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Show CH1AA AS Si JAPA.V, There is no truth about the rinderpest rinder-pest in Yedo. J. 0- P. Stearnn, & old resident of Yokohama, is dead. Cable communication with Hocg-koog Hocg-koog was interrupted August lOth.and has not yet been resumed. The subscriptions in Shanghai to the new French loan amounted to 6,-000,000 6,-000,000 francs. Not a bad beginning. A young woman drowned herself in a canal near T&kidji, on account of being be-ing forced to marry the wrong man. Mr. Lowder, a British consul, ha? been appointed in-Tpector-eeneral of customs by the Japanese government. Agassimara Ikonokami, banished nobleman, has returned to Japan. Iwakura met him in the United States and secured his pardon. An art school has been established in tho provinoe of Sakitama, by the provincial court, and already it is attended at-tended by a good many scholars. Mori, charge d'affaires at Washing- , ton. was dismissed on account of inter- j fering with Iwakura during the recent ; visit of the latter. Mori was too favor- j able to the United States, j A black lead mine has been discov- ; ered in the province of Satsnma. The product is very fine, and well adapted for pencil. This is the first biack lead , mine ever discovered in Japan. It is said that over Ilk) student? arc now employed in Ycddo, in codifying and simplifying the Japanese characters, charac-ters, with a view of adopting them in the representation of sounds used in foreign languages. |