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Show Ilriei;TeIei:ranis. One hundred cases of small pox occurred in London last week. Skow, Peterson & Co , Chicago . bankers, have tailed. Liabilities not large. There was uu earthquake at Kingston, Kings-ton, Jamaica, on MumUy. Mo damuge. Both Packard's and Nicholls' legislatures legis-latures have extended th session lo the 30th ol March. In tho reichstag the bill fixing Leipzig Leip-zig as tho seat ol the imperial court ol Germany haa been adopted. The teamer Jt'usand, wrecked off Long Branch, has not sunk yet, but she is rapidly going to pieces. An English steamer with arms and ammunition from New Haven for Constantinople, has been lost. Contributions are being taken up to defend the press of Kington, Jamaica, against the prosecutions for sedition. A resolution proposed by a democrat, demo-crat, eudortiug Hayes' conciliatory policy, bus passed the Ohio legislature. legisla-ture. A committee of presidents of coal transportation has beeu appointed to report remedies for tho depression in the trade. The pope says the time bas come to employ forca against tho efforts to deprive him of the liberty of speaking his mind, and all that. A sharp battle was fought at Koy-- Koy-- oshina, the capital of Salsuma, Japan, recently, when the conspirators were i routed and the imperial forces cap-' cap-' hired the town. The Chicago typographical union, on Wednesday, reduced the price Ol composition on morning papers from 42 to 40 cents per thousand, aud on evening papers from 38 to 35 cents. At Shelby ville, Ky., on Wednesday, Wednes-day, Ben. F. Mickey, the worst desperado des-perado in Kentucky, was convicted of the wilful murder of John P. Wilson, in Oldham county, a year ago, and sentenced to penal eervitude for life. This was his fourth murder. |