Flotow, the German composer, died at Wiesbaden yesterday, aged seventy-one years.

The senatorial contests in Michigan, Minnesota and Nebraska remain practically unchanged.

The graduating exercises of the Rhode Island Normal School occurred at Providence yesterday.

The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction was begun at Providence yesterday.

The sessions of both houses of Congress yesterday were devoted to the presenting of eulogies on the late Senator Hill of Georgia.

The unrecognized victims of the New hall House fire, to the number of forty-five, were buried in Forest Home and Calvary cemeteries, Detroit, yesterday.

President Grevy refuses to sign a decree for the expulsion of Prince Napoleon from France on the ground that a special law on the subject must first be voted by the deputies.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 26, 1. A. M. For New England, generally fair weather, except light snow in the southern section, northerly veering to easterly winds, stationary or lower temperature, rising followed by falling barometer.