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.

The House has passed the bill to relieve the surities of T. P. Chandler, late assistant treasurer of Boston.

An express train on the Toronto road ran off the track. Four cars ditched and several passengers injured.

The House banking committee have adopted that resolution in favor of continuing the national banking system.

Topeka, Kansas, has started a subscription to purchase Guiteau's body for the medical museum, as a speculation.

Col. Dudley thinks that with 400 men in the field as special agents, he will be able to stop the gigantic pension frauds.

The creditors of the Sprague estate wish to form an association to take the property at not less than two million dollars.

The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad wishes to raise its capital sixteen and one half million to complete the Western division.

Melville, Danenhower and eleven men have been discovered, besides the log-book, instruments and records left by De Long.

The question now is whether the revision of the French constitution shall be limited or integral. M. Gambetta is pledged to the limited.

An attempt has been made to boycott a druggist in Oberlin, Ohio, for selling liquor. Yesterday the freshman class of the college called upon him, but were unable to effect a reform.

In the Spuyten Duyvil inquest, H. D. Welsh testifies that the brakeman waited until the coming train was in sight before going back to signal it. The engineer testifies that the accident would not have happened had not the brakes been tampered with.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, generally warmer south to west winds, lower barometer, generally cloudy weather and snow or rain.