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Ter., was destroyed by fire on the 1st. THE Exchange National Bank of Cincinnati has gone into voluntary liquidation. THERE were 433 fresh cases of cholera reported in Italy on the 1st and 197 deaths. MR. KIRKI, the new Japanese Minister to the United States, arrived at San Francisco on the 1st. WRITING paper manufacturers met at Boston, Mass., on the 1st, and decided upon an advance in prices. GENERAL WM. A. THROOP, a prominent citizen of Detroit, Mich., shot himself through the head on the 1st, inflicting a mortal wound. A STRANGE disease has broken out among cattle in the Catawissa Valley of Pennsylvania. THE decrease of the public debt during September was $12,047,039; cash in the Treasury, $425,031,322. ROSCOE CONKLING was killed in a base ball game at River Head, L. L, on the 1st. This is not the ex-Senator, but a namesake of seventeen. JOHN W. FLINN, President of the American Association of Master Mechanics, died at Atlanta, Ga., on the 1st. IT was semi-officially announced at Paris on the 1st that Admiral Courbet had made a descent upon Kee Lung. A SON of O'Donovan Rossa, now in Paris, boasts that he has 50,000 francs with which to buy dynamite to send to England. A MOVEMENT was started on the New York Produce Exchange on the 1st to es. tablish a clearing-house for the grain trade. THE twenty-first annual convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers began its sessions at San Francisco, Cal., on the 1st. THE Irish National League met at Dublin on the 1st and complained of having received no funds lately from America to aid in the work laid out. SINCE January 2,533 miles of main track have been laid in the United States against 4,244 during the same period last year. LE TEMPS denies that France is seeking alliance with Germany on the Egyptian question, or that France is negotiating for peace with China. THE New York Produce Exchange wants the railroad managers to lift certain charges which operate against grain men of that city. THE stove-molders' strike at Pittsburgh, Pa., is virtually over, the men being willing to accept the ten per cent. reduction. THE Oliver Iron Works at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 1st, notified the employes of a reduction of 12ยฝ per cent. in the wages on account of the depression in trade. THE Minneapolis (Minn.) mills are turning out more flour than ever before in the history of the city. Several are running on new wheat exclusively. W. F. BARTHOLOMEW, coachman for W. J. Simmons, a wealthy business man of Troy, N. Y., married the latter's adopted daughter, Emma Babcock, aged eighteen, on the 1st. It was a secret affair. THE drought in Virginia is alarming. The beat has also been intense for several days. Grass is dried up in the southwest, creeks are dry and cattle are being driven into Tennessee for water and grazing. COMMISSIONER FINK has announced the termination of the railroad war. MRS. BELVA LOCKWOOD announces that she will take the stump. CHOLERA deaths in France are rapidly decreasing. THE operations of the Postal Department for the fiscal year are given to the public. They show a deficiency of about $3,000,000. THE Liberals of Glasgow, Scotland, will erect a statue of Gladstone. Hogs are suffering and dying from a malignant disease in several counties in Maryland. THERE were 326 fresh cases of cholera in Italy on the 2d. and 194 deaths. A GANG of men called at Dennis MeGrath's house, near Providence, R. I., on the 2d, and murdered him. JOHN F. MARSH declines to be the People's party candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. BOTH Blaine and Logan were at Cincinnati on the 2d. They reviewed an immense procession in their honor and held public receptions. A PLATFORM gave way during the races at Strabone, Ireland, on the 2d, and many persons were injured. A SCHEME to smuggle grain into Canada has been discovered at Stratford, Ont. COMMODORE SCHLEY has been presented with a gold medal and Lieutenant Emory a silver medal by the Massachusetts Historical Society for the part they took in rescuing the Greely party. DYNAMITE outrages at Cuy Le Noble, France, on the 2d caused great damage and frightened the inhabitants. FRANK S. CHANFRAU, well known for his impersonations of "Kit, the Arkansas Traveler," died at Jersey City on the 2d. THE President of a branch of the Irish National League at Dublin has been ex. pelled because he shook hands with Earl Spencer. AH LEE LEE Yow, a Chinese laundryman of Cleveland, O., who married a white woman, was naturalized on the 2d by the Probate Judge, as his first papers were taken out prior to the act of 1882. JOHN McCuLLouGh, the actor, became violent at Chicago, and it required sev. eral men to restrain him. It is thought the tragedian's mind is seriously affected. WALTER EVANS, United States Internal Revenue Commissioner, officially states that John A. Logan does not own an interest in a distillery, in answer to an inquiry from a Kansas man. WITHIN two days, October 1st and 2d, four persons were murdered in Springdale, Tex. The provocations were trivial. ONE man was killed and several seriously injured by an explosion, on the 2d, of