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Show j iiHIEF TELEGRAMS 1 1 The Duke of Montrose is dead. :! The wife of Motley, the American j 1 historian, is dead. , The reported death of Esperato, the Spanish statesman, is untrue. Henry Ward Beecher received over one thousand calls on New Year's f;day. j The w iites have carried Yicksburg s 1 in a municipal election without much . opposition. Queen Victoria distributed beef, coal and breadstuffs at Winsdor Castle on ; New Years. j Grant is .aid to he in favor of having hav-ing pensions granted to the Mexican ' war veterans. j Sixty thousand colliers in South j Wales hare struck on account of the reduction of wages. Our government has received from Madrid dispatches confirmatory of the Spanish revolution. Vice President Wilson expects to ' preside over the seuate during the re-I re-I mai.ider cf the term. ! Lady Franklin now offers 4,000 ! for the recovery of the records of her J husband's Arctic expedition. I A great enow storm in Vienna has J obstructed the railways and caused , the suspension of communication, j The residence of John Harper in uui ihiiiuc, iui, was uurntu on Nt'v Year's day. Loss, $S,000. E. B. Ward fell in the streets of Detroit in an apopletic fit en Saturday Satur-day evening aud died in a few minutes. min-utes. An investigation is progressing in Berlin t. discover how Von Arnim's sentence was published before it was delivered. The Swiss, Austrian and Belgian gnvernmeats will not receive American Ameri-can potatoes infected with the Col-, orado beetle. The plowers, riveters and boiler makers of Hull, England, have struck on account of a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. On account of the prevalent incendiarism incen-diarism in Boston the underwriters have appointed a committee to investigate inves-tigate the origin of all fires. ne ppa:u in me von Armm case will be tried within six weeks, and whatever its result, it will probably be carried to the Obergericht. The president held his usual reception recep-tion on New Year's day. Beside, the high functionaries of state, a large delegation ol Mexican war veterans watted upon the president. The Mississippi legislative investigating investigat-ing committee is iu session with closed ; doors and refuses to allow the white citizens to be represented by counsel. The whites have protested. New Year', day was celebrated extensively ex-tensively in New York by churches and individuals. The inmates of the prisons and charitable institutions were treated to a holiday dinner. Oae of the witnesses before the New Orleans investigating committee attributed the dissatisfaction of the negroes who voted conservative at the late e ection to the failure of the Freedm.n's savings bank. The newly elected sheriff of Women county, Miss., in place ef Crosby has taken possession of a room in the court house of Vicksburg and opened an office as sheriff. This action will complicate matters. The inauguration of Gov. Tilden was observed with the ubuU display at Albany on New Year's, Gov. Dix -eoorting him to the hall. Tilden took look the new iron-clad oath. Ex-go v. Dix was escorted to the depot bv a party of citizens, and three cheers were given for him, and a salute fired. Henry Clswes testified before the sub-idy investigating committee that though a direct. r in the Pacinc Mail company he had no recollection of the passage of the subsidy resolution, resolu-tion, and d;d not know that Irwin was employed to procure the subsidy until after it was obtAiaed |