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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS. Defalcation of $1,000,000 reported in the Havana custom house. The Italian government has not requested M. Thiers to quit Italy, j The Beecher-Tilton libel suit will be placed on the November calendar. calen-dar. The Governor of New South Wales has hois.ed the British flag on Fiji soil. Ainsworth, anti-monopoly, has 19 majority for Congress in the Third Iowa district. The Presbyterian Svnod of Illinois, now in session, will have the case of Prof. Swing before it. There was a report current in Paris on Friday that the Italian brigands had captured ex-President Thiers in Italy. The residence of Count Von Arnim was again searched on Saturday by , the p jlice and agents of government. govern-ment. A stage with four men went over ' board at Astoria ftrry, New York, on Thursday evening. The men and horses were drowned. The Board of Trustees of the Pea-body Pea-body education fund are in session in New York to consider the necessities of each of the Southern States. The missionary delegates who protested pro-tested against being excluded from the secret sessions of the Episcopal Convention have been admitted The suspended New York firm of Peake, Opdyke fc Co. have paid SO per cent, of their indebtedness, and will arrange for the remainder. Captain Simmouds, of the ship Kiti:j.slri!:;e,- which sunk in the British Channel, was drowned with his wife and daughter. Tuey were Americans. Mvgott, Howland k. Co.. suspended merchants, have arranged with their creditors. The firm attribute their failure to careless and malicious newspaper news-paper reports. The clerks in the Patent office having hav-ing subscribed to a memorial tea set to be presented to the late Commissioner Commis-sioner Leggetl. it is proposed lo put the law in force which prohibits aiich presents under tliD penally of tho discharge dis-charge of all employes wno participate partici-pate in it. |