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Show j BRIEF TELEGRAMS. Senator Sargent is much belter. Tue Virginia legislature has decided that the present aetsioLi of that bo;ly is a legal one. Trie Jlqniblique FrancaUe expresses' great dUsatislactiou with t.ie new Turkish ministry. Spanish ministers arc considering a project for laying a cable between Manila and Hong Kong. O'Leary had forty-five minutcB to spare in his match to walk 400 miles iu 124 hours at Philadelphia, A vote of confidence in regard to Count Audraeoy will not be asked. His victory is confined to the report of the buJget committee. The Memphis citizens' relief committee com-mittee wound tip their affairs on Saturday, Sat-urday, distributing their balance of $7,253 among four orphan asylums. Edmunds will press his bill rcgaid-ing rcgaid-ing presidential elections to an early passage. It deprives the bouse of tho power to elect the president and leaves it to the states. The Danish folkithing will probably prob-ably be dissolved on Monday, because of its refusal to pads a Bubaidy indemnifying in-demnifying losses caused by the negro in-iurreclion on tinnta Cruz islan J. The new grand vizier of Turkey has drallbd a law proclaiming his ministerial responsibility and promising promis-ing equal justice to all Ottoman sub- 1 lects, and declaring that tho rjfiicera of j the 'government wnuld be filled with - i out reference lo religiou. As the time draws near for the resumption of specie payments, the matter attracts a great deal of attention atten-tion and occasions considerable anxiety. It is thought the change from a greenback to a gold b.uia will not be bo smooth aa anticipate! by many, Tho joint cougre.-sional committee on tho army organization is in hot water. Home of the republican members mem-bers of tho corn mil tee- made important import-ant concessions to the democrat, and other republicans have ho strongly objected to their course, that it looks as though they would back down, and rotract their former concessions. |
