There was a $100,000 fire at Grand Forks, Dakota, on Monday night.

Mr. Alfred Clock, an old and respectable citizen of New York, was swindled out of $1500 last week by banco sharpers. One of the gang has been arrested.

Mr. Brush, of are-lighting fame, yesterday exhibited in New York a new form of accumulator, or storage battery, which is practically indestructible.

A panic prevails on the Berlin bourse, growing out of articles recently published in the German newspapers concerning the echeloning of the Russian army on the German frontier.

Col. Bliss concluded his opening argument for the prosecution in the star route conspiracy case yesterday, and Mr. Chandler began the opening argument for the defence.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 20, 1. A. M. For New England, fair weather during the day, followed by cloudy weather and snow or rain, slightly warmer northeast to southwest winds, lower barometer.

An explosion of gas in the store of John P. Lovell & Sons, dealers in firearms, Cornhill, last night, seriously injured a member of the grm and the night watchman, and occasioned the two alarms of fire about eleven o'clock. The damage to property is between $30,000 and $40,000.

A large portion of New Hampshire experienced an earthquake shock yesterday afternoon.