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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS.- " Tho French assembly has adjourned adjourn-ed until January. Specie in the bank of England and Franco is increasing. Keyser's stove works, New York city, were burned; loss, $100,000. The government sold half a million of gold on Thursday at 11.63 to 11.65. Tho public departments in Washington Wash-ington were generally closed on Thursday. Thurs-day. There promises to be fewer commercial com-mercial failures this season than usual in New York. James T. Mihoncy has been appointed ap-pointed ganger for the first district of California. Monscigneur Cape! has published a pamphlet iu reply toCladstone'3 anti-catholic anti-catholic pamphlet. Two American war vessels have arrived ar-rived with additional survivors of the steamship Japan. The rate of tax in New York city for tho coming year ia likely to be three per cent, against two and a half in 1S7S. King Kalakaua and party had a sleigh ride in Central Park on Thursday, Thurs-day, and afterwards visited the Normal Nor-mal college. The boiler of au engine on Foster's wharf, Boston, exploded on Thursday, Thurs-day, killing one man and injuring three others. Jos. 'Walker, P. P., formerly president pres-ident of Harvard college, died on Thursday at his residence in Cambridge, Cam-bridge, aged SO. Tho supreme court of Brooklyn has refused to grant a bill ot particulars in tho suit of the Union Pacific railroad rail-road company against the Pacific Mail steamship company in a case of damages ior broken contract. The suit of Josephine Mansfield against the estate of the late James Fish, Jr., to recover the value of two promisory notes with interest, amounting altogether to $25,000, has resulted iu favor of the plaintiff. A dispatch from New York represents repre-sents trial the Til ton party is trying to delay the cause against " Beecher by shirking service ot tho bill of particulars, particu-lars, etc., and that Beecher's position is daily being strengthened in the community. |