TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The ten imprisoned Brooklyn aldermen were released yesterday morning.

Sixty buildings were burned at Newport, Arkansas, yesterday morning; loss $250,000.

It is reported that a decision will be rendered today in the Curtis political assessment case.

Congressman Godlove S. Orth died at Lafayette, Indiana, on Saturday night, aged sixty-five years.

The lord lieutenant of Ireland has offered rewards aggregating $32,500 for the apprehension and conviction of the Phoenix-park assassins.

Eight or more persons were killed and two hundred people thrown out of employment by the explosion of the boiler of Harlin & Orendorff's agricultural implement works at Canton, Ill., on Saturday.

George J. Rice, ex-president of the Utica, Ithica and Elmira Railroad, has been arrested in New York city, charged with the hypothecation of bonds and stocks of the road which should have been cancelled, and held in $25,000 for an examination.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 18, 1. A. M. For New England, generally fair weather, light, variable winds, higher barometer, stationary or slight fall in temperature.