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Show ' TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. The National Bimetallio Coinage Association Associa-tion will distribute 50.C00 copies of Senator Beok's silver speech this week. - The German press has hailed with pleasure, the announcement of President Grevy's reelection, re-election, which they regard as an assurance of peace between France and Germany. U. S. Minister Pendleton and Mrs. Pendleton Pendle-ton gave their first reception in Berlin last evening. Among the guests were a large number of American residents, a fact which shows that the American colony there is increasing.' in-creasing.' - r; - ... : The failure of 'De Lessep's Panama, pror. ject is . now no longer doubted by any one who knows what has been done and spent, and what yet remains to be done and raised. The Nicaraugua plan, which so eminent and cautious an engineer as Mr. Stevens declares to be entirely practicable and most of which he limits very strictly, is likely,, therefore, to secure renewed attention. ,. A special to the Louisville Courier-Journal says: James Sanders with his wife and three children were crossing the Kentucky River in a skiff last nightnear Nioholasville, Kentucky. They missed the landing place and the skiff struok a snag and upset. Sanders got ashore, but it was so very dark he was unable to render any aid to his wife and three little children, who were all drowned. |