Supervising Architect Hill has filed exceptions to the amended specifications made against him by Mr. Murch.

Commencement exercises at the Newton Theological Institution occurred yesterday. The annual dinner of the trustees followed.

The Ohio greenbackers have nominated Charles Jenkins as their candidate for governor, and have put a full State ticket in the field.

A cyclone and several waterspouts passed through northeastern Arkansas yesterday, causing great damage to crops and property.

The Rev. George Harris was yesterday inducted into office as Abbot professor of theology at Andover, and delivered his inaugural address.

The Czar has commuted the death sentence of three prominent nihilists to penal servitude for an indefinite period, and mitigated the terms of servitude of several other criminals.

N. L. Dukes, the member of the Pennsylvania legislature who shot and killed Capt. A. C. Nutt at Uniontown, Pa., some months since, was shot and killed last night by a son of his victim.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, cooler, clearing and fair weather, northerly to westerly winds, higher barometer.