The News

The announcemont was mado frora Washington on the Tth that General Nelson A. Miles, the famous Lidian flgbter, woiildbu appointed Signal Offlcer, to succeed the late General Myer. Genebal Gbant hasnotifled General Beale, ex-Minister to Austria, that he will I1 n Washington about October 1, and will be his (Beale's) guest. Hls yisit will relate to private matters. According to a Washington telegram of the 7th arrangements had been made to send a boat fifty miles down the Potomac to stop expected infected vessels from Cuba at that point. The authorities did notintend to allow the vessels, iL infected, to approach nearer Washington, A Washington telegram of the 8th 8ays the Board of Army Oflicers who reeently assemblod in Washington to revise the United States army regulations had eompleted their work. There was nothing in the raport of the Board that enlarged the powers of the General of the Army or curtailed the jurisdietiou of the Secretary of War. Pkssident Hayes has cornmuted the sentonce of death, reeently passed by Mr. Maynard, late United States Minister to Constantinople, on an American citizen found guilty of murder la Egypt, to imprisonment for life. Justice Swayne, of the United States Supreme Court, will, it is stated, be retired after the 6ession of the October term of the court. The Kast. The Republicana of the Third New Hampshire Distr.et have nominated E." W. Farr for Congress, those of the Tweuty-Sixtli New York District John H. Camp, and those of the First Connecticut John R. Buek. On the night of the 7th a Utica (N. Y.) man nameii G. W. Knapp committed suicide by jumpin into the rapids of the American Falls at Niágara, a short distance abovi; the preeipice. DüRiNG August 13, 300,000 bushels of grain were shifped from New York to Europe. In the Eastern States on the 8th nominations for Congress were made as follows: Fourth Connecticut District, W. H. Barnutn, Democrat, and Congressman Frederick Miles, Republiean; Tweuty-ninth New York, E. S. Lapham, Eepublican; Fourth New Jersey, llenry S. Ilarris, Democrat; Twenty-seeond New York, Conijressman Warner Miller, Republkan; Sixth New Jersey, Phineas Jones, Republiean. Small-pox prevails in the city o'f Camden, N. J., toan alarmina; extent, and on the 8th the Board of Edueation determined to close the public schools for one month. This was thought to be necessary, as the great majority of the cases reported had beea amon children, and it was with a hope ol preventtng its spread through tlieir mingling in the class-rooms that this actiou was taken. There were sixty cases of the disease in the city. On the 8th the Manhattan Market, situated between Thirty-fourth and Thirtyfirth streets, on Eleven th avenue, New York, was entirely destroyed by flre. Tlie building covered 160,000 square feet of ground, and eost originally $1,300.000. The Massachusetts Prohibitionists held tlieir State Convention at Worcester on the 8th and nominated a full State ticket, headed by Charles Almy for Governor. Charles Ltvingston is attempting to fast forty-two days, and is on exhibitionin Brooklyn, N. T. He completed his second day of the fast on the evening of the 8th. An ordinance was lately adopted by IJie Board of Aldermen of New York City requiring all druggists and other persons engaged ia compounding phsicians' prescriptions to keep all poisonous substances separate from harmless drugs, and in an apartment provided especially for the purpose, which is to bear in large letters a sign with the word "Poison" thereon. The department is to be kept securely locked in drug-stores and dispensariqs, and is to be opened only when necessary for the fillingof prescriptions, in the presence of the person beariug the prescription. On the 8th the National Democratie Executive Comtnittee met in New York and approved the movement to reconcile the differences in Virginia by the substitution of a sin le Electoral ticket for the two in the field, and expressed confldence that it would receive the support of all Virginians who deeire the election of Hancock. The followiug Congressional nominations were made on the 9th- all Republicana : Seventeenth Pennsylvania, General J. M. Campbell; Se veuth Pennsylvania, Congressman William Godshalk; Suventh New Jersey, Congressman Lewis A. Brigham; Third Counecticut, Congressman J. T. Wait. A fuiíious and destructive noi'theast sale swept along the New Jersey coaston the 9th, causiug much damage to dockage and shipping. The wind blew at the rate of sixty miles au hour. A Hakkisbukg (Pa.) new.-paper reporter secured remarkably accurate particular of var.ous burirlarles, and published thein some time in advance of the discovery of the crimes by the victima thereof. A detective was placed on the young man's track, and in a few days he was under arrest. He confessed to several burlaries and was sent to the penitentiary for od" year. O.v the night of the lOth a collision occurred betweea several Newark (X. J.)' Republican clubs aud some c.tizens of Harr:son. During the iight Bre-anns und sticks were used and foor members of the clubs were badly injured. On the even ing of the lOth Marshall O. Roberts, the well-known merchant and Rteamship owncr, died at his home in New York, aged sixty-six years. On the lOth the Republicans of the twenty-fouith New York District renominated Joseph Mason for Congres?. West and Soutli. RüFDí K. Gakland, a brother of United frtates Senator Garland, bas annouuced himself a as Greenback eapdidate Ier Congrcss in the Second Arkansas District. A few days since two colored men were Impa'nelea in the Grand Jurv of the Louisville (Ky.) Criminal Court, and one colored man served during tlie day on a petit jury. The white men ou both juries made 110 objection, although itwas the lirsttime intlie hlstory of the State of Kentucky that a negro served on a jury. Uk. John A. B.vuiiEKlias been placed on the California Republiean Electoral ticket, in place of Claus Spreckles, withdrawn beeause he had received a decoration from the K!g of the Sandwich Ielands. The Congressional nominations on the 7th were as follows: Sixth Wisconsin District, Congressmau Gabe Bouck, Democrat; Third Minnesota, General Sibley, Democrat; Th-.rd Iowa, M. 11. Moore, Greenback. The following Western and Southern Congressional nominutions were announced on theSth: Sacond Virginia District, John T. Dizendorf, Republiean; Second Maryland, Í1. T. Shaw, Democrat; Fifth Nonh Carolina, T. B. Keogh, Republiean; Foui-th Louisiaua, N. C. Blancnard, Democrat; Eecoud Wlscousin, Congressman L. B. Caswill, Uopubllcan; Eighth VViseonsln, Cbngressman 1 ( l'ound, Republiean; Ninth Michigan, George ee, Greenback; Third Iowa, William G. tpwart, Demoerat. The Greenbackers of the Scoond Missouri District liave nominated R. P. Maiue for Congre.-s. C. P. Ramsdell is tho Kepublican candidato in the Third Virginia, and J. Smith in the Fouith Alabama, Districta. Puesident Hayes and suite reached 3afl Francisco on the evening of the 9th, and ■ere cordially and cnthusiastieally received by the people of that city. Recent heavy rains have done much ilaniage to tlie tol'aceo erop in many counties of Virginia, particularly along the river bottoms. The touacco-worm has aleo been at work, and the erop will, it is said, be the smallest raised in Virginia for many years. Ax east-bound express train on the Indiannpjlis & St. Louis Kailway was thrown Trom the track on a bridge thirty feet liieh, near Terre Haute, Ind., on the night of the 8th. Geors;o Morris, conductor, was killed and several passeugers were injured. One of the rails on the bridge had been loosened and drawn to oue side by some miscreant, in the hope that the cars would be throwu intó the chasm. Accokding to a Seattle (W. T.) dispatch of the lOth Captain Smith, of the steamer Josephine, ho just arrived from Sk;ii;it, report.ed that wliile ascendinsi that river a few dus before, wheu op;osite Mount Baker, he obset ved the mount.iin in a state of violent eruption, ñames streaniinij upfrom the sununit and large volumes of sinoke ascendiiK. Dr. Bdchanan, the Philadelphia phvsician of bomis diploma uotoriety, was arrested at the village of' SL Clair, Mieh., on the 9th and taken to Philatlelphia the uext day. Conressional nominations wcre annouaced on the lUtli asfollows: First Kansas District, C. C. Jïurns, Democrat in place of Tomlinson, declined; Secoud Kansas, L. F. Grewn, Democi'at and Greenback; Third Kentucky, M. T. Flipper, Republican; Sixth Wiscousin, John E. Thomas, Greenback. The announcemont ia made that the yield of uiieat iu Il.iuois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kausaa, Wiseonsin and Dakota is U7,7ai,27Ü t.ushels in 1880, against 16,4IH,IKK bushels m 1879. The yield of winter wheat in Illinois is stated by the State Board of Agriculture to exeeed 53,000,000 bushal, being the largest erop ever produced in the State. Silas Richardson, a Waukesha (W.s.) lumber merehant, blew out the }as, instead of turnin it off, as he retired in a Madison hotel a few nights ago, and was suffocated to death. Foreign Intelligrence. Accouding to a London dispatch of the 7th the Imperial BauK oL Uermany had ordered its Bremen and Hamburg branches to suspend paymcuts. An explosión occurred in Seaham collier)', near Uurham, Eng., at half-past two on the morning of the 8th. ïhere weic nearly 8l'O liundred men in the pit, and, up to the morning oL the 9th, only sixty oL the men had been rescued. Intelligence was received in London on tiie 8tu that the city of ootia, in Bulgaria, was oü lire, witli a prospect oL total (lestruction. TWO HUNDKED AND TWENTY-FIVE head oi cattle were lost from the steamer Tflaüemore daring its recent passage from Baitimore to Liverpool. A wATEii-sPüüT recently destroyed a number oL houses aud killed several pursons at Ivry, Frauce. 1t is said the entire" length of the St. üotliard Tunnel will be in operatiou April 1, 1881. The disturbances thronghout Armenia have been leceutly assuming the propor tions of an insurrection. It is said that Bulgaria will, in October, declare her eiuirc independence of Turkey. Accokding to a Rome telegram of the lOth a stream of lava was bsuing from Mount Vesuvius, near the new raihvay to the cráter, and some imprudent visitors had been mjured. ïhe Germán steamor Frisia, which left Hamburg on the lOth, had ou board $-',- OOU.OOO gold bullion Lor the United Stales. The total sblpped during the week ending ou the llth amounted to about Y7,(WO,0Jü. AVhile on her recent voyage from Bostou to Loudon, the steuiner Anglia, of the Anchor Line, collided with the Glasgow steamer Jrousrate, from Autwerp to New York, during a dense fog, and the Anglia with her eutiie cargo was suak. The crew and some cattle men on board weie saved. The eutire loss will be about $1,000,000. Ij .i. rP 13 XI . The bush lires near Upton, Canada, eontinued to burn with unabated vigor ou the lltb, and it was feared that should there be no rain soon tbe damage would be greatly increascd. Already some 150 families bad been rendered homeless and their cattle and other property destroyed. Relief comraittees were being organized In many districts. A considerable sum of money had been subsenbed at Montreal, Quebec and St. Hyacinthe. Duking the week euding on the llth there were paid out from the Uuited States Mints 553,496 standard silver dollars, ajainst 232.500 during the corresponding week in 1Sí9. lsiDOKB Rosenthal, wholeaale dealer in woolens in New York City, faüed on the llth. Liabilities, $JOO,OOJ; assets, $95,000. A ONE HÜNDKED AND FIFTÏ-SIX HOURS test race between men and horses terminated in Chicago on the night of the llth. The score of the men who eontinued to the end of the contest was as follows: Byrne, 578 miles, 61aps; Krohne, 535-0; Cols con, 529-4: Jaekson, Ï03-2. Horses' score : Betsey Baker, 568 miles; Rase of ïexas, 545 miles, 4 lapsBateman's entry, 527-2; Crookett, 525-2. Byrne took the tirst prize of $2,0U0; the owner of Betsey Baker the second, 1,000; Krohne the third, Í250, and Colston the fourth, $150. The returns f rom the Arkansas electiou receiyed on the lSth did not modify the claim of a Democratie majority of from 50,000 to 60,000, as before reported. The vote on the Fishback amendment repudiating certain State bouds was closer than at first supposed, and it was believed that lt would require the official count to decide whether or not it was defeated. The nearly full returns received of the Vennont election on the 12th indicated that the Republican majority would not differ greatly froin 26,0J0. The üemocrats had elected twenty-two members of the Legislature and the (ireenbackers two. The Government Inspector has oflicially announced nis conclusión that tlie nutnber of the dead at Seaham colliery is close upon 165. The Queen of Spain gave birth to a daughter on the llth. Russia has proposed the establishment of au international guard for the protection of foreigners in Constantinople. The followiug Congressional nominations were made on the llth : Second Illinois D striet, Congressman tíeorge; R. Uavis, Republican; Twentieth Ohio, John C. Hutehins, Democrat; Sixth Tennessee, Congressman John F. House. Democrat; Thirty-third New York, Congresiman Henry Van Aernam, Republioan; Blzteenth New York, Charles H. Aduins (8myth) and Conaressnuin Joilli M. Bailey tjmytn), Republican; Eighth Perinsylvania, ,T. Howard Jacobs, Republican; Nlneteenth Penneívlvania, John Moor, Greenback.