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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. Tbe grand duke of Hecsc Darin-tadt Darin-tadt is dead. Hobart Pasha hr.e been ordered to bombard Odessa, President MacMahon bag decided on tbe immediate dissolution of the deputies. .me uukh oi i-eucnienDurg is openly mentioned as the intended ruler of Bulgaria. The losses of tho Turks in the fight with the Montenegrins at Kristaz are estimated at 4,000. The Oldham cotton spinners contemplate con-template a reduction of working time to (cur days a week. General Grant was present at Oxford's Ox-ford's annual commemoration services. ser-vices. On his entrance he was received with applause. At Ascot races the coronation stakes was won by "Beephoebe," the biennial stakes by "Rob Roy," and Derby stakes by "Silvia," winner of the Derby. Paris, 12. Members of the budget committee appear agreed to support a rejection of the budget it tbe ministry min-istry refuse to resigu in obedience to a vote of ceneure. The National Rifle association of London has accepted the invitation to represent Great Britain and Ire'and at New York in the match for the championship of the world. AccouuU from Tripeli and Bar-bary Bar-bary state that an area of one hundred hun-dred miles has been devastated by locuete. The crops are entirely destroyed and famine is believed to be imminent. The direct United StateB cable company have formed a combination with tho Anglo-American cable company com-pany to remain in force for fifty years, which means a monopoly of high cable rates. The Greek minister Constant!-! nople informs the porte that he has no knowledge of any hostile intention on tho part of bis government, but that if Greece finds herself drawn into the struggle she would act openly. The Roumanian government has addressed a note to thu powers, protesting pro-testing against the barbarous acts of the Turks and stating that ff the powers do not intervene to prevent these depredations Rou mania will be compelled to carry the war into Turkey. |