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lately lost $3.50, 900 in gambling at Monaco.

eide OF q prominent young EnSlishman, who
lately lost s25O,0 o in gambling at Monaco.
A LONDON paper says that Premier Glad.
stone recently bought 100 hats in one day, and
that his mind is giving way.
AN explosion occurred in a colliery at Kar
win, Austrian Silesia. while 147 men were al
work, and Of these 1H were found dead.
GENERAL WoLsRLRY, in an address to hi
troops at Korti, said that he would lead then
to Khartoum before the years end.
The c%olliery at Sunderland, England, il
which an explosion Of fire damp recently oc
CURED, imprisoning $50 men, thirty-six Of
whom were subsequently taken out dead
caught fire, and further search for bodies was
stopped.
GENERAL WALLACE, the United States
minister to Turkey, has rent his resignation
to Washington.
A PARTY of twenty-seven Mexican bandits,
under the notorious "Tiger Chief" captured
the town of Quila, Mexico, killed the tele.
graph operator and despoiled the inhabitants.
CHOLERA has broken out in Batavia, the
chief city of java.
DURING the recent battles with the Chinese
in Tonquin the French troops had 104 SOL
diers and eight officers killed and 154 soldiers
and ten officers wounded. The Chinese loss
was much greater.
THE Germans hauled down the British flag
and hoisted the German at Victoria, an Eng
lish mission town on the west coast Of Africa.
The British consul protested unavailingly,
and then started for the nearest British sta
ton to report the affair to his government.
DURING a circus performance in Paris a
noted lion tamer named Williams was at
tackled by q huge lion in the cage and fear
fully lacerated before he got away. The
panic-stricken spectators fled in every direc-
ton.
GENERAL BoNAcHEA, a prominent Cuban
insdrrectionist, aud four other Cuban lead
arS, have peen executed at Santiago de Cuba.
MATTERS are reported in a very critical po-
sition in Afghanistan. The Russians are de.
termined upon a forward policy, and a COLI
sion between England and Russia is ex-
pected.
THE Prince and Princess Of Wales will soon
make a visit Of about two weeks to ireland.
Edmund YATES, the editor Of London
World, sentenced in January to four months
imprisonment because his paper contained a
libel on Lord Lonsdalo, has been released.
RECENT dispatches from st. Petersburg in
dictate that the Slav or military party in
Russia is now In the ascendant with the
car. 1t IS said to be intriguing III every pos
sible way to influence him against the Eng
Iish.
AUSTRIA is following the lead of Germany
in increasing the tax on cereals and manu-
featured goods. American competition is the
cause.
The British government has invested
S100, COO as q fund for General Gordon's fam
lily.
WAR has been formally declared in Central
America.
Mrs. ANNA DEcosrE, aged 40, died the
other day in Halifax, Nova Scotia, leaving
eight children, ninety grandchildren and l4V
great-grandchildren.
AFTER five days fighting the French troops
carried the Chinese positions around kelung,
Formo4a. The French loss was forty killed
and 2W wounded.
ENGLAND's Indian allies have had their first
battle with the False Prophets troops. In a
hot skirmish the Arabs became panic stricken
and fled when they saw the swarthy MohaR-
medans from India facing. them in British
style and firing with such precision as to
make every shot tell.