... THE RAILWAY STRIKES IN I AMERICA. [RKBTKB'S TRLBGKAM.I NEW YORK, Thursday.-It appears probable that the strike on the Missouri Pacific Railway will ehd shortly. The committee appointed at iho meeting of citizens recently held at St. Louis to investigate the circumstances of the railway strike have promised to use their intercession frith a view to the re-employment of the strikers. ...

... NEWMARKET, THURSDAY MORNING. Although the weather was ttull and threatening for raitt, a large number of people paid a visit to the training grounds before breakfast, and as most of the One Thousand Guineas mares were to be seen out, the morning's work proved of an interesting description. Miss Juramy, who has grown into a lovely mare, c vered a little over a mile in good style, as did also ...

... CURIOUS BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. In the Salford Hundred Court of Reoord, yesterday, before Mr H. W. West, Q.C., the case of Williams v. Allen was heard. The plaintiff was Martha Williams, a widow, residing at 15, Allen-street, Pendleton, who was represented by Mr Lowe, and who sought to recover damages against the defendant, Win. Allen, a coal merchant, of 132, Broughton-road, Pendleton, for ...

... FRANCE AND THE NEW HEBRIDES. rREUTJiJR'S TXLNGRAM.1 I PABIS, Monday.—Semi-official contradiction is given to the report that the French Government bad intimated to the British Government its intention of establishing a protectorate over the New Hebrides. M. Waddiugton, on the con- trary, is stated to have repeatedly declared that the measures taken by France were of a tem- porary character, ...

... Much excitement has been occasioned in the neighbourhood of Kineton, Warwickshire, by the elopement of the late rector of an adjoining parish with a domestic in his household. The couple took apartments in Warwick, and there remained for some days, but their whereabouts being suspected they removed to Leamington. The girl's friends communicated with the police, and while passing subsequently ...

... A CARDIFF SHIP ON FIRE. A fire broke out in the hold of the British tteamer Richard Cory, of Cardiff, fi-oiri Cataiiia, at Lisbon, whilst discharging her cargo of sulphur into lighters. The fire had not been extinguished at 8.15 on Sunday morning. The managing owner of the Richard Cory is Mr D. Jones. ...

... DOUBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUIClDf. The quiet little village of Hall GreeN. near Birmingham, was on Saturday afternoon the scene of an appalling tragedy. The wife 0\ a labourer, named Taylor, was left at home wit-¡ two young children, her husband having gone to work, and tbe other five children to the neifcli- bouring village. On the return of the latter, shor.My after two o'clock, the eldest ...

... MADRID, Sunday.—It is stated that the court- martial appointed to try three of the rebels who took part in the outbreak at Carthagena fcas sentenced two of the prisoners to death arid'the third to ten years' penal servitude. ...

... objects to people drowning dogs in Cro- ton Aqueduct. He is right. Very frequently the water in Croton Aqueduct is not fit for a dog. A jaw eight feet long has just been unearthed in Wisconsinr It is supposed to belo to the miocene period, so it seems there wero Talroages away back yonder. A foolish old sitting hen in Jackson, Tenn., abandoned her eggs, robbed an old cat of its kit. tens, and ...

... THURSDAY.—Before Mr A. F. LANGLET, jun., Registrar. He HQWARD HEATON M'NESS, grocer and provision dealer, Cardiff.-Ti-iis debtor stated, in examination by the official receiver, that he had been in business in Cardiff for the last seven years, starting with a capital of £ 150, advanced by the bank upon the security of a friend. His liabilities amounted to £1,19ó, with assets £ 290. The ...

... PAINFUL SCENE IN A POLICE- I COURT. A painful scene occurred at St. Helens police- court yesterday afternoon. A young woman named Mary M'Gavanagh, charged with conceal- ment of birth, had been in the hospital under arrest since Christmas Day. Her sister was telling how the prisoner had left service to be married, and had been deserted in the midst of trouble by her lover, when the prisoner ...

... MADAME Adelina Patti will make her first appearance in London this season at the concert which is to be given in the Royal Albert Hall next Saturday afternoon. SEVERAL head of cattle belonging to a farmer near Greystoke, Cumberland, recently died under mysterious circum- stances, and the investigation of the cause of death is exciting much interest. Only a few weeks ago a Westmoreland farmer ...