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Show 'i C'ONDKNSKD TULLHiltAMS. ;: i ! A hundred thouacd dollar fire at i i Ilollistcr, Mass., Thursday. The specie in the hank of France has increased 10,777.000 francs this 1 week. 4 Art-rivca from Kh Juueiro report that the money panic iu that e:ty is i subsiding. . A fire at Covington, Ky., on Thursday, destroyed a number of j.j stores; Iojs, .id.oOo. Secretary Delano had a pow wow ; with the Sioux chiefs on Thursday, . but no conclusion was reached. ; The bids for government gold ag- gregated $.3,31.3, 0'0, one million was ; awarded from lld.Ooi toll7.03i. The Boston Fust company has been organized with a capital .stock of ; $300,000, divided into 300 shares. iiie Pacific steamship directors 1 have elected Sidney Dillon president, and George S. Scott vice-president, By the falling of a scaffold at the Central Ohio insane asylum, four men were killed and two seriously injured. in-jured. The papal envoys called on the president aud various members of the cabinet on Monday, and were cordially cor-dially received. A firo at Anderson, Ind., Thursday; Thurs-day; the Odd Fellow's hall and several seve-ral business buildings destroyed; Loss $30,000 to $73,000. The president has issued an order closing the various departments of the government on Saturday, the 20th inat., decoration day. On Wednesday in New York, Henry Rex Bhot and killed John C. McKenna, a boy fourteen years old, for teasing him. Itex was arrested. The rate of discount in tho open London market on Thursday was 3J per cent., which is J per cent, below the bank rate. The specie in the hank has increased 935,000 during the past week. General Kufiis In galls has boen installed in-stalled as quartermaster general during the absence o( Gen. Meigs on special service in Europo to inspect aud report upou the organization of foreign armies. The Iowa Episcopal convention met at Cedar liapilis ou Wednesday, l'hree formal ballots were taken lor'a bishop without a choice, Rev. J. H. Eecleaton, ol Philadelphia, polling 28 out of oo votes. Moody and Saukey continue to hold their revival meetings daily. There ia no diminution in the "number of persons who gather to hear thorn. Among their bearers on Wednesday were the Earl of Shaftabury, Lord Cairnes, the Eirl of Caran and many clergymen. The total list of tho killed and injured in-jured at tho explosion of the Washington Wash-ington street, Bi ston, drug store, Wednesday evening, foots up: Three kilkd, three seriously wounded and twenty-two slight'y wounded. Lobs of property $00,000. The cause of the explosion ia not yet known. J |