straints are likely to do away with the use of dynamite for purposes of assassination, because there is no other deadly agen so easy to fabricate as it. But something would be accomplished if its unrestricted sale were stopped, and if the severest penalties were affixed to its secret manufacture. Philadelphia Times, Dec. 11.—It is disgraceful that among the multitude of new laws, good, bad, and indifferent, that find their way to our statute books, there should be so few for the protection of the health and lives of the people. Legislation of this kind should keep fall pace with the introduction of new inventions dangerous to human life. of a new and dangerous explosive before laws are passed regulating its sale and use. If law-making bodies have any excuse for existence it is that they may protect the persons and property of those they represent against all forms of danger. Human lives are always in jeopardy from cranks, even when the sale and use of explosives are hedged round with the most rigid of legal restrictions. This danger should not be unnecessarily increased by allowing every lunatic as free access to dynamite as to the water that flows in the scenes reported throughout the country from go. than 60,000, The gin the succeeding package. The experiment will cost no more than the ordinary cigars would, and the smoker will find at the end of the month that his taste for tobacco will have have become so weakened that it can easily be controlled. Then the effect of breaking off entirely leaves no nervousness in its wake, and the temptation to resume again is by no means strong. GRANT'S RESTING PLACE. the chosen burial place of General Grant. His own expressed desire has been confirmed There is no excuse whatever for a delay of open for settlement, a train-load of Oklahoma family. They coincide in the final wish of the fifteen or twenty years after the introduction wheat was delivered at the elevators in Chica- revered dead that his remains should rest in made his home. the metropolis of his country which he had The site of the Grant monument is a noble one. In all the land there is memorial of the country's heroic defender, none more fitting for the interment and whose war work was crowned at Appomattox. between managers are mere nothings in the Small delays and petty misunderstandings progress of so great a work. Grant's tomb in New York will be built and completed long before the passing away of the generation to of the great General and most dutiful Presiwhich he belonged. Already have the remains dent once been moved from the place of temporary deposit to the spot of final sojourn. There let them remain, while around them is erected the temple of honor typical of the country's gratitude to a preserver. Let Washington have a Grant memorial if it will, as it has those of other patriots whose dust lies among kindred at their homes. Who would think of disturbing the bones of Lincoln in the Illinois grave or of transferring the relics of Washington from Mount Vernon to a monument in the capital city? There should be an end to agitations for disturbing Grant's grave. Delaware river. ara, THE WORLD'S FAIR THE LATEST SHAKESPEARE CRYPTOGAM. remembered with what the settlers had had to This is the more remarkable when it is contend. Their first winter was a severe one and tained; the next summer's dry weather resulted much fear of a wide-spread famine was entervery disastrously to the growing crops, and the A prosperous agricultural future is suggested people's resources were well-nigh exhausted. for the Territory, moreover, in the published list of the tracts under cultivation for various crops, the present year. This is only the third fair to count the first season at all, but we find season of Oklahama farming, and it is hardly that there have been this year 28,000 acres in wheat; 85,675 in corn; 30,686 in cotton; 7,770 in oats; 5,125 in Hungarian grass and millet; Electrical Review (New York), Dec. 5.-We 14,930 in sorghum; 2,000 in potatoes; and predict that electricity will be the feature of 1,317 in rye. And in addition to these crops, greatest interest and importance at the World's castor beans, tobacco, flax, buckwheat, and Columbian Exposition. The recent experi-peanuts have been raised. The value of the ments in electric power transmission at the wool sold in the year from February, 1890, to Frankfort Electrical Exhibition were entirely February, 1891, was $24,259, and that of successful. It is but a question of detail to in- animals fattened for market $51,237. There crease the distance over which power may be are already 400 organized school districts with carried. From Lauffen to Frankfort is 108 miles. 9,893 pupils enrolled and 438 teachers emFrom Niagara Falls to Chicago is about 475 ployed. During the year ending June 30, miles. Large turbines and generators at Niag- 1881, sixty-five school-houses were built at an a carefully-protected and well-insulated aggregate cost of $8,143.35. This is a modest line of heavy copper, and a motor plant at outlay for sixty-five school-houses, but the fact Jackson Park, will do the business. Of course that so many were constructed within the this project needs much money and careful twelve months shows that the foundation of a engineering to bring it to full success. Ines- future State educational system is being laid. timable benefit would accrue to electrical interests as a result of such a demonstration. As regards electric lighting, development HOW TO STOP SMOKING. in that line is so constant that it is well-nigh Truth (New York), Dec. 12.-It is a good impossible to predict what may be the state plan to prepare for the annual resolution of of the art when the World's Fair opens. We New Year's Day a little bit ahead of time. The may see a building illuminated by glow lamps popular method of a man who intends to give without circuit wires, after the plans of Mr, up any such indulgence as drinking or smokNikola Tesla. Electric traction will probably ing is to keep on a full head of steam up to be well-nigh perfect by the end of 1892. Many and including New Year's Day and then shut bright minds are puzzling over the storage- off abruptly. Smoking is a form of indulgence battery problem; it is an enigma which may which men are perpetually threatening to overbe practically solved at any hour. The recent come, and the number of resolutions to give production by the Thomson-Houston Electric up tobacco which are made every New Year's Company of an electric locomotive capable of Day and broken later on probably runs up into drawing nine loaded freight cars is, indeed, an hundreds of thousands in this country alone. advance. It is, undoubtedly, the forerunner I will tell you a plan which I have known to of an electric machine which may displace the succeed with men who were absolute slaves to steam locomotive. The underground conduit cigars, and who had made numerous and insystem of electric street railway propulsion is effectual efforts to quit smoking before they also in the field for future recognition. Visi- adopted this method. I never knew it to fail tors to the World's Fair will see applications if conscientiously adhered to, and it inof electric power for manufacturing purposes volves no hardship. It requires about four which will be truly astonishing. Our predic- weeks' time and some care in the selection of tions are not the vagaries of a phantom cigars. The smoker must first find out how prophet, but are beliefs founded firmly and many cigars he smokes a week and then go to solidly upon an abiding faith in that mysteri- any one of the cigar-makers and order four ous agent whose manifestations are so wonder- bundles of cigars. If he smoke fifty a week there ful and about which we have learned so much should be fifty cigars in every bundle, and the ANOTHER GREAT RAILROAD RUN. The and know so little. same rule holds good with any other number. fastest time between New York and WashingThere should be no limitation on the number ton was again eclipsed Nov. 28, when a special of weeds smoked. The first bundle should be train on the Pennsylvania road leaving Jersey cigars of a lighter weight than those the man City at 2:49 P.M. reached Washington at 7 P.M. ordinarily smokes; tho second lighter still; The 228 miles were thus covered in 251 minand the third and fourth packages graded utes, and the actual running time, deducting down until the final ones are domestic cigars II minutes lost in changing engines and in anof the lightest color and quality. Every week other stop, was 240 minutes, averaging a speed should be marked by a fresh package, a little of 57 miles per hour. In several instances a lighter than the one which preceded it. The rate of 75 miles an hour was reached, and the first one of the lighter cigars will invariably first 91 miles were covered in 88 minutes. The taste like sawdust, but the second and third train, composed of three cars, weighed 125 will be a little more to the smoker's taste, and tons, and the engine, with 6% feet drivers, by the end of the week he will become quite weighed 75 tons loaded.-Railway Age (Chireconciled to the brand. Then he should be- 'cago). THE PROGRESS OF OKLAHOMA. Providence Journal, Dec. II. — - Oklahoma began its existence as a white community on the 22d day of April, 1889, when the famous rush was made across the border into a tract situated along the Cimarron and Canadian rivers. An election was held on the 5th of August, 1890, and the 27th of that month the first Legislative Assembly of the Territory met at Guthrie. This body was in session for 120 days and produced what the Governor calls a very fair code of laws, although certain of the Thus a Mr. Ignatius Donnelly has a rival. Index to Periodical Literature. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. BIOGRAPHICAL. Arnold (Sir Edwin), Journalist and Poet. Phren. Jour., Dec. With Portrait. Dane (Nathan). Henry A. Chaney. Green Bag, Dec., 11 pp. With Portraits. Sketch of the Massachusetts lawyer who was in one sense the Father of the American Jurisprudence. Evans (Llewelyn Joan), D.D., LL.D.: American New Testament Scholars. Prof. Arthur C. McGiffert. Old and New Test. Student, Dec., 5 pp. With Portrait. Hirsch (Baron). Notable People of the Day. Phren. Jour., Dec., 2 pp. With Portrait. Marshall (Chief-Justice). Green Bag, Dec., 3 pp. With Portrait. Sketch of his life. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. Press (the), the Apostolate of, The Convention of. The Rev. Walter Elliott. Cath. World, Dec., 8 pp. The plans and purposes of the convention to be held on Jan. 6 in New York. Schools (Our), How Can They Be Improved? The Rev. R. E. Shortell. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Dcc., 12 pp. Refers to Parochial Schools. RELIGIOUS. "All Things to All Men." The Rev. T. F. Moran. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Dec., 10 pp. The Catholicity of the Church. Altar (the), The Construction of. Amer. Eccles. Rev. Dec., 7 pp. Illus. The Bible (The) in English Life and Letters. III. The Rev. J. G. K. McClure, D.D. Burmans and Buddhism. II. Dom Adalbert Amandoline, O.S.B. Cath. World. Dec., 12 pp. Church and State. The Rev. E. P. Brady, C.S.P. Cath. World, Dec., 6 pp. Church (the Christian), the Founding of, Inductive Study of. Old and New Test. India, The Religions of, as Illustrated in Their Temples, The Temple of Giralior. The Rev. Charles Merk, Ph.D. Sunday at Home, London, Dec.. 6 pp. Illus. Jesus at Cana. John ii: 1-11. The Rev. Henry Burton, M.A. Preacher's Mag. Dec., 6 pp. A sermon. Papal Elections. Amer. Eccl. Rev., Dec., 22 pp. An outline of the manner in which the Popes were elected from the earliest times. Paul (St.), The Spiritual Experience of. I.-The Heavenly Vision. J. T. I.. Maggs. B.A. Sunday at Home, London, Dec., 2 pp. Paul's Spiritual Development, A Stage in. An Inquiry. Prof. Charles H. Small, B.D. Old and New Test. Student, Dec., 4 pp. Refers to the exact character of the change accomplished by Paul's conversion. Proverbs (The) of the Bible and Other Proverbs. The Rev. George S. Goodspeed, Ph.D. Old and New Test. Student, Dec., 5 pp. Space, A Question of. The Rev. Wm. H. Cobb. Old and New Test. Student, Dec., 6 pp. An exegesis of Isa. xiv :27, in relation to note in Revised Version, "Omit the space after this (23d) verse.' Unbelief (Current). The Rev. John Campbell, LL.D. Presbyterian College Jour., Montreal, Dec., 8 pp. Tells of doubters in the Church; what makes them such, etc. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. Bacteria, Cultivation of. Brood-Ovens and Heat-Regulators. Paul Paquin. M. D. Bacteriological World, Nov., 3 pp. Illus. Dress, The Influence of, in Producing the Physical Decadence of American Women. J. H. Kellogg, M.D. Bacteriological World, Nov., 12 pp. Illus. Hygiene, The Relation of, to Matrimony. Dr. John Sheppman. Phren. Jour., Dec., 3 pp. Ideality and Imitation. How They Were Determined. James McNeill. Phren. Jour., Dec., 3 PP. Microbes, Influence of the Continuous Current on, Particularly on Charbon Bacterida. M. N. Apostoli and Laguerriere. Bacteriological World, Nov., 3 pp. Illus. Psychology (Simple). The Rev. J. N. Shearman. Girls' Own Paper, London. Dec., 3 pp. Simple lessons in psychology. Stone Age (The New) in Gaul. William Seton. Cath. World, Dec., 9 pp. Characteristics of the New Stone Age. SOCIOLOGICAL. Beggary, Coöperation Against. John Glenn. Charities Rev., Dec., 5 pp. Refers to four notable instances of success in suppressing beggary; how this might be accomplished in America. Education (Free), and Free Food. Amos G. Warner, Ph.D. Charities Rev., Dec., 3 pp. Free education does not necessarily entail upon the State the feeding of the school children. Fashions of the Nineteenth Century. Mrs. Strange Butson. English Illus. Mag., Labor Problem (The) in Great Britain. The Rev. Gilbert Simmons. Cath. World, Manual Training. Mrs. Isabel C. Barrows. Charities Rev., Dec., 7 pp. The benefit of manual training. Trades-Unions, A Word to. Prof. J. W. Jenks, Ph.D. Charities Rev., Dec., 5 pp. Refers to the keeping down production that thereby employment may be given to more hands. Boulanger (General). Frederic Loliée. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Oct. 15, PP. 5. Caselli (Giovanni). A. V. Vecchi. Rassegna Nazionale, Florence, Nov. 1, pp, 9. Parnell. Frederic Loliée. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Oct. 15, pp. 4. Biographical EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. Dramatic Contest (the Later), As to. Augusto Franchetti. Nuova Antologia, Rome, Nov. 1, pp. 11. Analysis of the principal dramatic pieces presented in a recent contest for a prize offered by the Italian Government. Education (Physical) and Sports in Schools. Angelo Mosso. Nuova Antologia, Rome, Nov. 1, pp. 33. Descriptive of sports practised in English and Italian schools and colleges-principally the English. Molière, The "Don Juan "of. Louis Ganderax. Rev. Bleue, Paris, Nov. 7, pp. 8. Critical paper on Molière's comedy. Moltke (Marshal). Arthur de Ganniers. Correspondant, Paris, Nov. 10, pp. 15. Review of Von Moltke's book on the war of 1870-71. Pius IX., Six Letters of. Edited by Paolo Campello della Spina. Rassegna Nazionale, Florence, Nov. 1, pp. 12. Six letters written in 1834, 1838, and 1845 by him who is now Pope, before he became Pope. Writing, The Disease of. Antoine Ablbalat. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Oct. 15, pp. 12. Deploring the immense production of printed matter in books, periodicals, and newspapers. POLITICAL. Algerian Insurrection of 1871. Alfred Rambaud. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Oct. 15, pp. 17. First part of an historical paper. Chili, The Civil War in. Maximiliano Ibañez. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Oct. 15, pp. 25. Showing what promise to be permanently good results from the Chilian Civil War. Europe and the Peninsula of the Balkans. Th. Funck-Brentano. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Nov. 15, pp. 24. Maintaining that the Slavic peoples are about to become the leaders of Europe. Lamartine as a Diplomate. (1820-1830). Edouard Fremy. Correspondant, Paris, Nov. 10. First article relating to that part of Lamartine's life when he was attaché to the French Embassy at Naples. Morocco, the Question of the West of Europe. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Nov. 15, pp. 12. Study of the present relations of Morocco to France and Spain. Touat. Colonel Hennebert. Correspondant, Paris, Nov. 10, pp. 22. Recommendation that France take possession of that oasis in the Sahara, threatened by Morocco. Victoria-Nyanza (Lake) On the Borders of. G. De Wailly. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Nov. 15, pp. 9. Description of the way in which the kingdom of Uganda is governed. RELIGIOUS. Italian Catholic Missionaries, National Association for Protecting Them. Fedelo Lampertico. Rassegna Nazionale, Florence, Nov. 1, 77 pp. Roman Catholic Movement (The) and General Politics. Jules Bonjean. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Oct. 15, 18 pp. Suggesting reasons for supposing that the good understanding between the Roman Catholic Church and the French Republic, which began three months ago, will be permanent. Roman Catholicism, Its Present and Future in France. Abbé de Broglie. Correspondant, Paris. Nov. 10, 36 pp. First article. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. Archæology (National). Advice That It Be Taught in French Schools, Ch. V. Langlois. Rev. Bleue, Paris, Nov. 7, pp. 4. Hypnotism and Spiritism. Ezio Sciainanna. Nuova Antologia, Rome, Nov. 1, pp. 17. Intellectual and Cerebral Structure (Our), The Origins of. I. Kantism. A. Fouillée. Rev. Philosophique, Paris, Nov., p. 34. First paper. Man Engaged in a Battle with Nature. Emile Blanchard. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Nov. 15, pp. 19. Contending that science is the weapon with which Man will conquer Nature. Photographing in Colors by the Method of Prof. Lippmann. F. Grassi. Rassegna Nazionale, Florence, Nov. 1, pp. 5. Descriptive paper. Railway Constructions (New), Suspension of. Arturo I. de Johannis. Nuova Antologia, Rome, Nov. 1, pp. 15. Discussing the question of the Suspension of New Railway Construction by the Government of Italy, required by the present condition of Italian finances. Will (The), the Part it Plays in Belief. J. J. Gourd. Rev. Philosophique, Paris, Nov., pp. 16. SOCIOLOGICAL. Criminal and Penal Studies in Recent Publications. G. Tarde. Rev. Philosophique, Paris, Nov., pp. 35. Industries (Great and Small). Emile Chevallier. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Nov. 15, pp. 19. Discussing the respective advantages and disadvantages of large manufactories and manufacture carried on at home or in a small way. New Zealand and Its Inhabitants. Attilio Brunialti. Rassegna Nazionale, Florence, Nov. 1, pp. 26. Description of the Maori, the native inhabitants of New Zealand. Women's Work. Paul Lafitte. Rev. Bleue, Paris, Nov. 7, pp. 2. Remarks on a law protecting workingwomen, under consideration in the French Senate. New York. Maurice Bouchor. Rev. Bleue, Paris, Nov. 7, pp. 4. Description of the city by a French traveler. Ninon de L'Enclos, The "Teas" of. Nouvelle Rev., Paris, Nov. 15, pp. 6. Account of afternoon receptions, at which tea, then a high-priced novelty, was served. Pamir (the), Across. Mutius. Nuova Antologia, Rome, Nov. 1, pp. 8. Description of the Russian expedition in 1883 to Pamir, the most northern extremity of the elevated Tibeto-Himalayan mountain plateau. Pasquale (Old), The Counsels of. Aristide Gabelli. Nuova Antologia, Rome, Nov. 1, pp. 11. Advising the young men of Italy, living in the country, to remain in their native land and cultivate it. Books of the Week. AMERICAN. Atvatabar, The Goddess of; Being the History of the Discovery of the Interior World. W. R. Bradshaw. J. F. Douthitt. Cloth, $2.00. Brahminism and Hinduism; or, Religious Thought and Life in India. Sir Monier Monier-Williams, K.C.I.E. Macmillan & Co. Fourth Ed., Enlarged, $4.50. Cairo, In. 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Warne & Co. Cloth, $1.25. Yvernelle: A Legend of Feudal France. Frank Norris. J. B. Lippincott Co., Phila. Cloth, Illus., $3.50 Current Events. Wednesday, December 9. The President's message is read in both houses of Congress......The report of the Secretary of the Treasury is submitted.............. The House adjourns until Saturday...... The "quad" marked ballots in Dutchess County, fifty-four in number, are counted for Deane (Rep.) for State Senator, and the result filed in the Clerk's office......Judge Barnard grants an order, returnable Saturday, restraining the Clerk from transmitting the returns to the State Board........ The Regents of the University meet in annual session at Albany...... The State Dairyman's Association is in session at Owego......Corn advances twelve cents per bushel in Chicago for the year option......A man is arrested in Brooklyn charged with forming a plot to blow up a building in lower Broadway......In New York City. Trustees of Columbia College donate $25,ooo to the Botanical Garden......The Ladies' Health Protective Association holds its annual meeting. The funeral of Dom Pedro is conducted with royal honors in Paris; the body is taken to Lisbon for burial...... France demands reparation from Brazil for twelve Frenchmen killed in Rio Janeiro......Chinese insurgents are again defeated by Imperial troops......Newfoundland levies retaliatory duties on Canadian goods. Thursday, December 10. ...... In the Senate, it being the annual "Bill Day," upwards of 500 Bills were introduced......The December crop report gives the condition of the growing wheat as 85.3......The National Bar Association, in session at Washington, elects officers and fixes Washington as the permanent place for the annual meeting.. . Charles B. Evarts, eldest son of the ex-Senator, dies at Windsor, Vt......Harry Miller, son of Joaquin Miller, the poet, confesses that he robbed a stage......At Owego, N. Y., the State Dairymen resolve to memorialize Congress against oleomargarine......In New York City, the Union League Club elects a straight Republican nominating committee... The Union University Alumni celebrate their annual dinner. In Campos, Brazil, in a revolt against the Peixotto Government, ten persons are killed......Chancellor von Caprivi speaks in the Reichstag in favor of the adoption of the new commercial treaties......A fierce gale visits the coast of England and Ireland, doing considerable_damage......The_Liberal Conference concerning Rural Reforms meets in London......The King of Greece has smallpox. Friday, December 11. The correspondence resulting in reciprocity with Germany is made public. .It is reported that many lives were lost in the recent storm on the Pacific coast...... The Court of Appeals at Albany hears arguments in the disputed election cases......It is believed in Boston that Henry L. Norcross, a notebroker of Somerville, Mass., who disappeared recently, was the thrower of the bomb in the office of Russell Sage. The Governor of the State of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, refuses to resign at the request of the General Government; martial law is expected to follow... In the French Chamber, the President, M. Floquet, upon remarking that Pope Pius IX. was a Freemason, is called a liar by Deputies Cassagnac and d'Asson; a great uproar ensues......Lord Dufferin succeeds Lord Lytton as British Ambassador to France......Mr. Gladstone addresses the delegates to the Liberal Conference......The Haytian Government proclaims general amnesty for political offenders..............It is said that the Chinese insurrection has been stamped out. Saturday, December 12. In the House of Representatives the Committees on Mileage and on Accounts are announced......Judge Barnard, at Poughkeepsie, quashes the proceedings in the matter of the order granted by him on Wednesday, and directs that the certificate of the election of Deane as Senator be transmitted to the State Board, and that a certificate of the election of Shirrell (Rep.), as County Treasurer, be given to him......At Crested Butte, Col., the Sheriff and a posse, while defending a mine, are fired upon by a large body of strikers; they return the fire, killing five rioters......An unsuccessful attempt is made to wreck a train on the Harlem road near Pleasantville. The U. S. Warship Baltimore sails from Valparaiso for San Francisco, her presence being no longer necessary in Chili......The Governor of Rio Janeiro resigns......The Reichstag strongly supports the new commercial treaties......A heated debate on the hostile attitude of the clergy occurs in the French Chamber. Sunday, December 13. It is stated that negotiations for reciprocity treaties with Trinidad, Barbadoes, and Demerara have teached a satisfactory conclusion......A letter found in the Boston office of Norcross convinces his father that he was the bombthrower of Sage's office...... Professor George C. Smith, for twenty-five years President of Drew Seminary, dies at Carmel, N. Y......A movement is on foot in Chicago to abolish the Garfield race-track......In New York City the Central Labor Union condemns the bad paving work in Broadway... Daughters of the American Revolution start a plan to establish a colonial exhibit at the World's Fair......The Rev. Dr. Bridgeman, formerly of the Baptist Church, was ordained as a Protestant Episcopal deacon. Michael Davitt is severely hurt in a fierce fight between the Irish factions in Waterford City......It is announced that the London Advisory Board on the Virginia State debt has declined to approve the American scheme. Monday, December 14. In the Senate a large number of Bills are introduced...... The list of committee assignments is completed by the Republican caucus committee.. The convention of the American Federation of Labor begins at Birmingham, Ala...... The annual report of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad is made in Boston..... Colonel W. E. Merrill, U. S. Army, drops dead in a railway train......In New York City, Edward M. Field, of Field, Lindley, Wiechers & Co., is arrested at the asylum where he was confined and taken to Police Headquarters; the charge is grand larceny, and the object of the warrant is to test the sanity of the prisoner... .P. B. Armstrong, president of several fire insurance companies, announces his retirement from the fire insurance business... Property owners on Madison avenue form an association to oppose the rapid-transit tunnel under that street...... Prominent dry-goods men decide to ask the Legislature to appropriate $500,000 for a proper representation of the State at the World's Fair. There is a revolutionary demonstration in the province of Sao Paulo, Brazil. France severs diplomatic relations with Bulgaria, on account of the expulsion of a French journalist from Bulgaria; the incident causes uneasiness in political circles......Thirty men are drowned by the wreck of the ship Enterkin off the English coast; much damage is done by the storm in Great Britain......Michael Davitt decides to stand for Parliament in the Waterford District. Tuesday, December 15. In the Senate, the appointment is announced of Mr. Morrill as Regent of the Smithsonian Institute; Bills are introduced, one by Mr. Hiscock for the erection of bridges over the Hudson and East rivers at New York... .Arrangements just concluded for reciprocity with Jamaica make large concessions to the United States......The Onondaga election cases are argued in the Court of Appeals......Judge Fursman, at Troy, grants an order restraining the Clerk of Dutchess County from forwarding the returns for Senator to Albany, as ordered by Judge Barnard at Poughkeepsie......In New York City, the head of the bomb-thrower is identified by the parents of Norcross as that of their son.. Edward M. Field is indicted and committed to Ludlow Street Jail......Annual dinners of the Columbia College Alumni, and New York Alumni of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 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