjiiLnied a dull 
trade- Marrows arc higher, and fine qualities of pea 
and medium ore stronger. Kidney nominal. Cana¬ 
dian peas am steady tit full lute prices. Green peas 
are firm, with a reduced stock. Southern B. K peas 
are very scarce, und sell readily at quotations. 
The quotations are tor newmediuuiB. *2.u5<a'2.15 
forprtme.and $1 Nlft-l/JO for othergnidcs; prime mar¬ 
rowfats. J7.a5fts2.45: other grades, ?2®ZJ,10: prune peu 
beans, *2,85®2.45: do. fair lots down to *2.ir<ai2.20; 
kidney.red, JK-aO(S»3.0c*; kidney whito,C2Jw®2,7&. Peas, 
new Canadian. Id bids.. $1.25&L30! do., in bulk, 
$1.0601.10: Green, new. tl.fi0@L7& olu, ?l.a0@l,6u. 
Southern B. k. peas. $5.4603.50 t* 2 bush.bag. 
Bnlter —There are utterly twe opinions in refer¬ 
ence to the butter trade. Own is given by parties 
who have inn out of stock, and who cannot re¬ 
plenish here without paying 40c- for dairies, and 
Speech by President Crant. 
The members of the National Educational 
Association having called to pay their respects 
to the President of the United States, he said 
to them: 
I am very glad to meet the gentlemen who 
are engaged in so worthy a cause as that of ed¬ 
ucation. and one upon which depends so inti¬ 
mately the stability of republics particularly. I 
believe t hat republics can only stand upon the 
education and enlightenment of the people. 
