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George W. Sherman, a prominent Freemason, died in Albany, N. Y., on Monday, of consumption.Edith Gilliam, colored, a native of Sussex county, Va., died in Phiia., on Wednesday, aged 115 years.Hiram P. Allen, a respected citizen of Sandwich, 111., was murdered by two burglars, who broke into his house, on Sunday morning.The small pox in the District of Columbia is reported to be abating. The whole number of deaths since the appearance of the disease has been only fifteen.At the Philadelphia Exchange, on Tuesday, a considerable amount of the coal lands situate on Broad Top Mountain, Huntingdon and Bedford counties, was sold at $10 par acre.Thomas F. Phillips, a retired merchant, partially paralysed, was garrotte 1 and robbed in Thompson street, Is w York, Ivy three colored women, Tuesday night. The women were afterwards arrested.Louis Marburg, aged 38 years, of the firm of Marburg Brothers, tobacco manufacturers, of Baltimore, was found dead at Homewood Park, near thatcity, Tuesday morning, with two bullethiitholes in his head, and a pistol lying by his side.A telegram from Halifax reports j lt;that the wife of Adam Murray, living near New Glasgow, N. S., has given birth to five children, three girls and two boys ; that all are finely developed infants, and that at last accounts all were doing well.While the Louisiana House of Representatives was in session, on Tuesday, a pistol fell from Speaker Ogdens pocket and was discharged, but no one was injured. Wednesday the District Attorney filed information against Ogden tor ca Tying concealed weapons.T.iree men broke into the post-office at Norristown, Pa., early Wednesday morning, and attempted to blow open the safe. They were discovered by the private watchman, who was tired at by one of the burglars. The fire was re-1 ] turned and the burglars fled, leaving their tools.In response to a resolution of the ] * Virginia House of Delegates, the new Auditor of Public Accounts on Wednesday submitted to that body a report of the condition of the county and |« city treasuries throughout the State. The report shows delinquencies during the last eight years amounting to$331,000.In the N Y. House of Representa-1tives a resolution has been offered by Mr. Gwinup, of Warren county, de-1 daring agaiust a third terra, and instructing New York’s Senators and IIRepresentatives in Congress to support i6ia Constitutional ameudmeut limiting | * the occupancy of the Presidential office by any one person to two terms, j For the last two years, trains on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad | I have been fired at by an unknown person, just after dark uear Caddo, in the Indian Territory. Several rail-1 \ road employes have been wounded bythe shots at different times. On Fri-1 j day, U. S. Marshal Ayres caught a { ruffian, named Meyers, in the act of | j firing on the train. Meyers shot at fc the Marshal fourteen times before he] v was securedThe engineers employed by M. de Lesseps in surveying the route of the I e proposed canal across the Isthmus of 1 Darien, have unanimously reported in n favor of a level canal, and estimate ithe cost at $ 168,600,0^0. The report lt;*was published in Colon, on Saturday. ^ De Lesseps will issue a circular invit-‘ting American subscriptions for half ut;the amount needed. The work is to occupy eight years. The tolls are I * fixed at about $3 per ton. ^The house of Levi Lane, at Bain- “ bridge, in Lancaster couuty, Pa., was | fi opend bv the neighbors on Saturday ^ evening, and Lane’s wife and two of ^ his children, an infant and a five year h old girl, were found murdered. Lane is himself being dead from the effects of' p poison administered by hiiuself. A x three-year-old boy was living, with M his feet and legs badly frozen. Jeal-1 n ousy aud intemperance are assigned as the causes of the horrible tragedy.%• mA despatch to Reuter’s Telegram Company, from St. Petersburg, says there has b^eu an abortive attempt made to kill the Imperial family bylaving a mine in the Winter Palace Five ssoldiers were killed and thirty-five wounded. The mine was laidBfaaOV\Lfrofunder the guard room, which is im- j s»lt;mediately uuder the dining hall. Owing to accidental delay, the Imperial family had not entered the latter at the usual time. The explosion made a hole iu the floor of the dining-hall ten feet long and six wide.bmisirwtbfaina!
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