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# THE EAST. Two men who were being taken to the Kingston Penitentiary from Port Arthur, leaped over the side of the steamer in Lake Superior. One was drowned. GEORGE B. CHURCH, a stock broker of Albion, N. Y., has assigned his property to secure debts of fifty thousand dollars, giving preference to his mother and sister. MRS. SMITH, of Hunter's Point, Long Island, was awakened by the attempt of a burglar to take a diamond ring from her finger. She instantly seized a revolver and drove the intruder from the house, firing two shots at him. JAILER COOK caught two escaping prisoners at Bennington, Vt., but lost two fingers. SAMUEL LOWDEN, a New York builder, was reported missing the other day. He left with about thirty thousand dollars in cash, his debts aggregating fifty thousand dollars. # THE PIG IRON BUSINESS THE pig-iron business of Pittsburgh, Pa., continues in a very unsatisfactory condition. Restriction of production is the order of the day. RUTTENBER, an editor and newspaper proprietor, of Fonda, N. Y., was arrested recently for arson. He was heavily in debt, and to retrieve himself promised a reward to a printer named Chanter if he would fire the building, the contents of which he had insured. The result was a forty-thousand dollar fire followed by the arrest of Chanter and Ruttenber. HENRY B. ANTHONY, who died at Providence, in his seventieth year, was Governor of Rhode Island in 1849, was serving his fifth consecutive term in the Senate and had three times been chosen President pro tem. of that body. For many years he edited the Providence Journal. MARTIN WEINBERGER was privately executed at Pittsburgh the other day for the murder of a peddler near Sewickley two years ago. Weinberger is said to be the second Hebrew in the United States who has perished on the gallows. A WRECKING company of Boston has contracted to deliver the Tallapoosa at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for thirty-five thousand dollars. CHARLES J. OSBORNE has been appointed receiver of the Wall Street Bank, and has received orders to pay a dividend of sixty-five per cent. to depositors. THE Saratoga County National Bank at Waterford, N. Y., intends to close up its affairs. The failure is also announced of McKenna & Radcliff, grain brokers of Detroit, where the junior member was once President of the Board of Trade. THE window-glass factories and most of the bottle factories at Pittsburgh, Pa., lately resumed after the usual vacation, giving employment to several thousand men. THE Rev. Milton S. Terry, S. T. D., of the Forty-third Street Methodist Church of New York, a few days since accepted the Professorship of Greek of the Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, Ill. RICE & HUTCHINS' shoe factory at Marlboro, Mass., was destroyed by fire September 2d. About two hundred hands were thrown out of employment. The loss is about sixty thousand dollars. MR. BONNER is said to have offered sixty thousand dollars for Jay-Eye-See. S. R. STODDARD, of literary note, has paddled his own canoe from New York to Bar Harbor lately. THE New Jersey courts have decided that land under water pre-empted for oyster planting may be taken by any third party whenever the pre-emptor fails to plant the young shellfish. This decision overrules a practice of thirty years standing. THE paper manufacturers of Boston are indignant at the action of the Government tin prohibiting for three months the landing of imported rags. MRS. KEELER, of Reading, Pa., abstained from food for forty-eight days because of Christ's fast in the wilderness, and then passed away. Her weight was reduced from two hundred and seventy-five pounds to one hundred and two. ANDREW JACKSON, a capitalist of Hammond's Station, N. Y., was lately found on the railway track with both legs severed. Before dying he accused two neighbors of throwing him under a train, and they were arrested st Mechanicsville. The feud grew out of a lawsuit. PRIVATE HENRY's remains at Long Island City will not be exhumed. ESCAPING gas in a sleeping apartment recently caused the death of Charles Hill, a bank cashier at New Brunswick, N. L. An attorney of Syracuse, representing a Philadelphia woman, has applied for letters of administration on the $50,000 estate of a Catholic priest named Guerdet. The latter paid for the girl's education in a convent at St. Louis. She claims to be his daughter, and hists that she can tell a startling tale at the proper time. A HUSBAND at Newport, R. L., recently pursued his wife with a razor until she jumped out of a two-story window. In its answer to the libel suit instituted by James G. Blaine the Indianapolis Sentinel denied that its statements in regard to the seduction of Miss Stanwood, her marriage to Blaine under threats, and the birth of a child three months subsequently, were in any particular false. The defendant filed a number of questions to be answered by Blaine under oath. A FIGHT of forty-five rounds, with hard gloves, between Jim McHugs, of Glasgow, and Dave Fitzgerald, of Toronto, occurred recently at Rockaway Beach, Long Island. Both were seriously injured, and the referee declared the contest a draw because of interference by the spectators. # THE WEST. THE flouring mill of J. B. M. Kehlor, at Waterloo, Ill., containing a large amount of grain, was burned recently. The Loss is one hundred and seventy-five thousand