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Show THE STEAMER BROUCHT NEWS. The Uutlget Contain a Mixed Variety or Information. Vaxcoi-vkk, H. U., July 25. Advices from Japan per the steamer Hatavia say that at the first election under the new constitution, July 1st, returns show a large percentage of electors' votes. Thirty-nine government, thirty-three thirty-three opposition and eighteen independent inde-pendent and two doubtful caddidates were elected. The Queen Dowager of Korea died July 4th, aged 83. Royal mourning has been ordered, which means the whole nation is obliged to don mourning mourn-ing for three years and a heavy taxation taxa-tion imposed tu pay the funeral expenses. ex-penses. The ollicial Gazette states that twenty-three new cases and rive deaths occurred from cholera in the town of Nagask, July 2nd and 3rd. Altogether there has been seventeen deaths. |