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Day
23
Month
February
Year
1882
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Public Domain
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It is said the coronation of ths Czar has been post poned until September. An epidemie etrongly reseinbling the plague recently appeared near Sanjabulah, Persia. Forty deatti's since Febmary 8. The Shah of Persia has granted to a French company a concession for the constructien of a railway from Teheran to Besht. The company is to pay 5,500,000 francs on the opening of the line, besides a rent of 55,000 francs yearly for the period of sixty yeare. The report of the American Consul at Manchester, England, of trade between tais consular district and the United States for the last year shows a deerease in declared exports of over f8,000,000, or over t wentr per cent as compared with the exporta of the previous year. At Edinburgh, Scotland, two boxes Dg infernal machines, which had been delivered at two different addresses, exploded on the lOth on being opeaed aud eight persons were injured. The Auatrian government proposes a new tariff, and states not granting Hungary the same privileges as the most favored natlon must pay a duty of 30 per cent in excess of the ordinary duty for dutiable goo.ie, and 15 on free goods. Reports of British consuls rogarding the out rages against the Jews in Bussia declare that if tho authorities had used thenecessary force the disturbance migbt have been confined to a nnrrow circle. Judoeat has bcsn given agaiust Eaiiic Zola, the novelist, for using the Bame of a real personage in his noiel entitled "Le Pot Bouill.' Graat excitement yevaüs over the report that the new ehares of the Uuion Generale Paris, will be pronouuced vaüd, and that outside brokers wiil bo rcquested to pay thedifferenees they owe to the bankrupt compauy on transactions in the new ehares. (ireat consternatioa exists, ?.s therehy the position of the Lyon official brokers will be rendered more grave. Thoutlook in darker, and the positiou of the markets is bocoming more complicattd, Xhu Egyptian ministry Iia8 decided upon the abolition of slavery. In the county of Durham, Knuland, 120 men were entombed in a colliery by an explosión About 30 wererescued. BradlaugU took tbe oath and his geat in the nous of coininons on the 22d. Rumored that the czar of Russia will be asked by Germany to retire or dismiss Gen. Skobeloff tor his intiumniatory gpeech at Paris.

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