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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. The Duke c Aitdrie bull waa sold in Cbirao for $0,975. Dr. Taylor Lewis of the Union co!-lece, co!-lece, Sv;heuecLAdy, X. V., died en Friday uiht, ayed 7b. Gold linnets in abundance hava bei.n found in tlie river Dulze and lake Isabel, Gautemala. RepreasnlatiTe Kelly hopes that the silver doilar men will have the balauce Of power in the nuit house. "Ariaties," having met with an accident, f ill not take part in tho race at Louisville on the 24 lb. The fractional curreicy has in good measure beea destroyed and wil never como in for reileuintiou. Ex-Governor Stockdale of Texa, GG yenrs of ag is to marry a daughter of Representative Schleicker of that state, aged 17. The specie ahipmenta to Europe from New ITbrk on Saturday wre $1,000,000, of which $141,000 wus uilver, tlie remainder, jold. The members of the whisky ring bare abandoned tlie attempt to secure immunity from civil proecu-tion, proecu-tion, and aisert that Ibsy will fiht the eovernment to the bitter eod. (Jur conaul&r ofheers in Europe are directed to discover whether the loot und mouth cattle disease can be communicated to live cattle by the exportation of dried and rolled hides. Secretary Sherman says he will go on with the sales of the Jour and a half per cent, bonds for redemption purposes and hopes to be able to resume re-sume specie payments by tb 1st of January, 1879. A private exhibition of the telephone tele-phone at the St. Dennis hotel, New York, Friday night, was successful. Conversation was carried on and music transmitted between Now York and Brooklyn. The jury of King's comity, N. Y., have declared that A. H. Daly is entitled en-titled to be surrogate of the county. The returning officer declared W. L. Livingston elected, but the jury examined ex-amined the ballot boxes and reversed this dcclaratioa. Prolesaor Riley, chief of the national entomoligical commission, has just closed a three weeks examination in I Texas and Kansas of the grasshoppers. grasshop-pers. He says that throughout the larger part of Kansas tho battle is alreudy fought and won. Thomas P. Somerville, the New York lawyer tried for complicity in the safe burglary conspiracy case, promises to give the details of the whole a flair, in order to bring to pun-ishmont pun-ishmont some of the conspirators who have not Buffered enough. About 100 business men of Washington Wash-ington signed a petition to the president presi-dent to remove Fred Douglass as marshal of the district on account of bis lecture abusive of Washington and its people. All the local papers con- uemu -LAJugmsB anu au vucaie urn removal. It is stated that the reason of Win. H. Vonderbilt's trip to Europe is the establishment of line af steamers between New York and Europe. The steamers are to be modelled after White Star boats, and at first will only csrry freight and steerage passengers. pas-sengers. It is understood that Secretary Sherman contemplates the sale of $2,500,000 of four and one-half per centum bonds each month, and that the gold will be held, or if it is sold for leal tender notes that the latter will be held to redeem the fractional notes. For the fiscal year ending June, 1S76, the balance in trade and merchandise mer-chandise was in favor of the United States to the amount of nearly $S0,-000,000 $S0,-000,000 specie value. This amount has been nearly doubled during the three quarters of the present year, and it this improvement continues tho balance in our favor this year will not be short of 200,000,000. FOREIGN7 BRIEFS. London silver quotation, 54Aj. A revolt has broken out in the Crimea. There are hopej of saving the Bteamship Dakota. Ignique, Peru, was destroyed by earthquake the 10th of May. Thfi Turku r-nnt.inno In 00;, burn vessels lying in the Roumanian hai bors. Bullion withdrawn from the Bnk of England on balance on S.iturdav, 65,000. A powerful tug has bean sent ou. from England in search of the City of Brussels. Turkey wants to raise another loan tn Loudon, but there is likely to be no takers. It is believed that Austria will occupy oc-cupy Bosnia and Herzegovina about May 20th. MahoQimedan refugees from the Danube are quitting their homes by thousands. England is preparing to ship horses, ambulance wagons, etc., on hired transports. Probably one crossing of the Dan ube will be eflocted between Urail and Ismail. A Russian home force is to be or ganized for the defence of the Baltic and if lack tea coasts. Persia will make a convention with Russia, enabling the hitter's troops Ij march through Persia. Twenty thousand Enfield and 25,-000 25,-000 Springfield rifles have arrived at Athena for th national defence. The failure oT a great hardware firm m Birmingham is imminent. Liabilities estimated at SI, 000,000. There is nothing in .the Ruasi m movements bo far to indicate where they will attempt to cross the Danube Sixty thousand Russian infantry have been dispatched from Taskend to reinforce the garrison in Central Asia. A Russian battery at Rustchuck lank a three masted iron clad near Ibrail on Friday, with her crew of 300 men. A international continental exhibition exhibi-tion at Amsterdam has awarded a gold medal to a bale of cotton from Memphis. The Roumanian Jews have been warned against cenlinuiug prayers in their synagogues for the success of the Turks. The EnglUh squadron leaves Suda bay for Port Said on Sunday. The Christian population of Crete is greatly excited. The movements of the Turkish troops indicates that the Russian croseing of the Danube is not to be seriously opposed. The Chinees government will, on the first of April, open lo foreign trade the ports of Ichana, Wuhuu Wencheo and Pacboy. ' During Thursday's artillery engagement engage-ment at Furtukia, on the Danube the town was set on fire and oue Turkish monitor disabled. A Russian military expedition on the east ahore of tbe Caspian sea ia going towards the Akhal Turcoman country for strategical purposes. Con;tanlinonpIe fears that the Russian admiral, now at Palermo, I should endeavor to intercrpt the Egyptian trausports with auxiliaries. : Tbe Russians have constructed a ! pontoon hridga in the mouth of the ' Sereth river, which will be towed into the Danube for the passage of troops. There are 10,000 Russians at Geur-gero Geur-gero who are pushing their way westward west-ward along the Danube to occupy the right bank to its junction with the Aluta. The Russian miuister of marine has declared the Turk ish blockade of the Black sea insufficient, Russian voxels haviuji been able to leave Nicolofl. Two Paris nowwpaper editors have been imprisoned and fined 2,000 franca respectively for insulting the army and for articles subversive of 1 anoial nnlr The Roumanian government is considerably perplexed in regard to its action, Austria having strongly protested against a declaration of its independence. Tho Emperor William, since hio return from Alsice, har received the French ambassador, and commis aioned him to lorward a message of tbe emperor's gosd wishes for Frauce to President MacMabon. The Roumanian chamber has de-olared de-olared that Turkey by ber outrages on the Danube has severed all bonds belwucn herself and Roumania, and that the ministry u empowered to take any steps deemed necessary. Rujsia is abolishing the German municipal institutions in the Ballei .provinces, and giving the governments govern-ments of the communities entirely into the hands ef the governor gen- eral of tho provinces and the niiuiater of the interior. Serious disagreements aro reported , between the Turkish chambers and the eultan. The members are angry at the acceptance of Germany's protectorate pro-tectorate over Russians in Turkey and in regard toother matters of administration. admin-istration. The government proposes to olose tbe parliament. |