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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
C. W. Jones, a Democrat, has been elected 
U. S. Senator from Florida, to succeed Abijah 
Gilbert, Republican, whose term expires on 
the 4th of March next. Mr, Jones is said to bo 
an honest man, and u good lawyer, standing in 
the front rank ol his profession in Florida. 
Representatives of the principal railroads to 
the West met In Chicago last week, and agreed 
to the tariff on through freights proposed by 
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
The franking privilege in a modified form 
came under debate In the lower house of Con 
gress, last week, but the bill failed to pass. 
In tbeU. S. Senate a bill has been introduced 
to provide against the spread of Asiatic Cholera 
by coolie importations. 
The first train was run through the Roosao 
Tunnel Feb. 9. It was composed of three 
gravel cars and a box car filled with 100 passen¬ 
gers, among them being State Engineer Benja¬ 
min Frost, Consulting Engineer Thomas Doane, 
Chlef-Enginov W. P. Granger, etc. The pas¬ 
sage was made in 35 minutes. The track is not 
in a condition fit for the running of regular 
trains as yet. 
Bonj. F. Beekman, who for many years has 
been prominently connected with various 
banking institutions and railroad enterprises 
in this city, died Feb, 9, at the Windsor Hotel, 
agod 50 years. 
The Committee of Ways and Moans have 
decided in favor of additional taxes on whisky, 
tobacco, sug ar, and molasses, and a restoration 
of the ten per cent, on manufactures, but no 
tax on matches. 
The dwelling of Mr. aud Mrs. Richard Daniels 
of Lvtne, Ct„ was burned during their absence 
from home, and their seven children fled half 
dressed and took refuge In a grove near by. 
One girl was frozen to death and two others 
will probably die. 
An at tack was recently made by a party of 
wbite^utho Indians at the Apache Agency; 
sixty horses were stolen, and several of the 
Indians were killed. The Indians deserted the 
agency and hid In the mountains. Squaws 
sent as messengers to the whites were murdered 
by them. 
Gov. Campbell of Wyoming, just appointed 
Third Assistant Secretary- of State, was former¬ 
ly on the staff of Gen. Schofield, and the office 
to which he is now appointed was a voluntary 
tender to him by the President. 
A memorial from Mr. Joseph Brooks, claim¬ 
ing that he is the rightful Governor of Arkan¬ 
sas, has been presented in the Senate. 
Encke's comet has been seen by means of the 
great tilesoopo at Washington. 
A bill ha6 been introduced in the New Jersey 
Assembly authorizing the construction of a 
suspension bridge across the Kill Von Kull to 
Staten Island. 
Further withdrawals of insurance companies 
from the National Board of Underwriters are 
announced. 
The committee on appropriations is in favor 
of abolishing all but three of the navy yards. 
The three held in highest favor are League 
Island, Mare Island, Cal., and Norfolk. 
The New Jersey House of Assembly has 
adopted a resolution vacating the office of 
Clerk of the Assembly and condemning John 
Carpenter, the Clerk, for disreputable acts in 
appointing subordinates. 
Judge Martin Ryerson, one of the court 
commissioners on the Alabama claims, has 
resigned on account of III health. 
Supervisor of Internal Revenue Bewail of 
Boston la ordered to duty in Cincinnati, and 
Supervisor Hawley of New York is transferred 
for future duty In Boston. The Internal 
revenue supervisors all over tbe country are 
similarly changed. 
A bill appropriating .$35,000 to defray the 
expenses of the visit of King Kalakaua to 
Washington, has been passed by both houses 
of Congress. 
The Hon. Samuel F. Hersey, M. C. of Maine, 
died on Wednesday week, at his late residence 
in Bangor, Me., after a long Illness. Mr. Hersey 
was born in the town of Summer, in Maine, 
April 12,1813, received an academic education, 
and early In life was a banker. 
The Senate of Florida has passed the House 
concurrent resolution appointing a committee 
of five to investigate the validity of tbe $4,000,- 
000 bonds Issued to Littlefield for the further 
extension of the Jacksonville, Pensacola, and 
Mobile Railroad. 
The Terrltoral Committee of the Senate, 
which will be called next to order, has agreed 
to report In favor of the admtssion of Colarado 
as a State. A strong lobby Is working In that 
direction, and all the Indications are that 
another State will be allowed to come in. 
The headquarters of the Department of the 
Missouri will. It is understood, be re-establish¬ 
ed In Chicago. General Sheridan and party will 
probably therefore not return to New Orleans, 
I whence they proceeded to Vicksburg. 
Hugh McClellan of Rensselaer County, will, 
It is said, be nominated by Governor Tilden for 
Justice of the Supremo Court, vice Judge 
Miller, elected to the Court of Appeals. 
Two counterfeiters confined in the St. Louis 
jail bound two of the keepers, released several 
of their prisoners, and with them made their 
escape. 
The Republicans of Michigan will hold a 
State Convention at Jackson on March 3 to 
nominate two Justices of the Supreme Court in 
place of Judge Christ!auny, U. 8. Senator elect, 
and Judge B. F. Graves, and two Regents of the 
Stale University. 
Senator Johnson of Tenn., is going to Wash¬ 
ington In a few days to engage board and pick 
out bis seat. 
Secretary Fish is laid up by rheumatism. 
Secretary Bristow is still suffering from his 
fall. 
The Central railroad pays' to the city of 
Albany, in taxes, $48,000, and the bridge com¬ 
pany $32,000. 
The snow-drifts about Lowville, N. Y., are 
from fifteen to twenty feet deep, and locomo¬ 
tion Is much impeded. 
The Crystal Lake ice house, about three 
miles from Bordentown. N. J., was burned Feb. 
4. Loss, $40,000; Insurance, $13,000. 
The office of tbe Cherokee Advocate, at 
Tahlequab, Indian Territory, was burned on 
the night of the 2d Inst. Loss, $7,000; no in¬ 
surance. The Advocate was furnished free to 
the Indians, and was maintained by appropria¬ 
tions of the National Council. The lost Chero¬ 
kee type will be difficult to replace. 
The verdict in the ease of the alleged poison¬ 
ing of four children at Holllston, Mass., by 
“baby farmers,” is that they died from an 
excessive use of laudanum aud other narcotics 
and continued abuse, cruel treatment, and 
neglect on the part of the woman who took 
them to board. 
At Indianapolis recently thelamily of a dying 
man quarrelled so fiercely about a will he was 
about to Bign that the police had to interfere to 
restore order. 
According to the most recent returns, the 
Unlversalisis have 857 ministers, 74 associations 
654 parishes, 638 church organizations, 761 edi- 
fleos, and a total valuation of church property 
amounting to $7,845,447. 
The vjolin of Jlenry William Ernst has been 
sold to Madame Noroian Neruda for £500. It 
is said to be a Stradivarlus of the best kind. 
Since tbe death of Ernst It bas been owned by 
Mr. David Laurie of Glasgow. 
A shrewd Indianapolis widow made ner 
lortw deposit $3,000 in the hands of a trustee on 
the morning of the wedding day, the money to 
be at her order for divorce purposes sbould she 
ever desire to take such action. 
Three cane filled with snakes, intended for 
Dresden and Hamburg, were intercepted in the 
mails last week, and were ordered to the Dead 
Letter Department In Washington, where the 
reptiles are to be cremated. 
It Is said that tbe Norwegian landscape 
painter, Conrad Hock, has after years of pa¬ 
tient study founded a new art, “pinakoplas- 
tic," which is a practical combination of paint¬ 
ing and Boulpture. The figures are formed to a 
great extent from cork, which makes the 
pictures more durable than paintings. 
Mr. Truman H, Bartlett’s sketch of the 
“Wounded Drummer Boy" has been placed 
in the Speaker’s room in the House of Repre¬ 
sentatives at Washington. 
William Howltt is now 83 years of age, yet he 
is well and vigorous, and walks daily from his 
house In Rome to the Pinclan Hill and back 
again, a considerable distance. 
President Eliot of Harvard College recom¬ 
mends an enlargement of the present college 
library at an expense of $80,000. 
Mr. I. V. Williamson, who recently provided 
an endowment fund for free beds in two of the 
Philadelphia hospitals and for a professorship 
in the University of Pennsylvania, bas just 
given $10,000 to the Educational Home for Boys 
in West Philadelphia. This is his second gift in 
the same direction. 
Paris is improving. On Dec. 31, 1873, three 
hundred pickpockets were arrested, while on 
Dec. 31,1874, only two hundred and forty-seven 
were taken into custody in the gay city on the 
Seine. 
WlHiam E. Gray, a broker, a son of the Rev. 
E. H. Gray, a former Chaplain of the United 
States Senate, was implicated in forgeries. In 
1869, to the extent of $310,000. He fled to Europe, 
whither he was followed, unsuccessfully, by 
Detective Sampson. Gray is now a banker in 
London under the name of Page. 
The stockholders of the Boston and Albany 
Railroad have authorized the directors to issue 
$5,000,000 additional bonds, to take up matur¬ 
ing bonds, and complete further improve¬ 
ments. 
In the United States District Court, Trenton, 
N. J., Judge Nixon fined James Parker and 
James Griffin $2,000 and costs for selling liquor 
and tobacco without having paid tbe special 
tax. 
A bill has been Introduced in the State 
Assembly requiring street, railroad companies 
In this city to warm their cars In cold weather. 
A good idea. 
Gen. Sheridan has reported to the Congi .-«*• 
ionai Investigating Committee that 2,141 per¬ 
sons have been killed and 2,115 wounded in 
Louisiana since 1866 on account of their politi¬ 
cal opinions. 
Iu a speech at Milwaukee Senator Carpenter 
attributed his defeat to the Influence of the 
railroads. He urged the people to forget per* 
sonal considerations and remain true to party. 
The funeral of the late Senator Buckingham 
of Connecticut was largely attended by official 
delegates from both Houses of Congress, tbe 
State Legislature, and by private citizens. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
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The Archduke Johann Salvator of Tuscany, 
an officer of the Austrian army-, has been or¬ 
dered under arrest because in a pamphlet on 
military organization he violently attacks Ger¬ 
many and declares that war between Austria 
and Germany la pending. 
The Edinburgh Theater was burned lately-. 
Subscriptions have poured in for the Paris 
municipal loan until they amount to forty-two 
times the sum required. 
There are four living queens of Spain, so 
called—Christine, widow of Ferdinand VII., i 
who resides at Salute Addressa, near Havre; 
Isabella II., mother of Alfonso It; the Duchess j 
of Aosta, wife of Prince Amadeo, or the house 
of Savoy; and the wife of Don Carlos, who 
styles himself Charles Vtl, 
Don Cartrw is said to be advised by a com¬ 
mittee of Austrian nobles, which has hitherto 
contributed liberally for the Carlist cause, to 
conclude a peace with Alfonso. 
Tbe Crown diamonds of France, which at the 
commencement of the Franco-German war 
were Bent to a military ocean port., arrived 
back in Paris recently, and wero delivered to 
the administration of the Public Domain. 
The Empress of Chlua, who committed sui¬ 
cide recently on account of her husband’s 
death, had been married only two years, the 
Imperial wedding having taken place Oct. 16, 
1872, and at the time of her death was about 
twenty years of age. 
A discovery hits just been made by M. Cauo- 
sinus of Paris, who, by a chemical process ap¬ 
plied to plaster casts, Imitates so successfully 
ancient marble, bronze, porphyry-, &c., as to de¬ 
ceive connoisseurs. This invention has just 
been Introduced Into America by Mi. J. Rogers : 
Rich, a student of the Boole dea Beaux Arts. 
The Carllsts claim a great victory over the 
AlfonsUts. Gen. Morionea has been appointed 
Commander-In-Chief of the Alfonsist Army of 
the North. 
The Spanish Government is to Indemnify 
loyal subjects for damages caused by the war 
in Cuba by selling the properties belonging to 
the insurgents when condemned by the tribun¬ 
als. 
The protest of the women of Guanajuato, 
Mexico, against the new law abolishing con¬ 
vents, says that they promise not to recognize 
as father, brother or husband, anybody who di¬ 
rectly or indirectly took part. In the action of 
Congress expelling the Sisters of Charity. 
The Carllsts say that. Gen. Loma has been 
compelled to abandon Zarauz. 
A train bearing King Alfonso was fired upon 
by* the Carlists near Logrono In Spain, but no 
one was hurt. 
Twenty-three Roman Catholic bishops have' 
protested against the interference of foreign 
powers in the Papal election. 
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
The English meteorologist, J. K. Laughton, 
has proved that the motion of air does not be¬ 
come sensible until it moves at the rate of 
nearly two miles an hour. 
King Alfonso, although only seventeen years 
old, looks nineteen, and his physiognomy, 
according to an observer, indicates uncommon 
shrewdness and intelligence, and a by no means 
imaginative, but frank, firm, and resolute 
character. The Spaniards have only- one word 
to characterize his looks— simpatico. 
Discussing the political situation, the Spring- 
field Republican comes to this conclusion: j 
“The average American citizen is becoming 
very tired of a husk diet. Neither of the exist¬ 
ing parties is strong in itself; each Is strong In 
the weakness of the other. The people are pro¬ 
foundly disgusted with tbe party in power, but 
they are also profoundly distrustful of the 
party out of power. If they take up with tbe 
Democracy, next year, it will be merely because 
tbe disgust gets tne better of tbe distrust. A 
great political opportunity, we repeat. We dare 
say it will not be utilized. 
A Baltimore beggar has Just retired from 
| business on a fortune of $26,000. 
A Rochester (N. T.) scientist recently dined 
with several friends, including two or three 
ladies, upon a ntne year old rattlesnake, the 
flesh of which Is said to have tasted like that of 
an eel. 
Governor Allen of Ohio lias hung on the walls 
of his room at Cbillicothe, a full-sized picture 
of Senator Thurman, bearing in bold letters on 
tbe frame this Impressive legend—“ Our Next 
President." 
There Is a man In a Chicago hospital,‘a victim 
of a railroadaecident, whose bead Is alive, but 
his entire body 6eems to be dead. Knives have 
been stuck Into his body, but they produce no 
effect upon him. 
All the public night schools In Philadelphia, 
except one, were closed last week for reason of 
insufficient appropriations. There wero forty- 
two of them, Instructing over 13,000 pupils and 
employing over 220 teachers. 
Mrs. Oliver Perry Rice of Indianapolis is in¬ 
formed by Hon. George H. Pendleton, her law¬ 
yer, that she U the legitimate beir to $68,000,000 
worth of property in Alleghany county. Pa., 
and she proposes to assert her right iu court. 
According to a French Journal there arc still 
living In France and its colonies35,000 men who 
have fought under the first Napoleon. 
LakeCochituate. from which Boston obtains 
Its supply of water. Is reported to be seventeen 
Inches lower than it was ever known before. 
As an instance of the depreciation of property 
in the oil regions, it Is said that wells that once 
brought $^0,000 can now be purchased for $15,- 
000. 
The Baptist Union BayB that the progress of 
open communion sentiment i* their denomi¬ 
nation “Is surprising and most encouraging. At 
the rate of growth which has developed for 
three years past weshail soon reach in America 
the happy position already attained iu England, 
; where the question has ceased to agitate or di¬ 
vide.” 
The salt manufacturers of Saginaw Valley, 
Mich., are forming a combination to seDd 
annually one hundred thousand ."barrels of Balt 
into the Syracuse market to undersell tbe 
, manufacturers Micro, in retaliation for a sirni- 
! l»r courso pursuod by the Syracuse companies. 
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WHAT SOCIETIES ARE DOING. 
The American Institute Coniest.-The annual 
election of officers of the American Institute 
was held on the Uth Inst. There was a close 
contest and much excited feeling between the 
ins and outs, but tho “Regular" ticket pre¬ 
vailed by a majority of 61 over the Reformers. 
We subjoin a list of the principal officers 
elected: 
Pres.— O. Cleveland. Vice Prests.—Cyrus 
H. Loutrel, Thomas Rutter, J. Groshorn Her- 
rlott. Rec.. Seo’y—Charles McK. Leoser. Cor. 
Sec’y—Samuel D. Tillman, Treas.—Edward 
Schell. Directors—Nathan C. Ely, George Pey¬ 
ton, [Charles H. Clayton, James L. Jackson, 
James Delamater, Charles S. Archer. Managers 
of lho Fair—George Whltefleld, Alexander M, 
Engleson, Walter Sbriver, Peter H. Jackson, 
William H. Gedney. Charles Wager Hall, Albro 
Howell, Alfred T. Ackert, Charles F. Allen, F. 
D. Curtis, A. J. Halsey, William Rutter, Cbas. 
Place, Abraham Lent, William Dean. Com¬ 
mittee on Finance—John P. Crosby, David Mor¬ 
gan, William A. Camp, Heury L. Slote, Thomas 
B. Gilford. 
Newburgh Bay Hort. Soc.—The following are 
the officers elect for 1875Pres.—A lfred 
Bridoman. First Vice Pres.—Wm. W. Carson. 
Second Vice Pres.—Odeli S. Hathaway. Seo’y— 
David A. Scott. Cor. Sec’y-John Baldwin, 
Treas.—Daniel Smith. Exec. Com.-Isaac C. 
Chapman, C. S. Jenkins, Wm. D. Barns, W. B. 
Brown, J. F. Van Nort, Charles II. Cornell, 
Daniel T. Weed, W. T. Ward. John Haron, S. 
G. Kimbail. Thomas S. Foroe. Directors, H. 
Cornell, T. H. Roe. Auditors, Francis Scott, J. 
N. Weed. It was resolved to hold the Society's 
next, exhibition iu connection with the meeting 
of the American Pomologic&l Society at Chi¬ 
cago. 
New England Ag. Hoc.—At the annual meet¬ 
ing, held Feb. 2, tbe old officers were re-elected 
as follows:—Pres-Gso. B. Lobino of Salem, 
Mass. Sec'y-Dan’l Needham of Boston. Treas — 
Geo. W. Biddle of Manchester N. H. A Vice 
President and trustees from each State were 
elected. A resolution was adopted that the 
trotting of trained horses is as legitimate a part 
of the exhibition as the show of trained draft 
horee6 or working oxen, and should bo pro¬ 
vided for in the list of premiums. The matter 
of holding the next fair was left to the Execu¬ 
tive Committee to determine the location. 
The Michigan State Beekeepers' Association 
has memorialized the Legislature for an appro¬ 
priation of $1,000 “ to enable them to make an 
exhibition of Michigan flowers and honey at the 
Centeuulal Exposition at Philadelphia in 1§76, 
believing that such an exhibition would re¬ 
dound to the credit arid honor of the State, 
said honey to be furnished gratuitously by 
members <?f the Association, and finally sold 
