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9
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July
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1884
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Compiled from Late Dispatches. CONGEESSIONAL. Bi i.i. s were passcd in the Sc nut oa the Ut: To provide for a branc of the Soldier' Home westoftho Mlsissippi; for the relief of soldier improperly eharged with desertion, nd to g rauta pension of flfty dollar per month lo Uw widow of General James B. Stcedman. It wa agreed to refcr to the Committee on IMnanoo resolutions for the redemption of IO,0üO,0UO trade dollars, and for an inyestigation into the condition of tbc bank in New York. The Kiver and Harbor bill led to prolonired debate, but was flnally passed as it came from the House, appropriatine I3,54,T00 In the House the Conference Committeeson the Naval Appropriation and Postoffice Appropriation bilis reported failure to agree, and new cominittces were apuointed. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill (120.000.000) wa passcd in the Senate on the 2d. after triking out the clause providing salaries instead of fecs for United States Marshals. Mr. Shermnn offered a resolution that on the 4th of July the Dcclaratlon of Indepondence and Washington s farewell addres bo read to the Senate by its Secretary In the House a message ïeceived from President Arthur vetoinr the bill for the relief of Fita John Porter, the Attorney General havln pronounced it clearly iinconstitutional. The House passed the mcasure over the President' objettions by 1B8 to 78. The mlnority FortlBcation bill. approprlating 1595,000. was passed by 150 to 91. The Senate on the 3d, by a vote of Í7 to 27, falled to pas the Fiti Johu Porter bill over the President' veto. The nti-Chlnese bill waspassed by to 12. ...In the Houo tho select committee made a report that William H. Enlish wa not truilty of brcach of Í)rivile(re, while a minority declaren tnat ne obbied on the iloor in the interest of ni son. The Senate amendments to the Fortiflcation Appropriation bill were not concurred in, ajid new conferees were appointed. On the Uh the Senate passed bilis to penin the widow of General Ord; to increaso the 1iowance to Mrs. Frank P. Blair. and to thorize the retirement of General Averill with the rank of Colonel. Action on the Postal Telcuraph bill was postponed for tho session.... The House agreod to the conference report on the River and Harbor blll, which raises the appropriation to H8,W8,700. DOMESTIC. [ 9l was reported on the SOth uit. that a ffistruction train on the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City Railroad went through a temporary bridge.over the Grand River, not far from Sumner, Mo., and ten men lost their lives. Thkrk are now over 50,030 post-olïlees in the United States. In Belknap and Graftou Counties, N. H., myriads ot grasshoppers had made their appearance on the 30th uit., and were doing great damage to the growinjr hay erop. John F. Moodt, a wealthy planter ot Jackson County, Ala., during a quarrel a few days ago with two neignbors named Council shot and killed them both. A fibk in a Youngstown (O.) suburb early on the morning of the 30th uit. destroyed Mrs. Murphy's house, her three childran, aged flve, seven and nine years, perishing in the dames. St. Joseph's Catholic Orphan Asytum near Newport, Ky., was burned onthe 30th uit. The inmates all escaped, and were temporarily quartered in Newport. AT Wharton, Tex., a few days ago H. Gibbs got into an altercation with Sheriff W. C. Brooks and his brother and shot them both, the Sheriff fatally. Gibbs escaped. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 28th uit. aggregated $827,273,294, against 1765,952,000 the previous week. As compared with the eorresponding period of 1883, the clearings showed a decrease of one per cent. The citizens of Eastern Montana were on the lst urging Secretary Teller to remove Bine hundred renegada Cheyenne Indians from the lands along the Tongue and Rosebud Rivers. The sa rages were killing cattle, haring nothing else on which to subsist, and the stockmen tbxeatened to appeal to arms. Dükinu a recent quarrel in New York John Kelly, aged eleven years, shot and killed James Quinn, of the same age. Che investigation of tbe defalcation of ex-State Treasurer Thomas J. Churchill, of Arkansas, who served three terms, showed on the lst that he purloined a total of $80,522, taking in tho flrst two years $f4,309. Díaz, a Cuban, was found guilty on the lst at Key West, Fla., of violating the Neutrality laws in arming an expedition against a friendly power. Dübinq the first quarter of the year 1884, as comparèd with a similar period in 1883, Hiere was a decrease in the sales of pustage stamps in the United States amounting in the aggregate to $1,051,110. The Walthani Watch Company, of Massrtchusetts, has decided to run only four days each week in July, and to suspend entirely for half of August. Over $2,500,000 of $1 and $2 bill have recently been issued from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving at Washington. A colusión of freightcars caused a petroleum fire at Driftwood, Pa., on the lst, which consumed fifteen buildings, including the office and Gazette office, oausine a loss of $125,000. The public-debt statement issued on the lst makes the following exhibit: Total debt (inclurting interest of $11,507,240), $1,842,036,103. Cash in Treasury, $391,985,928. Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,450,050,. 2S5. Decreuw during June, $9,217,236. Decroase since June 35, 1883, 101,040,971. Advices of the lst from KowlandsTiüe, Md., 8tated that the little town was nearly swept away by the recent rising of Basin Run and Octara Creek. The heaviest damage was to the works of tba Mc Cullough Iron Corapany, situated at the junction of the streams. These large buildings werejcorapletaly destroyed, and tbe loss would be $100,000. The water rose to a height of twenty four feet. Ther was nat a bridge lef t standing, and In ta country around about most of the bousei were washed away. AU that were left standing were unsaCs and would have to be rebuilt. A destructivk wind and rain-storm raged in the district between Washington, D. C, and York, Pa., on the night of the lst. Houses were wrecked, bridges swept away, and grain and corn-fielda almost ruined. The damage was very great. Tbe failure is announced of the Ooiden Age Flouring-Mill Company, of San Francisco, with liabilities of $100,000. KKEiüHT.trains on the Kentucky Central Road were telescopen the other day near Cuoningham, and Mr. Gillam aod Mrs. Hastings, of Berea, Ky., passengers, lost ihelr live. Frvs catton-duclc milis in Marylaad, ewBed by William E. Hooper Sc Sons, in which twelre hundred man wer empluy d, hare stout éewn for the surnmcr en account of a flat goods. The pork-slaughterlng house of J. & F. Schrot, at ClndnnaU, was dtroyd by flra a few ntghls ago, and one hundred and twenty-flf bojs wro bornd to death. Colonei. Robkbt M. Goodwiw, imprlsoned In the Jeffarsonrille (Ind.) State I'rison for killljur bis brotber, Dr. Jobn Ooodwin, connnitted suicide on the 2d by taMngpoiion. Kichabd Heluji, a wldower.'was married at Fonda, N. Y., on the 2d, thereby forfeiting $120,000 left by hls flrst spouse on condition that h should not remarry. Thb Plymouth Sarings Bank ol Plymouth, Pa., and tbe Savings Bank at Qloucester City, N. J., closed their doors on the 2nd. Tiizre were nine cases of sun-stroke In New York City on the 2d. Whii.e laborera were digging a well on the 2d near Silox, Lincoln County, Mo., they struck oil.ithe gushing fluid compelling them to quit work. Two bots named Wood and Dempsey were killed by lightning a few days ago while standing under a tree at Latonia, O. Tbs oWest daughter of Hope Wheatstone, a prominent colored planter, was waylaid near Bastrop, La., on the eveoing of the 2d, and shot dead. In an Albany (N. Y.) bank a tbief on the 2d took from a teller's window a book containing $3,000 and mysteriously disappeared. Hodoks. Hbey4;_Co.. oí New York. tnaufacturers of straw gooda, have lanea for $300,000. In the United States and Canada there were 165 business failures during the seven days ended on the Sd, against 173 the previous seven days. The distribution was as follows: Middle States, 42; New England States, IS; Western, 47; Southern, 27; Pacific States and Territories, K; Cviada, 19. A WIND-3T0HM at Sioux City, Ia„ and its guburbs on the afternoon of the 4th wrecked the Episcopal Mission School, the plow factory and Booge & Co. 's packinghouse. Glassfronts and weak walls were demolished, structures unroofed, and trees leveled. Whilk filling'a torpedo-shell with nitroglycerine atClarendon, Pa., theother evening Patrick Connelly was blown to pieces by its accidental explosión. ¦ Lkib, Treasurer of Washington County, Tex., was arrested on the 3d for a $27,000 defalcation. The Silver & Deming Manufacturing Corapany's buildings were burned the other day at Salem, O., the loss being estimated at $100,000. Thb thirteen-year locusta hare made their appearance in St. Helena Parish, La. Spontanboüs combustion'on th 8d rBulted in a flre which destroyed the Reveré (Mass.) Rubber Works, occupying three acres, entailing a loss of $500,000. THK,President issued a proclamation on the Sil warning people who contemplated settlinR in the Oklaboma district, in Indian Territory, that they would be ejected b the military. Thirteen business buildings at Pember ville, O., were burned on the 3d, causing loss of $75,000. By an explosión of gas and oil recently at South Olive, O., three men lost their lires. It was announced on the 4th that the number of killed and drowned by the recent railroad disaster near Sumner, Mo., was flfteen, and as many mor were wounded. K. M. Cherrie & Co., of Chicago, pigivon manufacturers, failed on the 3d. The liabilities were placed at $350,000 the assets at $650,000. Durinq a heavy nd-storm on the "d in Nebraska two soldiers named Gardner and Wanestoff were killed by a falling tree while en route to Fort Omaha. At Fiemont wind unroofed the Enos Hotel and the court-house, demolished several buildings, and blew down many trees. Samuel Anderson dropped dead from fright. The school-house and several other buildings were destroyed at Stewart. At the works of the Calumet Iron & Steel Corapany, near Chicago, four men were suffocated by the escaping gas while cleaning a chimney a few days ago. Two desperadoes of Garrard County, Ky., named Best, killed a negro on the roadway recently because he refused to cease fanning himself. PERSONAL AND POLITICA!. The New York Anti-Monopolists on the 29th uit. decided to form a National League, having a branch in every city of the Union. President Arthur on the 30th uit. sent to the Senate the name of ex-Congressman Henry S. Neal, of Ohio, to be Solicitor oí the Treasurv. President Arthur has approved the et granting letter-carriers at free-delivery offices flfteen days of absenco in each year. A COURT-MARTIAL for the trial of Judge Advocate General Swaim will meet in Washington on September 10, under the presidency of General Schofield. Allan Pinkerton, the celebrated detective, died at his home in Chicago on the lst, in his sixty-flfth year. He was a native of Glasgow, Scotland. He leayes a widow, two sons and a daughter, and was possessed of a large fortune. The Illinois Democrats met in State Convention at Peoria on the 2d, and nominatedthe following ticket: For Governor, Carter H. Harrison, of Cook; LieutenantGovernor, Henry Seiter, of St. Clair; Secretary of State, Michael J. Dougherty, of Knox; Treasurer, Alfred Orendorff, of Sangamon; Auditor, Waller K Carlin, of Jersey; Attorney-General, Robert. A. McKinley, of Edgar. The platform adopted denounces protection ; advocates a tariff for revenue only ; favors pensions for soldiers and sailors; oppusm land-grabbing by foreigMrs or others for speculative purposes; condemns competition between honest and convict labor; favors an eight-hour law, and declares that sumptuary legislation on the enactment of a prohibitory law is fanatical, " destructivo of the rights of freemen, aDd fraught with manifold evils." President Arthur on the 2d nominated Judge C. S. Zane, of Springfield, 111., for Chief-Justice of Utah. The Senate confirmed Henry S. Neal, of Ohio, as Solicitor of the Treasury; Watson C. Squire as Governor of Washington Territory, and Gilbert A. Pierce, of Illinois, as Governor of Dakota. President Arthur on the 4th nominated John A. Kasson, of Iowa, to be Minister to Germany; Alphonso Taft, of Ohio, Minister to Russia, and John M. Fraocis, of New York, Minister to Austria. Miss Kate Shelley, of Ogden, Ia., was n the Ith presented with the medal of henar warded by the Legislature of th State for her heroism inavlng a passenger train tem belng wracked on abrokentresllraft Tas Iowa Prohlbftory Liquor law wen tnto effect on the 4th. John Jarrett, of Pittsburgh, Pa., wu an the 4t norainated by the President fur Commissioner of Labor, under the LaborBureau act recenuy passeü. Thk Indiana Prohibitionists will meet in State Convention at Indianapolis ou the 24th inst. to decide upon a de&nite line of ction to be taken by the temperance people in the coming campaign. The Kentucky State Prohibltion Convention met at Louis ville'on the 3dand elected delegates to the ïiationalj Couveution at Pittsburgh. FOREIGN. The shore end of the Mackey-Bennett cabl has been laid in Waterville Bay, on the Irisb coast, andj the mid-ocean spliees would probably be made about Jnly üL Castillo, the Spanish Premier, declored In the Cortes on the lst that Spain had absolutely no intention oí selling Cuba. Toulon reported six deaths irom cholera on the lst. Arrangementa had been nuli at Marseilles to fumígate travelers at the railway stations, three fatal cases havinf occurred. Italy bad sent a transport te toto away her citizens from the plaguestricken ports. Dr. Koch was about to start frem Berlín to ofïer his services to tb French Government. Quarantine regulatioos were being enforced by all the European nations. Bradlauoh was recently convicted of misdemeanor ia sitting and voting in tl British House of Commons as a member tor Northampton after administering to himself a form of oath. The lst was observed as Dominion day throughout Canada, a general holi4y being observed. Five thousand militiamen paraded at Toronto, and many wera overeóme by the intense heat. A n explosión a few days ago In a ooiliery atNanaimo, British Columbla, kilUd twenty-four miners and injured many others. At the recent National election in Mexico Porfirio Díaz was elected President without opposition. Thkre were six deaths from cholera at Toulon on the 2d and four at Marseilles. In the f ormer city there were 1 15 cholera patients in the hospitals. The report that the disease prevailed at I.yotis was denied. Five cases at: Toulon were said to have been cured by inhaling pure oxygen. The Russian Emperor has contributed $100,000 toward the relief of sufferers in the inundated districts of Poland. AdviceS of the2d from Assouan.Egypt, stated that twelve thousand Araba attcked and capturad Debbeh by assault, and massacred three thousand of the gai ¦ rison and inhabitants. Forest lires were on the 2d doing vast damage in the vicinity of Kingston, Ont. One tract of fourteen miles by three was envaloped in fiamos, and over one milllon fSt of lumber had been burne.d. Tas vr-.if 0OMC ni Maxïco ñas wanquarntined against, Frunce on account of the cholera. A fihk which broke out on the 4th in a saddlery-shop at Port Perry, Out., destroyed the whole business portion of that town. The loss was esl imated at $00,000. The formal presentation of Bartholdi's statue, "Liberty Enlighteninj? the World," by th French Government to the United I States took place in Paris en the 4t h. Toulon adrices of the 4th stated that the cholera was of the pure Asiatic type and the deaths avsraged ten daily. Sx thousand persons had fled from Marseilles, where the fatalities were six per day. Official notie was given on the Paris Bours that there had been no deaths In that city from cholera. Advices of the 3d frora Cairo stated that Khartoum was captured by El Mehdi th latter part of May. There was no massaere, the Europeans beiug well treated. LATER NEWS. BotJTHWiST of Decatur, 111., early on tha tnorning f the 5th cy clone ravaged tu district, thirty houses and barns being levalad, horses killed, and orchards and crops ruined. Near Boody the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and parsonage were wrecked, entailing a loss of $.5,000. TVo children were fatally hurt, and somo persons were rendered homeles. The Newark (O.) Machine Company's worka were destroyed by fire the other morning, causing loss o( $350,000. Rich Hlixand Walnut, Mc, were visited early the other morning by a tornado. The Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal churches were wrecked and other structures were unroofed. Several persons were slightly injured. There were four deaths from cholera at Toulon on the Oth and 130 cases were in the hospital. At Marseilles fifteen deaths occurred. Fortt houses occupied by laborers were recently burned at Laehine, Can., involving a loss of $50,000. The homeless peopla were sheltered in tents. Rurt'S Barr, a farmer, ïesidinp; nin railes from Indianapolis, shot his wife because of jealousy the other night, and thea killed himself. Sarqent, ex-Minister to (ermany, arrived at New York on the 6th from Europe. London advices of the 5th state that violent thunder storms had prevailed throughout England and Scotland, and the damage to property ivas estimated.at $2,000,000. The reports from different places where the storms had been heaviest showed that twelve persons had been killed by lightning. Two fatal cases of sun-stroke occurred on the tith at Dallas, Tex., where the mercury registered 102 degrees in the shade, and the water supply was so low as to cause great alarm. A Missouri Pacific south-boundfreight was recently precipitated through a buruing bridge at Checotah, Tex. Ten cara were wrecked and burned, and several persons were injured. In the United States Senate on the üth the State Commerce bill was postponed to December. The Senate insisted on its amendment to the Legislativa Appropriation bill reducing the number of customs and revenue collectors, and the House linally urrendered. The report of the Conference Committee to the Fortification bill was agreed to. The session was continued untü the evening of thetith, and all the approprition bilis except the Naval item were passed. In the House the appropriation bilis were discussed and finally passed, with the exception of the Naval item, which was provided for by making a temporary provisión for sir months. The session was continued uutil a late hour on the evening of the Gth.

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