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reached $13, 100000
So far as reported the local conven-
tions of Jhio are divided between Sher-
man and Blaine.
Squatters in Lincoln county, West
Virginia, are resisting the survey of their
lands by force,
The Cincinnati relief committee re-
ceived and disbursed $184OOO to the food
sufferers.
Ex-senator Dorsey is expected to testify
before Springers committee Tuesday,
April Goth.
The Pennsylvania members Of the
House of Representatives have decided
to oppose any tariff agitation whatever.
The report that the Greeley Arctic par
ty had been rescued is denied. 1t was
the crew of a sealer that was taken from
foe.
A shutdown in the Pennsylvania coal
mines is imminent. There is much dis
satisfaction among the miners, but they
seem to be at the mercy of the mine
owners.
Fifty masked men lynched Henry Kill
burn, white, and Ben Strong, colored,
Wednesday night, at Jackson, Breathitt
county, KY, for the murder of William
Thorpe last January
j. R. Danforth, Monday night, shot
and killed William Laudsburg, of the
firm of NJ. Nussbaum & Co., at Macon,
Ga, on account of a dispute about the
formers salary. Danforth is in jail.
A severe wind and rain storm occurred
Monday night one mile south of Grenada,
Miss, demolishing houses, tearing up
trees and fences and killing stock. But
few persons were injured.
The assault on the PrOtestants at Car
bonear, N. F., eliminated Monday night
in a serious affray, in which shots were
fired, but no one was killed. The Orange
men paraded the streets all night under
arms.
AT Brenham, Texas, Saturday, anegro
named Gibbs murdered the wife Of L. P.
Moore because she refused to sit at the
supper table with his family. He was
afterward captured and burned at the
stake
1t is reported that the French fleet has
occupied Annoy in order to secure the
payment of an indemnity from China
The capture of Hunghoa terminates the
campaign in TOnquin. The financial
question remains to be settled with Chi
ma. The French demand will be very
heavy.
The Iroquois Club gave its third an
nual banquet in Chicago, Tuesday night,
when the usual amount of speech-mak-
ing took place. Mr.. Tilden was so en-
crossed with business cares that he could
not be there in person, but he wrote a
characteristic lettes, in which he failed to
throw any new light on the question Of
the hour.
Advices from Havana of the 10th inst.
says the landing of Aguero has caused a
feverish state of excitemapt all over the
island. The censorship fof dispatches,
which is in full force ssain, for a few
days, caused delay of the knowledge of
departure of Aguero from Key West.
and only when the news of the safe
landing of the insurgents could no longer
be withheld from the public were all
the disnatches announcing their depart
ure allowed to be printed. The effect,
therefore, has been dOubly disastrous.
All reports concur in the certainty that
the government has been misled and
sadly duped by those sympathizing with
Aguero, for it now turns out that the in
surgents did not land between Cardenas
and Mantanzas, where they were ex-
pected, but that they landed east of Car
denas, where no watch was kept. Ague-
70, 1t Is further reported, would never
have chosen the territory between Car
denas and Mantanzas, as it would have
been in every way very disadvantageous
for his operations. The government, as
matter of course, sent the bulk of the
troops in the wrong direction, and it is
now diligently keeping from the public
the first disastrous encounters between
Aguero and the few troops he met, as
also the swelling of the number of insur-
gents by numerous bands which were
only awaiting the arrival of Aguero to
join him.
1t is said that the partisans of those
Cubans who favor its annexation to the
United States are trying to organize a
league which will work in favor of that
idea, as great many Spaniards are be-
ing converted to it, especially Catalans,
who by their spirit of justice and their
intelligence stand above the common
level of Spaniards who come here.
The Galatians are organizing for the
coming week, in spite of the crisis, the
costly, splendid and popular picnic Ro-
merla, IN which the Cuban element will
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