The actual cost of the Guiteau trial to date is $50,000.

The Hudson river is frozen solidly from Hudson to Albany.

An adjournment has been taken in the Giteau case until Saturday.

The Vine Street Opera House, Cincinnati, was burned yesterday morning. Loss $5000.

Over one hundred and fifty couples attended the Lotos Club ball in Boston last evening.

On account of the cold but a small number of men attended J. G. Croswell's reading of "Theocritus," last evening.

A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says that John Pratt, D. D., first president of the Dennison University, died yesterday.

Mlle. Rhea, the French actress, is causing considerable talk and gossip in Rochester, N. Y., having broken her engagements with two managers.

The London Standard, in a financial article, Jan. 5, says that the disorganization in the American market there yesterday almost caused a panic.

Postmaster-Gen. James retires from the post-office department to give place to ex-Senator Howe. It is rumored that Frank Howe, son of the en-Senator, will succeed Mr. J. R. Van Wormer as chief clerk of the post-office department.

William R. Hanlan was yesterday committed to the care of the New York commissioners of charities and correction. He asserted that Jesus Christ sent him to destroy the Capitol at Washington, and then to demolish New York politicians.

At the scene of the Cole's Corner disaster on the Boston and Maine Railroad, the ruins have mostly been cleared away. In the place of the old bridge, a solid wooden one has been erected, which will not be permanent. Actual loss in rolling stock $20,000, and the cost of the bridge was $2700.

The Concord prison convicts enjoyed a fine rendering of some character sketches by Mr. Frank H. Pope last evening. This was the beginning of a series of like entertainments for the winter evenings, inaugurated by Warden Earle.

The thirty-fifth annual convention of the Zeta Psi College Secret Fraternity took place in Syracuse, N. Y., yesterday morning. Delegates were present from Cornell, California, New York, Toronto, Chicago, Michigan, Colby and Syracuse universities, and from Bowdoin, Columbia, Williams, Tufts, Rutgers and Toronto colleges, and the Rennsalaer Polytechnic Institute.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5, 1882-1 A. M. For New England, increasing cloudiness and snow, winds shifting to N. and E., falling barometer and slowly rising temperature.