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Show (OIU4.U COXSIP. Finish ol I be ltilliard Tonrna- UII-UI. Iiat 1 Iit-y are 'I'tatbiia About lu Xew York. Ntw York, H. To-Dight3cbaefIer waB awarded tbe firtt prize in the billiard tournament ?1,0(H) eoid and silver warn. tiloeeon, c'eiion and Daly the second, third and fourth prizt-B. New York, 12. The recent billiard tournament bag again proved tbe "glorioua uncertainly" of ibe game, aiid tbe experts Dd others givinp attention to detai'a looking to improvement. im-provement. Among the many pro poflilioni advauced lur a new gme Are these: First Forbidding maFae sbota. Second Forbidding nurding. Third If nursing be allowed the balU o be respoited after runs o' tidy Fuurth No carom to count unlese tbe ruubion is mtde. Fiftb Tbe game to be with two balls only, the object ball to be hit twice. Correspond en ta are flooding tbe pews paper wiib all manner o.' devices to do away with a game that baB become be-come with professionals altogether tco Biraple. A correepoudent in ibis morning's Situ makes this point: "For example, each of tbe players at the conclusion of his thirty ninth inning has 5S1; one of them runs 19, and id given tbe fiame. Does that give bis opponent a fair show? Certainly, Cer-tainly, one of the players haa had forty cbancep, and hia opponent only thirty-nine." thirty-nine." The French experts, Gamier, Rudolpbe and Viguaux, are earnestly in favor of aome modification ot the game, while Americans view the proposition coldly or positively oppose op-pose it. The capture of John Hope, one ol the alleged Manhattan hank robbers, is believed to be important. Capt, Byrne siys that now it is only a question ques-tion of a few dis regarding tbe capture cap-ture of "Jimmy" Hope and at least three others, and that the evidence be bs will Bend them all lo the state prison. Tbe 7mejs' Vasbingtou says ilcCornick haa been cflertd the directorship di-rectorship of the mint. A Detroit correspondent haa no doubt of Chandler's senatorial nomination nomi-nation by the republican caucus, on the first ballot, by a large majority. A biil lias passfd, the New Jersey senate changing tbe name ot the well-known lowu of Redi'unk, the metropolis of Monmouth county, and a fame us watering pluce, lo fcShrews-; bury city. I A Washington correspondent writes! that one of the strongest reasons as-: Bigned by a Bpeaker in tbedemocratic i caucus, last night, for the passage of Tburman's resolution to amend the Revised Statutes, which provide the Riachiuery for drawing jurors in tbe United States courts, was the following: follow-ing: He said unless some nieacB could be devised to prevent the radicals, radi-cals, who have control of courtB in southern Btatea, from continuing prosecutions for election frauds, the democratic majority in the nest house of representatives might entirely disappear dis-appear belore tbe meeting ol the Forty sixth cougre;9. Figuring it as closely as be could, be found that the democratic majority, at moet, would be only 4, and he reminded his political friends that two ot those four, Hull of Florida, aud King of Louisiana, were already under indictment tor participation in election elec-tion frauds, and may be in the peni tt-ntiary before the Bret session ol the next congress. The committee of tbe Union League club have selected tbe site for a new club bouse a fine property on Fifih avenue and Thirty-ninth street for erecting a building Si feet front and 152 deep for, which the club hea ; a fund of $250,000. j Peter Cooper's friends give him a ; reception to-nigbt, bein tbe anniver-; anniver-; sary of hia 8Stb birthday. Many dis anguished citizens will participate, including in-cluding Ibe presidents of New York colleges. 324 Catholic bishops, and a majority of the clergy. The University Univer-sity of New York will confer on him ibe academic degree. The estimates mado by Thomas C. Scott and Arthur B. Savory, on Kag-liah Kag-liah wheat growing, show that English Eng-lish farmers caniut continue at the market prices of tbe past Beason. Careful figures show that wheat must net tbe farmer 2 8s. per quarter, to cover expenses, while the average during the past four months was only 2, They tuy if American growers can raisB wheat and after paying costs, including transportation, can a 11 it in the English market tor $1.25 per bushel, then the time and mouey txnendtd in raising the grain in Grent UriUin aro wsstetl Judge Pratt, ot the Supreme coutt, Brooklyn, has nffirmed, with costs, tbejudgment of tho court below in tiiesuiisof G. A. Kent and W. S. Hoyt against the Quicksilver Mining company. Justices Dyckman and Pratt concur in holding that tbe issuance issu-ance ol preferred stock is a legal i?uoce. |