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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS. Danial O'Xeil, editor of the Pitfs-burg, Pitfs-burg, Fa., Daily Despatch is dead. Bullion withdrawn from Bank of England on balance Tuesday, 120,-000. 120,-000. A great crowd ia gathering in Washington to witness tho counting of the electoral vote. Receipts of wheat at Liverpool the past threoWays arCO.OOO quarters, of which 7,000 were American. The London Post aeon-officially expresses strong hopes that an European war will be obviated. Negotiations between the Ottoman ambassador and Servia's diplomatic agent have already commenced. The trustees of Dartmouth college have elected Rev. Samuel G. Bartlett of Chicago as president of the college. Austria has voted not to appropriate appropri-ate 600,000 florins for the expenses of participation in the Paris exhibition. England and Russia have advised Prince Milan to conclude a peace with Turkey if he can do soon proper terms. The bust of Auber was unveiled with great ceremony at Paris on Sunday Sun-day over Lite grave of the composer in Pere La Chaise. Payne, Hunton and Abbott, the house democratic members of the electoral commission, are moderate men and good lawyers. Chicago bankers, merchants and business men favor the president's views in regard to the immediate resumption re-sumption of specie payment. Gtmeral John McDonald, ol whisky fraud fame, received an unconditional pardon on Monday, aud was immediately imme-diately released from the penitentiary at Jefferson city. rv,The pope will protest against the clerical abuses act of lho Italian chamber of deputies in an encyclical which will probably be published at the consistory in March. Turkey wishes to have Mr. Cave as financial administrator, but it is understood un-derstood that England will not nomi-nto nomi-nto a finanninr for- Turkey until peco is definitely established. In London, Professor Lankestcr took out a new summons against thc spiritualist Slade, and summons his assistant for conspiracy, and also agaiust Slade under the vagrant act. The New York senate has adopted resolutions, 19 to 12, declaring that Hayes and Wheeler have been legally elected presidont and vice president and should therefore be inaugurated. It is said that the Catholic powers of Europo have engaged to make the strictest use of their ancient prerogatives preroga-tives to insure regularity in the election of tho successor to Pius ninth. The Oregon electoral case was the subject of a long discussion in the senate committee on privileges and elections on Tuesday. A large number num-ber of telegrams have yet to be offered in evidence. Prince Gorlschakoff is resolved to retire and his resignation is merely a question of few days. Councillor WalloniefT, formerly minister of the interior, a progressive liberal, is his probable successor. John Kaiu, aged sir, son of wealthy parents in New York city, was abducted on Monday at recess from the school connected with thc church of Transfiguration by an unknown man, who gavo him money and sweetmeat. A special envoy will be dispatched by Servia immediately to St. Petersburg Peters-burg to ubtain a definite statement of Russia's desires and to ascertain positively posi-tively what support, if any, can be relied upon it tho Turkish peace proposals pro-posals are finally rejected. The failure of Lamar to attempt to extricate tho Texas Pacific railroad bill from its place on the speaker's table on Monday has disheartened the friends of the measure, who now fear that it cannot bc got to the senate in time for passage this year. In accordance with instructions from Washington to the Packard faction that the short term aenator must be elected immediately in order that he might be admitted to aid the recognition of tho Packard government, govern-ment, Lewis, mulatto on Monday received re-ceived a majority of seventy-eight members voting, and eighty present, in the Packard legislature Conkling was bulldozed eo extensively exten-sively by the rabid republican senators in caucus that he positively declined to serve aa a member of the electoral commission, and the Morton party tried hard to get McMillan of Iowa in hia place, but Frelinghuysen, was finally selected, as Edmuuda aaid he would refuse to act if two enemies of the whole scheme of settlement were put upon it. |