TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Conkling has been retained in a murder case before the Supreme Court.

Eighty thousand people have been rendered destitute by the Mississippi floods.

Gov. E. D. Morgan of New York has given Williams College $80,000 with which to build a new dormitory.

There is a terrible epidemic of small-pox at Bethlehem, Pa. Business has been suspended, the schools closed, and an exodus of people from the stricken district is taking place.

The strike at the Pacific Mills yesterday was extended to all the cotton spinners. The strikers now number 450, and are firm in their refusal to resume work at the present rates. The Pacific Mills employ altogether 5500 persons, and have a property of about $8,000,000.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18, 1882 - 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, followed during the afternoon or evening by increasing cloudiness and snow or rain, northeast to southeast winds, lower barometer, slight fall, followed by rising temperature.