The Forrest City times., 1897-03-05

THE Venezuelan commission held. on the 26th. what was probably the last session of that tribunal. The meeting was in the nature of winding up of the affairs of the commission and a closing up of its business
 IT was reported. on the 18th. that Gomez. after successfully crossing Weyier's lines near Sancti Spiritus, was last heard from passing near Man icarazua, south of santa Clara city. with 1000 men. marching west.
 NOTHING had been heard at the of fees of the Cuban iunta in New York, up to the 18th, of the alleged death of President Salvado Cisneros of the Gu ban republic. The officers of the junta were inclined to doubt the story.
 A DISPATCH from Athens, on the 26th. said that King George and his cabinet had proclaimed their resolution to maintain their present policy. They declared that it was impossible for them to recall the Greek troops from Crete.
 VENEZUELA has appointed as minis ter to England Dr. Juan Pietris, who is now in Europe as Venezuelan minister to Germany and Spain. This is prac- tical resumption of diplomatic rela- tions between Great Britain and Vene- xuela.
 DR- J. J. KTSYoUS. past assistant sur geon in the United States army, re- turned from Havana, where he was sent to inspect quarantine conditions, says there are 5000 cases of smallpox in Havana, and that l50 deaths occurred there in week.
 ING HoNG SHA, the Chinaman re- gently apprehended in Trenton, \. l., as an alien smuggled into the country in violation of the Gary Chinese exclu- sion act, was. on the lst. ordered by deported to China.
 Dr2rNe the month of February the coinage executed at the hints of the United States amounted in monetary value to sl1. 757, ,s93.0l. The total gold coined was 5l7,s50 pieces, valued at SIG. l52. 900. The silver dollars coined numbered l,34O, 900.
 TIE Japanese government has de eided to adopt gold standard of cur rency upon ratio of 321S to l. The silver yen. or dollar, will be gradually withdrawn from circulation, and the smallest gold piece will be of the value of five yen, The new standard will go into operation in October next.
 TIE National Zeitung says that the plan for the pacificatio n of Crete by granting autonomy to the island, was proposed by Russia and agreed to by Germany without reserve. Austria and France were the next to accept the proposal and the adhesion of Great Britain was received last of all
 A DISPATCH from Madrid says Among the 55 prisoners taken by the Spanish troops in the uprising at Ma nila is d man who claims to be, and doubtless is, an American citizen. All of the prisoners will be tried by court martial, and 90 of them will undoubt sdly be shot.
 TIE weekly statement of the New York city associated banks for the week ended on the 27th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase Sl, s55. .025; loans, decrease, sl, lS7 900 specie. increase. s1, 12S, 900; legal tender .increase, sl.105, 800; deposits, increase sl,09s, roo; circulation, decrease, Sl22,- sO0.
 THE Paris Gaulois says that brutal ities and vacations which are being practiced by the Boer government against French citizens and French in dustries are engaging the attention ot number of the members of the cham Der of deputies, with the possible re suit of intervention by the French government.
 IT was reported in Canea, on the 2d that 2,000 Moslems in the fortress a Selino had been massacred by tho Christian insurgents. The Moslems il Canea were furious over the news, anC threatened to attack the foreign con sulates, to protect which an additiona force of marines were landed by the various war ships.
 SPECIAL from Placetas, Cuba. says The spanish eaptain-generals persona campaign against Maximo Gomez iI Santa Clara province is failure. Wey Ter has been outgeneraled, outmaneu vered, outmarched and outfought by the scattering groups of insurgents, of which he, in his official dispatches to the war department at Madrid, ha' spoken with contempt.
 AN unforeseen obstacle to the promp ratification of the Anglo-NenezuclaI arbitration treaty has been encoun tered in a provision of Venezuelas con stitution neeessitating the use of tn, Spanish language in documents pre- sented for consideration of the con gress. A new copy in Spanish will b immediately forwarded to England fo Lord Salisbury's signature.