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GOVERNOR CLEVELAiDS MESSAGE,
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THE MINNESOTA SENATORSHIP.
THE LATE M. CAMBCTTA.
VALUABLE PAINTINGS DESTROYED ey FIRE. .
VALUABLE PAINTINGS DESTROYED BY FIRE.
The Late VI. Gnmbetsn

THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE VIEW TIE REMAINS yrs.
TkRpAY
PARIS. JAM 2-There Is some idea OF poStnoninc
NJ. Gambetta's funeral until the 10th instant 50
that the senate and chamber OF deputies may at
visited the h1usc az VILE d'Ayray yestcnisr Ths
people were admitted 10y groups OF five or ten into
a passage, whence they assembled TO the small bed
room where the body is lying. The visitors In
cluied minister's senators and other functional
ries. The room Is poorly furnished. The body
lies on n small iron bedstead, completely covered
10y sheets. except the head. which rests on two
pillows The face is pale, and the hair grayer than
formerly. and the beard entirely gray. NJ. Gam
beta appears fifteen years Older than he really
was. His friends seem utterly beside themselves,
some aged men even weeping. There were a few
flowers on the foot OF the ted Otherwise there
were none OF the embems usual in France on such
occasions painter seated at the foot of the
PED skctch'ng the scene Other artists for the
Illustrated papers were similarly occupied In the
rooms The money NJ. Cambetta leaves princi-
pally accrued from his newspaper. correspon-
dent who made the tour OF the Paris streets yes-
terday, says there was real CONSERVATION In the
Bourgeois and trading quarters. In the artisan
districts there was stern indifference among the
exclaimed against for saying that the republic
had suffered a great loss
EFFECT OF THE DEATH on FRENCH roIITIcs
LonDoH. Jan. 2-Tne Paris correspondent of the
Times thinks that the immediate effect of the
death OF NJ. .Gambetta will be To draw the repub-
licans together. Some new element, he says. will
probably he introduced INTO the Ducierc ministry,
bringing up the ministerialists I'm the chamber ot
deputies TO $40 or $50, thus hiding for n time the
1ear1ul gap which the death OF NJ Gambetta has
made Most OF the special correspondents who
discuss the subject think that NJ. Clemencian Will
most probably take NJ. GambeIta's place.
WHAT THE PARIS PAPERS SAY.
The Paris Figaro conservative says: The re-
puhlc has not lost great man, but It's greatest;
he founded nothing: he consolidated nothing; he
was trumpet. OF which the sound expires when
the instrument is broken.
The Gdulois says: M. Gambetta was beginning
TO see that radicalism, not clericalism, was the
enemy He tried to gird himself with the swords
OF others Revolutions are assesses which end
by poisoning the blood OF the nation unless the
surgeon resorts TO the lancet at favorable mo-
mcnt M. Gambetta's case terribly resembles that
or France. Let us hope that the result for her viii
be less fatal. The day Will soon come when the
republic VIII ind that with Gambetta IL has
inferred The best or itself.
SHOT BY WOMAN.
The Clarion (royalisp sees the finger OF God in
the death or NJ. Glmbetta. That journal reyives
the story that NJ Gambetta was shot hy a woman.
who came TO Vile d. Array threatening suicide,
and from whom he endeavored to snatch a re-
volver.
NJ. Rochefort, in the Intransfgednt, publishes an
arucle headed END OF Savorn reminding
those whom NJ Gambetta threatened at Belleyilie
that they can now sleep in peace.
GAMBETTAs UNLUCKy YEAR
Further details OF his death state that NJ. Gam.
Oatta was impatient TO see the end OF the year,
which he considered had been unlucky for him.
The body will be embalmed and removed to Paris
to-day.
PARIS, Jan. 2-Gambetta's fortune is estimated
at under 10000 francs.
MORE NEWSPAPER OPINIONS
The Vottaire, Paris and Telegraph express grief
at Gambetta's death, and refer TO his deeds when
tho rornrrv was endangered.
The SoteR (orleanisp dwells upon the blow that
opportunist mas Received. IL maintains that
Sanoettas oeath weakens the republic, Tut re-
Trains from saying anything against Gambettas
memory.