A terrible accident occurred in a Burlington, Vt., foundry yesterday, by which several men were severely burned, some fatally it is feared.
The eighth grand ball of the Somerville Police relief Association was held last evening. Invited officers were present from other towns.
The French Cabinet has resigned. M. Gambetta made a speech to the Chamber of Deputies defending his course and denying he has any idea of dissolving the chamber.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of Chelsea as a city was celebrated last evening by a banquet at Young's Hotel, over four hundred past and present city officials perticipating.
President Arthur has sent to Congress the full text of the late diplomatic correspondence with Chili, Peru and Bolivia during several years past. It is very voluminous.
Guiteau remains hopeful of a new trial, and declares the verdict of the jury was most surprising to him. H???gotism seems to be departing, and his health ??? poor. Mr. Scoville will file a motion for a new trial Saturday. District Attorney Corkhill has been the recipient of many congratulations from all parts of the country.
Several business men of Boston, who have been Identified with the Huston Ship's Berth Co., have been arrested on charges of perjury with intention to defraud by over-issue of stock and appropriation of capital.
In the legislature the proposed sale of the State's railroad stock was discussed; more railroad extensions were asked for, and the Charles River Street Railway received further support from the Cambridge petitioners.
A bill has been introduced in the House by the chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia to appropriate $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the pestilent marshes in the harbors of Washington and Georgetown.
From conversation with some of the jurors in the Guiteau case, it is learned that what has been said all along in regard to the prisoner ruining his own case is true. There has hardly existed, at any time, the shadow of a doubt as to Guiteau's sanity and responsibility for his crime.
Yesterday in the House Mr. Robinson of New York made a very amusing, high-flown speech in regard to imprisoned Americans. Several messages were received from the President. Pension estimates were asked for, and a bill introduced to remit the duty on New Testaments imported by the American company of revisers for free distribution among scholars and theolologians. In the Senate Senator Sherman spoke in defence of his refunding bill, and a number of nominations were received from the President.
THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, warmer, cloudy weather and rain during the day, and southerly winds, shifting to westerly, and falling, followed by rising barometer. Cautionary signals from New York to Eastport.