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1883
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Tho Seoond Assistant Postmaster General has reported to the Postmaster-General au amount in eicess of $1,100,000, which it is proposed to recover by suite against the various oombinatione of Star Route contractors. A part of the evidence upon whicta this action is based has been obtained within the last six i months. The rostmaster-Gcncral has reiiuest1 ed the Auditor of the treasury for the Poet Otliee Department,- as is ustojiary iu nuch cases,- to state accounts to t je sollcitor of the Treasury, the representative of the Department of Justice, for suit in accordance with the provisions of section 4,057, Revised Statutes. The secretary of war has ordered the judge advocate general of the army to prepare the necessary charges for trial by court martial of Uhaplain Toussalist Mesplie for numerous duplieations of his pay accounts during absence without leave. He recently returned froni abroad, and on reaehing San Francisco was placed under arrest. An official of the war department says on scv-eral occasions at east these accounts were out for several rnonthg. Menator Coke of Texas, and Gens. S. Fiske and Whittlesee of Teias have been appointed a commiasion to effect a eettlement between onpoeing factiona of the Crcek Indians. Gapt. S. S. Warner has been appointed to the command of the revenue steamer Fessenden stationed at Detroit. For the week onding 4 uiy 38, 290,494 sllvcr dollar6 irere iasued from the mints. The Garfielci Memorial church will be conipleted within a few days, and as soon as fnrni6h('d will be ready for foYmal opening and didication. The Christian Churoh of Washington, of the whole country in fact, prides ltself upon the fact that it. is the oalj church which can count two or more Presidents aoiong its active members, Of course everyboSy knows tb,at Garfleld was an active member of the cliurch, but it is not generally known that another President, Andy Johnson, was also a member of iftat organiaátion. Col. Harry Sherwood, formerly of Kalaunazoo, has been appointcd assistant poatmaster of the city of Washington. gkecnsüraXj items. Sibato Alexander an Italian on trial in Easton, Venn, ior murder, asked lor a ntw trial, on the ground that flve of the jurors n the case had heen improperly influencod by a sermón preached on the murder the day the trial tnded. His reuest was denied, Morgati's band of rebel raiders held a reunión at Lcxington, Ky., reeently. Several liuudrcd members oí that notable forcé were preeent. The funerals of many of thoso who perished in the disaster at the North Point Tivoli near Baltimore took place the eecond day after the accident, in Baltimore. Thej were in every section f the city, and one whlch attracted special attention and sympathv was that of the Crouch family. There were four hearses in that funeral proces6ion. Scarcely a Catholic parith ol the city escaped, and in those of the northern and northeastern sectionfi the funerals were numerous. ïhe American Rapid telegraph company has entered into an agreement with the brotherhood of telegraphers on a basis of an ad, anee of ten per cent on salaries, extra pay ïor all work tjone oyer eight hours for day and seyen hours for night work, and extra pay for all Sunday work. The Western Union company. hoyé'ev, declares it has no thought of yieldrng to the strikers andreports the general situatiun along it liues as good and growing better. In the eastern and rniddle states the uompany's business is being pretty wrll worked. but the southern and western wires are mueh crowded. Some wires haye been cut tut the breaks svere repaired witU promptness. Suits for damaees eaused by delay have been brought agaiust the company at Philadelphia. The direetor8 of the 8t. Louis nierchants' exchange have ndopted a protest agalnst the 'Imnpifriit and nnsatisfaetorv serviee tl." At the headquarters oí the brotherheod nauy messaees of eueouragement f or the strikrs have beeu received and the concessions of he American Kapid coinpany are the cause of reat and general rejoicing among the men. u Detroit the Western Union is "holding its wn" and reports an addition of two opera;ors to it6 working force. If cholera should get into the United States, it will not be because of anynegleet on he part of the health officers at New York.for he most perfect syetem of quarantine possible s constantly maintained. Ex-tvcasurer Polk, of Tennessee, who has been on trial for seyeral days on a charge f emViizling the state fund.s to the atnount of over $300,000 has heen found guilty and eentenced to 25 jeare in the peniteutiary, and o pay a fine equal to the amount stolen by ïiin. The extensive works of the Howe sewing machine company at Bridgeport,Conn., ïavc been ncarly destroyed by fire. The buildngs destioyed occupy three sides of a square, of brick, four stories high. The company employ about 400 hands and were turning out úbout 110 machines p!r day. The loss on luilding, machinery and stock is about t350,XX); insuranci; $275,000, well distribu ted. A arge live-story brick building opposite and occupicd in part by the sewing mschine conuanywas 6avcd, together with a portion of the fouudry. The üre was plainly ccen in New Haven. The public school board oí on, N J., are cited before the supremo court Sovember 1 to show cause why a writ of f iamus should uot he issued, campelling them , ,o grant pennits to the colored ehildren of tl)e Sev. Mr. Pearee for adraission to the public , ;chool. ( II oost the old Bay State $13,000 to ] investígate Tewksbury. Over 1Ü0 persons in attendance at a lawn party at Joliet, 111., were made seriously 111 by taüng ice cream, the flavoring of which is belleved to have beeu poisonous. Noue of the victima have died, though severa! are in a critieal eonOition. The old state capital, at Albany, N. Y., was sold the other day for $1,000. A son of Montgomery Blair died at his country seat, Silver Spfings, in Marvland, ier Washington. He had been very ill for he past three months, but a few days ago reported coDsiderably iinproYed. He 6uffijredan inexpected relap6e, however, which resulted in nis death as aboye etated. In 1881 several ice-houses, the property of J. P. Smith A Co, of Chicago, were set on tire by a spark from a Michigan Central engine and deströyed. They were insured in t,he Atlas iusurance company of Connecticut, and last year sult was brought and judgment obtained ior $4,500. Tlie Insurance company has now brought 6uit in the federal court .;alust the Michigan Central ruilway oompany, to hold them responsible for the loss, and judgement Ie demanded for $5,000. The Ward iron company, operating; large rolling milis in the town of Niles and New Philadelphia Ohio, have failed to the amount of $300,000, with no available as6ets. The failureof this companv caused a bank in Niles to close its doors, becausc of a run upon it by the creditors of the company. The Massachusetts legislatura has adjourned tine die af ter a session of 200 days, tbc longest on record. Án oil tank at Olean, N. Y., holding 2,500 barrels, was struck by lightning a few days ago. Mueh valuable property was destroyed. Captain Quinn, of the engineer corps, has spent about nearly $40.000 the past year in the improvcment of the Missouri river, and $16,000 on the Yellowstoue river. Vessel men express theniFelvcs well pleased with the re6ult of hla labore. Just when the country was congratulating Tenncssee that it could botst of jury sensible enough to convict a man like Polk, comes the news that Polk's attorneys have asked ícr a new trial, ou llie grounds oí iccompetency of the jury. ín tho amateur rowing assoeiation's regatta held at Pullman, 111., the Excelsiors of Detroit won the four-oard gig race, and the Wyandottes tooi third place in tbe junior f our oared sbell race. The next encampment of the Grand Array of the Potomac is to be held in Minneapolis, Minn. A pistol lightbehveeri H. Kaynor and H. Pickotts at, Omaha, Neb., resulted in the death of the latter and wouuding of the former. Kaynor had eloped with Picketts' daughter. A disputedboimdavy quostionat Lake of the Woods is eulminating into a war betweenthe provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, ïf not already begun. Chief of Pólice McMurpby and a Manitoba constable were arrested rec-ntly by Ontario specials and lcdged in jail at Manitoba but subsequently released on bail. An attempt was made to libérate Keys, an Ontario policeman arreeted for sellingliquor on the Indian reserve. It took a strong Manitoba force to guard the leckup. It is feared that the action of Capt. Brockton, magistrate of the Manitoba governraent will precipítate a crisis. It is understood that in the event of trouble the Manitoba authorities will probablv receive severe hanrtling as a grtater portion of the mili hands and eitizens are in sympathy with Ontario. Chief Constantin of the Maní toba provincial pólice has received instructions to swear in 12 special constables. The latest dispatch from the Fcene of conflict says three Manttoba constables were arrested, one for receiving money under false pretences, two for disorderly conduct, aud two Ontario constables for disorderly eonduct. People nearly all favor Ontario on account of Magistrate Brockton's duninceriug conduct. If constables come from Wlunipeg toassist firockton 75 men working irrthe milis will act as constables for Ontario. Hot work is expetted uniess the dominion government takes charge oL the country. Judge Okey of the supremo court of Ohio, disfents from the opinión of hls compeers as to the constitulionality of the Scott liquor law. Okey holdsit tobe simply alicensc, henee un;anstitutional. Therc is no material change in the situation of the striking telegraphers, exeept" a gradual iinprovemeni of the seivice in the hands of the "raw recruits;" The Western Union shows uo signs of weakeuing. Judge Allen has overruled the motion for a new tria' iu the case of ex-treasurtt Polk of Tennessce. The case has been appealed to the 6upreme court and the bond raised to $45,000. Cadet Thomas L. Hartigan a senior in the United States Military academj lias been dismissed for hazing. Capt. Webb's body has been found a few miles below Lewistown, N. Y. Prof. D. S. Anghey, of the University of Nebraka is held en charges of forgery that will aggregate $4,000. Francisco Barca, Spinish envoy and minister p:enipotentiary to the United States, committed suicide athis botel in New York by sbooting himself. He had been despondent for seyeral daye, but bis de6pondency was attributed to the f act that hj was soon to be separated from his family for an indeflnite period. From letters found in hisroom it was learned that he was lieavily nnbarrapscd, having speculatcd in Wall Street, and losing. Somo workmen digging gravel in the vicinity of the Cincinnati Southern railroad depot at Cincinnati, discovered the body of young Wefer who was lost there last February at the time the flood swept awav a portion ( the depot. baloon keepers in St. Louis, Mo., propose to test the legality of the Sunday law. On last Sundav nearly 1,300 business places were open, including the saloons, bnt itseems to be Ihe saloon men who are mcU determin ed. A nuinber of arrests have been made' and the matteris watched with great interes by all lovers of law d order. The coinagei'. the United States mint the past roonth aggregated 3,050,000 pieces valued at il, 328,8011. The amount includcs 1,200,000 silver dollars. Gen. Bonachca, a Cuban of some note, is uow in New York with the purpose oí reorganizing the republiean governmont of Cuba. He has had soine important interviews with leading capitalista upon the subject. One of them told him that if Gen (irant would favor the plan and name some military comraaLder to take oharge of it, i5,000,000 could be had in a very shorr, time for the f reeiug of Cuba. Gen. ÍJouachea has agreed to accept iiuy plan that may be necessary to accomplish the purpose. Tiie Spanish goveruineu', uow obtains $20,000,000 revenue annually from Cuba. The sura needed to free that country would not be one-half tuit amount. It is uot known what the result of Gen. Bouachea's negotiations will be, hut it is expected we are on the eve of lively times. Gen. Grant has always been in favor of our cettiBg Cuba, and this plan inav strike favor.ibly if there is none better. It is pow conofcdad by 6ensiMe Cuham that if tlioy had askcd to bccome one of the Btates of the Union when thev rcbelled against, Spain at Tara, on t.he 19th öf October, 1S69, tlieir cause would have succceícd. This time they will not make such a mistake. CKIME Another bloody tragedy, whevein a tiri's houor was the cause, was enaeted in ¦Vood uouniy, ten miles cast of Parkersburg, W. Ya. Joliu B. Coe, aged slxty-eight, and his on Waker, tweaty-eight year, ware tho per,etrator? of the deed. Calvin WiUiams, the áetiui of the tragedy, was well tkought of, as prere also the Coee. Wiiliam was engaged to oe's dangbter, and the father and son allege ae should have married her to save trouble. rhev met him near nis residence, when a cuarrelensuei), and the Coes shot and killed the f oung man. The Coks ere both arrested. A youth uarued Silvey, aged 17, living near (.Vnt-rville, tía., stabbed hls older brother in the left side, killiug him. A Coroner's jury found him guilty oL nmrder. A (lispatek from Wisconsin Juncüon, Wis., says that Lorcnso Craudal), keeper of the farmers' eo-operative store and postmaster of the village, was attaeked at his house the other night by three maskid mep, who rushed into the slttlog room while he was sitting on the sofa talking to his wife. The men carried her out and ordered him to throw up hU hands. Cranda'.l was lyin.K on his hack with his hands ia his pockets, in onc of which he carried his rerolver. Throwing himself on the floor he whipped out his pistol anti fired at the leader, sho ting him throuih the right breast. Onc of the assailants iired in return, the ball passing through the iingcr of Crandall'a left hand. The lignt was put out by the robbers, who fired half a dozen shots. Oue ball lmbeddeditseif in Crandall's right wrist. They fled, but Crandall followcd, and being joined by four friend?, ho rau dovru the leader of the eane who died, as he scized him, from the efacti of the round he had recelved in the house. The otuers escaped. Crandall was presented with a purse of nioney by the eitizens, and resolutions applaudiug his bra'ery were passed at a mass meeting. Crandall had only $!0 in his possefsiou n iien attaeked. The burglar shot is anknown. Lydia Fisher, a comely young school eirlof Wilmiatou, Ohio, has sworu outwarrant6 for the arrest of Johnuy Watsou, nine yearsold; Frank Watson, twelve; Ira Mulla dore, thirteen; and FraBk Mulladore, fourteen, charging them with assault wi'h intent to kill The quarrel arose over some childish i dit. ute. The boys have been arrested and locked up to await, triaj. POL1TICAL V0TI2ÏG IN NEW UAMPSBIKE. The 33d joint ballot for Uuited States Senator gave Harrj Bingham 114 y.ites, and 1 Wm, E. Chandler TO, with others gcatteriDK. . Theworkof electing a Senator from the old , Granite State was begun June 14, and from preeent appearanccs they arenonearer a cholee now than at that time. IÍ the lagielature coukl be induced to close the contest and elect a ir.n toe liet of new senators would be complet. VIRGINIA BOURBONS. The Democratie state convention of Vfrginiametat Lynehburg a few days ago f o the organization öf tt e party, and was well attended. A platform was adopted opposire any increase in taxation, favoring a tariff for revenue, limited to our necesslties, and oppokg the system of mixed schools, deelarlng that the interest of both races vould be best 6ubserved by preserving a separate and dlstinct organization for the two races, giving to the ".olored race, all the prefcrences and privileges eujoyed by ihe whites. The Democrats are opposed to bossism, and adopted resolutions arraigning in strong terms the administration of national and state, and especially betweenthc president and Mabone. The convention was harmonious in every way, and after listeuing to eevcral strong addresses, adjourned. WITHOUT RESULT. The 35th joint ballot in the New Hampshire legislature was without result. Jh8ndler lost four votes, and Bingham merely held hls own. KO RESULT. No result was reauhed in the New Oampshire contest on the 37th ballot. Chandkr lost 25 votes, and other votes were badlv scattcred. I.O2ÍG DRAWX OÜT. The 38th joint ballot for United States Se ii' r In ti e New liampsuire legislatura was taken on Ji.ly 31st. Cbandler lost 15 votes, mal 1'iKf gaiued au equal number. Bingham has dropped from the eontest. OTHKR. LANU8. Cetewayo did not dio alone. Many of lus ehiefs and all of his wives were killed with him. During the three inonths ending in July, there were 5,327 emigrants asslsted out of Great Brilain, at a cost of L05,000, of which the government paid L26,000. To add to other horrors in Egypt the Nile has coinmenced to rlse. Prof. Putlitz who killed himself after drawing a death lot in a êo-called American duel, refuscd to tight a duel in the ordinary way because his antagonist was short-sighted. His death attractsseriousattention to thedueliug mania. A convention between Switzerland and the United States, according to whieh any dilTcrenues will be settled by arbitration, is about to be submitted to the Siviss federal assembly. The eonvention is accepted by the United States. Alonzo Watts, a Negro of Kalamazoo, in a quarrel with his wife, shot her tf.rough the brain. She cannot live. Kast Tawas is considerably exoited over liquor prosecutions. Vassar has just completed a line roller (louring mili. An agvicultural society has been forined in St. Louis. A fair is to be held there thls fall. F. J. Wakefield of Grand Rapids is in trouble, bcing chargad with embezzling $140.50 from his partner, who runs a policy shop. Now he can put his partner in trouble for running a policy shop, A. J. Jackson of Grand Traverse caught a seven-pouinl California salmón trout in his nets recently. It was one of those pianted by the fish commissioners a fe'v years ago. About 3000 carbines have been shipp from Liverpool t0 Henry M. ítanley, the Af can explorer. The Catholic Bishops have begun to use the iower granted. tnem under provisión of the government's chureh act recently psed, and ordered all vicars and candidatos for the priesthood to retura to Prussia. Intelligence has been reccived that James Carey, the "informer" in the Phoenix l'ark murder trials, was shot while on & steamer between Cape Town and Port Elizabotb, South África by a passenger namc.l O'Donuell, who had doggeh the iuformer from London. O'Donuell is undcr arrest. O'Donnoll, the man whe murdtred Carey, t'ie informer, is said to be an IrishAmerican. A fund has been started for his. del ente The only American known to have been injured by the earthquakeon tho island of Ischia ta a Miss Van Allen, and she was but sllghtly injured. Mount "Vcsuvin' i "active"' again. A dispatch to the Londou Times says the number of deaths from cholera at Mansurah on July 25 was 13, at Chibin 113, at Ziftch 23, at Mi-hallct 43, at GLizeh 95, at Tantah 10. Two hundred and eighty deaths from cholera occurred at Cairo within 12 hours. A dispatch to the Central News states tbat55S deaths from cholera occurred at Cairo during the last 24 houre ending July 26. A dispateh from Dnrban. South Africa, saye Cetewayo bas been killed by a holiest tribe. Reports not confirmed. MOKTALITT ITCREASIÏT. Ueaths by choiora on the 26th: At Datnietta 5, tantab, 28, Mehalla 35, Chobar 6 5aminoud 7, Mehallet 56, Zlfteh 31, Mansouahl2, Ghizeh55, Menzaleh 1, Alexandria 2, Jairo 422. The cleath roll f rom cholera iu Egyptian eities on the 27th of July. was very heavy, reaching several hundred. TVentY-five English soldiers dled in one dav. At Cairo on July 28lh thcre were 277 ieaths from cholera, 6evcral British troops belng atnong tbe number; at Chibin, 105; at Mahala, 52; atTantah, 2S. at Ismalia, 3, and aeveral at Alexandria. Therc were 390 dealhs on July 29 th from cholera at Cairo and 443 at twenty other places between Minyeh and the MedHerranean. The government is considerin a project for the partial buruing oí other dangerous quarters of the city like Bulak. An analysis of the waters of the Nile shows that it is infected with putrid matter as far as above the ctaructf-'. Special dispatches state that the dispa6C is less viralent at Cairo, and cases under treatment are more bopeful. The number of deaths on July SI at Cairo was 275. At Alexa-idriaeigbt deaths are reported and at other pi i.i s 4SÍ. .PPAIilimO CAliAMITY. Thrco Town Complctely destroyed The Island of Ischia, off Naples has been the scène of desolation unequalled since the days of llerculanium and Pompeii. Ischia íb a watering place resort, and thousandj of visitors.werè tiiere, iu the towns of Casamicciola Laceo and Forio, Without warning, and with irrc6Í3tible forcé, eime an earthquaice shock. Theatres were open, and lllled to thcir utmost, when lights were suddenly overthrowu, and soon buildings were on lire in all quarters and cloudl of smoke and dust iilled tbe air. 'fue ground opened in many places and the hotels sank into the earth, burying manyof the inmates. The theatre literally burst open, and the terrifled people were thrown with fearful force in every direction. Many of the people es=aped to the sea at the flrst shock, and made their way to Naples. In the town of Laceo, out of 1(100 people only flve escaped. The corpses are fearfuliy mutilatcd, and hundreds so inuch so as to bear no re6emblanee whatever to human shape. The shock only lastcd fifteen minutes. Prof. Palmieri, director of the observatory at Mt. Vesuvius, states that the disaster on the islaud of Ischia was not due to an eaitbquakebutto the eubsidonceof thesoil. Later adviecs state that tbe number of killed is between 4.000 and 5,000, while 2,000 were wounded. Many lay buried in the ruirs for hour b fore they eould be moved, and many die b-fore they could be reached.

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