A new planetoid has been discovered.

A large number of canal schemes are before Congress.

A great sensation is caused by the panic on the Paris bourse.

A large amount of smuggled jewelry has been seized in Canada.

Ex-Postmaster-General James dines with a Boston club today.

Another clever manoeuvre by the prosecution in the star route cases.

The late incendiarisms at Holbrook and Randolph have been traced.

A $6000 fire occurred at 486 Harrison avenue, Boston, last night.

Oscar Wilde asks $30 a night for receptions other than those at private houses.

The Irish societies of Boston have voted to parade next St. Patrick's Day.

A formal announcement that the railroad war is settled will be made on Monday.

Scoville concluded his argument yesterday. Guiteau will address the jury today.

New cases of small-pox increase in New York, Pittsburg and Portsmouth, Va.

The insurgents in Herzegovina have slaughtered a detachment of Austrian soldiers.

Four men were scalded in Somerville yesterday by the bursting of a dryer in a bleaching establishment.