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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

FROM THE BOSTON HERALD AND ADVERTISER.

The President has signed the civil service reform bill.

Earthquake shocks of considerable severity continue to be felt in various parts of Spain.

The Tweddle Hall block in Albany, N. Y., was destroyed by fire yesterday, involving a loss of nearly $500,000.

Prince Jerome Napoleon was arrested in Paris yesterday for issuing a revolutionary manifesto against the French government.

In the State Senate yesterday Ex-Governor Long was chosen United States Senator on the part of that branch in place of Senator Hoar.

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The lessee of the bar-room of the Newhall House, Milwaukee, has been arrested on suspicion of having set fire to that hotel on Wednesday last.

According to the official report, 268 persons, including many foreign travellers, lost their lives by the burning of the circus in Berditscheff, Russian Poland, on Saturday.

United States Senators were elected yesterday as follows: In Maine Wm. P. Frye, Republican; in Delaware, Eli Saulsbury, Democrat; in North Carolina, M. W. Ransom, Democrat; in Tennessee, Isham G. Harris, Democrat; in Arkansas, A. H. Garland, Democrat.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17, 1. A. M. For New England, fair weather, followed by increasing cloudiness in the southwest portion, local snows, variable winds, shifting to warmer southeasterly, lower pressure.

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