Show NEW T S OF THE DAY Rosecrans is mentioned as a possible < compromise candidate for collector of thx port of San Francisco London dispatches state that no reliable re-liable information with reference to the dispute is expected for some days yet The departure of the dragoons from Brighton for India did not take place yesterday Negotiations are to be waited for The Riel rebels will fight it out II it is hanging or shooting they prefer the latter and they expect to worry the Canadians considerably before they arc beaten 0 A Washington rumor was current yesterday that Secretary Manning will soon resign from the cabinet for the office of the New York collectorship The rumor is generally discredited Permission has been granted the colored employes of the War Department to be absent today to participate in the Emancipation celebration The day will be reduced from their thirty days leave of absence Beautiful floral tributes were laid upon Lincolns grave yesterday at the memorial services General Logan delivered de-livered the oration of the day President Cleveland sent a letter of regret that he could not be present When Moody the revivalist was in Milwaukee the other day he was asked if he had grace enough to die at the stake He replied No I dont need it all I want is grace enough to hold this revival for three days Milwaukee The mysterious tragedy in a St Louis hotelthe finding of the headless body of a man in a trunkwith the usual numerous rumors attached to such an affair has caused a thrill of excitement through the country Dispatches this afternoon indicate that the detectives aie on the murderers trail and will in a11 probability run him down The November elections are being discussed by the New York politicians The State is conceded to be doubtful and the New York Sun thinks that Democrats and Republicans will probably have a chance next fall of enjoying one of the grandest fights they ever had We trust the Democracy will win it but it will not be an easy job by any means Insanity caused George Humpf a section hand on the New York Central Railroad to kill his wife and child yesterday yester-day and then commit suicide He saturated satur-ated his sleeping victims with kerosene and set fire to them causing them to die in much agony Humpf died soon after his capture from loss of blood having cut his own throat The London Post has information that Russia will insist on retaining the positions which she has already occupied and intimates that unless England holds herself responsible for the acquiescence of the Ameer in these advances Gen Komaroff will advance and seize Herat The Post also hears that the Afghans at Pendjeh were surprised hy the recent attack at-tack and a ruthless massacre followed The fall of eight rotten tenement houses in New York on Monday last is causing much metropolitan comment It would not be a bad plan to authorize building inspectors to advertise such places in the daily newspapers as notoriously notori-ously unsafe It would still be a better plan if municipal authorities would condemn con-demn such skin buildings and thus avoid the cruel destruction of life that goes on almost unchecked Buddensick ought to be sent to Albany for five years Fears that a riot would occur in Cork yesterday were expressed in the afternoon after-noon dispatches to the DEMOCRAT and were well founded The ball commenced by one of the crowd firing an onion at the Prince of Wales which however missed him and struck a footman Amass A-mass meeting of Nationalists was held in the evening after which parties of them paraded the streets smashing windows and doors and making bonfires of the loyal decorations Encounters between the police and the mob wero numerous the police frequently resorting to revolvers revol-vers and bayonets At 4 oclock this morning the riot was reported suppressed and the hospitals full of wounded policemen police-men and rioters The future King of Ireland has now a very uncertain opinion of his Cork constituency |