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Show COXDEXSED TELEGR.UI3. Thn famous French ruce horse "Giiuliiitor" is JtAJ. Merlin, n Detroit thief, has been arret? ltd iu New York. Tite Turks hare news of the defeat of the iusurCDta near Trebiyiie. Jno. Steelwacen, n private banker of Buffalo, N. Y., has suspended. It is thought tho B.tuk of England rate will be reduced on Thursday. It is nit expected that Babcock's case will be reached by the olst iust. Shaw's hotel, Amherst, N. H., was burned Monday night; loss, $-50,000; insurance, $20,000. Bacovich, the killed insurgent Herzegovina Her-zegovina leader, had a big funeral at Ragusa on Monday. In the storms around San Domingo early in January, many vessels and several lives were lost. Four hundred soldiers have been recently sent to reinforce Uio Mexican troops on the Rio Grande. Tho honso comr.iitteo on the judiciiry will report the bill allowing criminals in criminal cases to testify in their own behalf. King William has formally opened at the Amsterdam chrystal palace the exposition of articles destined for the Philadelphia Centennial. The senate finance committee have agreed to recommend the confirmation confirma-tion of J. M. Megrue to be auditor for the postofljee department. The results of the French senatorial cctions have not been nubhahed, and it is thought will not bo exactly known until January 30tb. O. G. Miller and Robert Flemming have agreed to unuertake the reorganisation reor-ganisation of the Erie railway, and will start for this country next Saturday. Satur-day. Lucius W, Torul, a N'ew York forger, has been sentenced to fifteen years in the slate prison. There are still thirty-two indictments against him. Il is stilted that the European governments gov-ernments have reserved their replies to the American note on Die Spanish-Cuban Spanish-Cuban cjnes'un until they have exchanged views. All indications of continental es-changes es-changes continue favorable to England Eng-land in consequence of largo purchases of stock there for account of continental dealers. The Eustii-Pinch back senatorial case, the bankruptcy bills and the District of Columbia finances were considered by Benate committees on Tuesday, but no action wrs taken on any of them. The friends of the Texas Pacific nway say that the proposed investi-giit.on investi-giit.on of the means used to pass the act of incorporation is a device of the Central Pacific hobby to delay action. Scott will write, urging a full investigation. inves-tigation. Babcock's attorneys Bay they will summon President Grant, ex-Secretary Richardson and Secretary Bi iatow to testify that Babcock never approached ap-proached them in behalf of the appointment, removal or retention of any government official in St. Louis. The total destruction of the town of Abancay, Peru, by earthquakes, on the 4th ol December, is reported Between4 p, rn. of the 4th and 0 a. m. of the olh, no less than thirty-sevec earthquakes occurred, Beveial of which were very severe, but there arc no details. The Colorado delegate has offered a bill which provides that the. annual expenditures on mining claims ehall be required only until the application for a patent shall have been filed, and other iermsof the existing law com plied with instead of requiring expenditures to continue until the patent is issued. S. V. White has made a statement of his grievances to H. C. Bowen.and if Bowen does not reoly in a reasonable reason-able time, telling what ho knows damaging to Uecchor, or admit that he knows nothing against lnm whatever, what-ever, White will appeal the matter to Plymouth church. Mike Higgins, Cinc'nnati, being annoyed by a crowd of scuool children who were impeding his progress, ! seized a boy and threw him into the catch basin of the Main street sewer, A passer-by jumped into the sewer and saved the boy a the rsz. of his own Hie, and Higgins was a-Tsted by the police to avoid bemg mobbed by the excited neighbors. The prcs'tlent, in reply to the resolution reso-lution of tho house asking for the correspondence in regard to Spain with other European governments, says that no such correspondence has been held, our ministers abroad being instructed merely to read the letter ol tho eecrelary of state addressed to Mr. Cusning to the respective governments govern-ments to which they arc ncredited. E. D. Win-low, a journalist of Boston, and one of the principal owners own-ers of the Daily iVcirw and Boston Post is charged with having negotiated paper believed to be forged in the Boston banks to the supposed extent of $200,000. He recently left the city with his family. He wag educated for the ministry ol the Methodist church, and served as chaplain in the army, and since officiated in several churches; has been publisher of Z iuu's Ikrahl, and a member of the legislature. B:fore he disappeared he attempted to negotiate several notes, but the indorsements wercdetccted as forgeries. . |