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Show JPICIAI. TO TBI DLEKET NEWS. MASSACHUSETTS. I'.lsf l ire. Springfield. Little and Stanton's woollen mill ami the Marseilles factory of the Huntington Manufacturing " were burned to-day at lluu' ington:lo-s two hundred thousand; injured for sixty thousand. The iormer was the largest woollen mill in this State. NEW YORK. The bmly r UreenwalU expected A uliin Junta Terrible Holler ExplosionLoss Ex-plosionLoss by au Explosion Helaps-ltiK Helaps-ltiK I"eer-reehler In "Hamlet" An-oilier An-oilier f the Harper .Itros. Dead Eds; llsu Moek holders In (lie Erie will Prosecute t'isli anil Uonlif. Xkw York. The fteamer Bienville, from Havana, with the body of Isaac Oreenwaid, au American recently shot, hi expected to-morrow. A large number num-ber of citizens, it is understood, will ro" ceive the hody. A new Cubau Junta has leeu orgauized here. The thirteenth regiment of the State militia has been ordered under arms to defend, if necessary, Kaymond St. jail,! Brooklyn, threats having been made: against Chambers, the murderer of Voorhees. A terrilic hoiler explosion to-day des-, troyed two buildings on West Thirty-i third St., occupied by A. J. Decker, as a paper staining factory and by others. The enirineer,foreman and book-keeper of the factory were dangerously rcalded; loss thirty thousand. The death of Wesley Harper, of the lirm of Harper Bros, is announced. O. W. l ishback, of St. Louis, Democrat, Demo-crat, has returned from L a rope. Solicitor Solic-itor Bush, of Loudon, is en roui for America to conduct the case of the English stock holders of the Erierail- road against Fisk and Gould. 1 New York, 13. The Bellovue hospital hos-pital is crowded with patients stricken down with relapsing fever. The Board of Health is taking measures to establish estab-lish other hospitals where the disease may be exclusively treated. The regular distribution of letters increased in-creased about twenty thousand yesterday which probably represented the number num-ber of valentines passing through the postollice. " 1 A special pays that tho loss by the ex-j j i plosion cu Thirty-third St., yesterday U will exceed forty thousand. One of the wounded men lias died, and two I others are not expected to recover. Over two hundred cases of relapsing fever have been reported. I Several publishers met last night and arranged for a meeting of the book trade to pass resolutions ofcoudolence on the death of Wesley Harper. Niblo's theatre was crowded last night to witness Fechtei's first performance of "Hamlet." His leading ditlers greatly from Booth's. The dramatic critics pronounce him much inferior to the latter. His engagement closes this week. ILLINOIS. (.round broken 011 orlbem Pacific Railroad. Chicago, 13. The ground was broken bro-ken yesterday at Quincey, for the Northern Paciflo Railroad, with appropriate appro-priate ceremonies; a large number of persons were present. The road commences com-mences to operate at Quincey, 111. LOUISIANA. ISIS Bobbery. New Orleans. The safe house of J. S. Clarke, was blown up and robbed of twenty thousand dollars on Sunday night. 1 PENNSYLVANIA. Supreme Court will not luterlerc. Philadelphia. The Supreme Courf declines to interfere lu the sentence of Dr. Schoeppe. WASHINGTON. cnal Members ot on(rei. Washington. Specials say the inquiry in-quiry into the sale of cadetships will bring out curious aud disgraceful facts. It has been proved that Whitemore, the member of the preseut Congress, from South Carolina, demauded aud received five hundred dollars for a cadet appointment; appoint-ment; he will probably be expelled. Uuilt has also been fastened upon a member of the last House from Alabama. |