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Professor Lenz, of Nuremberg, Germany, has received an order to cast a bronze statue of the late President Garfield, which is to be erected In San Francisco. Prof. Klinkerfues, the German astronomer, shot himself in the observatory at Gottingen, Germany, yesterday. The trial of George Alfred Townsend for libel of Joseph Hart, with damages set at $20,000, began in New York yesterday. The will of Dr. John R. Lee, of Hartford, Conn., among other bequests leaves $2,000 to the Hampton (Va.) Normal and Agricultural school. An unknown Hungarian, out of work and starving, committed suicide at West Newton, Pa, Sunday, by jumping in an air-hole in the ice. A man named Webb became involved in a dimculty in Jackson county, Ala., yesterday, with three brothers named Milburn, and he killed two of them and fatally wounded the third. All the compositorsemployed in the Evening News office, Philadelphia, were notified Saturday that their services were no longer required, and their places were soon afterwards supplied by non-union men. The amount of subscriptions received by the Boston Post to be given Lieut. Rhodes. of the cutter Dexter, for gallant conduct in connection with the City of Columbus disaster, is $1,180. Agnes Murphy, of Raymertown, N. Y., died Sunterday morning from poisoning. There are circumstances in the case which point to its being a life insurance murder. Wing Lee, a well-known Louisville Chinaman, was married in that city Monday to Miss Neille Burton, a prepossessing white girl. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER-The mutilated remains of Harvey Slacker, a prominent young man of Elizabeth, Pa., were found yesterday morning near Peter's creek trestle, two miles from Elizabeth. Blood was scattered over the snow for a distance of 100 yards, and there was evidence of a hard struggle. There is no clue to his murderer. ... THE OLD, OLD STORY.-Tilden G. Abbott, for ten years cashier of the Union Market National bank of Watertown, Mass., has absconded, taking funds of the bank aggregating as far as known $31,160. The bank will not open its doors to-day, and should there be a run it may close permanently. Abbott was of pleasing address, a member of the Baptist church, and until within six months ago was treasurer of the Watertown Savings bank. He is about forty years old, and has a wife and four children. It is believed that a woman is with him. A YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH FROM MALPRACTICEMargaret Sauer, aged 21, died Sunday at the restdence of her married sister, Bertha Hauft, in New York, from the effects of malpractice. Dr. Wm. P; Merxes, who attended her; Mary Bachert, allas Preston, and Jacob Bachert, the brother of the preceding and the alleged lover of the victim, were arrested and held for examination. TWIN BABIES FROZEN TO DEATH.-A dispatch from Liberty Mills, Ind., says: "The twin babies or Isaac and Rebecca Martin were frozen to death Thursday night in their crib, which had been placed in a fireless room. They werethree months old. Martin visited the crib during the night and found one babe dead. The other was suffering severely, and soon died. The clothing was trozen to the bodies of the infants. PART OF THE BUZZARD BAND ARRESTED-Mrs. Abc Buzzard, wife of the notorious outlaw. and three members of the gang, named Hainey, Hornberger and Breneiser, were arrested on Ephrata mountain near Lancaster, Pa., Friday, the men being charged with felonious entry and larceny, and Mrs. Buzzard with receiving stolen goods. The arrest was effected on the information of a Philadelphia detective, who joined the band January 1 and has been traveling with it since. SAD EFFECT OF THE EMMA BOND TRIAL-There is a queer climax to the Emma Bond case. One of the jurors weeps constantly at home, and refuses to be comforted. Another one starts and runs whenever he hears any unusual noise, and another, Boone Isaacs, who was engaged to a young lady, has been jilted, and is now overcome with grief. SOME MODEST REFORMERS.-The second day's session of the New England Free-Thinkers' convention opened at Boston yesterday. A tree-thinkers' association was formed, with by-laws, demanding that churches should not be exempt from taxation; that the jndicial oath should be abolished; that all laws enforcing the observance of the Sabbath and Christian morality should be repealed; that the Bible should be removed from the puolic schools, and that governmental aid should be refused to sectarian schools. WHOLE FAVILY PATIONED wife of
