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Of the Day in Pithy Paragraphs. Domestic. The Senate of Maine has negatived the constitutional amendment favoring female suffrage. The Missouri Valley Bank of Kansas City suspended yesterday. Liabilities $275,000; assets $200,000. When ex-Secretary Thompson saw Pennsylvania avenue under water he thought it was the Panama canal. At Orange, N.J., the hat factory of T. F. Brennan & Co., was burned yesterday. Lose, $24,000; insurance, $14,000. It is not believed here that James Russell Lowell desires to be relieved of his office as United States Minister to England. A New York railroad officer says the demand for cars to run to Washington for the inauguration exceeds anything of the kind ever known. Senator Bayard and other members of the Finance Committee are very confident of passing the Funding bill as reported from the committee. It is now understood that Howell's idea in leaving the Atlantic Monthly is in order to accept an appointment as U.S. Minister to Swiss Confederation. A dispatch from Virginia City, Nev., yesterday, says Senator-elect Fair left there this afternoon for Washington. He will step at Wapollo, Iowa, to visit his sister. An Oakdale, Mass., dispatch says: Tim Niphan and John Kelly were killed yesterday by the caving in of an embankment on the Massachusetts Central Railroad. At a meeting of the directors of the Central railroad, N. J., yesterday, Knight and Clarke resigned and Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon were elected to fill the vacancies. At Toledo the extensive ship chandlery stores and warehouse of Wilcox Bros., 64 and 66 Water street, were entirely destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $40,00. Dr. Gearing reported a case of smallpox yesterday at the office of Health Officer Harlan, of Allegheny. The person's name is David Hentzal. He boarded on River avenue, above the water works. Foreign. The Bank of England has reduced its rate of discount to 3 per cent. The increasing financial difficulties make the Sultan of Turkey more than ever desirous for peace. Count Von Arnim Boilzenburg will decline the Presidency of the Reichstag, as Clericolect has been selected Vice President. The conference between Parnell and Rochefort has excited much indignation among the Catholic members of Parneli's party. Gen. Colley telegraphs that the Boers have made overtures for peace. The proposals have been considered in Cabinet counsel and the report has been dispatched by telegraph to Colley. There is a much more hopeful feeling in Paris relative to the Greek question, in consequence of Germany having consente to take the lead in the negotiations at Constantinople.
