Show nlnIARCI JUAXIi nCIIIXri lie Contemplate it RiuIleM Chance ofBaaelnllla roller BEnuf Jan 4A I state council Is convened for Wednesday next Bismarck though still Ill from a recurrence re-currence of neuralgia Is certain to be present The reassembling of the JklChb tor tIe last eventful days before dissolution and the reopen lug of the Landtag compels tIlls general ministerial meeting The leading questions before the Reichstag Reich-stag will bo increased credits and the socialists bill Bismarcks long Xpectttl dcclarotlon on Ihl Cei policy will probably be made during Uie debate on the military credits The attitude of the government on theOCI > list bill is inflexible The year opens with a universal peace the2a000lialZdiiung declar log external tranqulllty I is guaran teed wInk Internal tranquIlity de fiends entirely on the character of the next Reichstag Yet despite this lovely prospect peace abroad and at home upon defined conditions the Foreign Of the itself was never so pervaded by a sense of Insecurity and of the continuance of the triple alliance Bismarcks refusal to support Aus brine policy In Bulgaria 1W a great I source of irritation and suspicion and Crispls persistent intriguing for the cession of Trcntlno is an otherPUOORIP PROGRESS or NEGOTIATIONS for a meeting of Emperor William I it tt and the Cur on the 1ollsh frontier in April intensifies official nnxlrty and watchfulness in Austria In diplomatic circles ere is a lively discussion over the prospect of a renewal of the German entente with Russia As BUmarck continues to find n want of hemeogenity In the Austrl an empire and a growIng discord brtweeu Its various nationalities and these obstacles to good politics how how greatly they reduce the value of an Austrian alliance It Is I raid he contemplates a radical change of base In his policy Hh application of the theory bringing all German spenMug I icople uudii the German flag urfe atu the expense of Austria and the exi > euco of RussIa hut for Russia thire would l > c a compensation The policy in fact would wipe out Austria ae that empire noW rtAnlho for Germany would take the ACSTKIAGERMAN DCCH1EB and while Germany would also get the GermanBaltic provinces now held liy Russia Russia would get an equivalent in Galicia and Dukow Ing and would be given a free hand In Boununia and the Balkan coun tries triesThe The GermanCzech conference opened In Vienna today It la watched here as having au Indirect yet important hearing upon the In ternational relation The SlIeslnn MIners Boclel has petitioned the Emperor to appoint a commission to enquire Into their I dorbat They declare U Is hope ess and that their miseries can ben be-n no way alleviated unless homier vents The Colored ExSoldier icy QRLKASS Jam 4sC pUln iKSb Onyfi Ucnertmeht naUJUBMi lar tt3n Ai1RoVlloPlf en < ini4 kilo i4i iMlwil4d0hji I itt1 rlW Si rni fr j diUila Uiwfuri ment permission to organize POof PO-of the G A R Colonel James Lewis In an Interview said that fully ten years ago the colored troops who ought on the federal side during dur-ing Die late war concluded that they ought to be represented In the association asso-ciation of G AIl To this end a peUtlon was drawn up after Uio usual term and forwarded to tile Commanderinchief G A Ri who in turn referred it to the Grand Encampment consideration and action Previousto this however the petition In question had tjeeu submitted to various department commanders here each of whom referred it on some frivolous ground one of them being expediency which according we dell oltlon of Colonel Lewis meant color and nothing else The appeal of the colored men met with vigorous opposition from the Southern whitu jxnuatlou > and I the matter wan dmnmil U Lggcrlariil CHICAGO Jan 4fhen I is a conflict con-flict of authority between till city and State authorities Thu latter claim tiiu right to chip diseased cattle into the city to be put into fertilizer fer-tilizer tanks The city authorities say there is danger tome of these cattle being sent toslaughter houses and JIayor CritTer this morning ordered thu health commissioner to keep them out of till city at all hazards law or no law A GolJni Hart ml CHICAGO Jan 4Tbo season of Italian opera which closed at the Auditorium this afternoon was the most memorable in thu history of amusements in Chicago Since the dedication of the magnificent opera house four wtcks ago there have been I twentyone performance and the grO > B receipts of those and the dedication ceremonies amounted to 32954 It is l > believed these figures exceed any record in the history 01 amusements in this country The receipts for the last reek were the largect iatti appeared thU afternoon after-noon III the Barber of Savllle InS In-S farewell erformance < The audience audi-ence that greeted her was tho largest larg-est of tho season Fully two thou Mid people were turned away Thu company left tonight for thu City of Mexico and Hill open a three lh weeks engagement theru January |