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NEWS OF THE DAY.
The drought in South Australia
has been broken up and splendid
rains have fallen.
Princess Louise, the young Prus-
sian who is about to become Duchess
Of Connaught, is to receive dowry
Of $4,000.
There is no Immediate prospect
of a cessation Of the distress in
China. Large quantities of grain
are being conveyed into the famine
districts.
Dudley Solph, the best marksman
of the Crescent City Rifle Club, Of
New Orleans, has met with an acci-
dent from his rifle which, it is feared,
will destroy the sight of his right
eye.
The famine in India is slowly
dying out everywhere the survi-
vors are recovering health and
strength, and the small quantities
of food imported show that the
people have sufficiency of grain.
The machine shops Of the Inh IN
apolis, Pera and Chicago Railro ,d,
at Pera, Indiana, were struck by
lightning on Wednesday night, and
with their contents were burned.
Loss 100000.
Last week four masked men
boarded the west bound train rs it
started from Percy, Utah, and robbed
the conductor and p ssengers of the
sleeping chr and escaped. The rail-
road company offers $1,000 each for
the arrest of the robbers.
A letter to the Daily Neaos, from
Constantinople, explaining the re-
cent change of position made by the
Russian forces, says that the coun-
try between San Stefano and Adri-
anople is exceedingly malarious, and
fifteen thousand Russians on that
line have died, mostly of fever, with
in two months.
Speaker Randall says ct is idiotic
to talk ofunseating Hayes" and the
Potter committee ''will simply gath
or up and crystalize the evidence
we have all been familiar with since
it's publication, and place it on the
enduring records Of Congress as n
vindication Of our conduct during
the whole canvass"
Old postage stamps are highly
priced in China, aud hundred can.
celled stamps will buy baby. Ac,
cordingly, tho Roman Catholic mis-
sionaries are collecting the old
stamps and purchasing the infants,
whom they bring up rs Christians,
while the ingenious Orientals ar
range their treasures as wall decora-
tions.
A dispatch from Rome says that
the Pope is i'll in body, and dis
tressed in mind by the plots and
cabals designed to prevent the re .
forms he proposes. It is re-
ported that the Pope has mani
tested disposition to abdicate.
Cardinal Franchi is doing his utmost
to check the Vaccinations of the
Jesuits. The latter on the other
hand are striving to secure Cardinal
Franchi's downfall.
The execution of VIM. Fl. Robin~
son, colored, for the murder of Eliza
Ray, colored. some two years since,
took place at Bowling Green, Va,
on Friday, in the prosonce of four
hundred pei sons. The prisoner
admonished his hearers to beware of
{. evil company and adhere to the
teachings Of their parents He
acknowledged committing the deed
for which he was to suffer.
a The Alabama Democratic Con-'en-
ton adjourned on Friday night
after adopting platform reaffirm.
ing the Democratic and Conserya-
4 tive platform of the last campaign,
4 guaranteeing equal rights to all,
/, ,arraigning the Republicans for the
misfortunes of the country and the
State, and endorsing the course of
the National Democracy and Of the
present State administration.
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