Crystal River current., 1886-12-18
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at Baltimore on the 7th inst
The French Chamber of Deputies has
voted in favor of disposing of the crown
diamonds.
Hertzog's opera house in Washing
ton burned on the 5th. The loss is estimated
at $115,0OO.
The Union Pacific Company has
adopted the twenty-four O'Clock system OH
all its lines.
Montana hopes to be admitted to
the sisterhood of States during this session
of Congress.
Thomas Moonlight, of Leavenworth,
Kansas, has been nominated as Governor
of Wyoming.
Congressman Dowdney, of the
Twelfth District of New York, died sudden
ly the on 18th.
Hanlan and Beach are matched to
row in Australia some time next summer
for 5000 side.
The business portion of the village
of Attica, Ohio burned. Loss, s15O,OOO; in
| surance, one-half.
Thoebe, who will contest Carlisle s
seat in Congress, has employed Ben Butler
to act at his attorney.
| Forty-two persons were drowned by
a collision between two steamers off the
coast of Queensland.
The Porte advises the Bulgarians to
accept Prince Nicolas of Mingrelia. and
thus pacfy the country.
| At the close of the fiscal year there
were 5,929 Government prisoners in various
prisons in the United States.
The Canadian Pacific earnings for
| November We're 81 ora, 900. against SS15, 900
| for the same month in last year.
General Hazen will present bill this
winter to have the Signal Service made
bureau of the War Department
An Ottawa dispatch says Canada is
not seeking to negotiate new treaty, but
is willing to renew the treaty any time.
Lord Salisbury in speech intimated
that Ireland would be compelled, through
coercion, to yield to the demands of Eng
land.
A strike occurred on IA portion of
the San Francisco street railway lines.
The demand is for more pay and shorter
hours.
Archbishop Elder. of Cincinnati, has
forbidden Roman Catholic vocalists and
musicians to employ their talents in Protes-
tant churches.
The Chinese government has refused
tn, a IalInph balancing In fha
Methodist Mission to ascend the rivers on
missionary work.
Oscar A. Simons, President of the
First National Bank of Fort Wayne, Indi-
ana, committed suicide while suffering from
nervous prostration.
A society called the Patriots League"
has been organized in Chicago, its object
being to counteract the teachings of the so
cialists and anarchists.
The will of Ezekiel Price Greenleaf,
of Boston, leaves about s5OO.OOO to Harvard
College and provides for ten scholarships to
be given to meritOrious students.
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland has been called to meet in Washing
ington, May II and IL, 1857, when they will
unveiI statue of General Garfield.
John C. Miller, a Washington steno-
grapher. was dangerously shot in that city
by George n. Walker, a contractor, who
asserts that Miller sent letters to his wife.
The English Government has been
warned by Archbishop Walsh that the Irish
troubles will be increased if picked or
packed juries are used to convict Irishmen.
1t is announced that the Chicago Il
st. Louis railway has been purchased by the
Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe, and will be
used by the latter as part of its new line
to Chicago.
The journal des Debats, Paris, says
formal agreement has been concluded be-
tween China and England against Russia,
and that it provides for the cession of Port
Hamilton to China.
Henry Schwartz, Rock Island
brakeman who is under arrest in Chicago
for bigamy, is also suspected of being the
man who killed Messenger Nichols and
robbed the express car in March last.
As there are 10000 local assemblies
of the Knights of Labor, with over million
members, the 25 cents assessmentpe capita
ordered by General Master Workman Pow
derly is expected to yield about 100000.
A movement is being made among
prominent Democrats, SO Tribune Rcpub
lca-' correspondent writes, to elect Morri-