ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Date: 27 April 1884
WASHINGTON, April 26.--An Army Retiring Board having found Capt. John Lee, Fourth Cavalry, incapacitated for active service, the leave of absence on Snrgeon's certificate of disability granted him in special orders Sept. 15, 1883, is extended until further orders on account of disability.
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CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS; NEW-YORK. BROOKLYN.
Date: 27 April 1884
Mr. David S. Wambold sails for Europe on the 7th of May intending to be absent two years.
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ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.; NEWS OF A CHEERING CHARACTER FROM THE OVERFLOED DISTRICTS.
Date: 27 April 1884
NEW-ORLEANS, La., April 26.--Information from the overflowed districts is of a cheering character. The overflow this Spring has not been so wide-spread nor disastrous as in 1874 or 1882. The backwater is reported subsiding without having touched the high mark of either years. While the water of this year reached an unprecedented height, and ...
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THE NEWS FROM INDIANA; BLAINE LOSING STRENGTH IN THE HOOSIER STATE. GOSSIP ON THE PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK THE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR ON BOTH SIDES--OTHER TOPICS.
Date: 27 April 1884
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 26.--The most notable matter in politics in this State just now is the decided change in respect to the Blaine sentimental--a change that had been developing previous to the New-York and Ohio Conventions, but which has been hastened and strengthened by the result in those States. The relation of Blaine to Indiana Republicanism from the beginning until ...
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MARKED INDIFFERENCE INDEED.
Date: 27 April 1884
The painful news of the death of his Royal Highness, the Duke of Albany, was received with marked indifference by the French press. It was M. de Villemessant's principle that a dog run over in Paris was an event of more interest to a French reader than any war or calamity abroad. Then there are Campi, of course, and the calf-h ded man, for French journalists to write about.
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JOHN WESLEY A DICTIONARY MAKER.--
Date: 27 April 1884
One of the greatest names on the roll of the eighteenth century is John Wesley's; and it may still be news to many who are familiar with his ever-memorable achievements in other fields to learn that he also made a journey along the thorny path of ...
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ANTI-SLAVERY WORK IN BRAZIL.
Date: 27 April 1884
Last year you kindly allowed me space in the Times to register the extinction of slavery in one district of the Brazilian province of Ceara. I hope you will again be kind enough to give the publicity of the Times to the news I have just received by telegraph from Ceara--that the whole of the province was completely freed from slavery on the 25th of March last.
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NILSSON TO SING FOR THEODORE THOMAS
Date: 28 April 1884
A letter from Mme. Nilsson contains the following: "I have arranged with Mr. Theodore Thomas to sing in 28 concerts, for which he is to give me $28,000, and consequently I will remain in this country this Summer."
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