The United States Supreme Court convened yesterday.

The profits from the Garfield monument fair, recently held in Washington, were nearly $10,000.

It is expected that the Senate finance committee will submit its report on the tariff commission's report to the Senate today.

The ways and means committee has reached articles on the free list in its consideration of the tariff commission's report.

The House committee on the whole debated the army appropriation bill yesterday, practically completing its consideration.

The Maine legislature organized yesterday. At a caucus of the Republican members Senator Frye was renominated by acclamation.

The Connecticut legislature organized yesterday, and passed a resolution validating the "black ballots" cast at the New Haven election.

The arguments in the star route jury case were concluded yesterday, the decision of the judge being reserved. The testimony in the conspiracy trial was unimportant.

The annual meeting of the New England Historic Genealogical Society was held in Boston yesterday afternoon, Mr. Marshall P. Wilder, the president, delivering his annual address.

There are no public marks of mourning in Paris for Gambetta's death.

General Logan concluded his speech in the Senate yesterday in opposition to the Fitz John Porter relief bill. A motion to indefinitely postpone the bill was defeated by a vote of 26 to 20.

Emerson G. Watson, engineer of the train that caused the death of eight men in the Troy and Greenfield Railroad yard, was at the inquest yesterday found guilty of criminal negligence.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Boston and Lowell Railroad was held yesterday. An effort was made to change the board of directors, but failed, and the old board was re elected by a large majority.

The State Senate organized yesterday by the election of Hon. Geo. G. Crocker of Suffolk as president, and Hon. Stephen N. Gifford as clerk. The house chose Mr. Geo. A. Marden speaker, and Mr. E. A. McLaughlin clerk. Election sermon was preached in King's Chapel by Rev. R. R. Meredith of South Boston.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4, I. A. M. For New England, colder, fair weather, northwesterly winds, higher pressure.