The village of Marais, Switzlerland, has been destroyed by a land-slide.

C. Cooper Hall & Co., merchants and bankers, London, have failed with liabilities of pound 400,000.

Congressman J. W. Shackleford of North Carolina died in Washington yesterday, aged 39 years.

Hon. George F. Hoar was elected United States Senator yesterday on the first vote in joint convention.

The French government proposes to suppress all manifestations on the part of pretenders the throne of France.

The steamer Josephine was blown up in Port Susan Bay, Washington Territory Weduesday; eight persons were killed and six injured.

The general term of the Supreme Court of New York has rendered an important decision establishing the responsibility of railroad companies as public servants.

A panic occurred in the Grand Opera House at Milwaukee last evening caused by the fall of a calcium light machine. Several persons on the stage were injured, but the audience escaped without harm.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19, 1. A. M. For New England, fair weather, northerly veering to easterly winds, stationary or higher temperature, rising followed by falling barometer.