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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS. C. J. Brenhamdied in San Francisco Fran-cisco on Tuesday. New York specie engagements today to-day half a million. The most extensive whisky frauds have been discovered in the west. Rev. Dr. George Webber, of Lewis ) ton, Me., killed himself on Tuesday. The recent European war rumors n? are said to be the work ot stock job A- bers. A meeting of the American social science society commences at Detroi to-day. a R. PI. Gaines killed Dr. Winn in i personal quanvl at Hope, Ark., 01 Saturday. A coal breaker at Excelsior, Pa , i" was burned on Sunday by a supposed incendiary. The president of Buenos Ayres, ii opening the chambers, proposed am ncsty tor all political offenders. The intransigente prisoners, wh 39 were engaged in the Cartagena, Span ish, insurrection, have been set free The bill for the suppression of th religious orders has passed to a thir reading in the lower house o( th 8j Prussian diet. The rumor that Germany an Russia intend to address a represer tation to France in relation to he , armament is false. 5 The Massachusetts house ofreprc sentatives has appropriated $-50,00 to represent the state at the Phil a delphia centennial. 5 Captain Edgar Wakeman, fo many years a commander in the sei vice of the Pacific Mail company died in Oakland, Cal., Saturda ' night. A Paris newspaper says that th Czar intends to propose a general di; armament ot the European powerd lit ftticl that Germany will support th proposition. The greeting of the Czar of Russia PQ at Berlin, on Monday, by Einporo William wag exceedingly cord in 1 The city was brilliantly illuminate we and the crowd enthusiastic. In the Pottsville, Pa., regions 1 mob of 300 men warned ofl the worl ing miners at Hickory Ridge an Lancaster collcries, and threatened ( kill them ii they resumed work. The tlannel camel mills, Brooklyt N. Y., burned Monday night; lo& over half a million; insurance, $1S0 H 000. A fire engine had to be abat doned on account of the intent heat. llc. The members of the Miners' Bene1 im olent association had a large an , i8 peaceable parade at Hazleton, Pa 11P on Monday. The strikers claim th:' they can hold out yet for seven months. The centennial celebration of th S capture of Fort Ticonderoga was al tended by at least 0,000 strangers There was an oration by Rev. F. V Cook, and a collation on the site of th ' old fort, o, John Best, Stoneham, Mass., k. member of the legislature, and con: mauder of a post of the Grand Arm. of the Republic, has been arrested k S stealing $1,500 from the safe of 1 merchant. 1 A Catholic association has lef Mayence, Germany, for Rome to prt C. sent a congratulatory address to th' Dope, signed by a million name; )3, congratulating his holiness oa hi Sod birthbay. Tho foreign secretary in reply to a: inquiry in the house of commons - said that the English government ha received the moat satisfactory assurance assur-ance from Berlin of the maintenance 7 of the peace of Europe. Miss Caroline M. Crane, of Wash ingtou, who was lost in tho Schiller wns a neice of the wife of Senatoi Edmunds. She- was going to spent. Stwo years with the family of Miuistci Marsh, and study art in Italy. It is reported that certain Polish priests have conspired against the lives of Prince Bismarck and Dr, S Falck, minister of ecclesiastical a I fain", and that the persona whose names are already known to the police were hired to carry out the plot. An inquest on twenty bodies from the wreck of the Schiller resulted in Q a verdict of drowned, coupled with a recommendation that a telegraph be 1 established bet ween RUhop's lighthouse light-house nnd the shore. With such communication com-munication the jury think all on board the steamship might have been saved. The international Sundiy School convention is in session at Baltimore. The statistics slmw the total number of schools in the Unit- d .States to be 0S.'3i',i; teacher. T-U,S7J; scholars. 5,tu7,oOS. In Cauadj, number of schools, -t -loi ; teachers, ;53,74o ; scholars, l?71toJl. Judge Loring has n ). expressed a de.-ire to rt.-ign his poeilion in the I court of claims. Judge Peck, anil an-il other judge, will be 70 years old this k month and would resign lor the re- tired It.rt, wore there any congressional congression-al apprupri.itiun furbia eaUry.but will hold over till next winter. He will 1 be succeeded by Hubert S. Paine, of J ' Wiscon-in. |