Nine Iowa railroads failed to earn operating expenses in 1881.

Lincoln memorial services were held in Springfield, Ill., on Saturday.

Mr. New is waging war on the blood-money brokers in his department.

The New Hampshire Club paid its respects to President Arthur Saturday.

The late I. S. Osterhout left Wilkesbarre, Pa., $350,000 for a public library.

Four thousand immigrants arrived in Montreal last week, en route for Manitoba.

R. W. Stubbs, mayor of Polk City, Iowa, was shot dead in his own house early Saturday morning.

It is again reported that First Comptroller Lawrence proposes to run for Congress in Ohio this year.

A fire occurred at Crisfield, Md., yesterday morning by which two-thirds of the town was destroyed.

A freight-train smash-up occurred in the Hoosac tunnel yesterday, delaying passenger trains about ten hours.

For the past nine days the severest blizzard of the season has been raging in the Black Hills. Two feet of snow on a level has fallen and the storm extended one hundred miles in every direction from Deadwood.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17, 1882-1 A. M. For New England fair weather, westerly winds, stationary barometer and higher temperature.