BRIEF MENTION, SUMMARY OF THE WEEK'S HAPPEN- INGS IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS. Accidents and Incidents—Personal Men- tion—Sayings and Doings in All Paris of the World Upon the Questions of the Day. It is officially announced that Mr, Goschen has accepted the office of chancellor of the exchequer in the British parliament. He enters the cabinet as a Liberal, and will, in the natural course, succeed to the leadership of the Conservatives in the house of com- mons, loan of 75,000,000 francs, to be devoted to the construction of a canal from the gulf of Perekov across the neck of the Crimea to the sea of Azov, thus facilitating communication between the river Don and tho Black sea, Bishop Stevens of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Western Pennsylvania, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his episco- pate at Philadelphia The heterodox trial at Boston is ended, but the decision has not yet been rendered, though it is now expected that the accused Andover professors will be acquitted. The Democrats organized Boston's new municipal government in every department, the Republicans failing to secure any trades, as they have done in past years A farmer's hand at Bethany, Conn., sent off for courting the farmer's daughter, car- ried the girl off with him, though sbe weighed 200 pounds and he only 120, Under a decision of the Erie county surro- gate, Mrs. Agnes Ethel Tracy, the widow of Frank Tracy, will pay only a small share of the cost which Miss Harriet Tracy incurred in contesting her father's will from hydronhobia, the effect of the slight bite of a dog three months ago. The threat of the Newark hucksters to avail themselves of the provisions of an ancient charter, and make their stands in Washing- ton park, has horrified the aristocratic resi- dents of that part of the city, and a legal fight is imminent, John O'Day flogged the editor of The Springfield, Mo., Leader to force a retraction from him of a statem#nt against O'Day pre- viously printed in the paper. A cruel mother threw a pretty babe from a train into a snowbank near Milwaukee. The child was found dead, with one chubby fist in its mouth, Thousands of coal dock laborers om the wharves at Elizabethport, Port Johnson, Hoboken, Weehawken and Perth Amboy are out on strike. A British steamer sank a ship in the chan- nel, drowning seventeen out of a crew twenty-one sailors, and an explosion of gas in the Cambridge barracks at Portsmouth killed six soldiers outright and seriously wounded twenty-one others, From San Francisco comes the statement that a United States senstorship from Cali- fornia is there offered for sale to the highest bidder. One prominent candidate is said to be willing to put up $200,000 to secure the prize. Gen. James W. Husted of Westchester county, N. Y., was nominated (which means bly by the Republicans. This makes the fifth term for the ‘‘Bald Eagle” as speaker. Charles A. Chickering was nominated for clerk, Isaac Scott, of Erie, was nominated for sergeant-at-arms, and Michael Mahar, of Orange, was made doorkeeper. The Demo- crats nominated William F. Sheehan, of Erie, for speaker, and he assames the leader- ship of his party in the assembly. The mayor of Newport tells the city fathers in bis inaugural message that uniess the pro- bibitory law is amended free rum will pre- vail to an alarming extent. The debt of the state of Ohio now exceeds $55,000,000, and Governor Foraker advocates the passage of & law prohibiting a debt in excess of 10 per cent. In value circles in Washington is said to be Miss Vir- ginia West, eldest daughter of the British minister. lee yachtemen along the Hudson are pre paring for their annual pennant races. A young woman, while singing a lullaby to ber infant in Fredericton, N. B., was acch dentally shot dead. A new general election is to be ordered in Canada immediately. The city clerk of Cambridge, Mas. , unable to make good the amount of his defalcation, $2,600, committed suicide. Pulaski, N. Y., merchants propose to boy- cott & railroad for charging excessive freight rates, The Fenians have issued another manifesto agninst Rossa, reiterating their denunciations of their former executive. Hossa found some defenders, and, Jest this should have a bad affect, the second manifesto is issued, The Chicago Knights who are seeking Mr. Powderly’s official scalp have decided not to press the call for a special session of the gen- eral assembly. but to abide their time. Mrs. Koovgn was sentenced at Somerville, N. J., to nino years in state prison for killing her husband. William M. Stewart is the next senator from Nevada, having received the nomina- tion by the Republicans, and that party con- trols the legislature, When the Adams express robbers were in conrt et Si Louis to receive sentpuce to soven yeors in state's prison, Witrock and Haight . recognized Fotheringham in the eoust room and wett over and shook hands with him, He said he forgave them for their rough treatment of him during the robbery. On account of the strike of the dock hand: at Elizabethport, N. J., all the collieries tha ship to that port are idle, throwing out 8,00 The thermometer has been at zero in Win chester, Va., and Louisiana has had fou: inches of snow, but the orange groves in Florida have escaped so far this year. Mr. Joseph H. Reali, president of the New York Agricultural Dairy association, say the farmers are satisfled with the oleomar- garine law by congress The tax they think sufficiently high, in addition to the license required, to protect their in teresta, The i Lai of Columbia, 8. C., and the su country celebrated Emanci ao. GEA Tl TR 5 wry Elmira, N. Y., on the Erie road, injuring three wen, and an Alabama and Groat Southern train was derailed by a cow near Chattanooga, Tenn, and the conductor, a brakeman and engineer were killed. The death of the Marquis de Roys so affected the mind of his beautiful widow that she committed sulcide by throwing herself out of a window of her spartment in the Faubourg St. Germain, in Paris. It is supposed that the man who committed suicide by jumping from the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls is a young book- keeper of Buffalo named Cutting, Three boys killed, several fatally hurt and others more or less injured is the result of , coasting accidents reported. The Fitchburg Railroad company has se- cured exclusive ownership of the Hoosac tunnel. A remarkable attempt to demonstrate faith cure was made at Reading, Pa. | Gus used for fuel in Troy escaped into busi- ! pess houses and prostrated fourteen persons i —~clerks, salesmen and customers, { The prisoners in the jail at Buffalo will be ! put at school, now that the law will not pers { mit them to work. There is an application in the hands of Governor Hill for a pardon for John Wal lace, now in Bing Sing, on the ground that the compiaiuant swears that the convict was sent to prison an innocent nian, Wall street holders of 850,000,000 defaulted southern state bonds are endeavoring to have the government enforce the payment of the $4,000,000 of such bonds held in trust for | Indian tribes | The mystery about the shocking murder | of Milkman Codman, of Bomerville, Mass , is cleared up. Young Nowlan, his hired man, when arrested confessed that he was the mur- derer. He had two conféerates, and rob bery was the object. It is reported that Senator Evarts will op | pose the interstate commeros bill because of | some conflict between it and the treaty of Washington in the matter of transportation in bond through Canade, and the free use of | Canadian canals by United States vessels. | Martin Birmingham, an Englishman in the Jersey City jail, who had been avoided by {the other prisoners, bit an ear almost off { from a convict named McDonald. Helis an fugly fellow, and had not the jailers come quickly to the rescue, the prisoners, who were in the corridors at the time, might have {lynched him. | Bix hundred tanners and leather workers {struck in Newark because their employers ‘ had not adopted the schefule of rates made {up by the labor unions. The strike i i 3 WAS Or- | Labor, | The Italian girl killed on the elevated rail. "but her father applies for letters of adminis tration on her estate, which cousists only of a “cause of action agminst the Manhattan Elevated Railroad company.” | ton, whom Barnum showed all over the coun- try, died at Chicago. : | trike cannot be maintained against offices | using stereotype plates where the number of printers is not thereby reduced. i i A bill to aménd, the penal code of New York state so as to give the courts much greater discretion in fixing the minimum punishment for crimes will be introduced into the legisiature. ® Professor Joseph Tosso, the composer of the famous “Arkansaw Traveler,” died near Covington, Ky. Ole Bull was one of his warmest friends and always visited him when he went to Cincinnatd, George W. Childs slipped on the icy side- walk in Philadelphia and struck his head on the flagstones with such force as to render hin unconscious, He was taken to his home and carefully treated, His physician thinks that no serious result need be feared from the accident. Senator Eugene Hale, of Maine, has been nominated to succeed himself, The Randall following among Democratic congressmen propose to repeal the fax on tobacco, fruit, spirits and alcohol used in the arts, and to name a ‘free list” of imports. Secretary Lamar was married at Macon, Ga.. to Mrs. Holt, of that city, The secre tary and Mrs Holt were lovers when they were young people, and have both been married in the interim. “Jackson's day” was observed throughout the country by Democratic clubs. The fund for Mrs. Logan now amounts to over £50,000, and subscriptions are still com- ing in. Prince Alexander will not go to Bulgaria. This is finally establishdd by an authorized communication on the subject. A monkey was the first comer at a leading chureh in Providence when it was opened for morning service, and there was considerable of a time in getting him out. A settler in Dakota started to walk to his claim, and was frozen to death in a snow drift. The Chicago trades assembly and the ma- chinery of the labor party in that city have been captured by the Socialists. A noted Anarchist was elected statistician of the assembly, and all the other uffices were filled with socialistic sympathizers, During a fire in Hartford an enthusiastic reporter, who was also clerk to the fire board, entered the burning building, was cut off by the flames and perished. of sixty-five lives United Btates ssmator, the national government it must A freight conductor and { | the disease spreading. | The Right Hon. ¥dward Stanhope, now | colonial secretary, has accepted the office of | secretary for war in the British cabinet. It i signs the foreign secretaryship he will take { Mr. Stanhope's place ss colonial secretary {The Marquis of Lansdowne has declined ithe office proffered by Lord Salsbury, {on the ground that be is not prepared to sur- Canada. Dynamitors, supposed to be strikers, at | ernble damage. | The sixth attempt to destroy a tenement prevent terrible loss of life. Two trains collided in the streets of Chi- cago. Four passengers were injured The senatorial contest in Masachusetis is centering on ex-Governor Robinson, The Indiana Democrats succeeded in organ. fing the state senate at Indianapolis. Governor Bodwell, of Maine, recommends a prohibitory tariff on Canadian fish as a re- taliation for their ugliness on the fishery question, Mr Lucy Sweet Barber, of Alfred Centre, N. Y.. who went to the polis and voted in the late election, has been arrested for the act. The New York chamber of cotumerce ap- proved the main provisions of the interstate commerce bill and adopted resolutions urging that our unprotected sea cossts be immedi ately armed. Retail coal dealers say that if the strike among the coal heavers continues for 8 week or ten days New York will be threatened with a coa! famine. Ex-Governor C. K. Davis was nominated for United States senator for Minnesota by the Republican legislative cancus, Witrock, Haight and Weaver, the Adams’ express robbers, have been taken to the Mis souri penitentiary. The senate passed the bill granting Mra Logan a pension of $3,000 a year. Two "Uncle Tom's Cabin” bloodhounds wars sitacked by a mastiff in the depot at Ht. Louie. One of the actor dogs was shot, and two shots wore fired at two of the show- men. Thirty-five degrees below zero at Marshali- town, la, Viear General Preston says the Catholic church will pay no attention to Henry George's attack upon it. He also says the article on Dr. MeGiynn will do that gentie- man more harm than good. Mr. William Black, the novelist, has ob- tained a verdict for £100 damages against Bow Bells for libelous assertions respecting his early life and parsimonious habits. 1t is said that all the Tilden heirs, and all the executors except Mr. Andrew H. Green, favor a ul settlement of the dispute over the will without further litigation, Mr. George W. Childs, who fell on the ice at Philadelphia, is more injured than was ut first supposed, Archbishop damages count of being deprived of his salary. Henry A. Hurlbut, Jr., of New York, ad- mits that he snores, but denies the charge of drunkensess on which his wife bases a suit for divorce at Newport, It. 1. Jealousy is now suggested as the impel motive in the murder of the a Colt i sity nine failed Gen. Lucius Fairchild, the mifidle and New England state 1705, was admitted to the bar in March, 1828, «1 at bis home in Vermillion parish, La Sunday amd no objects of charity The horse trade in Montreal has been com prohibiting the importation account of the prevalence of gianders, be discovered in Montreal Heal estate circles in St. Paul are excited over the statement that the visit of the Chi cago millionaire, Philip Armour, to that city is for the purpose of selecting a site for exten. sive stock yards and packing houses, At the consistory to be held in Rome this month several bishops will be nominated to American sees. TRADE BULLETIN, New York Money and Produce Market Quotations. Kew Yonx, Jan. 10 Money closed at 5 per cent. The ruling rates were 4@5 per oent. Exchange closed higher; posted rates, 4E3G4 88: actual rates, 4.510481 for sixty days and 4 85QA86% for demand Governments closed firm; currency fis, 12544 bid; digs, coup. 18734 bid; Age, do, 110 bid. The stock market was excessively dull during the afternoon, but the tome continued firm. Jer sey Central and Heading continued the features. Near the close there was some selling and the market left off heavy. but with prices generally fractionally higher. New Jorsey Central closed at an advance of 144 per cent The socks that closed lower than on Saturday were Cameron Coal, Richmond and West Point, New York and Kew England, and Kansas aod Texas The de cline in these stocks ranged from 34 to 13] per cent. The sales for the day amounted to 237.558 shares a — General Markets. New Youx, Jan. 10 «FLOUR Was weaker and closed without decided y; winter wheat exira, $3.90@5 40; Minnesota do, 40; city mill extra, $4.70; Ohio extra, $5.20{35.25 Southern flour closed steady ; common to choice extra, $8008. WHEAT Options were quiet, w closed \ OUR CHRISTMAS ¥RE TO——§ Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Bghers The Holiday Beason is rapidly approaching and every one is thinkin fe: 6} purchasing presents. You may be debating in your mind esto what you wil! id oC * : and where you are going for it. You no doubt want something fine, that wi {i ~ Zl appreciated. Never before were we better prepared to suppy vour wants int byt line of HIOILIIIDIAIY=G 010!D!S- We have just received a Large Assortment of st’ FINE SILVERWARE, GOLD PENS. PENCILS. PINS, CHARMS, INGS, HAINS, GOLD AND SILVER SPBCTACLI Line of Silverware, Spoons, Forks, Cutlery, Pocket Knives, Revolverr, SEWING MACHINES, We have the Agency for and keep in stock the DAVIS, NEW HOME, and others, with the mondern improvemsn's and attachments adapted for dress makers or the kome, Nothing would please your wife better than an easy running machioe. wll a SE SE o LAMPS, — LAMPS, We carry a complete line of Hangiog Lamps. We have the Agency the locandescent Lamp, which we claim gives & strooger snd better light than any Lamp io the market. New iavention, for > » Come snd see our Holiday Goods. All goods warranted. =. A. SILEX &&£CO., Next door to Hotel — Centre Tall, J. 0. A. Kennedy, Manager HE HICKS & BRO. HICKS & BRO. B* BELLEFONTE, PENN'A,— wen DEALERS IN Elard