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Prussian House of Deputies. Execution of O'Donnell 

 in London. Capture of Sontay by the French. 



18. Visit of the German Crown Prince to the Pope. 

 Execution of Poole in Dublin. 



20. Opening of the new railroad-bridge over the 

 Niagara. 



21. Important communications from the Secretary 

 of the Treasury touching certain Pacific railroads. 

 Pension swindlers in Washington indicted. 



24. Congress adjourns for the holiday s. Announce- 

 ment of the House committees. 



25. Explosion in Birkenhead, England. 



26. Expulsion of Frenchmen from Elsass - Loth- 

 ringen. Avalanche in Colorado. Orange riot in New- 

 foundland. 



27. The French prohibition of American pork 

 again put in force. 



28. The Mahdi advances on Khartoum. 



29. Project for the colonization of Algiers voted 

 down in the French Chamber. Lieut. -Col. Sudeikin, 

 of the Kussian police administration, murdered by 

 Nihilists in St. Petersburg. 



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FAILURES IN BUSINESS. The report pre- 

 pared by Bradstreet's Commercial Agency, and 

 published in its " Journal," shows that the 

 business failures in the United States during 

 1883 greatly exceeded, in number and extent 

 of liabilities, those of any preceding year 

 since 1878, when the commercial depression 

 following the panic of 1873 culminated. A 

 comparison for the five years following 1878 

 is afforded by this exhibit : 



The figures for Canada and Provinces for 

 the same period are as follow : 



Classified by quarters of the year, the num- 

 ber of failures in the United States in 1883 was 

 as follows: First quarter, 3,189; second quar- 

 ter, 2,107; third quarter, 2,062 ; fourth quar- 

 ter, 2,941. 



The following is a summary of failures in 

 the United States, by States, geographical di- 

 visions, and chief cities, and also in Canada, 

 for the year ending Deo. 31, 1883 : 



An analysis by trades of the failures in the 

 United States, in 1883, shows the following 

 results : 



