Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-12-30

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Invites all patriotic men to join. The com
mittee In their statement also declares that
third term or one term, hard money or soft
money, crooked whisky or straight" are en-
tlreIy outside OF the aims and plans OF the
order.
In THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY YESTERDAY the
press bill was finally passed by a nearly
unanimous vote. During the debate prop
osition was made by radical deputy to raise
the state OF siege throughout the country,
but IL was rejected by a vote of 377 to 500
The proposal of the government to continue
the state of siege in Paris, Versailles, Lyons
and Marseilles was carried by large m aiOr-
ity. After the passage of the press bill the
assembly proceeded to consider the report OF
the committee on dissolution.
OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBoRs AND THEIR
MILITIA.-When the British troops were
withdrawn from Canada in 1870, an agree
ment was entered into by the Dominion gov.
eminent with the Imperial government to
spend one million dollars annually in keep
ing up the defensive force of the militia for
five years. AS that time expires with the
present month, the Dominion parliament
will consider the militia question at the ap-
preaching session; and 1t is said that the gov
ernment Will largely reduce expenditures.
DEXTER is now considered, by his friends.
faster horse than ever before in his life. He
has had bad fest for several years, and Mr..
Bonner has been pursuing system Of cut
ego, when he gave up all hope of curing him,
and since that time has let his feet entirely
alone. The result has been that they have
grown out sound and strong, and he has
given convincing proof that he is able TO
beat his 2:1I by several seconds.
OUR MExICAN NEIGHBoRs.-A San Diego
dispatch says the entire Mexican population
in the neighbOrhoOd of Campo, in that
county, were concerned in the late raid on
that town. The revolution in Sonora, is pro-
crossing disastrously to the state troops,
they having been recently defeated by the
insurgents with heavy loss. The revolution
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better class of the population, and are said
to have the sympathy Of the Americans.
REV. Mr.. WRIGHT, a primitive Baptist
minister in Dolly, Ga, while returning home
from his mill stopped to warm himself where
an old stump OF a tree had been fired and
burned into hole. Search for him discov-
cred that he had fallen into the hole, acct
dentally or in fit, head foremost. His head
and shoulders were burned to a crisp.
DIR. HAYES, in a recent lecture on his visit
TO the millennial celebration in Iceland last
summer, referred 10 fact that shows how
different is the civilization of that little
Northern island from ours. The capital, with
population of LEO, has Jail which, though
built thirty years ago, has never had an in
mate. with the exception of the jailer.
HARD TIMES FOR MINERs.-A partial
suspension of mining operations will take
place In the Wyoming coal region, beginning
early in January, but 1t will not continue
more than two or three weeks. and will not
extend to private operators. There is also
report of a contemplated reduction of ten per
cent. IN the wages OF employees.
CHARGES OF CRUELTY AGAINST A
TEACHER.-At meeting OF the Union Hill
IN. J) school trustees Tuesday night, Fred
erick HaltZman charged Miss Buckaltz, one
of the teachers, with having brutality beaten
his six-year old daughter, and committee
was appointed to investigate the charge.
THE BIBLE QUEsTIoN.-The Philadelphia
common council last evening passed z reso-
luton requesting to know from the board OF
education by what authority the reading of
the Bible had been discontinued in certain
chools in that city.
A GRAND REUNION of Knights Templar
will be held in Philadelphia on May 3oth, 31st
and June LIST, 1876, which, it is expected, will
be participated in by Sir Knights from all
parts Of the world.
THEODORE TILroN lectured at Masonic
Temple, Baltimore, last evening, his subject
being 1.-THE Problem OF Lifeo The main
hall was half filled, numbering probably six
hundred persons, large majority Of whom
were ladies.
s0An appeal will be made to the Pennsyl-
yania legislature TO legalize Sunday labor by
persons who observe Saturday az the Sab
bath.
~Certain valuable Sea Island cotton
lands in the vicinity of Beaufort, N. c., will
be offered for sale at that place to-day by the
~Bowep, in his libel suit against the
Brooklyn Eagle, got 81 600 for his character.
This looks ljbe n return to war prices.-[S.
Louis Globe DemoeTat.