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FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE.-We regret tn learn thu, the extensive Ivory Comb Man ulactnry of Julius Pratt & Co.,, of Meri- den, was destroyed by fire on the morn ing of the Eth ut, together with the books and papers of the concern and all ,hcir machinery. The loSs is estimated at S75, ,OOO-less than half of which is covere! by insurance. Thirty thousand bounds of ivory, stored in the celler, was destroyed Ahod, sixty hands are thrown out of employ mrm hy this calamity. Bu, he sadicst part of the story remains to be ,old. Mr. Vim. B. Hull. n waichman in the factory. lost his life in the confia. gration-under what circumstances can only be conjcctured.

 The new Rail Road Bridge. at Enfield, is so far completed that the cars passed over it on Saturday. This looks like driving business, us 1t IS only little more than six weeks since the former structure was thrown into the river by the gale of the 18th ofOctober.