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the evening of the 10th to Oliver Wendell
Holmes. President Cleveland was among
the guests.
O'BRIEN, Boston's Democratic Mayor,
was reelected on the 10Th by the largest
majority ever given mayoral candidate
in that city.
BISMARCK has scheme for increasing
the revenue by purchasing all the brandy
produced in Germany, and retailing it
through high licensed dealers.
THE joint committee on the completion
Of the Washington Monument recommend
an appropriation of 5000 for the extern
sion of the terrace about its base.
IT is reported that the Canadian Gov
eminent, in order to meet the deficit in the
revenue, will double the csai' tax, In addi-
tion to reimposing duties on tea and coffee.
A PLOT, which is said 70 have existed
for the capture of Cuba, was frustrated by
the seizure of arms and ammunition on
board steamer at New York on the 18th.
The Liberal press of Russia advocates
an alliance with England as the sole means
of settling the Eastern question and pun
ishing the perfdy of Germany and Aus.
tria.
A BOARD OF survey has been ordered to
meet at st. Louis, Mo-, December 22d, to fix
responsibility forloss of clothing and equip
age by the burning of the steamer Bayou
Sara.
THE President sent to the Senate on the
18th the nominations Of several hundred
Postmasters and several supervising in
spectOrs Of steam vessels, all recess APP
pointments.
DUDLEY FRANCIS NORTH, Earl of Gull
ford, who was thrown from his horse
few daySago, died of his injuries on the
Goth. His successor to the title is only
nine years of age.
1T is now stated that over thirty of the
French Conservative supporters of Sir
John Macdonald in the Dominion Parlia-
ment will vote non-confidence in him at
the next session Of that body.
mated by the President on the 10th to be
Assistant Treasurer of the United States
at New York, and General Franz Sigel, of
New Y ork, to be pension agent at the same
city.
A SYNDICATE, headed by United States
Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, has just Sc
cured from the Northern Pacific Railroad
a tract of 5000 acres of land in Minnesota,
paying for the same in preferred stock of
the company.
IT is estimated that it will require the
expenditure of 100000 by the Canadian
Government to reimburse the saloon.keep-
ers and grocerymen who obtained licenses
under the Dominion liquor act, recently
declared unconstitutional.
BERLIN dispatch of the 18th says DR..
Weimer, one of the most active Socialist
partisans and an instigator of some of the
greatest crimes of Nihilism, is dead, He
was an intimate friend of the Nihilist as
sassin of Car Alexander l.
A SPECIAL cable dispatch from London
states that the decision of the Privy Coun-
Gil on the Canadian license question was
rendered on the 18th. It sustains the
of the Province to exclusively control the
issue of licenses. This decision invalidates
the Dominion act
-FOUR cases of smallpox were reported
in Montreal on the 18th The disease is al
armingly prevalent in st. Cunegonde.
The Mayor has smallpox in his family,
while he is going about his daily business.
Smallpox has broken out among the In
dams at Okla, Quebec, of whom there are
1900 in the village.
THE police of Philadelphia have arrested
n colored man named Alexander Cuff.
alias Samuel johnson, on suspicion of be-
ing the assassin of John S. Sharpless, the
Quaker farmer who was murdered near
Chester on November goth. There are
strong reasons to believe that the right
man has at last been captured.
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AFTER a thorough investigation of the
subject, the officers of the Propaganda
College in Cochin China find thatup to the
first Of November last nine missionaries,
seven native priests, sixty catechizers, go
members Of religious orders and $4,000
other Christians had been massacred in
the Vicaricate Of Cochin China. In the
200 parishes which had been ravaged, sew
enteen orphanages, ten converts and 225
churches had been Pllsged aud burned.