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is4's.. Cold closed in New York. yesterday, at
l4ial43. 50 -, 80. ~; - - :
COTTON closed dull and heavy; sales 2ooo
bales; middling uphnds 22ic- q "5'i .
In Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplands
1ead: Orleans llalltd; sales 5000 bales.
lion. Fernando Wood has been called from
washington by the death Of his mother, when
occurred in New York Tuesday night.
TIE new Ministry in Paris has been de-
feated in an attempt to resist the passage oi
al amendment to the press laws In the Corps
Legislatif
The great fire in Quebec resulted in loss
I. OF half a. million of dollars, four hundred and
& nineteen houses, besides two ships and much
other property.
with the exception Of some minor matters,
the subjects ofreconstruction Of boundaries
and the ratio Of representation occupied the
attention of the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly. at Philadelphia, Wednesday.
At the regular sale of Scranton coal at ew
York Tuesday, 10000 tons were sold as follows:
Lump, 81 loa4 20; steamboat, 81 l2aa4 20; CRATE,
81 25aA 374; egg. 81 5Oa4 521; stove, IS o5a5 10;
chestnut, 81 2oa4 80, a decline OF from 2 to IL
per cent. sross,, -. =!
In the English House Of Commons on Wed
.1oesday the bill removing the; civil disabilities
Of c,ergymen who had resigned their sacred
functions was warmly opposed, but was passed
to second reading. The bill for abolishing
the game laws was debated.
IF. E. Rippleman, Of vicksburg, Mississippi
> osths firm Of r: G. Engiering & Co., has been
arrested Id New York for embezzlement fom
the firm to the amount of $780, 900. He had en-
raged passage on the German steamer In New
York; C. zi. -
"A man named Livingston was assasstna-
tediand thrown into the river at Oswego, New
York, on Tuesday night He had seduced!a
s.s.Yaang Homan in New York city and 1t is sup
posed wasethe victim of her ayenger. A
bloody dirk was left on the bridge where the
afair rtook place.
THE anniversary of the Baptist American
and Foreign Bible Society was held IN ,Philas
deIphla on Wednesday. The receipts exceed
the expenditures for the year $l4O4. resolu-
ton explanatory OF an item in the basis of re-
union with the, American Baptist Publication
Society was considered.
uq.-The Paris correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, in the. concluding paragraph of his
last letter, thinks people may be anxious to
know what he thinks OF the situation in
France, and terminates his Interesting letter
.tith the declaration, 1'The infernalist horde OF
..sshsadlongs that ever went unhanged are these
Paris assassin atheists" .'.i -; 49,, A.,
c4TheisubJect OF lay preaching mainly occu-
pied the attention or the Presbyterian General
Assembly at Louisville on Tuesday. Eomina-
lions were made to FL the chair Of pastoral
theology In the Columbia Theological semina-
~ Of South Carolina, and the election post
,ponsd until yesterday. A large II enthu-
iastic home missionary meeting was held at
night. - 81
1.-The ministers Of Spain have replied to q
ousstenl asked them In the Cortes, that al
thouSfi thrre" were many rumors, there was
no oficial information that the United States
and England had any intention Of interfering
in any way with the Cuban troubles. The
Captain General, DeRodas, had often asked
that American commissioners would come and
see for themselves.
u The Organization and consolidation of the
Boards of Missions was again considered in
.!.the General Conference of the Methodist Epis-
.Scopal Church, South, on Wednesday, at Mem
phis, the question being pro rata distrbu-
ton of the funds collected. The parent board
was located in Nashville. Besides disposins Of
matters of minor Importance, the report of the
Committee on the Veto Power Of the Bishops
was discussed and adopted.
$. The deputa alton of Sioux Indians had a
preliminary interview with the Commissiore
E:of the Indian Bureau Wednesday. He made
them speech, explaining the objects of the
government in bringing them On, which they
listened to calmly and stoically. and replied
with an exclamation Of approval, and through
their chief, Spotted Tail, said that they were
still very tired; that when. they were rested
they: would make known their complaints.
Washington correspondents say there has
been some talk of serious difficulty between
two members OF the diplomatic corps, one of
whom has but recently arrived, which threat
enet to terminate in duel in Canada. The
affair has been settled to the satisfaction of the
aggrteyed party, a sufficient apology having
been made. It Is vaguely rumored that
young foreign lady was at the bottom Of the
little ''onpleasantness.n ~
The New York papers give the particulars
ofa remarkable case of disease, resembling, in
many particulars. hydrophobia. a young man,
nineteen years of age, an engraVer, was at
tackled by remarkable paroxysm, barking at
times like dog, foaming at the mouth, snap
ping at persons as II he wanted to bite them,
and was only prevented from inJurlng mmseii