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QUEEN VICTORIA has forbidden the ad- |
mission. within the precincts of Windsor |
castle, of newspapers containing reports
OF the Campbell divorce suit.
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STATE Department officials continue to
express great satisfaction with the adroit
and successful management of the fishery
cases by Consul-General Phelan at Hall
fax.
HENRY GROVES, Congressman-eleC from
Perry County, Ind, was thrown from his
carriage on the 4th, and was so severely
iniured that his recovery is very much in
doubt
CONGRESSMAN SwINBURNE, of New York,
mas served notice upon Congressman-elect
Nicholas T. Kane that he will contest his
seat in the Fiftieth Congress on the
ground of fraud.
THE President has accepted q section of
forty miles of the Cascade branch Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad in Washington
Territory from the 125th to the 165th mile
west from Columbia river.
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SEVERAL petitions have been received
by Comptroller Trenholm from bankers
asking for the retention of Mr.. Serbia as
bank examiner, but Mr. Trenholm is de-
termined that Serbia must 90.
In Mexican diplomatic circles it is be-
1ieved that grave questions will soon arise
between Mexico ana the United States,
owing to the position taken by President
Cleveland in the Cutting case.
THE Treasury Department has decided
chat Canadian postal cards imported into
the United States are dutiable at rate of
twenty-five per cent ad yalOrem as print
edmatter not specially provided for.
MIR. PHELPS, American Minister at Lon
don, is confined to his home with lumbago,
but the worst of the attack is thought to
he over, and he expects to resume his
duties at the legation il few days.
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JUDGE SAGE, in the United States Circuit
Court at Columbus, o., on the 9TH, ordered
the Bell Telephone case dismissed without
prejudice and without record as far as its
status in the Ohio district is concerned.
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THE bound volumes of the proceedings
ri the first session Of the FOrty-ninth Con
gress are now ready Tor distribution.
They beat the record of previous con
crosses, the number of volumes being
nine
Two members of the British Parliament,
Messrs, Bruce and Buchanan, were on the
floor of the Senate at Washington on the
9th, having been extended that courtesy
by an order from Senator Sherman, presi-
dent pro TEN.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has sent
to Congress the estimates of appropria-
lions required fOr the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1883. T3e total amount estimated
as required for all expenses Of the Gov
ernment,, is 1925, 1851 1914
HENRY M. STANLEY has received a cable
gram from King leopold of Belgium desir-
ing him to go at once to London. Mr.. Stan
ley has called for particulars. Hess under
contract to lecture in America until April
and would find it difficult to leave.
THIS Government mas received, through
the British legation in Washington, an Of
fetal invita- ton to participate in an inter
national exhibition, " hich is to be held in
Manchester, England, next year, to cele-
bratethe jutilee of her Britannia Majesty's
reign.
THE Comptroller Of the Currency says
that Mr., Serbia was asked to resign on ac-
count of his incompet. ncy. The CORAs
troIler regrets that Mr.. Scriba's persist
ence should make it necessary to reveal
Of no tn oil IL
change,
TIE Shapleigt a. CaRtwell Hardware
companys stores in StsLouis collapsed
and were subseqU entity burned on the 18th,
1nvolving loss OF nearly 100000, on which
there was an insurance of about $}60G00.
Several lives were lost as the result of the
calamity.
ARTHUR +. THoMAG, who has been ap-
pointed member Of the Utah Commits
sion, is the present Secretary pf Utah Ter
ritGry. He succeeds ex-senator Paddock,
who resigned for the teason that his pri-
waite interests demanded his presence in
Nebraska.
Henry &. FLEDDERMAN, sheriff Of Balti-
more, Md, has been presented by the
grand jury for attempting to bribc a col
Dred voter at the polls of the Thhd pre-
cinct Of the Tenth ward at she rccant CON
gressionai election. Fledcerman denies
abe charge
The threat of the helpers and engine
men in the local yards of the Burlington
a Missouri railway at OMAHA, TO cease
WORK II their wages were not raised, was
put into effect on the 9Th. A fierce of men
was ordered from Lincoln to take the
place Of the strikers.
A WOMAN at Brussels revealed the
place where number of the letters
recently stolen from the Ostepd exoyess
had been hidden. They were found in the
Rue Blanehisseve in drain. The English
police know who stole the mail and are ON
the track OF the robbers.
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L1EUTENANT-GENERAL SHERIDAN has Is
sued notice that 'the Society of tho
Army Of the Cumberland will hold its
eighteenth reunion at the CITY of Wasbirr,