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| the canadian trades congress declaring
against Chinese immigration.
IT is said that France will exact Sc
curity for the discharge of pecuniary liza
| bilities incurred by reason of the hostile
attitude of China.
THE American Fire Insurance Com
pany of New York will close its business,
transferring its risks to the Home.
THE French Government will enforce
partial prohibition against American
sailed meats until the Chambers pass on a
bill to be introduced.
The tariff regulations which required
that goods from the United States should
pay the same duty when arriving in Cuba
by Spanish ships as when carried by for
eign vessels, have been annulled by the
| Spanish government.
On the 9th Convention of Ohio
'liquor dealers met at Columbus, to organ
ize measures for the repeal Of obnoxious
laws passed by the last Legislature. The
chairman demanded full protection for the
trade free from all tax.
In Paris on the Goth communist
newspaper Office was mobbed by students.
The report of the Department of
Agriculture indicates that potatoes and all
root crops and oats yielded abundantly this
! year. Corn fell twelve per cent. below the
average yield per acre, and is of poor
quality. The seasons experience is held
to demonstrate the individuality of plant
ing Southern seed corn in Northern States.
The wheat crop is slightly in excess of AGO.
100000 bushels and cotton foots up about
5000, 900 bales.
The Government of the Argentine
Republic will devote $4,000,0J0 to educa-
ton.
AN agreement has been concluded be-
British ship-owners.
The Viceroy of Canton, China, has
been ordered to send troops to the Tonquin
frontier.
THE ports of Marseilles, Havre and
Bordeaux are designated as those at which
American pork win be admitted to France.
For the seven days ended the 2Sth
the business failures in the United States
numbered pa; and in Canada for the same
time, twenty-four, reduction of twenty
four compared with the previous week.
4. The steamer Celtic of the White Star
Line, which left New York for Liverpool
on the 18th, had not reached Queenstown
on the 18th.
The recent Convention of Ohio Ii
quor Dealers declared the Scott law uncon-
stitutional, and asked the Legislature to
i repeal it.
On the 2Sth there was an unconfirmed
rumor that the French had seized the island
of Hainan,. commanding the channel to
Hong Kong.
SIX or seven persons are reported
dying daily of smallpox at Jalapa, Mexico.
n NOTWITHSTANDING financial crisis
over the nickel money is at hand in Mexi.
co, the circulation of the bits aud medlas
must legally end on the first of the year,
and they will cease to be legal tender.
On the 28th the reservoir at Plymouth,
, N. H., broke. Deep snow soaked up the
water and prevented serious damage. -
In the Boston Navy Yard work is to
be suspended january 10. The League
Island yards to be equipped for construc
tion of steel vessels.
A DENIAL is made by the American
! Bishops that any agreement was reached in
Rome regarding the attitude of the Catho
lie clergy in the United States toward
Fenianism. ts.
, On the 2Sth tifty-mile wind, with q
perfectly clear, sunny sky, was the phe
: nomenon at Sandy Hook, N. j. Wrecks
4 we're reported and considerable damage
? was done at various points on land. o.
/ In Ashantee affairs are comparatively
quiet. The people are overawed by the re
cent slaughter of ex-King Koffee's family
, and the daily massacre of his adherents
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