CIAL. He re FINANCIAL AND COMMER-| operation, and express their strong desire for | society repose in imperfection, but the conits immediate repeal. But they say (and the stant necessity to seek something nobler than manoeuvers of the House Committee on Coin- it possesses. It was a terrible test which was age bear them out) that the law cannot be applied to the world when Christ was born in repealed in the present Congress because of Bethlehem; it was subjecting the real to the Democratic opposition. Yet this opposition silent but relentless judgment of the Ideal. If emanates from a party which solemnly de- he had spoken no word of teaching, but had nounces the Sherman Act as "a cowardly gone his quiet way and in hidden paths let the makeshift, fraught with possibilities of dan- sweetness and holiness and power of his ger. It is not often that a great political nature find expression in common relaparty is placed in such a predicament by its tions and simple ministries, he would still own representatives. It is well to understand have brought all men to judgment. For thoroughly the nature of the situation. Should in him not only was God revealed, but the the House refuse to pass a bill to repeal the prophecy in every man was fulfilled. Sherman Act, the "cowardly makeshift" of mains the only Ideal yet completely realized the Republicans would become a deliberately in this imperfect world, and he has become adopted policy of the Democratic party. The the divinest type of character known to situation of parties in regard to the measure men. Because he lived and spoke and died would thus be completely reversed. The the world has never rested and can never rest deserted bantling of the Republican party this side of perfection. Men must strive to would become the foundling, taken up and long as the world stands, society must struggle fondly dandled by the Democrats. For all the towards juster laws and purer forms, the disasters that must flow from the nursing of Church must agonize more and more over the this financial deformity the Democrats alone sorrows and sins of a humanity which it is would be responsible-a burden too heavy for commissioned to sustain and guide. Not peace, any party to bear. but the holy strife against selfishness in all its with present achievements and unbroken enmyriad forms; not rest, but divine discontent deavor to surpass them-this is the heritage of the first Christmas. THE MONETARY CONFERENCE. Philadelphia Ledger (Rep.), Dec. 19.-The adjournment of the Silver Conference until May 13 does not give assurance that it will meet again on that date. The delegates profess to see some hope of an agreement to result from a study of the papers read and the discussions thereon, but no one else shares that confidence. The Conference of 1881 also adjourned to a stated date, but it never reassembled. The delegates now go home to their respective Governments, and they may be kept home. The Conference has not been altogether fruitless. Among other things accomplished has been the demonstration given to American silver men that the United States alone cannot sustain silver coinage; that a general agreement of the principal commercial nations is necessary to any radical change in the world's policy, or even to the support of existing American laws on the subject. The Monetary Conference paid for itself by postponing free coinage legislation and putting a check upon the spread of false doctrines. Philadelphia North American (Rep.), Dec. 19.-Some may expect a reassembling of the Conference. How can that be unless the important commercial nations move in the matter? England does not desire any change, the Latin Union is indifferent, and even Russia ART AND THE GOVERNMENT. prefers the status quo. Under these circum- Harper's Weekly, Dec. 24.-There is a disstances it is not probable that the Conference position on the part of the Federal Governwill meet in May, or if it shall, then it may ment, and, indeed, on the parts of State and meet only to adjourn. Meantime the course municipal governments as well, to hold art in of this country seems clearly indicated. It the same commercial esteem as one of the must abandon the compulsory purchase of sil- staple products to be bought and sold on the ver and wait. If the concurrent use of silver public exchanges. The Federal Government and gold as full legal tender money is to pre- has erected a great many buildings, even away vail, it must be through a common agreement from the national capital, as there is a postof the commercial nations. Such an agree- office in each of the cities of the first, second, ment can be reached only when the dominant and third rank. Such buildings are usually costly nations find it necessary to save themselves. structures, and intended to be imposing. But if So long as we furnish a market for silver that there be a single building belonging to the United crisis will be deferred. So we must stop buy- States that is not common-place and inartistic ing silver and stop producing beyond the ex-in design, we have not yet heard of it. Even port demand. Perhaps Europe will become less truculent after a year or two of such policy, and it may then ask for a conference. New York Evening Post (Ind.-Dem.), Dec. 19. It is to be hoped that the Conference will follow the example of the Conference of 1881 and simply pass out of sight and hearing. This is to be hoped because it is bottomed upon humbug. It was initiated in order to save the silver-producing States to the Republican party. The European States accepted the invitation as a matter of courtesy merely, with an inward contempt for the whole proceeding and with an expressed reservation of their own liberty of action, whatever the Conference might recommend. Our delegates knew that the only thing that had a chance of being ratified at home was international bimetallism. They knew that all agreements for merely buying silver for a few years would be rejected with equal scorn by the bimetallists and the monometallists. They dared not call for a vote in the Conference on international bimetallism because they knew it would be rejected, probably by the unanimous vote of the European delegates. They dared not call for a vote on any lesser scheme because they knew it would be rejected at home. So they retreated under the guise of taking a recess. There is very little likelihood of the Conference reassembling in May. The question, therefore, for us is, what shall be done with the Sherman Law of 1890? This ill-starred measure hangs like a nightmare on the money market and all the other markets of the country, and actually curtails instead of increasing the supply of money. The natural supply consists of all the money in the world that is seeking investment, for which this country still furnishes the greatest opportunities. To all such investors the Silver Bill is a terror. Not only is the inflow of money cut off, but an outflow has started. This is seen in the exportation of gold at the present time-the time of year when we are usually importing that metal. And what do we get as an offset to the natural increment of the money supply? Some bits of Government paper which might better be issued on Government credit solely, since they rest on nothing else. A pile of silver bullion that is not used, and cannot be, is worse than angelic song which ushered in the divinist life Christian Union, Dec. 17.- The prelude of useless, because it requires care and watching ever lived among men was soon drowned by and cartage and places to hold it. Moreover, the buying of the stuff takes out of our foreign him!" That radiant dawn has been followed the discordant cry, Crucify him, crucify commerce an article of export, while the accumulation of the Treasury hoard alarms all by a day of storm and strife, and the evening other buyers, and causes them to cut down of rest and peace in achievement is still far distheir purchases as much as possible. Time than on the first Christmas Day; life is more and space would fail us to tell all the misery and mischief that this law entails. British delegates and, indeed, all the European tant. submit in Washington itself the public buildings are as ugly as can be, and only one, the Capitol, is imposing, and that is so on account of its mass, would seem to indicate that there had been an and the commonplace should be the rule, it and not because of its design. Where the ugly effort to secure just such designs. But that against beauty and appropriateness, but merely was not the case. There has been no prejudice ignorance as to how they could be secured. Paintings are often sold by auction, and houses are disposed of in the same architects way. But neither real artists nor real tioneer's block. can be put on the aucsale in that way any more than the services of Their services are not for the Government needs a lawyer to argue a eminent lawyers and surgeons are. When case, advertisements are not sent out and invitations extended to attorneys to briefs and name fees so that the arguments of the lowest bidder may be selected as those to be used by the Government in its contention. Had such been the method of securing legal advice and service, how would the United States have fared in the Geneva arbitration about the depredations of the Alabama? Instead of having the Government represented by great lawyers of learning and experience, our case would have been argued police court than before an international comby tuppenny pettifoggers more at home in a mission. But it is in exactly similar ways that and sculptors. All professions have their comthe Government selects its architects, painters, mercial sides, but art is no more commercial than any other. When our legislatures, State will have been made—an advance in keeping Men are more eager, restless, inquiring, and national, recognize this, a distinct advance with the progress of the people in æsthetics. About a year ago designs were needed for the Mr. St. Gaudens told the Treasury authorities new silver coinage. Advice was taken, and that there were three or four men in America competent to make worthy designs, and that there was a much larger number in France. MISCELLANEOUS. CHRISTMAS. strenuous and exacting. There are more problems to be solved, more questions to be Philadelphia Record (Dem.), Dec. 19.-The answered, more sacrifices to be made, more Republicans in Congress frankly own their work to be done, than ever before. For the responsibility for the Sherman Act. They Christ came bringing not peace but a sword; confess that it must inevitably produce a finan-came not to give more contentment with present cial catastrophe if continued much longer in attainment, but divine discontent; not to give The an A VERY MUCH MISREPREsented Steed.— Judge Lushington on Monday evening, at the Croydon County Court, decided an extraordinary case. A few months since a horse dealer, named Rainsbury, sold to a general dealer, named Cutler, for £16, a horse, which he guaranteed to be quiet and free from vice; in fact, "" fit for a child to drive. Three days later the animal went lame, and it was found to be suffering from a corn of long standing. It was taken to a farrier's, and it kicked one of the workmen so badly that the poor fellow had to be carried home. On another occasion the brute dragged its. new owner a distance of sixty yards, and Cutler was subsequently leaving the house of a customer when he saw the body of his cart in the road, and his horse galloping off with the shafts and splash-board, which it was kicking over its back" like an umbrella or a balloon.' After going some distance the animal " sat down on the pavement with its head up, just like a dog," and it was then discovered that it was so badly injured that it had to be shot. Cutler now sought to recover the £16 he paid for the horse, and £5, the cost of repairing the trap. It was given in evidence that the previous owner of the animal sent it to Prof. Norton Smith, the horse-tamer, at the Crystal Palace, who was unable to tame it. Inspector Ormonde, of the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said it was an Argentine horse, very wild, and one of the most dangerous animals he had ever seen. His Honor found that there had been a breach: of warranty, and gave judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed, with costs. Lloyd's Weekly London Newspaper. He also told the officials that a competent deure were attributed to the arsenic hav- | nized as a factor in the etiology of an eruption signer could not be secured by the old method ing been administered in a non-assimilable of purpura hæmorrhagica-or of flea bites-on of competition. But the law and the pre- form. Prof. Tommasi-Crudeli has no faith the shoulders of the victim; but children-even cedents were too much, and designs were ad at all in the alleged anti-malarious influ- those of the laboring classes-do occasionally vertised for. The result we have seen in the ence of the salicylates, and attaches hardly exhibit a tendency to hæmophilia; they are. new coins. In an artistic sense they are be any greater value to the use of eucalyptus. more often still, on the verge of scurvy; and neath contempt. And just now there He also disputes the alleged beneficial results in any such case the mildest personal chastiseis a case pending in New York. Mr. said to have attended the planting of eucalyptus ment may produce results out of all proportion Hartley was invited shortly after the trees in malarious regions. He thinks much to the physical force employed.-British Meddeath of Ericsson to make a model for a more highly of a popular remedy widely em- ical Journal. Statue of the great inventor to be erected in ployed in many parts of Italy, Greece, Arabia, Central Park. Mr. Hartley has done his the West Indies, etc.-viz., preparations of work, but it is now found that the law requires the lemon tree. The most active preparation before the contract for the statue can be given is said to be a decoction of the whole lemon to him that it must be awarded by open com- fruit, and remarkable results are claimed for petition. Legislative or Aldermanic abroga- this cheap and simple remedy. The net retion of this rule will in this instance probably sult, of Prof. Tommasi-Crudeli's experience be secured, otherwise we might expect to see would seem to be that hygienic and dietetic in Central Park another statue by some bung. measures are of the greatest importance in ling charlatan further defacing the most artistic dealing with malaria, that arsenic has a true pleasure-ground in the country. Each Govern- prophylactic influence, and that quinine and a ment-national, State, and municipal-should decoction of lemons are the most valuable have an art commission to decide who should remedies during the actual attack. design and decorate public buildings, what statues and monuments should be erected, and HYPOLYTE'S BLOODY VENGEANCE. what paintings bought. Then we should press accounts of the summary vengeance of probably secure public buildings worthy of President Hypolyte for an attempt, or public ownership, and we should not have our alleged attempt, to assassinate him are conparks and other public places defaced by mal-firmed in a private letter from a well-known formed images which, intended as grateful Boston business man at present on a trip memorials, will seem to posterity as only through the West Indies. This gentleman ridiculous. New York and Washington are both quotes the story of an eye-witness, who says rich in such poor things. And if a commission that at the time of the alleged attack on the of competent men pass upon the merits of paint-President he was passing the gate of the palace ings to be hung in our public buildings, the at Port au Prince, and noticed a man standing guides who take visitors about will have some- on the top of the steps who was shouting and thing else to point out in the works of art than gesticulating. Immediately a crowd of soldiers that a woman in a picture should have two ran towards President Hypolyte, who called to thumbs on one hand, and that another figure in a them. They at once arrested the man who had historical group should have been supplied by an attracted the attention of the eye-witness, who over-lavish artist with three hands. saw them also take into custody in rapid succession the sentry on duty at the gate, and the captain of the guard. The three men arrested were immediately shot. The eye witness from whom we quote says that not more than fifteen minutes elapsed between the time when he first noticed the commotion in the palace grounds and the execution of the arrested parties, of which he was a spectator. The alleged assassin is said to have cut the chain at the palace gate with a machete. Per contra, Hypolyte's opponents say there was no attempt at assassination; that the executions, of which there is no doubt, were ordered as part of the dictator's policy of terror. affair reminds one of the story of the Spanish Marshal who on his death-bed was adjured by his confessor to forgive his enemies. I have no enemies," responded the Marshal; "I shot them when I was Prime Minister. -Boston Transcript. on MALARIA. The London Lancet, Dec. 10.-In his recent work The Climate of Rome and the Roman Campagna," Prof. Tommasi-Crudeli devotes a valuable chapter to the subject of the preservation of human life in malarious countries. We must be content to admit that for the present we have no precise knowledge of the nature of the malarious poison or of the means whereHIGHLY LITERARY OBSERVATION ABOUT by it can be extirpated from the soil of an inHEINE. In a thoughtfully rhetorical preface fected locality. That the poison inheres in the to a book of selections from English translasoil; that it is greatly under the influence of tions of Heine's writings, published under the season, temperature, and rainfall; that it is title of "Heinrich Heine: His Wit, Wisdom, excited to fresh activity by all measures inPoetry" the editor, Mr. Newell Dunbar, anvolving the disturbance of earth long left nounces that he has skimmed the poet for the quiescent; that its ravages have been much sake of busy Americans who have no time to reduced by drainage, by the conversion of do more than sip at the delicious things of litnaked soil into meadow land, and by the erecerature, and adds: " By no means milk for tion of houses and laying down of paved babes is the yield from the udders Heinean; its streets-these facts are certain, and almost consistency is such as renders it satisfying, and exhaust our knowledge on the subject. CHASTISEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. in point of fact not unfrequently quite pungent, The chief remedies that have been used to The squeamish outcry sometimes raised against meat for the strongest men and women." Surecombat malaria are quinine, arsenic, eucalyptus, caning or any other form of corporal chastise- ly, if Heine could be made aware of that beausalicylates, the fruit of the lemon, etc. The ment is apt altogether to overlook the real tiful and highly literary observation he would good effects of quinine are, of course, un-"degradation" which inevitably attends vice have some characteristic acknowledgment to questionable. Its anti-malarious influence is, and folly if unchecked; and apparently classes make to Mr. Dunbar; would call him a schweraccording to Prof. Tommasi-Crudeli, rapid physical suffering, however slight and evanes- cinherwandelndes Rindvich, or some other but fugitive. Quinine is, unfortunately, rather cent, as a something to be dreaded beyond any polite, neat, and unanswerable thing of the sort. expensive and tends after a time to disturb the risk of moral ill, while claiming that other-New York Sun. digestive organs and the nervous system. Ar- punitive methods-even though involving senic the writer regards as a remedy of the physical deterioration-should always be pre- NASHVILLE TAKES PRIDE IN HER MUSICAL very highest value, especially as a prophylactic. ferred if only they be physically painless. AND ESTHETIC CULTURE.-That the musical He has instituted extensive experiments The question is one which will continue and aesthetic culture of Nashville is far above among the properties of the landowners to recur from time to time; and it that of average cities of much greater commerof Tuscany, Rome, Puglia, and Sicily, and is always open to temperate argument. cial importance is an established fact. among the workers on the Roman and south- But it is doubtful whether any mem- have a goodly array of resident artists and ern railways with encouraging results. Dr. ber of the profession-however firm and connoisseurs, nor have we been deprived of conRicchi, the chief medical officer of the southern conscientious his convictions-is likely to com-certs, such as only the most populous cities can railways, experimented in the year 1883 upon mend his opinions for general acceptance by support. There is intensifying conviction that seventy-eight persons in the district of Bovino, stigmatizing an ordinary cane as a disgrace while in educational matters we head the list where malaria is very virulent. He divided to England," and as an instrument comparable in proportion to our population we must, in, them into two categories, one of which only only to the knout in cruelty and effect; or that musical matters, win equal prestige. was subjected to the preventive system by a diffuse dissertation on its enormity is justified large sale of tickets for the Bloomfield-Zeisler means of arsenic. The result was that the by a plea that he "is talking to the public of concert is a sign that we can soon command the great majority of those who took no arsenic England to-day." Another and most important services of a Rubenstein or Padelewski. These (we are not told the precise number) had vio- item in every such question of corporal punish-enterprises are thoroughly educational, and lent attacks of fever, while of those subjected ment-and one which should always be present surely we must expect the generous patronage to the arsenical treatment thirty-six escaped to the mind of the administrator-is the of music-loving citizens, as well as of our nuentirely, whilst the remaining three had only bodily condition and constitutional peculiari- merous schools, which are in themselves a host slight attacks. Other experiments were not ties of each individual culprit. Caning upon for the promotion of our educational interests. less satisfactory, and some of fail the hands and thighs is not commonly recog- -Nashville American. cases We The Index to Periodical Literature. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. BIOGRAPHICAL. Bates of the Amazons. Grant Allen. Fort. Rev., London, Dec., 12 pp. Sketch of the lite and work of the scientist Henry Walter Bates. "Bébé Bwana." Heien M. Winslow, Demorest's Mag.. Jan., 5 pp. Illus. Descriptive of the travels of Mrs. M. French-Sheldon, "Bébé Bwana," in Africa. Denck (Hans) the Anabaptist. Richard Heath. Contemp. Rev., London, Dec., 14 pp. A sketch of the life of one of the leaders of the Anabaptist movement of the sixteenth century. Herrick and His Friends. A. W. Poland. Macmillan's, London, Dec., 7 pp. Meynell (Mrs.): Poet and Essayist. Coventry Patmore. Fort. Rev., London, Dec., 6 pp. Whitman (Walt). Edward Salmon. London Society, Dec., 13 pp. Columbus, The Career of. Chauncey M. Depew. Our Day, Dec., 15 pp. Oration at World's Fair Dedication. Constable and Sir Walter Scott. Temple Bar. London, Dec., 24 PP. Education, The Five L's in. Prof. Samuel Harris. Andover Rev., Nov., 23 pp. Historians (Our Young). Mark Reid. Macmillan's, London, Dec., 8 pp. Ireland, Early Treatises on. The Warden of Merton. Nat. Rev., London, Dec., 14 PP. Irving (Mr.) and the English Drama. George Barlow. New Rev., London, Dec., 11 pp. Lamb (Charles and Mary), Unpublished Letters of. Cornhill, London, Dec., 14 Leicester Corporation Art-Gallery. S. J. Viccars. Mag. of Art, Jan., 7 PP. Renan's Beginnings and End. Irish Monthly, Dublin, Dec., 5 pp. Sculpture of the Year: The Salons of the Champs Elysees and the Champ de Mars. Claude Phillips. Mag. of Art, Jan., 6 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Speeches and Speakers of To-Day. "Miles Inglorious." New Rev., London, Dec., 11 pp. Tennyson. The Rev. Stopford A. Brooke. Contemp. Rev., London, Dec., 25 pp. Tennyson (Alfred). Stephen Henry Thayer. Andover Rev., Nov., 18 pp. Tennyson, Aspects of. H. D. Traill. XIX Cent., London, Dec., 15 PP. Tennyson (Lord), The Portraits of. Theodore Watts. Mag. of Art, Jan., 7 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Tennyson's Literary Sensitiveness. Alfred Austin. Nat. Rev., London, Dec., 7 PP. POLITICAL. Amnesty, A Plea for. J. E. Redmond, M.P. Fort. Rev., London, Dec., 11 pp. Chamberlain's (Mr.) Programme. Thomas Burt, M.P.; H. H. Champion; J. Keir Election Week in America. Blackwood's, Edinburgh, Dec., 16 pp. Free Trade and Bad Trade. Rt. Hon. Leonard H. Courtney, M.P.; Lord Masham of Swinton; James Edgcome; J. Keir Hardie, M.P.; Frederick J. Whetstone. Nat. Rev., London, Dec., 21 pp. His Last Campaign, and After. Frederick Greenwood. New Rev., London, Dec., 14 pp. Criticises Mr. Gladstone. India, An Australian View of. The Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart., M. P. Fort. Rev., London, Dec., 9 pp. Criticises Mr. Deakin's Irrigated India. Parliament (The Long) and Dr. Gardiner. Blackwood's, Edinburgh, Dec., 17 pp. Protection Society (A "Candidates "). J. A. Farrer. XIX Cent., London, Dec., 5 pp. Suggests a society for the protection of political candidates. Secret Service. London Society. Dec., 7 pp. Review of Mr. Fitzpatrick's Book, "Secret Service under Pitt." Soudan (the). The Ruin of. Rt. Hon. Sir W. T. Marriott, Q. C., M. P. Nat. Rev., London, Dec., 13 pp. Soudan (the), The Recovery of. Blackwood's, Edinburgh, Dec., 17 pp. Spheres of Influence." Sir George Taubman-Goldie, K. C. M. G. XIX Cent., certain dangerous fallacies" by which the London, Dec.. 7 pp. Deals with policy of the occupation of Uganda has been mainly supported. Tariff (The American). J. Stephen Jeans. Fort. Rev., I.ondon, Dec., 15 pp. Uganda Problem (The). Joseph Thomson. Contemp. Rev., London, Dec., 11 pp. Urges the importance of England's retention of Uganda. £38,000,000 per Annum! The Right Hon. Jesse Collings, M. P. XIX Cent., London, Dec., 8 pp. Discusses the probable outcome of the National Conference on "Agricultural Depression.' RELIGIOUS. Christ, The Divinity of. VI. The Early Church. Andover Rev., Nov., 10 pp. The evidence of the early Church. Dancing in Churches. The Rev. John Morris. Month, London, Dec., 19 pp. Dancing as a religious service. De Rossi and His Work. The Very Rev. Provost Northcote. Month, London, Dec., 10 pp. Death (Physical). Is It a Penalty? Prof. J. Leadingham. Old & New Test. Student, Nov.-Dec., 27 pp. Post-Exilic Legalism and Post-Exilic Literature. Prof. George H. Schodde, Ph.D. Old & New Test. Student, Nov.-Dec., 5 pp. Religion: Its Future. The Rev. Dr. Momeriè. Fort. Rev., London, Dec., 17 pp. Religious Doubts, The Idealistic Remedy for. Prof. D. W. Simon. Contemp. Rev., London, Dec., 15 pp. Scripture, Essentials and Circumstantials in-Definitions of Inspiration. Joseph Cook. Our Day, Dec., 10 pp. Boston Monday Lecture. Sermon-Making. A Paper for Young Preachers. The Rev. C. O. Eldridge, B.A. Preacher's Mag., Dec., 4% pp. Sermon-Seeds from Ruskin. V.-Help from the Hills. The Rev. Henry Barraclough. Preacher's Mag., Dec., 5% PP. Sermon on the Mount. Eighth Paper. The Rev. Prof. R. Waddy Moss. Tatian's Diatessaron: Recent Evidence for the Authenticity of the Gospels. Abdomen and Thorax, Wounds and Diseases Involving. J. McFadden Gaston, 9 pp. Acromegaly. 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The French Chamber decides, 271 to 265, against the proposition to invest the Panama Investigation Committee with judicial powers......The Committee of the International Monetary Conference makes its report, which formulates no plan; Senator Jones and others address the Conference......The reported attempt to assassinate the President of Hayti is confirmed......Dr. Charles Emanuel Schenk is elected President of the Swiss Confederation. Friday, December 16. The Congressional Joint Committee on Immigration listens to arguments of the steamship companies against the proposed suspension of immigration. The proposed lease of the Connecticut River Railroad to the New Haven road is defeated by the purchase of a majority of the stock of the former road for the Boston and Maine...... Archbishop Ireland makes a statement regarding Mgr. Satolli's powers......It is said that a Boston syn. dicate will built a boat to defend the America's cup...... In New York City, Cornelius Vanderbilt gives $5,000 to the Police Pension Fund. MM. Charles de Lesseps, Fontane, and Sans-Leroy are arrested for alleged connection with the Panama Canal frauds; the police search many houses and secure fourteen van-loads of documents bearing on the scandal.... There are further cases of cholera in Hamburg... The King of Dahomey has 2,000 armed troops with him, and it is expected that he will give the French more trouble. Saturday, December 17. In Pittsburgh, the hearing in the Homestead poisoning cases takes place; one of the principals testifies to a plot to poison non-union workmen......The Indiana Supreme Court declares unconstitutional the Apportionment Act passed by the Democratic Legislature two years ago......The anniversary of Whittier's birthday is observed with memorial exercises at Amesbury, Mass. The will of D. E. Crouse is offered for probate in Syracuse; the executors say they know of no "next of kin " nearer than cousins...... Father Corrigan's objection to Vicar-General O'Connor acting as judge at his trial is Walter G. Oakman sues the directors of the sustained by the referees.......... Richmond Terminal Company, charging them with defrauding it of $7,000,000. The Monetary Conference reserves final judgment on the propositions submitted, and votes to resume its sittings May 13th next...... M. Drumont's paper says the aggregate amount of the Panama Canal Company's bribes is 20,000,000 francs...... The British Cabinet discusses the Home Rule Bill...... An American steamer sinks a Spanish steamer in Manila Bay. Sunday, December 18. James G. Blaine is dangerously ill at his home in Washington, and at one time was thought to be dying......It is said that the Reading Railroad will spend $1,000,000 for terminal improvements at Buffalo......Eight men are killed and several injured in a wreck on the Great Northern Railway at Nelson, Minn......At an amateur theatrical performance near Elgin, Ill., Mr. Jones, who played the villain, instructs the heroine to strike hard in the stabbing scene and "make it realistic;" his wound is serious though not necessarily fatal...... In New York City, an Italian woman dies from the results of a beating received at the hands of one of her countrywomen. Bail is refused in the case of Charles de Lesseps and the other Panama Canal officers under arrest in Paris...... The reports from Hamburg show twenty-five cases of cholera and two deaths last week. Monday, December 19. 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