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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

FROM THE BOSTON HERALD AND ADVERTISER.

The Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne left Boston on the 7 P. M. train yesterday.

Several important decisions were rendered in the United States Supreme Court yesterday.

The President and party are sojourning at St. Augustine, Florida, and the date of departure therefrom is not yet determined.

The New York senate passed a bill yesterday to enable the trustees of Boston University to take and hold lands in New York by devise.

Notwithstanding Mr. Parnell's advice to the contrary, the convention of the Irish National Land League of America will be held at Philadelphia on the 25th inst.

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The trial of Daniel Curley, one of the Phoenix Park assassins, began in Dublin yesterday, and evidence strongly implicating him in the tragedy was produced by the government.

The colored people of the District of Columbia celebrated the anniversary of their emancipation yesterday by a street parade and a meeting, at which Frederick Douglass and Robert C. Ingersoll made speeches.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather in Northern portions, stationary or slight rise in temperature, slight rise in barometer, variable winds.

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