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Show lichtninTflaskes, A. II. liird, grand ni'tler ol' the Ohio Odd Fellows, is dead. Thomas llillren, son-in-law to liov-erdy liov-erdy Johnson, has died iu lialtimore. Trouble is brewing in the Georgia legislature over a einte.-ted election ease. It is proposed to reduce tho present high tarill' i'or cable dispatches to and from Kurope. There is a want of amity in the Spanish cabinet, and a new ininistiy may be the result. It is said tho New York "ling" thieves have agreed to compromise by paying four uiiliions. David (jurney's shoo factory, in South Abingham, Mass., was burned on .Friday night; loss lU,0ot). LSencdiet's hat establishment, at Bethel, i'a., has been burned, throwing throw-ing IUO hands out of work. T. Scott is elected president of the Texas l'acilie railroad, in place of Marshal A. .Roberts, resigned. Illinois had its heaviest snow-storm of the season on Friday, ten inches falling at SpringlielJ and Jacksonville. The steamer Ario 1 01 !c experienced terrible weather on her late trip from Bremen. Ono man lost his life in the storm. Tho New It ork French relief committee com-mittee have re-organized, for the purpose pur-pose of aiding .France to pay the war indemnity. The New York German Bepubli-cans Bepubli-cans say they will act with the national patty, but iu the municipality they will act with any parly honestly working work-ing i'or reform. The house of representatives mot yesterday for general debate, with scarcely anybody present; but, then, the speeches will be published in the Con regional Globe. A Halifax dispatch says the woolen mill at J'eterboro caught fire, on Friday, Fri-day, from spontaneous combustion, and was destroyed. Kllen Upton, an operative, oper-ative, was burned to death. C. K Dulton, a prominent chemist of Philadelphia, was found dying in the streets of New York yesterday morning, morn-ing, lie was removed to the Tombs hy policemen and there died. Twelve persons are known lo have been frozen to death iu Dixon county, Nebraska, during the terrible storm of last Monday, and it is feared more perished. Stock suffered greatly. The house committee on Pari lie railroad rail-road has agreed to report a bill giving tho C. P. il. R. tho use of half of Goat Island, bay ol'Sau Francises, for depot purposes, under government restrictions. re-strictions. The grand central club has peifected its organization in Poston, with A. 11. Kicc president, 0. E. Dooluilo secretary, secre-tary, aud thirty-four vice-presidents, including all the Massachusetts congressional con-gressional delegation. In the .New York State senate yesterday, yes-terday, a preamble and resolutions were presented, setting forth that President Grant has been guilty of receiving re-ceiving presents in common with the late clerk of tho senate, and should resign as the clerk had done. |