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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
CoNaREssMEN HOLMAN, Of Indiana, and
Hepburn, of Iowa, have been renom-
mated.
SIR ROBERT PEEL, hitherto Tory, will
be Gladstone candidate in the coming
English election.
DR.. Won ScHELEIss, formerly King
Ludwig's physician, denies that the King
was insane, and maintains that he was &C.
centric only.
THERE are so many bills before the
President for his signature that many Of
them will become law before he can ex-
anime them.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's attention has
been called to the disgraceful condition of
the American Soldiers cemetery in the
City of Mexico.
IT is expected that a call for the re-
demption of 81 ,OOO, 600 three per cent. bonds
will be issued from the Treasury Depart
ment in few days.
VARIOUS wealthy Orangemen In the
North of Ireland are opening their grounds
for drilling purposes, by this means avoid
Ing police interference.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York vetoed the
act of the Legislature providing for cumu-
lative voting in elections for the choice of
aldermen in New York.
! GENERAL F. NJ. DRAKE, of Centerville,
Ia, has given $12, 800 toward the establish
ment of memorial professorship in Drake
University at Des Moines.
The street gossips of Washington are
busy reconstructing President Cleveland's
Cabinet. The President has not been
heard from on the subject.
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If the French Senate passes the Expul-
sion bill M. Waddington will resign the
ambassadorship at London, and other
French ambassadors will do likewise.
N
ERNEST DAVID, the biographer of Bach
and Handel, is dead. He leaves complete
manuscript lives of Mendelssohn and
,Schumann, which will be published short
ly.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER sailed for
Europe on the steamship Etruria on the
10th, accompanied by his wife. He will
probably return the latter part of Septem-
Der.
The British Government contemplate
placing an agent at New York with q
view to conducting parcels post be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States.
THERE was general strike of cooks and
walters in most of the large restaurants in
San Francisco on the 18th. Many restau.
rants were compelled to close, others ran
short-handed.
ADDITIONAL returns from the Nova
Scotia elections show that the government
will have the support of between twenty
eight and thirty members out Of House
umbering thirty-eight.
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THE ceremony of comforting the cardi.
nails hat on Archbishop Gibbons will take
place in the Baltimore cathedral on the
80th which will be the twenty fifth an.
niversary of the priesthood of the prelate
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THE Brazilian Prince Leopoldo and the
officers of the Brazilian frigate BerossC
attended the Presidents reception at the
White House on the evening of the 10Th
and were the recipients of marked atten-
tion.
Mr. HEALY, speaking at the Land League
meeting in Dublin on the 10Th, said yer.
diets Of murder should have been rendered
against Chamberlain by the coroner's jul
ries sitting on the cases of the Belfast rio
victims.
A PARTY of French civil engineers, com
prising a commission appointed to exam
Inc the railway system of the United
States and Mexico, called at the White
House on the 18th and paid their respects
to the President.
A TELEGRAM from Saigon says: TIVE
French officers have been killed with pos
oned arrows at Thankoa, and there hav,
been fresh massacres of Christians il
Anam. The rebels have burned some vii
lagos near Tourane.
THE Greek Government has sent not,
to Turkey complaining of the manner il
which she has permitted the Greek pris
Ouers in her custody to be treated, and re
minding Turkey that such conduct cal
not be easily forg often.
AS far as can be learned the Liberal 10
cal government, or secession party, i
Nova Scotia were successful at the cleo
tions on the 18th by large majority. Tn
supporters of the government claim TWEEN
ty-nine of the thirty EIGHT seats.
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THE history of the Helots robber ban
of Texas shows it to have been one of tn
worst gangs of desperadoes the State eve
knew, and that it is now broken up is du
to the fact that two Of the members be