The News Condensed

THK EAST. Threje persons were fatally injured in División street, New York, the other day, by a f alling wall Patrick Donabue, the proprietor oí tho Boston Pilot, recently failed and went iuto bankraptcy, and uow ït turns out that he has squaudered thousands of dollars of truMt funda that confiding friends bad placed in his keeping. The gamo of billiards playcd at New YorK bctween Cyrüle Dion and A. I'. Rudolphe for the champiooship of America, a diamond cue, and 81,000, on a f our-pocket table, 1,500 pointe, was wonbv Dion, ltudolphe scoring only 394 The New Jersev Honso of Bepresentatives has tabled, by a vote of 45 to 15, a bilí for the taxation of church property Drs. Storrcs aud Budington, the well-known Congregational clorgymeu of BrooTïlyn, have fonnally withdrawn from their fellowship with tho Congregational association, on account of tho Beecher ecandal. A terrible boiler explosión oceurred at Binghatnton, N. Y., last wook. Three persons were killed, two eoriouBly injurod, and a uumber of others slightly injured. Axexander T. Stewart, the great New York dry gooda merchant, died in that city on the lOth inst., of inflammation of tho bladder, with which ho had been afllieted for the past six years. Jlr. Stewart was bom in tho North of Irelaud in the year 1803. Ho was educated at Trinity CoUoge, Dublin, and the earlier part of his caretr was devoted to school-teaching. He cama to New York city in 1823, and, after teaohing scíiool for a short time, hostarteda rotail dngoods store in Broadwf y. His business increased sttatlily, until, for mauy ysars back, i he bas owued and manaefd probably tho largest dry goods howe in the world. His fortuno lina boi-ii variously eetimsted at from $30.000,000 to $60,000.000. hut, like the ate William B. Autoi's, it will probally prove to have been exaggerated. THE WEST. WnjjTO F. Stohey, the editor oí the Chicago Times, is foreman of the grand jury of tho Criminal court of that city 8ix roustabouts, : all negroes, lost their lives at Boonville, Mo., a few days ago. by the siuking of a grain barge. The city of Salt Lake. Utah. was thrown iuto constornation, the other day, by three terrible expïosiOHS, succeeding oaeh other at intervals of a fow seoaads. People ruhed into th itroots in terror, hornea ran away, and conrternation reigned mpreme. Windows were blown iu, doors blowu from theirhiuges, ofiimnoys blown down, and msiny buildings badJy injured. The cause of this terrible explosión waü not knowü j until an immone volnmo of smokö was seen ! riiíing from Arsenal Ilill. immediately north of I the city. Vpou this hül was four i niag&zines, iu whicli wero etored tüirty i or forty tons of powder, all of which explodod almost simultaneously. A flouring-mill and the water-works buildings on City Creok were ritïdied with boulders. Inimenae boulders feil. crashing fhrough buildings throiigliöut the city, some falling a milo distant. Ihere wero three men at work at one of these magazines. All that could be föntid vf them were small pieces of ñesh, the largeöt piece Iwing a portion of a foot in a boot. A Mrs. Vaunatta and a bey named Joeeuh Boddon, living in dtetant parts of tho city, were Btruck by boulders and killed, and one lady died from fright. A number of other persons were injured, somo probábly fatally. In the vicinity of the cxploded magazines wero found portions of the remains of two bojs who had gone out gunning in the morning. One of their hands was fonud clutcbing a duck. It is now faupposed they had fired into the magazine, cansing the explosión. A shocking tragedy was ouacted in St. Louis One day last week. A wealthy citizen named W. W. JUz had seduced a girl named Shano, who was working in his house as a servant. A brother of the giri a mero youtb, attackcd Jilz in hU ora maimion, firin'g a fatal shot through his luugs. The latter defended himself wich a revolver, uring fonr shots in rapid succession into Shine's bo3v, and inilicting almobt inatantanecus rieath. Jilz is the owner of a patent auger for boring wells, from whicu he has realiztd quite a fortune. He was a man of considerable inventivo genius, but of a restless, roving nature, and has lived in scores of towns in Illinois, Indiana. and Michigan An immense indignation meeting oí propertyowners and tax-payers was held in Farwell Hall, Chicago, one day last woek, to protast against tbe ballot-box outrages perpetrated oy the bummer pohticians at the recent town election in that city. The leading men of the city participated in the deliberations, and ludging from the tone of the speechen and reáolutions. tho determination ha been arrived at by the people of the city that the town officere who were fraudulently counted in shall not bo permitted to assume tho duties of the positura to which they claim to have been elected. Suggestions of vigilance committees, lamp-posts, etc., wtro freQly indulged in, and in a manner which indicates that the mest radical and summary remedies for the evils complained of tnay posBibly be resorted to in case of emergency. SOUTH. A New Orleans dispatch of a recent date says: "At a meeting, to-night, of the Southern Bepublican club, a wrangle occurred over the adoption of the minutes of the previous meeting. A fight ensued. and during the firing three men were shot, one of whom, Lucien Adama, Jr., will die. The other wounded are Lucien Adams, Sr., and John W. King. Others are reported wounded, but their names are kept secret by members of tho club." Thuee young men of Newport, Ky., wire drowned in the Ohio river, oppoeito that city, last week, by the sinking of a ekiff in which thoy were rowing across the stream Jefferson, Texas, telegram: "F. J. Pattillo, local editor of tho Jyeader, met and attacked Ward Taylor, editor of Jimplecure, with a cowhide. which he used freely till Taylor got bis pit-tol out, fired, and killed Pattillö immediately, the ball entering the heaiL The diöiculty óriginated in publications ín their reppoctive papers." The large Wholesale house of William H. Brown & Co., Baltimore, was áestroyed bv tiro last week. Loss, $225.000. WASHINOTOÏf. 3írtBEií3 of both Housea of Congress are looking forward with much apprehenSion to tlie anticipated dead-lock over the appropriatiou billa, A growiug disposition is manif ested in botii branches of Congres to have ita own way„aud the roflult of t!:e olwtinacy of eacii wül probably be repeated conferences and angry discusbiou until oue house or the other yielda.. . .Secretary Bristow, in replv to the resolution adopte'd by the House, as'king for the names of newtipaper oditors or c.nrespondeuts ho had paid mouey to in connectiou with the whisky roseeutions, Haya "tlir.t he hae neithcr tlie kno-.vlodge nor information of the paymont of any tura of mouey by any offidér ot perron to any nowspaper" editor or correspondent for any puipose whatever ; nor has he reason to eupposo that any euch payment has been miide." fleu. Headerfon, the aseidtant counsel in the whii-ky trialK at öt. Louis, who wh cUamissed by tlie President, was cxamined by tho House commitieO on the whisky proecutions tho other day, but coutributcd notbing new to the i stock of information npon that mibject. He kuew nothing about C. 8. Bel] and hi operations in St. Louis ; said he believcd tho letter of the Attorney-general to the district-attorneyswas calculatod t3 cripple the proseoutions, in that it wonld naturally intimídate or al&rm witnessPS ; said he did not exactly the cause of bid removol, but suppobed it was on ; coount (f reflections upon the President in Lid address to the jury. IxroioiATTox received by the State departmunt justifies the conclusión that tho British (lovernmeut lia fully docidod not to surrem'.er Winslow, the forger. Under the British laws the criminal will bo hr-M for a periodof Bixtj daya from the 2l8t of March, and can then domand to bo released under a habeas corpus. If WiiHow ís relossoi from custody, tbe extradition treaty bttweeu the two nations will ! doubteDy be terminatd Tho House BfMaiaJ committee in the whisky proseentions in Missouri examined DiHt. Atty'. Dyor at Washington, ouo day lat woek. Mr. Dver now seems to i t'ii;ik that all tho puspieiom l'o frankly entertaiued of everj'body in Washington, except Socritary Bristow and Solicitor Wiison, were grjundless. Tho tehtimony taken beforo the grand jury, Dyer Btai&?, was given to the defensc by a j;iror uamed Fox. ono of the two who voted ügainst indictment, who afterward went to Wa.ih'ugton and gave tho teutiinony away, getting in eome way bis son appointed to au office. Secisktaey Ciianbler testifies before the rommittte ou War Department Expenditnree tiiat the statements of the dotectivo, O. S. Bell; ao far as they relato to him, are wholly fa! -e. Ile says h; never bad any converéaüon with Bell; tiiat I.nckcy never "spoke to him abont that individual, and tiiat he had no knowledge whatever of his havicg been emlloyed by Babcock or his friends. Mr. Chaudler amittcd that seme weeks after tho trial ;d acquittal of ]5abcock he received a letter from Bario, of Philadolphia, sayiug that the expenses of the trial had boen $40, 000 ; that it üatl ruined Bubcrck, and that hc thonglit his friend shonld come to his aid. Therenpon ho dvoiv his ohock for il,0OO in Babcock's favor. . . . An order issued by tho President, through the Secrotary of War. directing the re-ostabÜHhmont of aiiny headquarteiB ba Washington, and also pnniilini,' rhat in future all orders issued by the War dppartmeut pertaining to military afftira slmll e promulgated through tho i.d of tlio Army. It was on this lattcr pnint thut the disagreeineut occurred botween (Jeu. Sherman aud Baoretary Bdknp, leading to the trfttieferof he-tdqitarters to St. oois . . . ! rwimuir Ofner! Jwll !ft Wwhiogtw or the 5th iust. on an official tour of the country, for tho purpoao of inspecting the principal mail-routos anti pogtoflices The Sonate Committee on Privileges and Electiona are roported to be unaniinoualy opposed to the House bijl prohibiting membor, Senators aud other officials from contributing money for elcction purposeü. It is claimed that, imdor the provisiona of the bilí, candidatos for office canuot subscribo money to purchaso newspapera to dislribnteamong votera. Gen. Babcock, Levi P. Lnckoy and A. C. Bradley, who were chargod by the djtcctive Bell, in his testimony before the Clymer Committee, with having hiredhim (Bell) to abstract important papera and ovidence from the Diatrictattorney's oflice at St. Loiu, havo been hearcl by tho eomtnittoe touching the mattor. Bradloy, who, it seonis, was a kind of secret attorney for Babcok, admits having directed Bell to get copies of al] tho evideuco ho could, and in case he could not get copiea to secure the eubstance and forward it to him in Washington. Babcock and Luckey both deny having cmployed Bell to perform tho service alleged by him. According to their atory, Bell repreaented to them that thcre was a groat couspiracy against the President by Bristow, Dycr, Honderaon and others, with a view of breaking down the adminiatration, and henee they hired Bell as a kind of spy on the doiuga of Hendcraon and Djer. A Washington dispatch of the 7th inat. saya : "A aub-committeo of tho Jndiciary Committee of the House has had the aafeburglary subject under invostigatiou for soveral days, and to-da'y struclc pomething substantial, II." G. Whiteïv, late Chief of the Secret Service División of the Treasury dopartraent, was indicted with Harringtoiv Assistant üintrictattornoy. and some pthers, forthesafe-barglary conspiracv. Whitely was pxr.niincd by the committeo to-day, and for threo honra gave the history of tbo conspiracy and tho manner of carrying it out. Hij testimony, if true, convicta Gen. O. E. Babcock of haviug given the íirtít orders that act tho conspiracy at work, and of having had a knowledge and a certain participatioii in it to the end. Whitely testiiitd that Babcock. for him and in bis own house, developed the service he was expected to perform." The Boutwell committee on tho ílisaiseippi troubies have decidí d not to begin their labora [ until an approoriation ie miule tu the conti i f umi of the Senate,' which ih reduoed to 82,000. i Trcnor W. Park teotitie before thu Cougresaional committeo that tlie Ernán mine excecded in value tkerepresentatiouri of ïlie vtndora Tho House Committee on Appropriatious havo decided in tho Legislative, Executive aud Judicial Appropriation bilí to reduce by consolidation the district of Internal Ueveimo irom 209, the preseut number. to 106. It is proponed to make a campromise and establish the number at ICO. Gen. Babcock donies tbe stoiy of Detective I Whitely impheating him in the eafo-burglary I consphacy. admita having dealings with ! Whiteiy, but claima that the work he as.-ñgned to him was the ferreting out of newspaper men who had boon denoflncing him (Iïabcock) for falae nieasure.nients of work mado for tho Eoard of Public Woiks Col. Broadhead, of St. Loui. was in Washington lust last week, and called npon tho President. -The lattcr eaid he had long depired to ej;!ain to kim (Broadhead) l.is actiqn in rovoking tiie order transferring supervisors, bb he had obBerred tbat BroHdhcad in Iiíh argumc-nt before the jury in ijt. Louis had followed the same line of argument as Henderspn in censuring thin revocatiou. Tbo Prci-idont explained his action at great length. Ho eaid the firat idea of a chango waa original with bim, ancl that he afterwaid rovokcd the order upon the represontatiODB made to him by Tiuton, in wtioni he had explicit conlidence. Tuttonsaid the transfer wonld be a mere ad vaneo notification to diatillern, and that the cnly way to discover crooked distülers was to sexvl au honoüt man secretly into tho auspecteil ditttiicts. Broadhead says Graut's explanation satisties him entirely w'ith the President' sincerity of purposo in the matter. GJSNKKAL. Bkvübe storms and floodá in the New England Statoa have caused aerious damage to mili proportv At Bumllville, Conn., a mili aaa mauuf&cturinfr property valued at over 8200,000 wero swept away. Somc damagu is aiso roported frem New Jersey. At Cantón, Worccster couuty, Maes., the llosey Pond dam gave way, destroying much valuahle mili property, and almost obliterating tho mannfacturing village of FullerviUo. Fortnnately, the loss of life was not large. It is estimatëd that the damago to property in New England bv tLe freshet will reach $1,000,000. Foety miners left Scranton, Pa., tho other day, for tho Black Hills. Thoy woro accompanied to the depot by a braBs band and a erowd of about 2,000 men, women aud children. Tha gold-huntera were provided with arms, ammunition and mining implements, and wero regularly officered. Clafijn c Co. 's boot and shoe factory at Hopkinton, Masa, has beea destroyed by fire. Loss, $200,000. The statement is made, on semi-official authority, that frauda on cuatomg amounting to from í 5, 000,000 to 7,100,000 per year huve boon perpetratcd f.t San Francisco, Cal. The military aituation in Mexico is gröwing decidedly interesting. The capture of Matamoraa was one of the most rapid and skillful operations of modern warfare, and if the insurgent chief continuos hia operations mth similar succeea to the cloae a change of government may not be regarded as an extraordinary event. Gen. Diaz bas expre?scd hi determination to remain at Matamoraa until lúa troops enter the city of Mexico, a threat, conBidering tho great eympathy manifested by the peoplo, and thedisaflectiou existing in the anny, which he seems not unhkely to carry into effect. DrRiNO tho quarter endiug with the month of March the rceeipts of the United fjtatea Patent office at Washington wero -5227,181.09, and the expenditures Í1G1,289.78, leaving an excess of rtceipts to the amcuut of $65,891.81. Seceetakï Fish has sent to the American Charge d'Affaira at Londen an oíKcial note informing him that the United States cannot under any circitmstances take cognizance of the act of the Bntiah Parliament of 1870 tonching extradition treaties, and peremptorily refuaing to give any aasnrances whatever th:it Winalow, the Boston forger, ahall not bo tried for any rims oxcept that for which extraditiou i aikcd. Ho also givea notico that the enforcement of thiB condition will be regarded l;y our Govanimeut aa au abro;;atiou by Great Brikain of the Aaliburton treaty. porjriOAi,. The Demócrata of Connccticut havo roeiected their Governor, Charles E. Ingersoll, by 7,500 majority, and secured a majority in both branches of the Legislatura Reporta have been telographed to Washington from New York to the effect tl:;t Seymonr, Church, aLd the Tammany crowd are ctivelv opposing thu appoiutment of a Tilden delegation to tho i',l. Ijouis convention. Eenator Kernan ami inoat of the New York Demócrata in Congres are also said to be opposril to Hié Goveruor. Tuk President has uomhiated Charlea J. McMillan to be Conwul-general at Korao A WaHhingtcu dispatch saya " the IllinoiB Democrats in Congress have entcrutl upouav. iy active ciuvass for Juutice Darid DaviH, (( the United Htetes Supremo conrt, as the üeriocratic Presidenlia! candidate." Theue was uo choico for Governor in Rhode Island by tbe popular vote, of which Lippitt (Rep.), receivcd 8,212 ; Howard (Prohib.), G,228 ; and iieüch (Dem.), 3,472. It uqw devolve upon the Legialature to choo-ic (i G ;vernor, and as that body is strongly Bopubltcau, Gov. Lippitt's re-olectiou is an a3sured f act. Tht. National Co'ored Conveu tion at Xashville, last week, waa quito largely attended. KeBolutions wore adopt9d reaflivming their devotioa to the lïcpnblican party ; that, nevertholesa, they have juut reaéou for complaiut apu;nHt thoHo nienabers who have pirt.Y6'.l recreant to theix tiusts ; returniug thanká to tho fronda of fredom ; and disfavor any desire to olieriKh il!feeling againat the ex-aláveho!ding clement of the Soutli ; expreas pratitudo to President Grant and Senator Morton for their effortd in bei al f of the colorod race, and favor a compulBory oducational la-v in the South. A Washington diapatch to the Chicago Tribune aayg : "There is good authority for the statement that the President has diücovered that he haa been decefved by Bobcock and others in very many things during the courae of lúa adminietration, and that he will aoon tako occasion in some decisivo way to convince the public of this fact. Thüse who havo recently conversed with .tho Freèident ay that ho has become keeuly conscious that ho has baen groasly deceivod and betrayed by thoae aromid iiim, and that ho baa never been fully awaro ui this until quite recently.... Blainolias rotnmed to Washington, exuberant and hopcful. He saya that he (xpectfi to rcceive ICO votes on the ürst ballot at Ciucinnati. FOKEH1N. Mixnk.sota and Indiana, with nine Southern States, are menticnod unfavorably in the report jnat pnbliohed in London by the council of foreign bondholdere Hoatiiities havo ceaaed in Auvasinia, aud negotiationa for pca'e with Egjpt are in progresa. Fkance bas dotermined to hold anothor Universal Exposition, opening at Paiis on tho lat of May, 1878 Affahu in Tiuk nh provincea are growing more threateuiny. Ui uv MnhoujinedHiia are joining the uvmrgt uta in Eoeuis. The law abolishing the stato cf siego in Fi-ance has been ofücially prömulgatcd. The London l)aü A'ews severely cbudemna the a;tion of tbs üuitod State in rejeoting he nom!ntion of Mr. Dnft . . , , Thiitv peraoo were tecvntf ftt Ufrdsn. 8oqtlua, t!9 other day. by the sinking of a ferry-boat which was benig drawu acrosB tholUver Deoby nieans of a wire rope. Official advices froji Madrid announce that ;he Governmont of King Alfonso is carefully organizing a forcé, which will iucjude some of the troops whicli recently surrendered under Don Carlos, for tho auppreseion of the Cnbnu rebellion. Tho avray wiJl rü for Havana about October 1, as it i not thonght advisiible to commence operations uutil after the sickly season in Cuba. A dispatch to the London Times from Odessa represente that the insurrection in Bosnia and Cfoatia is assumiug dangerous proportious. The majority of insurgente are veterans of the Anstrian militia. The Governor of Bosnia has advised tho proclamatioa of lioly war. He has boen rocallod. The intclligence is so alarmmg that tlie Rueaian Government is afraid to publish itinOdesüa. . . .ThoSt. Petersburg correspondent of the AUegemeine Zeituny maintains tliat the Czar reallj' intended to abdieato, lut tho idea was abandoncd iii conaequence of rostoration of his health.... lt is given out in St. Petersburg that tho Itussian govemment ÜiinltB the atldition of "Enipress of Inaia " to Quoou Victoria's title is just about the right thing, and wili good-naturedly give it official recognition aa soon as tho Queen officially assumes it The Englitjh univereity boat race thia was won by Cambridge. Affaiks on tho Rio Grande aro gfcttu.g dccidedly iuteresting. A fight rcceutly oocurred between Mexicaus and Amnricans, in which turco of the former and two of tho atter were killed. Tlie iight was about branding cattle. On tlie 10l.li inst. the Mexicans at New Laredo opooud iiro upon tho American citizöns and eoldiers across the river. wounding several persons. A hot fight ensued between Mexican and United yttes troops on oppoaito sides of the river, the latter throwiug sholls at a lively rato iuto the Mexioan town. Tbe Mark J.ane Express, in a review of tho British grain trade, says : "A f uil erop of wbeat must not bo expocted. The acreago uuder wheat appears to be abont five-eevenths of that of 1875, and the quautity oL wheat sold in tho country for sowiug has been conaiderably less than usual."