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BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY. Marshal MacMahon is reported seriously ill. In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday the budget was adopted by a vote of 454 to 46. The bark Anders Dedekan, from Stettin for Charleston, has been damaged in collision and has been ashore. Albert Sanders, colored, was hanged at Charleston, Mo., yesterday, for the murder of Moses Wing, also colored. The Bank of Breckenridge, at Breckenridge, Colorado, suspended yesterday morning. It was a small concern. Official returns of the vote for Governor in New Hampshire give Hale, Republican, 38,417: Edgerly, Democrat, 36,919; scattering, 936; Hale's majority, 542. Hong Ah Duck was executed at Fair Rafare, Cal., yesterday. The murderer was an inmate of the penitentiary, and in October, 1880, he stabbed to death a fellow Chinese convict. The Chambers of Commerce of all the seaports of Germany have protested against the exclusion of American pork. The government, however, will persevere in their determination to prohibit its importation. The Dublin Freeman's Journal says: "Davitt intends to subpoena Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, to depose at his trial as to the influence of the agitation in Ireland on the passage of the land bill. In the star route trials, yesterday was spent in argument as to the number of peremptory challenges to be allowed each side in forming the jury. Judge Wylie adjourned the court at the close of the argument, and will announce his decision on Monday, The paint shop and car shed of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, on the south side of James river, opposite Richmond, Va., was burned last night. Also one passenger coach and express car. The foundry was also damaged. The total loss is about $10,000. Insured. A Donaldsonville, Louisiana, speeial says that Gustave Paul was changed in the jail yard at twelve minutes past one yes. terday afternoon. Two thousand people witnessed the execution. Paul made a short speech, saying he was ready to go. He was executed for the murder of Eve Thompson. Yesterday morning a fire at the works of the Sagmaw Barrel Company destroyed the factory, saw mill, drill house, a large quantity of the products of the works and about two million feet of lumber. The loss will approximate $175,000, and is understood to be fully insured. One hundred and fifty men are thrown out of employment. The city syndicate of New Orleans yesterday brought an action in the Civil District Court against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company and the city of New Orleans to annul and set aside the compromise relative to the Batture property, worth considerably more than half a million dollars. This property the city consented to transfer to the railroad company for the nominal sum of forty thousand dollars, The suit is brought to prevent the consumination of this agreement.
