TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Ten jurors have been obtained in the star-route conspiracy case.

The Austro-German alliance, which expires in 1884, will be extended.

Arabi Pacha is to leave Cairo within ten days for the place of banishment

The Hon. J. C. Brancroft Davis was yesterday nominated for the vacant judgship on the bench of the Court of Claims.

Patrick Higgins was convicted at Dublin yesterday for participation in the Huddy murder, and sentenced to be hanged next month.

The Turkish palace at Constantinople is reported to be practically in a state of seige. The Sultan's alarm is occasioned by threatened sedition among the troops.

The joint select committee of Congress on American shipping yesterday adopted several important propositions for the relief of the shipping interests of the country.

The war between the Northwestern railroads was brought to a close yesterday, and telegraph orders have been sent to restore today the old rates for freight and passenger traffic.

The National Council of the Union League of America held its annual session in Philadelphia. Resolutions favoring the plan of harmonious action between the different factions of the Republican party, were adopted.

One of the accused Philadelphia body-snatchers has made a full confession, in which he implicates Dr. Wm. S. Forbes, the demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson College, in the crime.

An American Association of Street Railway Companies was formed in Boston yesterday. There was a large attendance of representatives of the principal roads in the country.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14, 1. A. M. For New England, colder, northwest to southwest winds, clearing and fair weather and rising barometer.