Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-17
TELEGRAPHEC JOTTINGs.

A supplementary session of the Pruss1an Diet is probable.
 The French Senate has passed the superior council education bill
 The Pope yesterday issued his letter con- demnatory of civil marriages and divorce.
 It is reported that Lord Beaconsfeld is ne gotiating an Anglo-Persian occupation of Herat.
 The Mission woolen mills at San Francisco discharged all their Chinese employees yester- day.
 Experts estimate the losses of farmers in the United Kingdom during 1879 at e1OO,- 900, 900 to f15O, ,OOO,O ,OOO.
 The rolling mills in Covingfon and New port, Ky, ceased operations yesterday on ac- count of the employees striking.
 The cabinet makers of St. Louis decided yesterday to stike for an increase of wages. All but two of the furniture factories are idle.
 The military were called out yesterday to quell riot among miners at Scharley near Breslau, but not till after much damage had been done.
 M. Viedomoski maintains that Herat is as necessary to Russia as Canadahar or Jelalabad is to England, and scouts the idea of it's oc- cupation by Persia.
 The Austrian ministry has been completed as follows: Herr Krugrau, Minister of Fi- nance Herr Eibesfeld, Minister of Public Worship and Instru ction.
 The corporation of Dublin yesterday re- ceived deputation of unemployed men who complained that nothing was being done to prevent their starvation in Dublin.
 The Berlin Germania urges the Reichstsg to compel Prince Bismarck to intelligibly ex- plain his foreign policy, especially that re- lating to Austria. The commercial revival in Germany is widespread and sound.
 The meeting of the National Democratic Committee will be held at WilIard's Hall, Washington, instead of Will ards Hotel, as announced in the call signed by Secretary Prince Of the National Democratic Committee.
 In the House of Commons last night MT. E. J. Syman's amendment was rejected by 8 occurred during the debate was lively at- tack on Rt. Hon. James Lowther, chief sec- retary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by The ODonoughe.
 There is considerable indignation at O ttawa, Ont, over the suppression of dispatches Sat urday and Sunday by the telegraph companies "AO Aoo OA0SAo AAO44 tA0 0oFClaOA NOACin nA Q secretary to not forward anything relating to the accident to the viceregal party. The press met yesterday and unanimously passed a reso- lution condemning His Excellency's actions.
 The insurance on the Empire warehouse at Chicago, which was burned Saturday night, amounted to nearly $500, 1000. Among the offices interested are the New Hampshire, $2,5OO; Hartford, $1,OO0; Underwriters of Boston, $8, 8,50O; Revere, $3,O00; Manufac- turers, of Boston, $5, 800; Boylston, of Bos- ton, $5, 900; Neptune, of Boston, $4, coo.
 At meeting of workmen at the Union stock yards, in Chicago, Sunday, resolutions were adopted denouncing the capitalists and town authorities for employing special police during the strike, and agreeing to support DO man for office this spring who will not advo- cate thorough system of sewerage and the employment of residents on town work.
 Along the Pacific coast this has been one of the coldest winters on record. In mines which are usually intolerably hot water has frozen at six hundred feet below the surface, and in private houses water pipes have burst, even when the fires were all burning. Out of doors all but spirit thermometers gave out, and telegraph wires snapped on account of the contraction caused by the cold.