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Show There are over 300 cases in Matamoras, now. The natives at Tripoli talk of a massacre of Christians. There were two new cases at Brownsville on Saturday. No deaths. The ?? ranch, twelve miles form Brownsville, has five cases. Malachi Englund, of Finland, is in the hospital, at New Orleans with yellow fever. Premier Gladstone stated the House will adjourn, next Friday, until the 24th or 26th of October. General Sir Garnet Wolsely arrived at Malta, on Saturday, en route for Alexandria. He is quite well. Advices, from ??, ?? report the destruction of the corn crop owing to the extreme drouth. Two degraded women who tried to poison themselves in Detroit this week have succeeded. The forest fire is spreading at Sandwich Mass. Three houses were saved with difficulty on Saturday. Four hundred and twenty-two persons were appointed to clerk-ships in the pension office on Thursday. The clerks of the National Board of Health have been dismissed, Congress not having provided for their salaries. France has now accepted under certain restriction, the proposal for collective protection of the Suez Canal. In China the first class are the literati, the second the husbandmen; the third, the artisans, and the fourth, the interchangers. The priests hold no office. The trunk line passenger agents, on Thursday, adopted a lower schedule of passenger rates for all railroads between New York and Cincinnati. Delegates in the Conference informed Dufferin that no troops will be landed in Egypt until the arrival of the Turkish special commissioners. The garrison at Dublin has been strongly reinforced, probably to guard against any outburst during the exhibition week. Kate Myles, Edward Myles, John Hughson and Wm. Wisdom were drowned in Brewster Lake, near Flesherton, Ont., on Thursday evening by the upsetting of a boat. Under ?? three years and six months, fifteen Star Routes were expedited. The annual pay was ?? expedition $144,728. Tyner, in the one year of his service, expedited only five routes. The annual pay of these was $27,584, the expedition only $12,950. Brady's record for three years and ten months, only four months longer, shows that he expedited 118 routes, the annual pay of these was $809,133, expedition ??. J. T. Hunter, notary, of Montreal, Canada, is a defaulter to the amount of $100,000. He was appointed six years ago to manage the estate of the late Charles Phillips. In the Commons, the Postmaster General stated that there was not the slightest chance that the Postoffice Department would ever purchase the telephone lines. What Dufferin insists upon in order to secure testimony of action is that no movement of Turkish troops when they are in Egypt should take place without the preliminary consent of General Wolsely. The ambassadors in Constantinople, upon the initiative of France made urgent representations to the Porte with regard to the agitation against the Christians in Syria or other parts of the Turkish Empire. Saratoga dispatch announces the death there of Wm. M. Levy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana formerly a member of Congress from the Fourth District. The Tariff Commission commenced its open session hearing suggestions as to the proper tariff to be levied on various articles, including various kinds of leather, raw silk, etc. The steamship ?? will take 500 steerage passengers of the wrecked steamer Mosel, from Falmouth. Cabin passengers of the Mosel will await the arrival of another steamer. A fight took place last Tuesday, between the contending parties in the Creek Nation known as the Sandsmen and the Chicotas, during which one man on each side was killed and three were wounded. The annual convention of the Irish Land League of Great Britain held a sitting at Manchester, on Saturday, with closed doors. The members of Parliament for ?? presided. About 150 strikers, attacked the non-union workmen on Thursday at the month of the Camp Hill mines near Pittsburgh, Pa. The result was several broken heads and black eyes. At ??, N. Y. in the Harmony mills 525 persons are at work. The usual number employed is 1,675. A reduction in the price of coal turning to 3.23 cents was made on Friday last. A general strike is anticipated. At Chicago, the past few days have been very cool, uncomfortably so at times, and frosts are reported from Northern Wisconsin and even in the suburbs of the city. There was a light frost, Thursday morning. It is announced that $8,500,000 of the $10,000,000 Pacific Railway bonds have been taken up. The Duke of Manchester's company took 7,000,000, $800,000 were taken up in Toronto, and the remaining $140,000 were disposed of in Canada. It is stated that the condition of Tripoli is alarming to Europeans, El Hadge, a Mohammedan has returned to Tripoli from Constantinople, and announced that the Porte, after settling affairs in Egypt, intends to raise an army to drive the French out of Tunis. The disease appeared at Brownsville, fourteen days ago. The total of deaths is ten or twelve. Several distinct types of fever prevail in both cities. There were no new developments to-day. The disease is in status quo, 62 cases existing here. A Washington special says: The footings to the tables prepared at the Postoffice Department, showing the amount paid for expedition on Star Routes under the Second Assistants ?? Tyner and Brady, are both interesting and significant. Chess Thomas was hanged at Palestine, Texas, on Saturday, for the murder of ?? McMeans. The execution was private. Thomas expressed satisfaction at having killed McMeans, and said he had no regrets, and was resigned to his fate. The number of deaths from fever at Matamoras in twenty-four hours was 40. At Brownsville there were 13. Fort Brown is in strict quarantine, the port commander deciding not to remove it. A relief committee has been formed and $12,000 have been subscribed. The Surgeon General has a dispatch from Collector Goodrich, Brownsville, saying: The first case of yellow fever occurred at Matamoras, a month ago, introduced through Bagdad, Mexico, by railroad tramps from Tampico. The average daily deaths in Matamoras, the past ten days, is ten. The Pall Mall Gazette, London, says: There is good reason to believe that troubles of the most serious kind have broken out in Corea whose relations with Japan are not altogether friendly. There is also a very powerful party in Corea, strongly opposed to the recently concluded treaty with the United States and England. Henderson counts harvested the largest wheat crop it has ever known. Much of it was threshed early and sold for one dollar per bushel. A great deal, however, is not yet threshed and in many instances has been greatly injured by the wet weather. In many instances it is sprouting in the stacks. Buyers are now paying 90 cents for a good article. Lady applicants for positions are increasing in the Interior Department under the recently authorized increase in the clerical force. All who failed to receive recognition held an indignation meeting and organized "The Woman's National Labor Association." Resolutions denouncing the "One Man Power" in the nation and declaring that they would fight it out, were passed. The London times says: When the army of Arabi Pasha has been dispersed and its leaders brought to account for their misdeeds, we shall have to make sure that the difficulty may not recur in a new form. Egypt will be in our hands. It will not be open to us to retain from the country and leave events to take their own course. This is the resolve of England and when it becomes necessary to seek the sanction of other powers for the result the continent of Europe will be invoked in a sense very different from that with which we have lately been familiar. On Friday last, a premature blast at Cornwall, on the West Shore Road, killed four and wounded several others. It seems a blast did not explode, and the men thinking they had the hole cleaned out were about to sink it deeper when the powder exploded, driving a drill through the head of one man and breaking badly another man's leg, and destroying the sight of another. The explosion loosened pieces of rock weighing about six tons, which fell directly upon Ben Hooper, in the next cut, crushing him into a jelly. Simpson McKuke is not expected to live, George Casen loses his eyesight. About twenty men in the cut where Hooper was killed promptly ran to aid the men where the explosion took place and thus escaped tumbling rock. The Star's Mexican advice of the 8th, from Brownsville, Sonora, says: Parties just arrived from Ures report the Apache depredations in that section are most fearful. Two hundred warriors are in the Mazatlan Mountains, near us, and make daily raids on the valleys in small parties, burning the crops and houses and murdering the inhabitants. During the past twelve days forty-five persons have been murdered within a radius of twenty-five miles of Ures, two prominent government officials are among the murdered. Last week they attacked the Rancho Viejo. The fight lasted four hours. Four of the ranchers were killed and the remainder wounded, nine Apaches were left on the field. The approach of a body of Mexican troops caused them to retreat. The Apaches are from the San ?? agency, all armed with Winchester rifles and use cartridges stamped U. S. The Mexicans are poorly armed with muzzle loaders. The country is terrorized, business paralized, settlers are fleeing from their ranches to Ures. All available Mexican troops are being concentrated to operate against them. The estimated yield of wheat in Michigan is 31 bushels to the acre: of barley 26 bushels. |