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TIMELY TOPICS. 
Political Trouble In Louisiana. 
The country is excited with recent events 
which have transpired in New Orleans. The 
facts arc, sn far as we can determine them, that 
an irregular attempt was made by the conser¬ 
vative port ion of I ho new lezlslaturo to organize 
that body and fill five seals In It, declared 
vacant by the Returning Board, with their own 
men. This purpose and this action would have 
been legitimate had it been regularly performed 
by customary formula. After the legislature 
had been thus organized and theee five men 
seated, a flio of United Slates soldiers—at whose 
instigation Is yet questionable— removed these 
five illegally-seated new members. Whereupon 
there Is a partisan cry of federal Interferance 
and federal bayonets. There is a congressional 
committee investigating in New Orleans, and 
when that committee reports, if Congress does 
not settle this matter, then the people should 
settle Congress. 
Terrible Railroad Disaster. 
The Through New York Express train which 
left Washington at {1.15 P. M. Thursday night, 
when running at a rate of .15 miles an hour,col¬ 
lided, by the misplacement of a switch, with a 
freight train. The express and mall cars were 
burned. One of the mail agents was burned to 
death in the mail car. Another man in the ex¬ 
press oar was seriously injured. The dead mail 
agent’s name is G. T. Fayman. The mail loss la 
exceedingly heavy — a whole day’s Southern 
mail accumulation at Washington being burn¬ 
ed, including a large number of registered let¬ 
ters. Millions of dollars were also in the ex¬ 
press car, it containing eight or nine safes. It 
is wonderful and providential that considering 
the speed hl which the train was running, a 
greater loss of life did not occur. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The Park Commission of Boston have pre¬ 
pared a report. In which they recommend the 
establishment of a series of parks around the 
city, all of them connected by a broad boule¬ 
vard. 
One result of the restoration of the mon¬ 
archy in Spain is likely to be greater urgency in 
our demands for indemnity under the Wash¬ 
ington protoool. 
Don Alfonso was escorted from Marseilles to 
Valencia In a Spanish iron-dad vessel. He has 
granted an amnesty to the Oarllsts. The King 
of the Belgians has telegraphed his congratu¬ 
lations to Don Alfonso. 
Two great hotels, the United States at Sara¬ 
toga and the Pacific, at Chicago, have gone into 
bankruptcy. 
The New York Legislature organized Jan. 5 . 
Hon. Jeremiah McGuire was elected Speaker 1 
of the Assembly. Tdeut.-Qov. Dorsheimer de¬ 
livered an opening address in the Senate and 1 
Speaker McGuire in the Assembly. 
The case of Theodore Tilton against the Rev. 
Henry Ward Beecher was sent before Judge 
Noiison after a long argument last week. 
The pews In Plymouth Church were rented 
|fyl for $13,000 more this year than last. 
n<1 Arrangements are being made In Washington 
nt for celebrating with unusual ceremony on the 
'ct 25th lust, the anniversary of the birthday of the 
me poet. Burns. Representatives Garfield, Cox, 
ia- Beck and Frye have consented to jjpeak, and 
the; presence of other prominent gentlemen is 
also sought. 
'j? Gov.TUden sent his Message to the Legisla- 
ur t u re Jan. 5. It recommends that, official ac¬ 
ts, countability be strictly enforced; that better 
means for the prosecution of civil and criminal 
suits be provided ; that steps be taken to im- 
prove the water-way of the Krle Canal, &o„ &c. 
[>r The Message advocates steady steps toward 
specie payments—no steps backward—and in¬ 
sists upon the necessity of local self-govern¬ 
ment.. 
The Custom House has begun a suit against 
James Leahy & Co., wealthy dry goods mer¬ 
chants, to recover $300,000, charging frauds on 
the revenue. It Is the first suit under the 
amended revenue law. 
J The n:im ® 8 of Charles H. Bell ..f Exeter and 
l y Benj. F. Prescott of Epping are prominently 
mentioned Id connection with the Republican 
candidacy for Governor of New Hampshire and 
■ the name of P. C. Cheney of Manchester seems 
to be growing in favor. 
it The payment of $715,000 of the Pacific Mail 
.Subsidy fund has been traced to Congressman 
Schumaker, Congressman-elect King, A. H. 
n Whiting, R. it. Irwin and Charles Abort. The 
u latter refused to give nt present the names of 
d persons to whom he paid money. 
Gov. Hurt.runft's message to the Pennsylva¬ 
nia Legislature draws a woeful picture of the 
* depression of commercial interests in the Key¬ 
stone State, and urges rigid economy in legisla- 
tive appropriations. 
r State Senator Graham of Virginlaseemsto be 
y making good bis charge t hat Mr. 8 towell,a Re¬ 
publican Representative in Congress from the 
same State, has sold an appointment to the 
Naval Academy. Messrs. Stowe 11 and Graham 
have long had a sort of political copartnership, 
and these developments are a result of the dis¬ 
solution of the concern. 
k M. D. McCormick, Road Supervisor of the 
Kansas Pacific Railroad, ami also Mayor ol 
- Brookville, has been arrested and committed 
at Ellsworth. Kansas, charged with emnezzling 
large sums of money rroro the Kansas Pacific 
Railroad during the years 1 k«h, ’fit) and '70. 
: A large Arc last week in Orangeburg, S. r., 
destroyed most of the business portion of the 
town. The loss Is about .%*00,(KH>, with but little 
insurance. 
Lori I lard’s new tobacco and snuff'manufac¬ 
tory in I lie square block bounded by Bay, 
Washington, Warren and SI cubori streets, Jer¬ 
sey City, wss opened last wock, with 400 em¬ 
ployes. When completed it will give employ¬ 
ment to over 1,000 person". 
Hon. Hiram R. Roberts, Guberiiatorial candi¬ 
date of the New Hampshire Democrats, is a 
native of Rollfnsford and uj years of age. He 
is hy occupation a farmer, but ha’ filled various 
political, judicial and financial positions. 
Prof. John B. Beale, formerly Principal of 
Public School No. 5, Rochester, N. Y., and 
lately occupying the earne position in Public 1 
School No. 0, Jersey City, died of small-pox on 
the 5th inst. 
Mr. and Mrs. Moses M. Thurston, of Gates, 1 
Monroe county, celebrated their golden wed¬ 
ding Thursday last. < 
Dr. Josiah Crosby, one of the ablest physi- I 
dans and surgeons of New Hampshire, and for < 
many years the leader of the profession in ‘ 
Manchester, died in that city of paralysis on I 
the 7th' inst. > 
Mr. John U. Trevor of Yonkers, who Is Presi- £ 
dent of the Board of Trustees of Rochester » 
University. 1ms given that institution $10,000, < 
in addition to his former donations of $04,000. e 
The Republican Senatorial caucus at Augusta * 
Me., nominated the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin cn s 
the first ballot, he receiving 78 out of 1 IP. votes M 
cast. Israel Washburn received Ik, and the A 
balance were scattering. Judge Peters, the 1 
most prominent candidate opposed to Mr. Ham- 11 
lin, withdrew his name before the ballot. t a 
Samuel Woodward in New York, the ring- J' 
leader of the gang of mail wagon thieves, has 1 
confessed that he has stolen $.'{0 a day on an I ** 
average from the mail hags for the last eight J 
months. 
The Allegheny Trust Company of Allegheny 
City, Pa., suspended payment about noon, the 
7th inst,. The liabilities are stated to be $125,- 
000, to cover which the Company possesses in 
bills receivable and real estate $230,000. 
Prof. w. A. Hammond, M. D., delivered the j, 
first of a series of lectures upon Insanity before pf 
the medical students at the University College 
in Twenty-sixth street. New York, last week. g( 
He said that upon perception, Intellect, emo- §j 
t ion and will depended all the attributes of the g. 
mind the disarrangement of which was insanity. [1( 
Great Britain is said to lie negotiating with w 
our Government for the possession of some gr 
territory which she regards its belonging to of 
British North America. U 
At the Inter-Collegiate Contest, In New York 
city last week, prizes in oratory were won by m 
John C. Tomlinson of the University of New 
York and Walter D. Edmonds of Williams, re 
The Prize Essayists were Allen Marquand of ofl 
Prim-eton and George It. Fitch of Cornell. ( 
President MacMahon of France, declines to : sh 
accept the resignations of his Ministers until an 
he can form a new Ministry from the majority 
which opposed him. He is likely to adopt a 
dissolution policy. 
The contract for the Farragut statue has 
been awarded by a majority of the committee 
(Gen. Sherman and Mrs. Farragut) to Miss 
V’nnie Ream, the Secretary of the Navy dis¬ 
senting. 
Receipts of the Board of Police Cofnmls- 
sioners of Troy the past year, $1(17,033.22; ex¬ 
penditures. $1)8,021.0!); balance, $68,112.13. 
Hon. J. D. Friend, Member of Assembly elect, 
is confined to his residence In Middletown, 
Orange county, suffering from erysipelas. 
Comptroller Albertson of Troy, has sued 
Alderman Hayner. of that city, for $10,000, and 
the Troy IT/iif/ for $20,000 damages for libel. 
Oswego has a lodge of the Knights of Honor. 
It was instituted one evening last week by Dr. 
D. Wilson, supreme dictator of the world. 
The relief committee of Buffalo uax closed 
I fa labors. It has collected #1,556.75 cash, and 
288 packages containing clothing and supplies 
valued at $15,000, for the Kansas and Nebraska 
.sufferers. 
There were 104 fires in Buffalo last year; 
losses, #214,437.70; Insurance, $362,175; receipts 
of the police department, $208,020; expenses, 
$222,374.15. Total value of taxable property, 
$30,710,500; total funded debt, $6,237,1568.90. 
About three miles of the public streets of the 
east side of Rochester have been improved the 
past season, mostly with McAdam or Medina 
stone, and about four miles of flag w alk have 
been laid. The amount of sewers laid will 
greatly exceed either of the above. 
Racine, Wisconsin, has built $250,000 worth 
of building, the past. year. 
During the past season to January 1 , 146,033 
bushels of onions have been shipped from 
Chester, Orange county. 
An entertainment was given in Rochester, 
Monday week, for the benefit of the western 
sufferers, which netted over $1,(XX). 
Yonkers fans expended $600,(XK) in water¬ 
works. 
Troy proposes to put tramps to work on its 
streets. 
lee cutting Is lively on the Hudson at Rliine- 
beck. 
Rochester wants a swing bridge over the 
Genesee Valley canal in West avenue. 
The Fatrona of Husbandry in this State have 
organized a patrons' air] society. 
John C. Haines (Demou nt) has been elected 
Speaker of the House of Representative of Illi¬ 
nois. In the Semite A. A. Glen was elected 
President. This gives the Democrats the or¬ 
ganization of both Houses. 
Two hundred and forty-three persons perished 
on the lakes this year, against 221 in 1673, and 
210 in 1672. The estimated damage to property 
foots tip$3,031,600 against $3,076,000 in 1 * 73 . 
A petrified fragment of what was oiim a red- Gerrit Smith left an estate worth between 
wood tree was lately Pound in Napa county. $"00,000 and $600,000, consisting principally of 
Cal. It Is eleven feet In diameter and sixty- property In Oswego City, w hich will probably 
seven feet long and Is supposed to have been be divided between his two children, 
originally 200 feet In lengt h. The membership of Plymouth Church Is made 
Dr. William E. Rosseter of Rridgeport, Conn., up of 1,504 females and 660 males, which Is not 
has Just died from the effects of Inhaling ether, at variance with the proportions of the sexes 
which he was administering to a patient four in most religious bodies. 
weeks ago. II produced symptoms similar to “ Oleomargarine,’’ or beef butter, is super- 
those of typhoid fever and diphtheria. seded now by the Invention of a French chera- 
Of all the women who served in the war in 1 st, who makes butter by a chemical process, 
various capacities only one was pensioned for without using any fatty matter whatever 
physical disabilities Mrs Isabella Fogg or The Praying Women's Temperance Union of 
Maine, who was seriously injured by a fall in Worcester, furnishes the firemen of that city 
Louisville While engaged in hospital work, with hot coffee at every fire, the aim being to 
She died In Washington last fxmmer. forestall the demand for intoxicating bover- 
ClxciNNATi, Jan. 8 .—Horace B. Gibbs, an agcs. 
employe of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Sir Henry Elliot, the British Ambassador at 
Lafayette Railroad in this city, committed sui- Constantinople, has lodged a complaint with 
cide to-day under peculiar circumstances, the Porte protesting against rho Increasing 
Some two or three years ago he married and slave trade which is being carried on In various 
lived happily until a few days ago, when his parts of the Ottoman Empire in Africa. 
w‘fe died and was hurled at. .Spring Grove. Five boys were recently brought before a 
Since then he has been very melancholy. This Justice in Wheeling, w. Va„ charged with 
morning he engaged a hack and drove to Spring “rolling each other in the slimy mud," and 
Grove. At the entrance he told the driver to were compelled to give bonds not to do so any 
exercise the horses while he visited a grave, more. 
Not returning after some time the hackman The Spiritualists of Michigan have, in con 
searched for him, and found hi* body lying ventio i at Battle Creek, rescinded former res- 
aoross his wife’s grave with two empty derrln- olutious in which free love was endorsed and 
ger- beside il. he having shot himself through declared themselves as a body uncommitted on 
the head. He left a letter staling that he was the subject. ’ 
not. Insane, but that the deed was prompted by The Ncw-Orleaus papers assert that an area 
affection for his dead wife, whom he wished to of two hundred miles up and down the Misds- 
join in the other world, and expressing belief slppi and among the bayous will soon be turned 
that his wife would not have waited a day had into rice fields. This will comprise a good por- 
he died first. tlonof the late flooded district, andis just what 
-- the rice crop needs. In another column we 
FOREIGN NOTES. speak at length on this subject. 
._ , King Kulakaua has, it la said, an income of 
Preparations were making at Barcelona, T'^ZTeZy Sw^rih'rd property'$1 
m. 5, for the reception of King Alfonso. The on every horse, and $5 for every cLriaTe owned 
y of Harvard Colt „ 
?retr a an< 6<1 tl>e Governmerit Trett5Ury 40 ’" 00 '- "-hose death was recently announced^ belonged 
A special dispatch from Berlin to the London medial cover alTthe years exVe^t 
ritlUS fourteen between Queen Elizabeth's time and 
mk buy gold ingots at 1392 marks 50 pfennigs A Chicago couple, after living in matrimonial 
r pound, in order to compete successfully harmony for thirty-two years, were Svorced! 
th the American Government and attract After a two months’ trial they decided that 
Idle termany. This action is taken in view single blessedness was a myth, and were recent- 
tlie resumption of specie payments in the Jy married. 
nted States. The great desert of Africa Is said to have 
vine Alfonso sailed from Marseilles Friday nearly the dimensions of the United States. 
vu'.ha ia - , . , , Caroline Hardy of Grovelurid, Mass., 
til the great P^were have authorized their who has been deaf for years, had her hearing 
iresentatlves at Madrid to enter Into semi- restored recently hy a blow upon the ear from 
clal re ations With the new Government. (be leg of a chair which one of her children had 
Complete returns of the Manitoba election tipped over 
nv that eight Opposition, five Independent, A writer in the Woman's Journal, published 
illO Government members have been elected, in London, saysThere is growing up in 
y The Emperor William, in a speech in reply to 
a New 3 ear congratulations, expressed his grati¬ 
fication at the continuance of peace in Europe 
s which, he said, it was the first duty of the Ger- 
15 man Empire to preserve. 
Gen. Garibaldi has written a letter declining 
- the national grant for his relief because of the 
condition of the Italian finances. He expresses 
his gratitude tn Parliament for voting the 
■ grant. 
The London Times has information that, the 
' governments of Switzerland, Austria, and Bel- 
' ^ um , have adopted stringent measure® against 
the importation into those countries of Ameri¬ 
can potatoes Infected with the Colorado beetle. 
bate accounts from Asia Minor show that 
tiie distress from the famine Is increasing. 
3 here is much disease, and many deaths occur 
daily. 
Eight lives were lost, by a colliery' explosion 
in Ergland. 
A triangular can tost was made In an election 
in 1 In* Department of the Hautes-Pyrences to 
fill a vacancy In the National Assembly, the 
Bonapartism, Republicans, and Septennatlsts 
each having a candidate in the field. 
Trieste is reported to be doing a large and lu¬ 
crative business iri the. manufacture of imita¬ 
tion Now England rum. 
All the great European powers have authoriz¬ 
ed their representatives at Madrid to enterinto 
semi-official relations with the Government of 
King Alfonso. 
President MacMahon Is expected to send 
another message to the French Assembly urg¬ 
ing action on the constitutional laws. 
A despatch from Rotherham, Yorkshire, re¬ 
ports a colliery explosion there, by which eight 
lives were lost. 
Paris It Is estimated, contains 120,000 women 
who are dependant upon their needle for sup¬ 
port. The highest rate of pay Is about 70centa 
per day, while the average pay when fully em¬ 
ployed, is not over 24 cents for 12 houra work, 
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph says that 
Castelar Is preparing to quit Spain before Al¬ 
fonso’s arrival. 
King Alfonso hopes that there will now be 
inaugurated an era of real liberty and peace. 
The Montenegrin Government, has declared 
itself sat isfied with Turkey's action In the Pad- 
goritza affair. 
The Colonial Minister at Madrid, in a tele¬ 
graphic dispatch to Capt.-Gen. Concha, says he 
hopes to be enabled todlspatch reinforcements 
in numbers sufficient to crush alt the hopes of 
the Insurgents, and thatlJXXJmen will sail from 
Cadiz on the 10th of January. 
It Is again rumored that Mr. Disraeli is to 
be married. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
Jan. 5, for the reception of King Alfonso. The 
city Is to be illuminated, and the troops will be 
reviewed hy His Majesty. The Bank cf Spain 
has advanced the Government Treasury 40,000,- 
000 reals. 
A special dispatch from Berlin to the London 
Standard of Jan. 9 says that the Bank Commis¬ 
sion have passed a resolution that the Imperial 
Bank buy gold ingots at 1392 marks 50 pfennigs 
per pound, in order to compete successfully 
with the American Government and attract 
gold to Germany. This action is taken in view 
of the resumption of specie payments in the 
United States. 
King Alfonso sailed from Marseilles Friday 
morning for Barcelona. 
All the great powers have authorized their 
representatives at Madrid to enter into semi¬ 
official relations with the new Government. 
Complete returns of the Manitoba election 
show that eight Opposition, five Independent, 
and 10 Government members have been elected. 
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