Yesterday's search for Howgate proved ineffectual.

The solicitor of Dr. Lamson asks for a further respite.

Six cases of small pox are reported at Lawrence, Mass.

The rebel claim of E. B. Armstrong was defeated yesterday.

Mrs. Senator Logan had a narrow escape yesterday afternoon.

The labor strikes in Western Canada have extended to Montreal.

Twelve thousand Russian Jews are about to emigrate to America.

The Peabody Institute in Salem, Mass., was damaged by fire yesterday.

Strelnikoff's murderer is the son of Collegiate Councillor Schelvakoff.

Charges of attempted bribery have been made against members of the Massachusetts legislature.

Twenty-four wagon-loads of furniture and other articles from the White House were sold at auction yesterday.

The petition of J. Boyle O'Reilly and others, asking the recall of Minister Lowell, has been presented to the President.

The decision of the German customs, admitting American corned beef as "fine iron ware," is sustained by that government.

Games played yesterday : Clevelands, 7; Alleghaneys, 3. Metropolitans, 9; Providence, 2. Worcesters, 5; Philadelphias, 3.

A storm has desolated New Iberia, La. Fifteen hundred people are homeless and the river seventeen feet above high water.

Captain George P. Thomas of the Little Western has challenged his brother to row across the Atlantic in boats nine feet long.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England fair weather, northerly winds, stationary or higher barometer and stationary temperature.