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ON the 19th the Connecticut Monate, by A vote of 12 in the woman giving suffrage 5, rejected school House districts Mil are be in he deserving Mr. Manura him followers large numbers, reported and to is now encamped at Omdorman with about 2,000 men. THE Nt. James Gasette believes that peace between France and China can only be brought about by a complete cession of Tonquin to the French. IN a fight on the 20th, lasting five hours, between the British and Osman Digna's forces is the Houdan, the latter's position was captured, and the Arabs sustained great loss. THE Spaulding Iron Works at Steuben. ville, O., had to shut down because of the coal miners' strike, and 850 men are thrown out of employment. A BLUE BOOK has just been Issued at London, containing correspondence between Govern. a ments in the reference French to and rice English being declared contraband of war by the French IN executive session on the 20th the Sen. ate ratified the additional article of the Mexican treaty, extending until May 20th, 1886, the time for the approval of the laws necessary to carry into operation the com. mercial convention between the two Governments, concluded at Washington, Jan. uery 28th, 1883. ANOTHER coal mining company In Penusylvania employing 1,000 mon will shut down rather than pay the advance demanded. This will make 10,000 minors in that State out of employment. ON the 20th the Vice-President laid before the Senate a memorial of the Montana Legislature, stating that nearly all the public domain in Moutana is desert land, and protesting against the repeal of the desert land act. DURING the seven days ended the 20th there were 247 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet's, against 250 in the preceding week, and 192 and 196 in the corresponding weeks of 1884 and 1883. THE Shenandoah County Bank, at Woodstock, Va., has suspended. ON the 22d the Fourth Italian flotilla for the Red Sea was about to start. VERY heavy snow drifts were reported in some of the Eastern and Middle States on the 21st. THE French forces remain practically in a state of siege at Kee Lung. THE extension paper of Oliver Bros. & Phillips, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been signed by all the creditors, and they will resume. THE Prime Minister of Russia is reported to have resigned. THE rumor that China has made overtures for peace are discredited in Paris. BY the shutting down of nail mills at Pottstown, Pa., 600 men are thrown out of employment. AT Easton, Pa., the Delaware River was frozen from shore to shore on the 21st, the first time during the season. A POWERFUL British fleet will be sent te the Baltic within a few days If the necessity arises. A MUSCOVITE military organ declares that the English must be cleared out of the Turcoman Territory. IT is thought that nearly half of the present members of the British House of Commons will decline to stand for re-election. THE heaviest snow-stormexperienced in ten years raged at Fortress Monroe, Va., all day on the 22d. A LOSS of 198 killed and wounded was sustained by the French at Kee Lung in in the recent engagement. THE troops under Captain Dewees are on a sharp lookout for "boomers" said to have crossed over into Oklahoma from Arkansas and Texas. IT is said the Mahdi has sentenced many natives to death for not revealing treasure supposed to be hidden at Khartoum. THE New York communists celebrated : the fourteenth anniversary of the Paris commune with a ball and concert on the 22d. IN the recent battles near Suakim the 8 deaths among the British were caused 0 mostly by spear thrusts received in hand. to-hand engagements. ON the 22d German day was celebrated at the New Orleans Exposition. Large attendance. A congratulatory dispatch was sent to Emperor William. I Ox the 22d the Arabs suddenly attacked 0 the British near Suakim. The latters' loss was two officers and twenty-two men killed and thirty-three mon wounded, with f some of the reports not yet in. The Arabs lost very heavily.