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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

FROM THE BOSTON HERALD AND ADVERTISER.

The remains of the late Anthony Trollope were buried Saturday in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Marie Prescott's husband, Wm. Pertzel, has sued the American News Company for $25,000 damages.

Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood will leave Chatham on the 16th inst. for Egypt, to take command of the Khedive's new army.

The chair factory of L. Kilburn & Co., in Orange, Mass., was burned Saturday night, the property loss aggregating $50,000.

The commissioner of pensions, in his annual report to Congress, recommends a more equitable distribution of pensions, and advocates many other reforms.

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The British government has given pound1250 reward to the three Joyces, who were witnesses for the prosecution in the trial of the Maamtrasna murderers.

Two engines and four cars on the New York & New England Railroad were badly damaged by a collision of freight trains near Goshen Saturday night.

The U. S. Senate on Saturday debated the Beck resolution for an investigatian of the political assessment scandal during the late campaign. Messrs. Beck, Voorhees, Hale, Jones and others participated in a lively discussion, and recrimination was the order of the day.

The somewhat noted trial of Mrs. Cassie Patterson, at Independence, Ia., for the murder of her husband last May, was concluded on Saturday, a verdict of not guilty being rendered.

A statement from the records of Capt. De Long of the lost Arctic steamer Jeannette regarding the trouble between that officer and Mr. Jerome Collins, one of the party, has been made public.

The attorney-general of New York has granted a hearing on an application made to him by Joseph P. Greaves, to bring suit in the name of the people against the Western Union Telegraph Co., to vacate its charter and remove the directors.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 11, 1. A. M. For New England, light snow or rain, followed by clearing weather, in the southern portions, south to west winds, slight changes in temperature, falling, followed by rising barometer.

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