FRIDAY, JANUARY 5. 1883.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS IN BRIEF.
Ireland Is still restless.
San Francisco wants r new postoflDce
building.
The" Illinois senate is in a state of
deadlock.
Small-pox is prev.dent to a sligbtjex
tent 1q Chicago.
The thugsand sluggers are getting in
tbeir work at St. Louis.
Ben Butler’s inaugural address was
two and a half hour* long.
Reports of a brilliant meteor come
from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
“Passion Piny.” In New York, as
yet has not got permission to be pro
duced.
$ The inundations of . Europe have
tiken the form of a great public catas
trophe.
An effort is being made in Massa
chusetts to clothe women with the right
of suffrage.
A boiler explosion at Fillmore Cen
ter, Wednesday, killed one man and in
jured six others.
Mrs. Langtry has beep greatly an
noyed by callers, or, rather, curiosity
seekers, since her arrival in Chicago.
The closing of the Calumet iron and
steel words, near Chicago, will throw
several thousand men out of employ
ment.
The Public, a journal in New York,
gives an unfavorable report of business
for the last half of the year throughout
the country.
A London letter reports the murder
of two Americans, a French interpre
ter and an African attendant, by the
natives of Madagascar.
A committee of operators and miners
of Massilon and Tuscarora, Ohio, meet
to-day to fight the reduction us ten
cents per ton for coal mining.
Dr. an eminent physician
of Berlin, in a lecture Mtribes the
death of Gambetta was due to the in
competency of the doctors attending
him.
Judge Crowell, deputy auditor of the
postoflice department, has made an in
teresting statement showing a large in
crease in receipts, particulaily from the
sale of stamps.
