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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS, "Byron" won the English Shropshire Shrop-shire Handicap. The suit Tilton vs. Beecher has been set down for December 6lh. Spanish General Lerserni, formerly captain general of Cuba, ia dead. Eight freight cars burned at Salisbury, Salis-bury, Mass., and an engine wrecked, Santanta, the Indian chief, has been placed in the Texas penitentiary for lile. A Cotton Exchange has been organized or-ganized at Boston with E. H. Sampson Samp-son president. The demand for semi-tropical fruits for experiments in the Southern States is very great. jMwara unmtn, ot xroy, A.Y., fatally Bhot his son George Tuesday afternoon, during a quarrel. The total membership of the Indiana Indi-ana Odd Fellows is over 24,000, and their total resources over $90,000. It is now stated that the reports ol the Pacific railroads putting on a new line of steamers to China was a blufl game. The students of St. Andrews' University Uni-versity have rejected a proposal that Ralph Waldo Emerson be elected lord rector. Specie shipments to Europe to-day $430,000, of which $390,000 was gold coin and the remainder in ,gold and silver bars. The Journal des Debates violently attacked Disraeli for disclaiming any offensive reference to Biamarck in a recent speech. The Chinese tea plant is especially in demand in the South, and many thousand young plants have been dis-, tributed the past year. The British government will send out a new polar expedition consisting of two steamers, under command of Captain Markham, next May. A vote in the Prussian Richstag, which failed to please the preaideut, being cast, he resigued, and a new presiding officer has been elected. |