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Show KltlEF TKLEdllAMS." Tlie Asliljiid savings hunk, at Pottsville, Pa., luta suspended. The cur builders, etc., on the Reading Read-ing road, have resumed work. U. S. Treasurer Spinner, hns re-Migned re-Migned to take effect July 1st. Tho Roman Catholic bishops ot Prussia nre to hold a conference at i'ulda. Haiii fell at various points in California Cali-fornia on Sunday, and the crop prospect pros-pect are favorable. Edgar Quinet, the distinguished French author and member ol the assembly from Paris, is dead. The Paris police havo made descent de-scent on tho English betting otliuea and seized their books and cash. A German paper says there is no truth in the report that Bismarck is to be made duke of Lauenburg. The Virginia legislature baa expelled expell-ed Senator Graham ibr complicity in the sale of the Schoolcraft naval cadcLship. The Irish-born population of Scrantun, Pa., instead of having a procession in honor of John Mitchell, will raise a fund for hia widow. It is reported that John C. New, a bank cashier at Indianapolis, has been ottered the position of United States treasurer, vice Spinner. Thero was a destructive tornado at Victoria, Vancouver'a island, on Wednesday last, which did a great deal of damage to property. No lives lost. Tho government has given orders to the general commanding in Texas to i put a stop to the Mexican raids on I the Rio Grande, and a boarder war is feared. George B. McCarter, chief ol the bureau of engraving of the treasury department, has withdrawn his re signation at the request of Secretary Brifltow. ThalmnttnirliftinPftfa P TWf. nf New Bedford, Mass., hitherto considered con-sidered sound, has suspended. Liabilities, Lia-bilities, $300,000; assets, $450,000. An extension is asked for. The American tract society have distributed more than 10,000,000 publications durii-g the post tiity years. The society has printed and issued tracts in 143 different languages. lan-guages. It is reported that tho senatorial commission which is about to visit Mexico has been commissioned to see if the graves of the soldiers killed in the Mexican war are properly cared for. Great preparations are making for the unveiling next month at Trieste of a monument to tho memory of Maximilan. All the companies of the late emperor in Mexico have been invited. A fire in the pattern shop of the Southwestern car company's works, in the Indiana state prison, at JefTer-sonville, JefTer-sonville, damaged tho building $20,-000 $20,-000 and destroyed $5,000 worth of material. The steamer Aurenberg, which arrived ar-rived at Baltimore on Sunday, brought ten fisherfnen from ht. Mary's, N. F., who had been icebound ice-bound on a schooner, which they had boarded, having lost several of their number by freezing. The ice gorge on the Susquehanna Susquehan-na river, thirteen miles above Lock Haven, Pa., commenced to move on Sunday and overflowed the banks of river, creating great anxiety among the residents below, who are preparing pre-paring to romove. Numbers of farms were overflowed with great load of property. Three lives were reported report-ed lost. It was feared that the larger jjart of Lock Haven would be oversowed. . SIM IX. London, 2S. It is reported from Estrella that deputies from four provinces pro-vinces occupied by the Carlists have met to consider the request of Don Carlos for contributions, and have replied re-plied that the country is exhausted. If fresh sacrifices are imposed, Carlos ought to procure funds from abroad, and this position they obstinately ! maintained, notwithstanding Carlos threatened to retire from Spain. Dispatches from Madrid report that Carlos has ordered all persons found reading Cabrera's manifesto to be shot. There have been additienal instances in-stances of fraternization of Carlist and government troops on the banks of the Oria. In one Carlist camp placards pla-cards headed "Viva peace, tho fueros and Gen, Cabrera'have been posted. The government announces that six Carlist generals, with colonels and many other officers, have entered France and declare their adhesion to Alfonso. A telegram from Santan-der, Santan-der, on the other hand, asserts that the hope of settling the war by a convention con-vention is fast dying out. General Lomas is expected there to meit a threatened invasion of the province. Don Carlos, with Bixteen battalions and artillery, is marching on Romaics, Roma-ics, twenty-five miles from Santander. Spain has paid to Germany 11,000 thalers for the Gustav outrage. |