, 1879-12-27

IsrrcrAI TO THE s1a1EsxAS.l

| Boston special, says the conference of ofleadingre-
! pnblicans at Senator Blaine's hOusei in Augusta
was of very important nature. Several
| gentlemen who had distinguished themselves
during the late war, were present. From every
/ portion of the state comes the news OF aroused
and indignant republicans VIII, will not be
satisfied until they gain their rights this year.
The Standards Vienna correspondent reports
that great excitement prevails at st. Peters
burg. The gendlrmes AMI police fore have
been largely increased. They incessantly
patrol the streets of the city, and are especially
numerous and vigiIant near the Winter Palace.
These circumstances indTat- that fresh at
tempts upon the life of the Gar are ansici-
pated.
The Times Constantinople correspondent
| announces that affairs in Eastern Roumelia
are improving. The anmosity between Mus
sulmaas and Christians is rapidly disappearing.
SPANISH GENERALS RESIGN.
The Correspondeneia, of Madrid. states that
fifteen generals of the army, including several
belonging to the artillery and the corps Of en-
gineers. have resigned their commands. 1t is
believed that their designations have been
accepted.
FLOODS IN HUNGARY.
4 dispatch from Pesth to The Daily News
says:-"The destruction of dams on nearly all
the principal rivers in Hungary and Transyl-
Yania, and terrible inunlations are again fill
ing the public mind with anxiety. But for
the intense cold, ranging from ID to 20 degrees,
Reaumar, Grosswardein and several villages
around that city would have shared the fate of
SzeyetGn.
The Standards Berlin dispatch says the
famine among the Polish miners in Upper
Silesia is beginning to produce typhus fever.
The following dispatch received this morning.
MADRID, 24.-The bill for the abolition of
slavery in Cuba, passed the Senate yesterday
afternoon.
PHILADELPHIA, 2-Gen. Grant, accompani-
ed by Col. Fred Grant and his wife, left to-
day for jersey City, where the mother of the
General resides
OMAHA, 22-Prof David S. Jordon of
B bennington, ILL.,, one of the United States
Fish Commissioners in charge of Investigation
on the Pacific cast for the United States cen
sus of 1850 and C. II. Gilliams of Indianapolis
his secretary, passed through this city to-day
for California to begin their work at once.
Every seperate public institution OF depart
ment has its own census agents. These gentle
men Will spend line months on the Pacific
coast in pursuit of statictical information con-
cerning fish: fish culture, fishermen and every
thing else in this particular department.
They will begin at San Diego and Fort Yuma
and then follow up the coast as far as Puget
Sound Prof Jordon says the next census will
be the most complete one that has ever been
r, NJ. Shoemaker, prominent railroad and
business nun in Cincinnati, was stricken with
paralysis Monday morning.
40 RECOGNIZED APPEAL FROM IRELAND FOR
ASSISTANCE.
MONTREAL, Dec 23.-Father Dowd, of St
Patrick's chur ch, the leading Irish Catholic
clergyman of the city, discountenances the
rising of subscriptions for the p.ople of ireland
He says no recognized appeal has been: made
for assistance.
THE DOMINION PACIFIC RAILWAY,
OrrowA, (Ont), Dee 15.-The contract for
section d of the British Columbia section OF
,b. D,.;6. p,;l,,,r hos hoo, tr.nsfarr.J g.,
Mr.. Underdonk, wealthy contractor Of
California The Kavanagh Bros retain an
interest in it.
Saturday, in the porch of the Limericl,
County Club House, an evicted tenant with e
cud ,el, felled to the floor Lord Fermoy, who
resides in County Limerick. Lord Fermoy
remained Senssless for a time. The assailant
immediately seized and taken to prison,
Calcratt, for forty six years the hangman in
England is dead.
BRITISH LOSS AT THE BATTLE BEFORE sHIRPUA.
LONDON, Dec. 15;-The Viceroy, of India
telegraphed to-day that Gen. Roberts reports
that his force is now collected in the Shirpua
Cantonment. The loss on the British side in
the fighting yesterday was nineteen men killed
including two officers, and eighty eight wound
ed, including three officers. The situation il
very grave, and unless the next movement of
the British army results in a sweeping victory
it is pos,i5l. that the capital will be placed in
a state of se:ge.