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GENERAL REVIEW. 
The principal political event of the week has 
been the arrest of ex-Comptroller Connolly and 
his couttnoraent in Ludlow street jail. This ac¬ 
tion appears to have been actuated by a desire 
to use him ns State’s evidence against (lie re¬ 
mainder of the Ring. The men witoare charged 
with having robbed the city are manifestly not 
going to escape a vigorous prosecution, in which 
both parties will unite. There are further indi¬ 
cations that leading Democratsand Anti-admlu- 
istratiou Republicans altn to unite their forces 
on iin Anti-Grunt Republican candidate for 
the Presidency. Below will bo found some ex¬ 
pressions of Democratic sentiment on the sub¬ 
ject. The Government still manifests a dispo¬ 
sition to break up the Mormon stronghold at 
Salt Lake City, ami it is not improbable that the 
prosecutions inaugurated against Brigham 
Young and some of his Elders will lead to such 
a result. The cold weather which set In Nov. 
39th continues up to this writing, Dec. 1st, and 
the weather prophets predict a severe winter. 
Thanksgiving was more generally observed 
through the country than on previous years. 
Suita multiply against James Fisk, Jr., and it Is 
given out that the now Legislature will over¬ 
haul the Erie Management from the time tlml 
lie and Mr. Gould secured control of the cor¬ 
poration. The Republican press is divided In 
opinion ns to the propriety of Minister Sehenck's 
action alluded to below. The impression gener¬ 
ally prevails that lie wiil not bo removed. The 
Prineoof Walce still continues ill, and doubts of 
liis recovery are expressed in some quarters. 
Further disturbances have occurred in Brussels, 
and other outbreaks are likely (o follow. Some 
of the papers In Now York city interpreted the 
dispatching of two Amorican vessels to Cuban J 
waters, to look afteT our interest* t here, as an j 
act of hostility toward Spain. The act does not, 
however, bear this Interpretation. Affairs grow 
more unsettled In Mexico, and it may be that 
the opponents of Juarez will, by uniting, over¬ 
throw him and inaugurate fresh anarchy. We 
have the usual reports of revolutions in the 
South American States, some of which aro in a 
chronic state of commotion. Elsewhere arc 
chronicled the movements of the Grand Duke 
in and about New York. The ball given in ids 
honor in Brooklyn was a very imposing affair. 
The Bible question has been brought to,a crisis 
at Hunter's Point; a teacher, act lug under the 
advice and instruction of the authorities, dis¬ 
missed thirty of the Catholic pupils who object¬ 
ed to tho reading of the Bible. While going to 
and returning from church on Thanksgiving, a 
crowd of boys and half-grown men followed him 
and hooted and threw stones at him. 
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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
TIi a nksgivlng. 
Thanksgiving, Nov. 30. was perhaps more 
generally observed through the country than 
during any previous year. In Now York and 
vicinity, there was a total cessation of I nisi ness. 
The weather was line though very cold, and the 
juveniles, many of them, enjoyed themselves 
on the ice. Mr. Beecher had a numerous con¬ 
gregation, to whom be discoursed upon tho New 
England thanksgiving of fifty years ago; Dr. 
Chapin gave his views upon the doctrine of free 
love, political reform, and iho Grand Duke; 
the Rev, T. S. Preston, at St, Patrick's Cathe¬ 
dral, descanted upon the Pope and liis enemies, 
and incidentally alluded to the Hunter’s Point 
Bible controversy. 
The tVenther. 
Wednesday, Nov. 39, was a cold day here. 
The cold snap was not contined to the city, but 
extended far and wide—East, North and West. 
Severn cold and heavy snow storms prevailed in 
many purls of the country. Iti tho West and 
Northwest winter has set in wito unusual sever¬ 
ity, and deaths from snow-slides and snow-drifts 
are of frequent occurrence. In Maine, Nov. 
28th, tho thermometer fell lower than was over 
before known in the month of November. 
A dispatch from Little Cottonwood, Utah, 
dated Nov. 27. says tho snow on a level is about 
six feet deep, and tlm storm continues. The 
residents oi Alta City have to dig their way in 
ami out oi their dwellings. Many of the houses 
are burled in tlie snow. A young man named 
Jenkins was bulled by a snow-slide on Wednes¬ 
day last, near tho mouili of the Wellington 
mine. Tho body was dug out by the miners 
and buried on Thursday morning. Several of 
the minors, while digging For i.lio body, were 
caught in slides and escaped with difficulty. 
A Fort Shaw, Montana, special of Nov. 35 says 
that two companies of the Seventh Infantry, 
Major Freeman commanding, while returning 
from Fort Browning were caught in yesterday's 
fearful storm, and are now camped twelve 
miles from here with a number of men badly 
frozen. 
Now York City. 
In the suit in the Supreme Court instituted 
by Mrs. Mansfield against James Fisk, Jr., for 
the conversion of certain letters and papers, 
Mr. Fisk has been held fn $35,000 bail, which re¬ 
quires ins sureties to Justify in $70,000. He bus 
given two sureties—Mr. Benjamin W. Blanchard 
and Charles Robinson. The libel suit instituted 
by Mrs. Mansfield against Fisk attracts consid¬ 
erable attention. The case is being tried in 
Harlem before Judge Bixby. 
Startling statements were made by the fore¬ 
man of the jury in the “Black Friday ” case— 
Davis against Smith, Gould & Co., and Beldon 
and Fisk—which was decided against the de¬ 
fendants, Nov. 30lh. The jury hud been locked 
up all night owing to the obstinacy of one of 
the jurymen; but yielding at last a verdict for 
the plaintiff was recorded, The foreman then 
charged certain “ hirelings" of the Eric Com- 
pauy with tampering with the Jury, thousands 
of dollars having been offered for the purpose 
of influencing them. In the investigation of 
this very serious charge, Judge McCunn has 
promised to assist. 
About one hundred of the seamen belonging 
to the Russian squadron, now in the harbor, 
visit the city from day to day. 
Clara Louise Kellogg has closed a contract 
to sing twenty-eight nights In Sun Francisco for 
$10,000 in gold. 
French and German sections of the Interna¬ 
tional Society met hero Nov. 36. 
Tho Bowling Green Savings Bank says it will 
pay in full. 
Mr. H. K. Carroll, late of the Hearth and 
Home staff, has succeeded to the responsible 
position of night editor of the State Associated 
Press. Mr. Carroll is one of the best news 
editors in the country. 
Flmtnclnl and I n cl ii •.trial. 
The annual report of the Ohio State Treas¬ 
urer shows that the total receipts of the State 
for the year ending Nov. 16, amounted to $6,- 
040,333, and the disbursements to $5,392,046. 
The Charleston News refuses to indorse the 
Charleston Courier's hot haste to pronounce in 
favor of repudiation of the debt of South Car¬ 
olina. 
A new bridge, six hundred feet long, across 
tho Androscoggin river, at Lewiston, Me., was 
opened Nov. 27th. 
A party of English capitalists, who have been 
visiting California for the purpose of examining 
tho table lauds in the Sacramento and San Joa¬ 
quin valleys, with a view of entering into a 
large reclamation project, report favorably. 
Wawlilngtoii. 
General Plkasonton is preparing to re¬ 
sist the confirmation of Mr. Douglass as Com¬ 
missioner of Internal Revenue when the Senate 
meets. 
Horatio Stone, the sculptor, has taken up 
Ills residence in Washington. 
Kir Edwin Thornton is negotiating for a resi¬ 
dence lit Washington for the British Legation. 
A marble bust of Ben Franklin has been 
executed by order of tho printers employed In 
Government Printing Office, and is to be placed 
over tlio entrance of tho new wing. 
Ex-Senator Wade lias declined the tender 
made him by Secretary Fish, of the position of 
president, or umpire, in the boundary commis¬ 
sion between England and Liberia. 
Delegate McCormick Inis presented a petition 
to the President, signed by all the citizens of 
Arizona, asking that the control of Indian 
affairs be given to Die military authorities, and 
not to i lie pence commissioners. 
A copy of tlie circular of the Emma Mining 
and Emigration Company of ilm United States, 
with the name of “Major General Robert C. 
Kchenok, American Minister to England,” ap¬ 
pended as “ director," has been received by the 
Kiate Department. A meeting of tho Cabinet 
lias been held to take action on tlic matter. 
Nothing definite lias yet been determined upon. 
Tlie report Unit Minister Schenck is to be re¬ 
called, and Secretary Fish appointed in his 
plane as Minister to Great Britain, is authorita¬ 
tively contradicted. 
jTlovcincnt* of tlio Grand Duke. 
The Grand Duke Alexis returned to Now 
York from Washington N’ov. 251 It, after visiting 
tho Natal Academy at Annapolis. During 
Saturday lie was entertained by a trip up the 
East river and down the buy, mid amused with 
the gayctms of Governor's Island. On Sunday 
lie attended the services at the Greek clmpe], 
and in the evening took a stroll through the city. 
Monday night tic listened to the opera of 
“ Faust" at the Academy of Music. On Tuesday 
lie reviewed a brigade of firemen, and in the 
evening attended a grand naval ball given in 
Brooklyn in his honor. Since then ho has been 
visiting various objects of interest in and about 
the city. 
Political. 
By a vote of the Wyoming Council, Nov. 28, 
the women of that Territory were deprived of 
the suffrage. 
Nov, 28, Horton D. Walker was elected Mayor 
of Portsmouth, N. H., by 338 majority in a vote 
Of 1,784. There is a large Republican gain over 
last spring. 
Gen. Arthur'* bondsmen have been accepted 
in Washington. They are E. D. Morgan, Levi P. 
Morton, Tiffany, tho jeweler, and Jas. W. Booth. 
This last gentleman, it is said on high authority, 
is to bo made Postmaster of New York. Col¬ 
lector Arthur was installed Dec. 1st. 
lion. Daniel W. Voorhees, in u card published 
in tho Terra Haute Journal, urges the calling of 
a Democratic 1 National Convention to harmonize 
differences. G. II. Parker, a prominent Demo¬ 
crat Of Iowa, publishes a card, in which lie says 
the Democraiio party, as an organization, is 
dead, and il the Democrats expect to resurrect 
its principles mid succeed in 1873, they must 
abandon the old organization, and become the 
integral portion of a new party. 
The Kansas ('it j, Mo., Sunday Times publishes 
eleven columns of letters from prominent men 
of Missouri, indorsing ii passive Democratic poli¬ 
cy. The writers are senators, representatives, 
generals, judges and citizens. 
The Republican majority in Wisconsin is 9,382. 
The official canvass of New York State has 
been completed. The total vote for Scribner, 
Secretary of State (Republican), was 387,543; for 
Willors i Democrat), 368,937 ; Republican majori¬ 
ty, 18,605. 
Judge Carpenter of South Carolina, who is in 
New York city, says Gov. Scott is preparing to 
resign. 
Political Frauds. 
The Committee of Seventy demand that 
Mayor Hull resign at once: and there is a report 
that bo contemplates doing so. 
Judge Bedford lias denied the motion to quash 
Hie indictments in the oases of Haggerty and 
Baulcli, licensed of stealing vouchers from lie 
City Couri-liouse. Ho also denied the motion 
to admit the prisoners to bail. 
It Is encouraging that the Grand Jury now in 
session, considering the crimes of tho Ring, ask 
further time to prosecute their investigations. 
Mr. Williams, Treasurer of the Children’s Aid 
Society, charges that the Ring robbers have ap¬ 
propriated $30,000 of its funds. 
The investigations into the Harlem Court 
House expenses, show that a quarter of a mil¬ 
lion of dollars have been expended for what 
could have been done for $116,000, and $200,000 
have been stolen. The evidence implicates 
Harry Genet in the frauds. 
At the meeting of the Board of Apportion¬ 
ment, Nov. 27tii, a resolution was offered by 
Comptroller Green calling for the cost of the 
N. Y. County Court House, at least the part of it 
that is built, and wbat further sums are neces¬ 
sary to complete that famous structure. 
The Brooklyn political frauds will shortly be 
brought iuto the courts. 
Kx-Compt,roller Connolly, after resigning his 
position in favor of Mr. Green, has been arrest¬ 
ed on eliurges similar to those brought against 
Tweed. His bail was fixed at one million dollars. 
Repeated efforts to secure the necessary bonds¬ 
men having failed, be has been conveyed to 
the Ludlow street jail. It is, however, probable 
that his friends will be able, in the course of a 
few days, to bail him out. 
Crime*. 
Nineteen thousand and fourteen indict¬ 
ments have been filed in the District Attorney’s 
office, N. Y. City, during fifteen years. 
Ton barrels of whisky were seized by revenue 
officers eu Broadway, N. Y. City, Nov. 37, after 
a fight, with the drivers of the drays, in which 
pistols were freely used. The men escaped, one 
being wounded. 
Joint McCutnminskey, a tinsmith, was beaten, 
probably to death, Nov. 26ih, with base bull 
clubs, by four men. John Haggerty, one of tlio 
assailants, was arrested. 
During the past, week the State Constables 
have been suppressing the liquor saloons and 
gambling establishments in Worcester, Mass. 
Tho work has been done very thoroughly, and 
but very few places now remain. 
The statement that a committee of the Legis¬ 
lature has reported that great, frauds exist in 
the territorial finances of Wyoming is untrue. 
Nov. 3otb, at Meriden, Conn., a young man cut. 
Ills mother’s throat with a butcher’s knife and 
then committed suicide. His mother was op¬ 
posed to his marriage, which was about t.o take 
place, and he has been delirious for some days. 
Ware & Co., bankers of Omaha, have obtained 
a verdict of $10,000 against the United States 
Express Company for money stolen on the Han¬ 
nibal and St. Joseph Railroad by bush whackers 
during the rebellion. 
Fire*. 
C’apt. Longworthy, an agent of the Mil¬ 
waukee Relief Committee, Inis found, upon in¬ 
vestigation, that certain reports of fraud mid 
misappropriation uf the funds wore false. In 
the course of the investigations in the burnt dis¬ 
trict lie came to a potato field where fifty-nine 
dead bodies were found, and the potatoes wore 
all roasted. 
St. Mftry’e Catholic Church, Portland, Me., and 
the residence of Father Walsh, the priest, wore 
burned on Sunday night, Nov. 2otb. Loss, $20,- 
000; insurance, $13,000. 
A tloiirlug mill belonging to J. M. & W. P. 
Thompson, in Edinburg, Ind., was burned Nov. 
25th. Loss, $35,000; insured for $15,000. 
The City of Guatemala was visited with a de¬ 
structive tire Nov. 4th. 
The New Haven Chemical Works were burned 
NOV. 2<Hli. Loss, $50,000; partly insured. 
An entire block in Kit Carson, Cal., in which 
were located the Perry House and post-office, 
was burned Nov. TJth. Loss, $100,000; no insur¬ 
ance. 
Disasters, 
A lx. of ItjOOjjraQ of cotton of t.lie brig Caro¬ 
line Gray, nrshWo on Long Island, bus been 
saved and sent to Providence. It is expected 
the vessel will bo saved if the weather proves 
favorable. 
A collision occurred Nov. 26th, off the Irish 
coast, between the ships MarmiOn and Osceola. 
Tlie latter sau Ic very soon after she was si ruck. 
Several of her crew escaped by jumping on 
board tlie Mann Ion, but nine men are missing. 
Tlio towboat Dart, running between Cincin¬ 
nati and Pittsburg, struck on a snag near Mays- 
viIlo on Nov. 25, and sank in ten fret of water. 
Tlio Dart was owned by parties in Pittsburg, and 
will probably, together with her cargo, prove a 
total loss. 
Accident*. 
Nov. 38th, Alderman David S.Stewart, ofihe 
Seventh Ward, Brooklyn, was wounded in the 
breast by tlio “accidental ” discharge of a pistol 
fn tlie hands of James Kelley, who is now in 
custody. 
Two more colliery explosions occurred in Eng¬ 
land, Nov. 25iii. At Bromwich, Stafford Co., eight, 
men lost their Jives, and at Haverford, South 
Wales, twenty men were injured. 
NOV. 26, seven men were buried alive by the 
fall of a sewer embankment in Clifton, Staten 
Island. One man was taken out nearly dead and 
the othcre injured. 
Gubernatorial Mcwagcs. 
Gov. Scott, in liis message to the General 
Assembly at Columbia, S. C., Nov. 28, said the 
whole debt of South Carolina was $11,994,008. lie 
recommends the Legislature to prohibit the bor¬ 
rowing of money or the contracting of a debt 
lo meet current expenses; urges a short and 
economical session ; advocates tlie reduction of 
official .salaries: tlie taxing of rice, cotton a nd 
railroad tonnage; suggests that bonds of the 
State be taken at pur in payment of land bought 
at tax sales; and proposes the sale of public 
lands to the value of $1,000,000, for which State 
bonds should be taken in payment. Ho also 
gives bis reason for suspending tlie habeas cor¬ 
pus finder tlie Ku-Klux law. 
It ail road*. 
Henuy Meiggs 1ms received a contract for 
the construction of n railroad from Hueraz to 
“ Chlmbots,” Porn, at a cost of $24,000,000. 
The Board til Directors Of the Missouri and 
Pacific Railroad iiuvo decided to pay off $500,000 
or their floatingdehi between nowand January 
1. leaving about $300,000 to bo paid April 1 next, 
clearing the road of its floating debt. 
Rumor predicts a change in the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. Tom Scott tho railroad magnate, is 
said to be the coming man. 
The Eastern Railroad Co., has just paid $16,150 
to persons who were Injured in the late Revere 
disaster. 
Sporting New*. 
The third match game at billiards was played 
Nov. 25, bet ween Joseph Dion of New York and 
Henry Miller of New Orleans, in tho latter city. 
At the conclusion of the game the score stood: 
Dion, 500; Miller, 118. Fifty-six innings were 
played. Tlie largest run made by Dion was 107, 
while his opponent's biggest score at one time 
was 1L 
Dexter recently trotted a mile on the Fashion 
Course, in tho presence of 10,000 people, in 2:16. 
Tlie Livonia reached the Isle of Wight, Eng¬ 
land, Nov. 35. On dit, that Mr. Ashbury is build¬ 
ing a yacht that will do better than the Livonia 
lias done. 
A disgusting prize light between Jim Since 
and Joe Coburn, in Hauoock Co., Miss * Nov. 30. 
resulted in a draw. Eleven rounds were fought, 
lasting four hours and ton minutes. Maco said 
that Coburn was the best man he ever met in 
the ring. First blood was in favor of Maco. 
There wore no clean knock-downs. Eacli man 
appeared to be afraid of his opponent. All bets 
are off. 
The Ku-Klux. 
The Ku-Klux trials began at Columbia, 8. 
C., Nov. 27. The attorney for the United 
States challenged the whole panel of jurors. 
Governor Baker of Indiana, has issued a 
proclamation warning the Kn-Klux there that 
they cannot and shall not succeed in their at¬ 
tempt by organized violence and terrorism to 
banish a portion of the people ot tho State from 
their homes, and threatening i<> cull into requi¬ 
sition tho combined powers of the State and Na¬ 
tional Governments to prevent it. 
The Indian*. 
Details of the successful operations of our 
troops against the host lie Indians in Texas are 
given in a general order published expressly for 
the purple of acknowledging the energy, brav¬ 
ery, and good conduct of the men. 
Gen. Walker assumed the duties of tlio Indian 
Office in Washington. Nov. 27. Ho was visited 
in his new quarters by many friends, who con¬ 
gratulated nun on his new appointment. 
Cholera ami Small-Fox. 
The cholera lias disappeared from Halifax, 
N. 8., and all the patients uro rapidly recover¬ 
ing. The Chozzilioook district Is still quaran¬ 
tined. 
Stniill-pox is spreading in New York city, and 
in the opinion of Dr. Morris, the city sanitary 
inspector, is likely to become epidemic. 
There were sixty deaths from small-pox in 
Cincinnati week before last. 
Obituaries. 
GEO. H. Sanford, State Senator from the 
Oneida District, died at. bis residence, near Onei¬ 
da Village, Nov. 25, aged 34. 
Charles Pilgrim, a well known veterinary sur¬ 
geon, died in Brooklyn, Nuv. 25. 
F. Micr, lute Assistant Assessor in Texas, inis 
committed 6iileide, in consequence of a fear 
that be would lie arrested for embezzling from 
the Government. 
A dispatch from Lucerne, Switzerland, an¬ 
nounces that Prince Cretan Marie Frederic 
Count de Girgenti. brother of tho late King of 
Naples and son-in-law of ex-Qucen Isabella of 
Spain, has committed suicide in that city. 
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FOREIGN NEWS, 
Great Rritaiu. 
Some individual has succeeded in hum¬ 
bugging tho British public, by foisting upon the 
newspapers a telegram announcing the amalga¬ 
mation of tho leading railway lines. For a few 
hours railway stocks were greatly perturbed. 
There are sixty-three republican clubs in 
England. 
There was rioting in Dover, England, on Sun¬ 
day, Nov. 27tli. The disturbance was easily 
suppressed. 
The subscriptions to the Chicago Relief Fund 
at the Mansion House. London, during the pres¬ 
ent week, swell the total to £49,000. 
The Prince of Wales still continues very il). 
Tho Anglo-Anton can .Society has voted to pre¬ 
sent a t ree public library to Chicago. 
A Madrid paper assert* that Great Britain 
is prepared to restore Gibraltar to Spain. 
France. 
ROSSEL and two other leaders of tho Com¬ 
mune—Ferre and Bourgeois—were shot Nov. 28 
in tlie presence of 3,000 troops of the line. Iios- 
sel foil dead at the first discharge, but the others 
writhed on the ground until they were pistoled. 
They all met their hard fate most courageously. 
Tlie executions have produced a profound sen¬ 
sation in Paris. 
Tlie Rappel newspaper has been suspended by 
tlie Fran oh Government. 
It is now almost certain that Jules Ferry will 
be the new French Minister at Washington. 
liOtils Napoleon's sympathizers in Paris pub¬ 
licly demonstrated in liis favor Nov. 35. A large 
number of persons paraded the Faubourg St. 
Germain, shouting. " Vivo Napoleon." and no¬ 
body interfered with them. 
Cremieux, another of the communist* con¬ 
demned by the Versailles court martial, was 
shot Nov. 80th. He died bravely, refusing to be 
blindfolded, and bis last words were “Vive la 
republique.” 
Prussia. 
The session of the Diet of the Kingdom of 
Prussia was opened Nov. 37 by the King in per¬ 
son. The speech from the throne points to the 
financial prosperity of Hie country ; proposes a 
general increase of official salaries, and recom¬ 
mends the encouragement by the Diet of rail¬ 
way enterprises. The speech was well received, 
and the Emperor-King was loudly cheered by 
the members of the Diet on entering and leav¬ 
ing the Chamber. 
Tlie first branch ot tlie German Parliament 
has approved the Budget bill fixing tlie army 
for three years at 401,659 men. The bill provid¬ 
ing for the criminal prosecution of clergymen 
who abuse the privileges of their office has been 
read a second time in the Reichstag. 
The Emperor of Germany is to be arbitrator 
between England and tho United States in the 
question of disputed line between the latter 
country and Vancouver's Island. 
Italy. 
KING Victor Emanuel opened the Italian 
Parliament at Rome, Nov. 27, amid tremendous 
enthusiasm. The House was crammed. The 
King was deeply moved, and said tlmt the work 
to which he had devoted his life was completed. 
This was received with deafening applause. 
The announcement of the necessity of concil¬ 
iating tne Vatican was coldly received. At the 
conclusion of the ceremonies great enthusiasm 
was manifested. The King triumphantly re¬ 
turned to tho balcony twice. 
Brussels. 
The people of Brussels, having gained one 
peaceful victory* are in the mood for trying 
their strength still further. M. de Decker, hav¬ 
ing been compelled to resign tlie Governorship 
or Limburg by the popular clamor, the sov¬ 
ereign people are now making a demonstration 
against t he Ministry which upheld him and is of 
liis way of thinking. 
Nov. 30 tlie recent disturbances wore renew¬ 
ed in Brussels. Monster crowds of men of oppo¬ 
site political parties collected In the streets, and 
there were frequent collisions between them, 
The police seemed to be unable or unwilling to 
disperse the rioters. Inone instance a company 
of Civlo Guards, sixty strong, were ordered to 
charge upon the people, hut they reversed their 
muskets and refused to obey. The disorder con- 
tinues, tlie mobs hold possession of the streets, 
and tho excitement is intense. 
Spain. 
Gen. .Sickles was married to Miss Creach, at 
Madrid, Nov. 27th, and started for New York 
immediately. His visit is an object of mystery 
at. present. 
Cuba, 
For participating in the violation of Gonzn- 
lo Castanon’s grave eight young students were 
sentenced to death Nov. 28th, and at four o’clock 
in the afternoon they were shot. Great excite¬ 
ment prevailed throughout Havana all day ami 
business was suspended, but no disturbance took 
plncG. 
An officer of the volunteer artillery in Havana 
was seriously wounded Nov. 28th by three ne¬ 
groes who attempted to assassinate him. They 
were all killed by the people who witnessed the 
attack. 
Mexico, 
A Matamoras dispatch of Nov. 27 says the rev¬ 
olutionists, under Gon. Trevino, attacked Sal¬ 
tillo on the 6th, and tlie fighting is yet going on. 
Gen. Rocha Is advancing from San Luis Potosi 
with a strong Government force, and Is within 
aiding distance. Gen. Trevino is reported to bo 
short of ammunition. Communication is en¬ 
tirely cutoff beyond Micr. Three hundred re- 
enforcements for Mntarnorns aro expected by 
sea from Vera Cruz. 
Central and South America. 
A Treaty of peace has been signed between 
Kan Salvador and Costa ltica, causing much re¬ 
joicing. 
A line of steamers lias been established be¬ 
tween Liverpool and a port, of Honduras. 
President Medina, of Honduras, had resumed 
the reins of government, and amnesty husbeen 
granted to the revolutionists conditional, upon 
submitting to the authorities. A battle occur¬ 
red on the 4th inst. at Langue, resulting in the 
defeat of the rebels, who fled to the mountains. 
Political affairs in Peru aro in a very compli¬ 
cated state. The editor of tho National has 
been arrested, and the press generally placed 
under severe censorship. Tlie National has 
been prevented from circulating through tho 
malls. 
Seitor Frias, ttic Argentine Minister to Chile, 
has boon appointed umpire in tlie dispute be¬ 
tween ('bile and Peru, Chile lias sent a military 
commission to Europe to purchase arms for the 
equipment of the army. 
Three Prussian tnen-of-war are to proceed to 
Brazil, to demand satisfaction for tho maltreat¬ 
ment of a German ni^yal officer and two cadets, 
during a street fight in Rio Janeiro. 
I(u**ia. 
Tit® Loudon Standard is informed that Rus¬ 
sia has undertaken special urummenls on a gi¬ 
gantic scale. She Is forming two fortifications, 
each to bold LSOJXtft men. Due has been estab¬ 
lished at Smolensk, and tho other will probably 
be located on tlie Galician frontier. The Stand¬ 
ard 1ms reason to believe that ihe < military 
preparations are directed more particularly 
against Austria, because the appointment of 
Count Andrassy at the head of tlie Imperial 
Council is regurdedat St. Petersburg as unfavor¬ 
able to Russia. 
A nutria. 
Hon. John Jay, the United States Minister 
to Austria, ami Count Andrassy, Minister of 
Foreign Affairs, have signed the international 
convention between the United States and 
Austria guaranteeing the inviolability of trade¬ 
marks in the two countries. 
Dr. Rudolf Brestol, formerly of the Cisleithan 
Cabinet, has been appointed Minister of Financo 
for the whole Austrian Empire. 
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above for $7. S. R. W. 
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Example for the Ladles.—Delia A. Epley, Bu* 
reu Springs, Mich., litis used her Wheeler & Wil¬ 
son Machine 7 years without repairs; earned, 
making cloth garments, in 1869, $785; in 1870, 
$587.65, besides doing the family sewing for 4 
persons; bus used one needle over a year on 
iieavy work. 
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Watch So. 2183—bearing Trade Mark “Fay¬ 
ette Stratton, Marion, N. J."—manufactured by 
United States Watch Co., has been carried by 
me fifteen months; Its total variation from 
mean time being thirty seconds. — Wit. Dunne, 
Baggage Express, Utica, N. Y. 
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Swindled if You Paid over $75 for a Four Ton 
Hay Scale. The Jones Scale Works, Bingham¬ 
ton, N. Y., send free list. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
AN IMPORTANT INVENTION. Tile ELAS¬ 
TIC TRUSS and SUPPORTER lias superseded all 
metal trusses. Suffering from rupture is needless, 
as the price i» within the means of nil. Tlie ELAS¬ 
TIC ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER for females is pre¬ 
ferred over all others. Before buying metnl trusses 
send for a descriptive circular to the ELASTIC 
TRUSS CO., No. 688 Broadway, New York. 
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Agriculture, Wool Growing and Stock Raising 
are very profitable In the healthful and beautiful 
valleys of Colorado. Tlio plan of the Colorado 
Springs Colony, with other information, sent free. 
R. A. CAMERON, No. 3 Bowling Green, New Yoik. 
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Show Bill*, Specimen Numbers, Etc., of the 
Rural New-Yokkeu scut tree. 
