NEWS OF THE NAVY.
Date: 23 December 1889
It is not known whether Secretary Tracy has decided upon the rank of the officers to command torpedo boats, though the impression is general that the command will go to Lieutenants. The command of a torpedo boat is not an enviable detail. The boats are small and cramped and afford no comfort. When under way nothing short of a dead calm will keep the...
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ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Date: 22 December 1889
Capt. P.L. Lee, Tenth Cavalry, has been granted four months' additional leave of absence. The leave of First Lieut. Richard T. Earle, Second infantry, has been extended six months. Capt. Joseph H. Hurst, Twelfth Infantry, has been granted three months' leave, and Second Lieut. S. Adair, Fifth Cavalry, two months.
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WASHINGTON SOCIAL NEWS.; SOME OF THE TOPICS DISCUSSED BY SOCIETY AT THE CAPITAL.
Date: 22 December 1889
Social News; Garfield Memorial Hospital Ball
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CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS; NEW-YORK. BROOKLYN. LONG ISLAND. NEW-JERSEY.
Date: 23 December 1889
William Maher and John Welch, members of the Ale and Porter Brewers' Union, were arrested Saturday evening upon the complaint of James Lawlor, a liquor dealer whose place is on the corner of Second-avenue and Thirty-second-street.
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SERPA PINTO'S WORK.; THE PORTUGUESE REPORT OF THE TROUBLES IN AFRICA.
Date: 23 December 1889
Portugal's Territory in Africa Claimed; Serpa Pinto's Expedition in Makololand; Engineer Castelloe's Report
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INTENSE COLD IN AUSTRIA.
Date: 22 December 1889
Blooks of ice are floating down the Danube, and cover one-half of its surface. At Pressburg the bridge of boats has been broken. In Vienna the thermometer has not fallen below 18 , but on the road near Pressburg a woman who was driving to market with poultry was frozen to death.
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DEATH OF AN AUSTRIAN POET.
Date: 22 December 1889
Ludwig Anzengruber, the poet and novelist, whose descriptions of rural life were very popular, both on the stage and with the reading public, has just died, aged fifty. His most successful piece was called "Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld," in which he protested against the celibacy of priests. All his pieces have a moral tendency.
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INDECENT BOOKS IN FRANCE.
Date: 22 December 1889
The realistic school has gone so far as to weak out the patience of the tolerant French public which is not so dead to decency as may be imagined north of the Channel. Appeals have for some time been constantly made to the Pro-...
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DOM PEDRO'S PROPERTY TAKEN.
Date: 23 December 1889
Executive Decree; Dom PedroBanished; Property Confiscated
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