The News Condensed

THE GAST. A HORRIBI.E accident in reported from CI103ter, Pa., a few miles from Philadelphia. While a large iron steamship was being launched at Koaoh'a ship-yaxd, a nnmber of tho workmen woro overwhelmed by the vessel and eroahed to death. The workmeu liad boen given live minutes' uotice, but, for some reason. thoy l:iili.l to get out of the way, and au the vessel starled the sce;ie beeamo tino of tho most horrible in charaoter. The poor creatures coulrt bo seen btrucgiing to got out of tho way of tlie immense rollers, whieh moved resistlessly onward, ernshing and mungllng their bodies. as the vesscl was borne toward the river. No help could be given thein, aa it was tittoiïy iniposeible to reaeh them or to stop the immense vessel 111 its JuggernauUcal course. Tho usual cheering at the lamichiiigof a vessel gavo place to waila of anguish aml groan of pain. Tiloso who witnessed the scène were nttovly broken down with emotion, and could notspeakfor minutes aftor the vcsnel had glided intu t h ■ river. ïwo men were cut iu halves, others wete hurribly manglcd. and arma, iegs and boqiea lsid arcund. Evórythinr was covered with blood. Beven men ware killed and two seriously wouuded by the accident. New Yokk nierahaats aud mannfactnrers are interesting themsolves in the subject of American representation at the Paris ExpOdition of next ye.u-, aml have appointed a c.unmitteo to go to Washington and urge npon the President the importanco of taking the steps neoessary to . nable Americans to particípate ia thcworld's industrial display Destructive iires are reported at Reading, Pa., loss Y0,(100 at Greenpoint, N. Y., loss 9130,000, aud at Portland, New Brunswick, loss $50,000. A (UBBUOI contaiuing Hugh McDougal and SIrn. William Parkfl and daughter, of Paterson, N. J., was demolished at tliat place by an Erie train, and all seriously and probablv fatnllv ni.jiired....Themililia was invóked with good effect to supprous a. riot among strikiii" brickmakers at llaverstraw, N. Y., the other dav As soon as the rioters saw the miliüa they threw down thcir clul.s and became quict ' ■ In the United States District Court at Hartford UU, Judge Sbipman sentenoed to hard labor, at the btate prison, for a nmnber of yeata the two self-coufessed guilty officers of the Farmers and Mechanica' National Bank of Hartford -James L. Chapman, Oashier. and John C Tracy, President. Their crimes wcre perinrv l'L ;?bez2lment whereby the bank lost WvvOfWO. THE WKST. Fabmers from a large uumber of places in Illinois and adjoining States, says the Chicago Journal, report that winter and spring wheat and grass never looked lietter, and evorytlimc is favorable to an excoptionaliy heavv erop all arotttd. Wet weather, it is "said, has delaved tho corn-ilanting somewhat, as well as hindcred the sprouting of that already put in and replanting will be neeessai-y to a considerable extent 111 certuin localities. The verdict of the Coroner's jnry on the Rockford (111.) ealamity declares that the causes of tho falling of the Coart House were (1) the neglect of Henry L. Gay, the architect, to provide for the great aniouut of weight calltd for to complete the coustruction of naid building according to plans as dosigned by him-f2) thu want of care or prudc-nce on the part of said architect m not -giving special specirications and plans for the part or parts of the general plan required or expected to carry the weight in proportion to tl.eir superfices (3) the faet that the Board of bupervisors failed to use that caution m exanumng tlie plans and Bpecilieations that the coustruction of a building of that magnitudo wonld wem tt reqnire, and that they acted unwiselyin not employing a competent architect, to supenntend the construction of the uame. OXeary, the Chicago pedestrian, who has just retirrnod home from London, where he aetonished the Britons by bis ■ traordinary leg performances, announces that he will attempt the iinpreeeclcnted walk of 600 miles in six day. It is Btated in a dispateh from Omaha that . the Black Hills branch of the Union Paciiie railroad will be built immediately. Two routes have been snrvoyed by the Union Pacific engineers-one being from Chevenne ani the other from Sidney-and the people of North 1 latte have also survcyed a route from that SSSfevSu: ■■enn9 or Sidmy wi" bc the The assassins- five in number-of a party of inoDensive Chinamen at Chico, Cal., have been tried and found guilty Of murder in tho second dégreè.. . .The Chicago Tribune prints a series of erop reporta from HünU, Kansas, Wisconsm, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraaka, according to which the prospect is uniformly favorablo tor a growth and harvest of the verv heaviest .Scednig and planting are well disposed of and lor winter and spring wheat, oats, corn, etc., the ontlook Has not been so nattering for years! At North Vernon, Ind., one dar last 'week, the dweiliog of James Bess was destroyed by rire, and three small ehildren, who were in the house, poriahed in the llames. THB SOUTH. At Blandviüe, Ky., a lew nights ago, amob took from the jail a negro oharged with atti i.Jtïng to ontrage and murder a white wonian The rufiians put one end of a rope round the prisoner's neck, hitched the otber e:.u to a mulo, and dragged the wretch to the woods. The next morning his dead bodv was found „ddled with bullets,!langi„g to a tree and the clotlung burned off. A turf e-ent of such an extraordinary character as to merit especial notico occurred at Louisville the other day. In bis race against time tho JVnbroec! ran a mile in l-39?i betog two seconds taster than the best time for tnat distance previously aceomplishcd. A CoLi-Mi-.rs ,(;.,., dispatch announces the lynching of three negroes for the murder of Mr. C. C. Chambliss, of Stewart county. Ga, They attempted to rob the house and were resisted by Mrs. Chambhs.s when ,-ho was shot Uead. The murderers were hanged with a trace cham, negroes participating in the lynohWAHHINGTON. Becbktabï Bhdebiun bas decided to appoint a oommissfon to investígate tho Philadeiphia Custom Htmse, similar to ono now at work at New York .. Appointnients by the President : l.'luard P. Johns..n tobe United States Attoricy tot Wyoming Ttrritory; G. C. Wharton to '.; ruted States Attorney for Kentuckv; Frank CMlbert, of the Chicago Jmn-nal, to be Assistant United btates Treasurer at Chicaíro A short ttae ago the President received la letter porporting to l,e Uk. resignation of ot 1 - I'0Wltl' Chief Justice of Washington Territon-, and. not nspeoÖDg the genuinenes of the letter, ndmed Associato Jnsticc Green, of the saine Ternt-ry, U, Hl the mipposed vaeancy. It now turna out that the resignation was a base forgery. and the President has revoked the apiwintment of Judgo Green. A similar fraud was practiced six or seven years ago. while Judge Liwis was Chiof Justic,. at Idaho. A forged l;tter of rexignation having been receivedby the Prosident, his succ.-ss,r was apl"n,t.;,l and oonflrmed by the Senate before he had time to defeat the fraud. and therefore he had no remedy at that time.... The President hasaccepted the resignation of Hou. Oeorae H. Boker, Minister to liussia....A change ïn tbe metbod of detenniniug the tax on whiskv hiKlnvines and distilled producís, using weight mstead of bulk measurements, is nnder oonsideration by officials of the Interna] Revenu J-in-eau, and is favored by some of the largest distil ers in the couatry. It is holieved that the change proposed will secure a better and nimpler collection of the revenues. The total amount of silver isaued rince April 20, 187G, is 31, 738,400. Fractional cmrency oi.tstanding at this date, .20,075,807. One '"''m'J f frUoT'lal "noy was retired durg Maj . . . . 1 he President has appointed Jamo í-unchaT0"' ' UnitCtl t"at0K C'nsul at It is stated in a dispatch from Washington that '-the President, with the coneurrence of the Cabinet, has determined to recall all the foreiern Ministers. The theory is that these higher diplomatic officerj sustain relations to the President similar to those of Cabinet Ministers ; that tho civil-service rules do not apply to thein, and that they, in the very nature of the case, ought to ohsoge with the administra'"'" Snnnis, the fugitivo slave who was paptnred by Attorney General Devens, whenthe latter was United Statea Marshal at Boston dnruig Pioice's administration, and nnder tho í "gitive Slavc law tunied over to the anthorities at Bavannah, Ga., has been appointed messenger ín Gen. Devens' depai-tment. ís the ten montlis of the current fiscal year tbe value of exporta trom the United Statos to foreigD conntiics execeded that of the Importe .' 00,000, while the exporta and Importa of 1 iid buiiitin daring thé same period show a difference of 22,4ir, agtlnst tbis country Orders have been prepared for the closïngot thenatioual armóriea ufttr the SOth of June, no appropriations having been made for tbe pay f workmen and other expense. Tm: eommissioi, appointed some time ago to investígate the workings of the New York en lum House liave made a preliminar; report to fipcretery ÖUtrnian, in which they recornmi nd .1 icducfioil of 20 M:r cent. inthé working force of thé orneo, and urge ■ dlacontmaance of the practieeoi levying politioal assessments and a general freeing of thu customs service froin fino control oí party, 'l'ln: President, to whom the report was subuiitted, addiossed tbe following letter of indorsement to Secretary Shennaa : I concur witU tho commigsion in Uieir rccommondations. }t h niy wish tbat the enUVction of reveimes should bc. " freo frotn partinan control, and (n-ani.od on :i Rtrietly bnsincas baals, with thepajnp guáranteos for efficiency aud fldAHty in the solectlon of chief aud sul-oniinatf1 ofnec-rs that wouM bo rquin-u by a prudent merebant." Party leaders should have 110 morp influem-e in appointmeute thau otbcr cqually respeot&ble citizene. No auBessinents ! for political purposea on ofticers or rabordüuktea Bhould be ailowed. No uselesa offices or employé Bhould bo retaiued. No oflioer shouhl bcrequirea or pcmiittocl to take part in the management of politiCKl organffcaODDS, caucuHcs. ronvoiitionf, or eloctmn campaigns. Their rigbt to vote aud expresn their views on public quetitious, cither orally or tbrousb the prees, ia nol deaiea, providod it does not iuUrfcrc wltb the discharge of ui oaou) dutiOB. Rospectfnlly, B. 13. Hayks. POUWCAL. "Tiie President," says a Washington dlspatch, "bas informed Weitzol, of Oincinnati, that no rulo has been established by which an ofticer who had been in the service eight years would bo deemed incligiblo for röappointment. The oonversation, nowever, indioated an inolination on the part of the President to make changes in such oases, Qxcept where very strong rcasons led to the retention of sueh ofticers for a third term." The BrazUmn mission was (endered to oxSenator John A. Logan, and was by hira declincd for two roasons : first, because he did not desiro to enter into enforced political retiracy, which would be the natural consequonce of nisacceptance : second, bucause the iucome ($12.000) was not snch as would warrant him in a pecuniary sonse in accept ii i g. ... The Associated Press agent at the national capital reporta that " accordiug to previuus arrangement, a secret meeting was holfl in Washington one night last week, for tho purpose of organizing a national party," and fnrnishcx the following brief report of the convocation : " About 150 prrsons were present-. Those from the North expressed themselves stroiigly ngainst the coiu'se of the President and the Gabinet, alleging that they retained in office men who are oppoied to the principies of ; the Etepiibhcau party, to the exclusión of its tried and true aaherènts. Tho representativos from the Sonth deolared that the President had disearded the States which electod him, and liad given ofllces to the enemies of tho party, lïosolutions were adopted organizing the meeting iuto a national joint body. Permaneut ofnoera wcre electcd, with power to instituto branches thronghout the country, with head(juarters at Washington." It is rumored in Washington political circles that, as Attorney General Devens is not altogethcr contented with bis position in the Cabinot, the vacant Justiceship on the Supreme boneh of the United States will be placed at hls disposal by President Hayes. GENERAL, Tue Eiie, New York Central, Penusylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio raihvaya have entered into an alliance, by the terms of which the earnings from all freights shipped westward are to be pooled. Khipj)ers, however, are to be graciously ailowed to desígnate which route tliiy wish thcir property shipped over Burned : The extensivo warehouse of Kries & Co., at Cohuubus, Ohio, loss $25,000. insurance L7,000 ; at Taylor Station, Franklin county, Ohio, a railroad station, a large iniil, and severa] dwellings, loss not steted ; ! at Indiantown, New Brunswick, a sash-f actory, large carriage-factory and ten dweUingg, loss .50,000 ; at Gloversville, N. Y., twénty buildings in tho heart of the town, loss $100,000, inisuranco $00,000 ; at Pittsburgh, Pa., white-lead works of Davis, Chambera & Co., loss 8100,000, fully inaured Failed : John A. Bafter t Co., lïontreal, Canada, dry good.s, liabilities $110,000, assets $77,000; Hemy W. Beldsmeier, St. Louis, Ho., luraber dealer, liabilities large, assets small ; Gerstel & Winter, Bloomington, 111., tobáceo and Uquors, liabilities 820,000, assets è8,000. Recent deaths : W. H. C. Hosmer, poet and author, at his home in Avon, N. Y., age 63 ; at Dedham, Mass., Edmnnd Quincy, a man of letters, and a son of the late dútinguished Josiah Quincy, age 69 : John 31. Farmer, a prominent and popnlar citizen of Galena, 111. ; Col. M. D. Johnson, a leading morchant of Memphis, Tenn.; James Bishop, one of the oldest eettlcrs of HcLean eoimty, 111 The ttnth annual se?sion of " the National Women Suffrage Association bas just been held in New York. Mrs. Clemencc S. Lozier was clected President, and a Vice President was chosen for each State and Territory. ReRolutions were adopted demanding the ballot for nomen with the exercise of citizenship independent of sex, protesting against the memorial from Utah to Congress asking the disfianohisement of women in that Territory, and asking Congress to pass the Sixteenth amendmeut acknowledging the richt of women to vote The Penusylvania railroad bas ordered a reduction of 10 per cent. in the wages of all its employés. Bcuned : The oflice of tho National Printing i Company, on Franklin street, Chicago, loss (65,000 ; the Youngstowu rolling-mill, a Youngstown, Ohio, loss 8100,000: J. & A. J. Jlurres' molding and looking-glass factory, at Cincinnati, Ohio, loss 890,000: forty stores and dwellings in the town of Walkeiton, Bruce county. Canada, loss 8250,000 The checkermatch between Yates, of Brooklyn, and Martins. the British crack player, for the cliampionship of the world, has just been concluded at Ne n York, afttr acontestof twenty-onedavs, the American coming off victonous. Fortyninc games wcre played, Yates winning tlnéc aud Martin one, while forty-five were drawn. Yates is only 19 yeais old. THE TUKCO-RUSSIAN WAR. Tue cable furnishes fnll accounts of the second assault of the Russians on Batoum, and their disastrous repulse by the Turks. The latter, one account states, "were incitod to hattle by impresedve religioun oeremonies. Tbc gunners wero given arrack and ponder to drink, and met the liussian charges with the ferocity of mad men. Pursuing tlieir historie tactics. the OosKncks swarmed & the charge a dozen Untes, bent on hearing the Turks down by diut of numbers. Three times the outworks" wen: scaled and the intrenchments fahiv won, when the infuriated Turks, rouseö by religious appeals, rallied and drove their enemy back. The liussians captured and tnmed the artillery opon the Turks, and thoy broke in a panlc and fled headlong from the defenses. A t this moment a great mob of Turkish women and priests oame to the resoue with the green flag, shouting the Mussulman's war civ. The neodlc-gnns f Hing from the hands of the slain wcre seized by Use now-comers, and the ltussian advance, shattcred and repuleed, itlidrew, and tde onslanght ended in disastrous defeat. Between 4,000 and 5,000 Itussians were lef t dead and wounded in the ruged bilis between l!atonm and the ltussian line, and the roaünays and woods were strewn with arnis, eqnipmentB, nd every substantial token of victory." A strong Turkish naval squadron is threatening tho Uussian ports in the Crimea The liussian column engagod in enccessful operations against Ardahau has been sent lo reinforce the army operating agaiust Kars KossuHi is out in a letter urging an alliance between Austria and Hungary against "the common enemy," liussia. 'J'iik agitation for war in Hnngary increasee. . . . . It is said the Montenegrins will reopen hoRtilities against the Turks üünultaneously with the crossing of the Danube by the Russians A Vicuña dispatch reporta that the Turkish troops which (led from Artlahan have been defeuted in a mouutain pass near Kars. The ServianB are feverish for a renewaJ of hustilities agaijist Turkey Rnssia bas notilied the Bey of Tunis" that if he sendü Koldiers or pecuniary aid to the Sultan his capit:'l will be boinbarded by the Russian ileet Horses belonging to all civil and military functionaries in Turkey havo been requisitioned for the army. A Constantinopi.k dispatch says, " the Russians are advancing npon Erzeroum from Olti and various other pomts. The Russian loft wing appoars to bc moving in the direction of tho Euphrates valley. CJonstant skirmishes oecur between the Turkish and liussian advanced l'osts." A mob of Boftaa invaded the legislativo chamber at ConBtantinople the other day, and demanded the dismissal of tlie Ministers. The disaster at Ardahan is tho cause of the dissatisfaction, and thero is a strong feeling in favor of recalling Midhat Pasha to thehead of the Ministry A Jksrlin dispatch announces that "mensures have Ih'Cii adoped for the mobilization of (hu irhole Rnssianarmy toornsh Turkey bysnperior strength. Russia will probablv prit off all attempEsto cross the Danube in force till the middle of June." KewspaporoorreBpondenta are not ailowed to write or send a word from liussian or Turkish camps. Pictm-es alone are all that the news-gatherers can eend out unoflicially, and these havo to pass inspection A religión war has beun proclalmed in Bosnia. Advice from Rnssian soui'ces in Asia Minor claim that the Turks in Armenia are in a critica! position. The Bosman forces investing Kars and Erzeroum have secnred ailvantageous jxisitions commanding both plaoes. Their Burrender is olaimed áseertain. The turbulenco of the Softas in Coust:,ntinople has induced the Government to proclaim martial law in tlie city and vicinity. Street assemblages are iorbidden, and distnxDers of tho pcace will be shot or banished. ... i i Reports are rarrput of a Bulgarian risiiií; in - the Balkans The cable reporta a brink engagement on the Dauube, near Nikopolis, beEween a Turkish ironolad and the linssian : tiiientions. The Turks destroyed the earthworks and the eneniv retreated. leaving forty ■ dead on tlie tii'ld. . . . Rounianin's raply I" Coiuíl I Anchassy's note respeoting the free bavigatioii , of the Danube was unsatisfactory. The Austrian Government replied in energetic terms ' tbat it is not dispogsd to rooognize Roumania ! as a bolligerent ( The Rqssiaus Uve succeeded in blowiug up I another Tnrkish monitor on the Daimbo. A gmall party of Rossians approaohed tho vessel nnder cover of darknens, carrying a chain of small torpedoes filled Irith dyuamitc. No lonkout being kopt aboftrd tho monitor, thoy 80curely lodged the chain across her bows. On th ir return thoy dlsoharged the whole aeriee of torpedoea by ïneans of an elecfric battei-y. The monitor wan blowii into the air, and all on board pcrished. . . .Tho Czar has ixüucd a proclamation forbidding the granting of lettert of marque, llis Majostv says ho aof eptn the doclaration of tho treaty of Paris ri'ltai'fling frec navigation to neutral, and guarittitees carcful obseivance of this provisión of the treaty A Turkiih force of (iO,OOÜ or 7tMi(H) men is massed at Khuomia. a fortified city in Bulgaria, standing in a gorge on tho northern deoüvity of the Balkan rango. Tliis strODghold ia considerod one of the keys to the Xurkixh capital. Ir ia again roported that Kusia, Oermany ñnd At:stra have oime to an understanding by whicli the war h to bo loeïlized The iuhabitants of lïiiHtchuk. SiÜHtria. Varna and Shumla, the tour fortrosees comprising tho Turkjsh miadilateral. haM' been notilied that unless thoy have six montha' provisions on hand they mnst loavt vithin twelve days. . . . A diflpatcb from Bucharest saya it is now certain that the Rouminlan army will not ctohü the naiuibc vvith thoinvading forcorf, but will romain on thü Kouniiuiian Hidi: to guard the right llank . The departure of thcEgyptian oontiugent from Aleiandria waa dolayed dj a refasal of twenly'm ii Epghsh ongmeors of tho fleot to sail without the payment of arreara of aalary. 6KNKRAL FOREIGN NKWS. An Athene disputen ays war botween Greeee and Turkey is considerod inovitable. . . .Tliirty perKons were ï'econUy drowncd by the wreek of a vessel plying betwoen Adelaide and the Alhaiiy isles, on the northoast coast of Australia. „.In l-'rancc, a large nnmber of Profeet of liopublican jwlitical views have been disiaissed by ordor of l'residont MacMahon The change of administration in Franco Beems to have excited somo uneasiness among Gormin statesmen, and Biamarek has retnrned to Barí lin in responso to a speoial summon from the Emperor Hereaftor the eirculation of foreign aewspapere in France will only bepermitted after minuto censornhip. Hki'okts from tho faraine districta of India show :in iiifironso in the number cmployed on the tolief WOrks, and also in tiloso whD havo been gratnitously aidcd The qaestion is being dirtCUHsed in Vienna whethor it is not ad -isiiblo to incorpórate Bosnia, Herzegovina and Servia hito one state under au Austriau Archduke. . ..Advice from tho Hogue report that the whole east coast of Atchecn has submittod to the Dutch, and the war is probably ovor. Advices from Egypt state that "peace with Abyssinia has not yct beoncoucludo 1. Gordon l'asha had openod negotiations whloh seemed to bo progrossing most favorably, whon King John discovored a conspiracy in his camp. which he attributed to Egyptian agoncy. He immediately arrested Gordou Pasha's envoyB and two sous of the Egyptian Kheik of Zoila, and cut au arm and leg off the two latter." Ex-Phksident (hast and party arrived at Liverpool on the 28th of May, were wannly welcomcd by tho Mayor and ot-her distinguished officials, and left tho day aftcr for London.