... United States with regard to the state of the President. The national salute, usually fired at sunrise in Washington on Independence Day, was omitted yesterday, and the customary demonstrations were almost everywhere abandoned. The neighbourhood of the White ...

... John Petnny, of thle Mdetropolis, who was fined £50 for an assitult on one of his men,, an American, en the. 4th July (Independence day). 'The assault consisted in giving the man three dozen, striking him with his fist and a cutlass. Thlough it was !impossible ...

... lines. Tbe city seemed to be invested, and | it was confidently eupectel twit, by Sunday the Itn city would fall and that Independence Day j or would sec the Stars and Stripes float- 7I ing over the second capital of Cuba. fv But when Sunday's newvs Was roand ...

... dissolution is a flishing policy, and t Mr. Chamberlain has got his own way in bait- ing the line. t - .. .t AlmIxcAN Independence Day was celebrated rather more publicly in London yesterday than on previous occasions. This is as it should be. Tho day ...

... yesterday morning. Mtuch anxiety is felt as to the action of the Free State. The Vollcsrsad meets on the 17th inst., and Independence Day is the23rd. A& large party is likely to propose to give active help to the Beers of the Tran-. vaal. In that case the ...

... Oroville, California, was entirely destroyedbyfire onSaturday. WASHISSGToNS, July 5.-President Grant spent yes- terday (Independence day) at Woodstock, Connecti- ant, and met with an enthusiastic public reception. -The Finance committee of the Senate reports ...

... the lottery, giving the exact date of the drawing as July the fourth. A happy augury this, thought I; for that will be Independence Day! The first prize represented an enormous sum, the very consideration of which gal-e me the dreams of a millionaire. I ...

... Unfortunately nobody ever has made holidays for us except the__hxistian Obuxeb, We have no national celebration like t Independence Day of our American cousins, and ifes Napoleon would never take with us as they do aniing the French, The nearest approach ...

... the question whether something ought not to be done to bridge the gulf between the Eng- lish and the Greek Churches. INDEPENDENCE DAY.-Thirty or forty years ago the Fourth of July could scarcely be called a hatpy day for any patriotic Britisher who chanced ...

... carried by a small majority, and the meeting at once adjourned. MR AND MRS G. W. MOORE had a large gathering of guests on Independence Day, Wednesday, July 4th, to meet Mr and Mrs Tony Pastor, of New York. The festivities lasted throughout the afternoon and ...

... formally communicated to the Hellenic Government to-day. REVIEW AT ATHENS. ATHENS, April 4.-The review originally fixed for Independence Day, the .6th inst., was held to-day in the presence of the King and Queen, the Royal children, and 8,ooo spectators. The ...

... Major-General Shafter evidently intends to make Santiago, the Garden of Cuba, a present to the American people for Independence Day. The engagemeyt, which lasted from break of day to sundown, was of a very stubborn character, but the Spaniards were ...