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Show I TELEGRAMS. NIGHT REPORT. FOREIGN. j French Xewa. Paris, 18. Thiers leases Paris tomorrow, to-morrow, and probably goes to Trou-ville Trou-ville for a brief rest. Tha .French and imarican posUl treaty will soon be signed. The French financial minister wants ono of the rate? to be raised from forty to forty-five centimes, cen-times, for ten grammas, and he differs slightly from the posul department on lha question, of transit, but Thiers ha interposed to reconcile all differences. Ihe Bhine, tine and Loire have overflowed their bants. The bulk of the German frce in Marne and Upper Marne will be withdrawn, with-drawn, and small detachments will remain re-main at important points. The evacuation evacua-tion of the other departments is not yet completed. HlietUancou. London, 18 The appointment of Sir Randall Palmer, as lord chancellor, is gazetted. St. Petersburg, 18. The czar has issued is-sued a full pardon to Michael Czaro-wich Czaro-wich (?) the Polish general who entered the Turkish army and distinguished himself as commander of the Ottoman Cossacks in the wars against Kuisia. GENERAL. The Cotton Crop. "Washington, 18. The report of the statistician of the department of agriculture, agri-culture, upon the condition of the cotton cot-ton crop in October, shows that the prospect has undergone no serious changes since the September report. The Rational Board of Trade. New York, 18. The National Board of Trade, alter a long discussion, adopted adopt-ed the resolution reported yesterday from the committee on the subject of & reciprocity treaty with Canada. Can-ada. McOovern, of the Canada delegation, dele-gation, expressed the conviction that j the action of the board on the subject would be beneficial to both countries. The board next discussed three resolutions resolu-tions on ship building; one by the Boston Bos-ton board of trade, asking congress to prevent the exaction of fees or taxes on shippingby state or municipal law; one by the Philadelphia board of trade, asking for bounties for building aod : subsidies for running American ships; and one by the Boston board, asking that articles of foreign production necessary neces-sary for repairs, etc., on ships, be admitted ad-mitted duty free. The debate was very animated, the Pennsylvania members urging strongly in favor of subsidies, the New Kngland and New York members as earnestly opposing it. A Tragedy and a Mystery, Madison, Ind., 19. Henry H. Armstrong, Arm-strong, a well known wealthy citizen, met his death last night under circumstances circum-stances revealing a mystery like that connected with tbe death of Nathan, of New York. From the evidence before the coroner's jury it appears that Arm-strong Arm-strong had not lived amicably with Mb wife for some time. He returned last night unexpectedly from New Albany, where he had been for the past two weeks, went to bis house, took off his bools, lef) tbam in the parlor, and went up stairs to his wife's room, where, she says, be beat and abused her, and finally dragged her down stairs. Sba screamed for help and at the foot of the stairs he released her, when she returned up stairs and pre-tnnLlv pre-tnnLlv hoi-d a niainl shot Armstrong was found lying outside of the back hall door, with a bullet hole in his head, just at the corner of tbe left eye. The fore-hend fore-hend was covered with bruises, and one of the hands was cut and torn, showing ho had been engaged in a struggle. No powder marks wore around the wound, as would have been tho case had it been a case of suicide, and there appears no reasonable doubt that the case is one of murder and not suicide. The coroner's jury has not yot returned a verdict. The Tnrf. Lexington, Ky., 18. In the trotting races to-day, the race for yearling colts, mile heats to harness, was remarkable as showing seconds faster time than was ever before recorded in a similar race. It was won by I). Harris' "Mam-bria "Mam-bria Patchet," in 3:14i, 8:13). Boston Information, Boston. 18 Mellis & Co's iron foun dry, at South Carver, Mass., burned inst nighty loss 440,000, insurance $18,- 000. The State liberal committee have ds cided to substitute F. W. Bird in place of Charles Sumner as the candidate for Governor, and Win. L. Smith for Lieut, governor, in placo of M, Sterns. Ground was broken Orday on Trinity College grounds for the new State house. Libel Snlt for $100,000. SL Louis, 18. 3. N. Goodale has nod the "Globe" for $100,000, for publishing pub-lishing a dispatch from Boston furnished furnish-ed by the American Press association, in which Goodale is said to bo suspected of being connected with tho assassination assassina-tion of Charles Lane, in Dorchester, Mass., on Sunday evening. Early Snow. Bangor, Me-, 18. Four Inches of ' snow fell on West Branch, Penobscol, yesterday. Irian Catholic B. V. Philadelphia, 18. The Irish Catholic Benevolent Union elected the following officers for the next yean President, judge Dennis Dwyer, of Dayton; vice-presidents, vice-presidents, Francis McMorhony, Washington; Wash-ington; P. BrannoD, Louisville: secretary, secre-tary, Martin J. J. Griffith, of Philadelphia; Philadel-phia; treasurer, Kov. Jas. Henry. St. Louis will be their next place of meeting. meet-ing. Miscellaneous. Hudson, N. Y., 18. Officers Dyer and Best, of this city, are arrested charged with allowing two prisoners, suepectad of being connected with the Waterford bank robbory, to escape. Boston, 18. Kov. George Ghapman, graduate of Dartmouth, 1804, a woll-known woll-known Episcopal clergyman .of New-buryport, New-buryport, died to-day, aged 84. Ho was formerly pastor of a church in Lexing |
