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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1886
THE NEWS
Weather indications for to-day; For District
of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
fair weather, southerly winds, becoming variable;
nearly stationary temperature. For
Eastern New York, Eastern Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Delaware, fair weather,
westerly winds; slight changes in temperature.
For West Virginia, fair weather, southerly
winds; slightly warmer.

David Nero, the colored religious imposter,
who was to evangelize Africa, has been convicted
in England - A terrific gale prevailed
in the British Isles, doing incalculable damage.
In the Campbell divorce suit yesterdy,
while Colin Campbell was testifying, Blood,
his irate father-in-law, shook his fist in his
face and called him a liar. - The Presbytery
of Victoria protest against French occupation
of the New Hebrides. - Archbishiop Walsh
has warned the British government against its
present policy in Ireland. - Several of the
Belfast rioters have been tried and convicted.
- M. Goblet has very reluctantly consented
to form a French ministry. - Mr. Joseph W.
Harper, United States Consul at Munich, is
dead. - Count Kalnosky received the Bulgarian
delegation. - The Czar of Russia
drank Emperor William's health at a banquet.
- Russian and Turkish securties have
tumbled on the Berlin Bourse, owing to a
growing fear of war. - The jury in the case
of Arthur Moreton, ailas Rev. Theodore
Keating, on trial in Dublin, as disagreed.

The Police Board yesterday retired Captain
Delanty, of the Southern District, on a pension,
and appointed Lieutenant Claiborne, of
the Western Station, to the postion. - A
large number of weddings occured in the
city and state. - The Baltimore and Ohio
directors re-elected Mr. Robert Garret president.
He made a statement, showing the
progress and plans of the company. - Capt.
Andrew Spier, of Cumberland, president of
the Biaen Avon Coal Company, died in this
city at the residence of Major Shaw. - A reception
was given to Rev. Albert Studebaker,
the new pastor of the First English Lutheran
Church. - Mrs. John E. Owens has received
from many friends messages of condolence
and tributes to her husband, who died on
Tuesday.

In the United States Senate yesterday bills
were introduced providing for examinations
of army officers for promotion, and for a
monument to negro soldiers. Senator Blair
made a speech favoring the constitutional
amendment for women suffrage, and the correspondence
on the Canadian fisheries matter
with Great Britain was submitted by the
President. - In the House of Representative
a bill was passed amending the statutes
as to the rank and pay of officers in the volunteer
service, and the electoral count bill
was discussed and notification given that the
previous question would be called on it to-day.

The full correspondence in the Candadian
fishery disputes is made public. It makes
very interesting reading. The urgent letters
and arguments of Secretary Bayard and Minister
Phelps are treated with scant courtesy.
They press the rights of the United States
fishermen aggresively, and say that Great
Britain will be held responsibile for all seizures
and for all injuries done. the matter is
now before Congress. - The Society of the
Army of the Cumberland will meet in Washington
on the 11th and 12th of May, 1887. -
The Bell Telephone suit will be brought in
Boston by the government. - Col. Wm. G.
Moore has been appointed chief of the Washington
police force. - The President still
suffers from rheumatism - Thomas Moonlight,
of Kansas, has been appointed governor
of Wyoming Territory. - Mrs. Cleveland has
returned to the White HOuse. - John C.
Miller, of Hyattsville, Md., was shot on the
streets of Washington by George N. Walker,
brother of Major Walker, late chief of police. -
Minnie Raymond, who was shot by
John Roe, who subsequently killed himself,
died yesterday. - Afternooon receptions occurred
at the residences of Secretaries Whitney
and Endicott. - Senator Gorman and
State Treasurer Archer had a consultation at
the Capitol.

The ocean steamship rate war continues in
New York. - A seam of anthracite coal seven
feet six inches in diameter has been stuck at
Bauff, N. W. T. - Jennie Saxton, charged
with forgery at Burlington, Vt. failed to secure
bail. - The United States Commissioner
in New York decides that mail on the top of a
mail-box is not in custody of the government.
-One hundred foreigners from the West
were at the Union Station in Pittsburg, on
their way back to their home in the old country. -
Wellington Goddin, one of the oldest
real estate dealers in Richmond, is dead. -
Governor Lee has respited Cluverius until
January 14. - Colonel Lamb has sued the
Richmond Whig for $10,000 for publishing
George A. Wise's card. - The Alabama legislature
is rushing local option bills through
without objecttion. - Isaac Lea, LL.D. a
distinguished American naturalist, is dead in
Philadelphia. - A New York saloon-keeper
swore yesterday that he had been paying $2
per month for eighteen months for police
protection while keeping his side door open
on Sundays. - A riot broke out at Ameterdam,
N. Y., among unemployed mill hands,
several of whom were injured. - The steamers
of the electric line, from Wilmingron to
New York, have been wihdrawn.

There was a $200,000 fire in Buffalo, N. Y. -
A dynamite explosion near Fort Smith, Ark.,
killed two and fatally wounded three person.-
Leander Shellengerger has been
found guilty, at Nebraska City, of murdering
his eleven-year-old daughter. - A part of
brutes in Texas disembowled James Connor,
a colored man, on suspicion of robbing the
mails. - Miners are leaving Pennsylvania
for Colorado. - Another earthquake shock
in Columbia. - The steamer Allentown is
still ashore on Pedock's Island. - Missouri
City was shaken up. - Five men of the
steamer Knickerbocker were drowned off the
Delaware capes while trying to a a schooner.
- D. & J. Maguire, extensive shipowners of
Quebect, are in difficulties, with liabilities of
$500,000. - The jury in the trial of ex-Alderman
McQuade has been completed. - Jansen,
the wife murderer in Chicago, who has
been starving himself, was forced to swallow
food.

Which does the President prefer - aggressive
politics or aggressive rheumatics?

Just for the sake of keeping his hand in,
Jay Gould has bought another railroad.

The Patti company took away $7,600, the
price of 1,520 sleigh rides. Just thin of it!

WILL a Daniel now be called to judgement -
a just and upright judge? It is earnestly
hoped that such will be the case.

SAN FRANCISCO's stock speculators seem
to be sowing the wind and reaping the blizzard
both at the same time.

A CHICAGO Socialist in New York announce
that he believe he has no soul.
His friends say he is a close observer, too.

How many people, we wonder, have read
all of the President's message? Probably
not one in a thousand. And yet, every
citizen should read it.

ONE of the reasons that led Judge Fisher
to resign was the bad air of the court rooms.
this should call attention anew to a glaring
evil that needs correction.

MADAME PATTI will doubtless be warmly
received in Mexico, but a much warmer reception
at the hands of the Mexicans awaits
that bogus ticket-seller and spurious agent.

DON'T read your neighbor's newspaper,
A New Yorker, who it was proved had not
paid is board bil for nineteen years, began
his downward career by pilfering newspapers.

JUDGING from recent movements in the
petroleum market two or three new Russian
"gushers" must have been discovered in
which the Standard Oil Company have no
financial interest.

RARELY has Mr. Gould, directly or indirectly,
received such a rebuke as that administered
by Judge Gresham, in deciding
the Wabash Railroad case. The action of
the court will be hailed with general satisfaction
by all holders of railroad securities.