TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Napier is dead.

The French anarchists threaten to make a hostile demonstration at Louis Blanc's funeral today.

James F. Molloy of Edgefield, S. C., has obtained a verdict of $20,000 against the New York Herald for libel.

Upward of 4000 barrels of whiskey were destroyed at Belle Vernon, Pa., yesterday, by the explosion of a still and warehouse.

The House committee on education has recommended the appropriation of $10,000, to be divided among the various States according to the ratio of illiteracy.

The death sentence of the five men who pleaded guilty of participation in the murder of the Joyce family has been commuted by the lord-lieutenant of Ireland.

Wm. C. Frazier, school teacher in Cumberland, Ohio, in the course of a general fight in the school-room, stabbed and killed John Hayes, aged 20, and severely cut John Luce.

The Senate civil service reform committee considered the Hawley bill prohibiting the assessment of government employes for political purposes yesterday, and it is said that the bill has received the unanimous commendation of the committee.

O'Leary and Murphy, the three-card monte men, have given detailed accounts of a number of extensive robberies in which they were engaged, and charge the Washington detectives of having been associated with them in the crimes.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 12, 1. A. M. For New England, colder, fair weather in southern portions, light snow in the northern portions, northwest to southwest winds and higher barometer.