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General News.

Comprising the Latest Happenings at

Home and Abroad.

Five of the czar's latest assailants have been executed.

The long strike among the Nova Scotia coal miners has ended in a defeat for the strikers.

Editor O'Brien has been elected to the house of commons for the northeast division of Cork.

The Illinois legislature has passed a law making marriage between first cousins incestuous and void.

Capital is accumulating so rapidly in England that investors are satisfied with 3 per cent. per annum.

[Sheik?] Abou Henda has been exiled from Turkey for conspiring to dethrone the Sultan. He was for a long time an intimate adviser of the Sultan.

One hundred and forty thousand Austrian soldiers are under arms in Dalmatia, prepared for a campaign. The Montenegrin army is reported ready for action also.

The Crown Prince Frederick William has finished his course of treatment at Ems, and has returned to Potsdam much better. His throat ailment is cured.

At Toulon, France, an explosion of dynamite destroyed the front of the police headquarters and damaged a number of adjacent houses. Nobody was hurt.

Mr. Gladstone is opposed to purely obstructive tactics. He wants the Parnellites to fight the clauses of the crimes bill on the merits of their amendments.

In the new convention between the [Porte?] and Great Britain it is agreed that the period fo the Brit ish occupation of Egypt shall be not less than two and not more than five years.

A very large force of men is at work on the different parts of the Texas & Pacific between Fort Worth and Big Springs preparing the road bed and putting in [new?] ties to receive new steel rails.

Queen Victoria's asistant master of the ceremonies wears a curious badge of office suspended from his chain, with an allegorical representation of peace on one side, which is reversed in time of war.

Chicago is to enjoy the luxury of a dozen more aldermen the bill increasing the number from 36 to 48 having passed both houses of the legislature, and needing only the governor's approval to become a law.

Buffalo Bill is just whooping America up across the water. Invitations to dinners flow in upon him so fast that it is doubtful whether his stomach will ever again consent to digest woodchucks and [prairie?] dogs.

A California woman, in trying to make a cradle for her baby, hit on an idea and invented an orange box. She now runs and owns the factory which makes nine-tenths of the orange boxes for the Pacific slope.

A column has been erected in Rome on Monte Pincio, with this inscription: "The neighboring palace, once the property of the [Medicis?], was the prison of Galileo, who was guilty of having seen that the earth revolved around the sun.

The French Government has closed a velocipede factorv at Marainsville, near Luueville, the property of a [German?] named Schmertzer, who employed men belonging to the German Imperial army. The incident is supposed to be the prelude to other reprisals against the Germans.

The peronosporal, which is a pest as rapacious as the phylloxera, has made its appearance in the vineyards of Germany, threatening to accomplish on the Moselle and Rhine what the phyllexera has failed to effect- the destruction of the German vineyards.

Express Augusta has left for Baden. The Emperor goes to Kiel on June 9 to be present at the ceremonies attending the beginning of work on the North Sea and the Baltic Canal. Prince Bismarck, a number of the members of the Bundesrath and the President of Reichstag will accompany him. The Emperor, after his stay at Kiel, will take a [?] of water at Ems. He will not revisit [Gastion?] in the autumn.