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Show VAiV-V TKIiEURAMS. A $15,000 tire in New Orleans. Earthquake shocks in Slexi co. Press prosecutions abound in Berlin. Ber-lin. A $13,000 fire in St. Louis, Saturday. Satur-day. A Spanish gunboat with 200 men is missing. Steamers with troops are arriving at Suiander. The European banks are raising their rates of discount. Count de Chambourd is about to issue another manifesto. The English representative at the Vatican has been withdrawn. Incendiary fires hive been threatened threat-ened in several Ku3sian cities. Stevens has over 300 majority as congressional delegate from Asizona. The New York sailors' strike is a failure. Plenty of sailors in the city. Blanqui, member of the Commune, Com-mune, ia dangerously ill in prison at Paris. The king of Iuly has made Verdi, the composer, a member of the senate. Syracuse, N. Y., a $130,000 fire; $S5,000 msuracc;; two men seriously injured. Gleason & Fell, dry goods merchants, mer-chants, San Francisco, have failed for $200,000. The last White House ticket is Washburne aud Jewell for president and vice. A heavy fog hovers over England, rendering travel on land or water dangerous. The Mexican senate ia to be composed com-posed ot two senators from each state and tederal district. A Washington train, on Monday, ran through a coal train at Elizabeth, N. J., but hurt nobody. A New York longshoreman has been killed in a fight, and a truckman named Murray has been arrested. Public building architect Mullett has tendered his resignation, which has not been acceptod by Secretary Br is tow. Seventeen of Gen. Early's confederate confede-rate troops who full near Washington Washing-ton in 1804 are to be buried in. an Episcopal cemetery. The estimates for appropriations to j be presented at the next session of cougress will probably be reduced 10 per cent, from last year, j An earthquake shock at Vera Cruz, on the 13th iust., destroyed sev-jeral sev-jeral houses and created great consternation. con-sternation. No lives lost. I The steamships City of London and Ethiopia were delayed from Saturday Sat-urday noon till Sunday on account of the longshoremen's strike. John B. Ellis, a young lawyer of Washington, was taken sick while drinking with his companions on Saturday Sat-urday and died on Sunday. The Pacific .Mail Steamship company com-pany hns commenced an action against the Union Pacific company for breach of promise on a contract. It is reported that affairs in the south are already improving since the election. Real estate has advanced and personal property is more secure. The New York strikes in the different differ-ent trades are reported to be virtual failures. There is no difficulty in obtaining all the men wanted in every trade. The editor of a Berlin paper says that a person connected with Von Arnim otlered oo,000 for the privil-age privil-age of influencing the editorials of that journal. A heavy gale has recently prevailed in the Mediterranean, and aeveral large vessels are ashore; one American Ameri-can vessel is a total wreck, and all but three men on board are lost. Tho insurance commissioner of Connecticut has applied to the courts to have a trustee appointed over the American National Lite and Trust Company, the assets of which are stattd & t" $01 K), 000, and liabilities at $1,300,000. Secretary Bristnv has informed the heads of bureaus of the treasury department de-partment that he riiii.i thn murhinp and has returned to sr.ine of them their repoits for amendation, where they had overstepped the boundaries ot tiieir duty in making recommendations. recommenda-tions. Capt. Eddy, of St. LouU, reports the jetty system for deepening the ! channels ot rivers successful in Europe, their channels in every instance in-stance being deepened from 5 to lo ! feet.. He wants ttiis system applied j to tho mouth of the Mississippi by con greet;, I |