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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS. Lotidon silver quotation 57d- Alex. H. Stephen! is growing rvtaker, and cannot live long. Clara Morris atarted from New York lor Caiilurnia on Monday. Bullion withdrawn from the Bank Df Euglund on balance Monday 14,-300. 14,-300. 1 In the Chicago breadstuffa' market prices were weaker but fairly active last week. Mr. Merry, the owner of "Doncas-ter," "Doncas-ter," "Thurmenby" and other tauioui horfei, is dead. Judge 0. C. Skinner, formerly o! the Illinois supreme bench, ditd at Quiucy on Sunday. The National Teachers association will hold a meeting at Washington on the Lit, 2d and 3d of March. D. E. Barrett, an attendant in the Northampton (M.iua.) asylum, was murdered on Sunday by the lunatics. The locomotive houne of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania rsilro'id at Trenton, N. J., was burned on Sunday. Eiiiht en gines were damaged to the amount of $75,000. The house South Carolina commit tee will probably report that the Hayes electors received a majority of 700 in that state, and Wade Hampton Hamp-ton a majority of 1,100. The bondholders of the Direct United States cable have voted not to amalgamate with the Anglo-American cable company, though the vote is disputed by the minority. The Hinchman house, Utica, New York, was burued Sunday night, the occupants having barely time to escape es-cape in their night clothes. One man was suffocated to death. General Kansler, nominal minister of war and commander ol the papal army, resigned in consequence of differences with Monseigneur Simon, the new cardinal secretary of state. The senate committee on military ufhtirs will recommend the passage of the bill to Bell the Dalles military reservation in Oreeon to the highest bidders at not lees than $1.25 per acre. I The New York unemployed work-ingmen work-ingmen in a moss meeting Saturday night called upon the legislature to grant an appropriation of $2,000,000 to give work to 55,000 idle men in that city. Augustiu Daly has four theatres running in New York this wcok: "LemonB" at the Filth avenue, "Big Bouanza" at the Olympic, "Pique" at the Bcnvery and "Ferando" at the grand opera. At a fire on Sunday night at 215 Broadway, New York, occupied by Marvin's safe company two explosioiiH occurred. Five firemen were injured by broken glass and ono man suffocated suffo-cated to death. . . Resolutions of tho Cincinnati chamber cham-ber of commerce heartily approving tho bill appropriating $50,000 for an expedition to the North pole on tho plan suggested by Captain Howgate will be presented to congress. There will be a majority and minority minor-ity report to congress by the members of the Bilver commission. The former will recommend a double silver and gold legal tender standard, and will be signed by Jones, Bogy, Willard, Bland and Groesbeck, while Bowen, Boutwell and Gibeon will sign a minority roport in favor of a single Btandard. Charles O'Conor in company with Secretary Fish called upon President Grant on Sunday to teuder the manifestation mani-festation of his personal respect, and was received by him with cordiality, with expressions of congratulation on Mr. O'Couor's extraordinary recovery from -his recent dangerous illness. It is reported that O'Conor apologized for his disrespectful letter to Grant recently published. |