Last Saturday night Europe experienced one of the severest gales ever known on that Continent.
The issue of silver dollars for the week ending Jan. 26, was 110,000; corresponding period last year 263,000.
E. M. W. Mackey, the Republican Member of Congress for South Carolina, died at Washington, Monday morning.
Mr. Blaine has introduced into the Senate a bill for the free circulation of newspapers within the States where published.
Fred Douglas, the eloquent African, has astonished the natives by marrying a white woman. He is about 70, she 46 years old.
The bodies of the Jeannette victims have reached Moscow, where the American residents placed flowers and wreathes on the biers.
The Chicago Opera-House Company, with a capital of $600,000, has been incorporated at Springfield by Charles Henrotin, Edward Koch, and others.
The Brigham Young Academy, at Provo, Utah, valued at $30,000, was burned Sunday evening. There were four hundred students in the building. No lives lost.
There are now 7,794 ocean steamers belonging to the different nations. About one half the ocean sailing vessels belong to England. Their total number is 36,194.
The famous Smithson college building at Logansport, Indiana, which is said to be the handsomest structure of its kind in the State, is to be purchased and turned into a normal school.