BY TE TELEGRAPH LE AMERICAN washington 16 15 the july returns to the department of agriculture were unusually fulis fulls full fuli showing an improvement the cotton crop during june in all the cotton states except axas texas the averages aie as follows north carolina 95 an improvement of 3 per cent south carolina 99 improved 2 georgia 97 improved 6 florida improved 7 alabama improved 1 mississippi improved 3 louisiana improved 10 texas 93 declined 3 arkansas improved 14 tennessee improved 10 since last december el eight letter carriers in the washington city P 0 have been detected tampering with and abst abstracting meting money from letters lettera they were promptly dismissed missed these cases were referred to district attorney fisher but no indictment was found by the grand jury in any case this fact led to a complaint against fisher by the P M general and secretaries belknap and bristow brn Bri it is said also found fault with the loose administration of his office in consequence of which his resignation has been requested SARATOGA N Y 15 in the p m the second part of the pro gramme of athletic sport was performed at glen mitchell the dirst first race half mile was contested by david trumbull of yale and C H barbour of amherst it was won by trumbull in 2061 2361 2061 the three mile walk was contested by W 11 platt of 0 williams W B R tay I 1 or of harvard and A N fair balik banks s of brown it was won by taylor in 2523 fairbanks withdrawing on oil th tile e second mile the hundred yards dash between H L gresslin Gre islin of union university of penna 0 L culver of union J B lindley of williams J B patter of ornell cornell and W C hall of yale was won by patter in loi 10 seconds lindley sprained I 1 his s anci ancl ancle ancie e but nevertheless eless eleEs crossed 1 the tho h score co r e second the entries for the 3 mile run were H rodgers wesleyan D C morrell CM orrel Amb amheist amherst eist elst andr andt D goodwin columbia goodwin withdrew rew raw on the 5 th half mile and rodgers ig er son on i the last half mile and morrell orrell took the track in 1707 the hurdle race of yards over 10 hurdles excited the most interest and was the cause of genuine entertainment for the spectators the entries were J W prior of columbia cortes Bl maxwell axwell of yale W 0 hallof yale and C B king of union the race was won by maxwell in igl 19 seconds this is 11 seconds better than the same mans time last year when he was the winner in the hurdle race the 7 mile walk for past graduates was the last race of the day it was oon non tested by aa M S mccan of harvard in 74 J NV gunter williams 74 and eustis wesleyan 74 it was won by eustis time gunters teta time was Louis louls louisville ville viLLu ky 15 information tion was received tonight to night of an extensive defalcation in the office of the U S revenue collector for this district george N jackson deputy collector and cashier for collector buckner was discovered this pm to be short in his accounts A warrant was issued tonight to night for his arrest but upon r reaching bac h ing his house the deputy marshal was met by a physicians physician who refused to allow jackson to be removed monedi saying that he would not live til till morn morning ng there is acus a suspicion that he has taken arsenic he has heretofore been honest and springfield mass blass 15 miss aurora K dimmock attempted to take the elife life ilfe of dr DrW W thompson with a revolver at northampton yesterday because he failed to keep his promise to marry her she was vas oiled in the attempt and dr thompson has since taken steps for her confinement as a lunatic her friends claim that she is not insane I 1 and there is much excitement in the town over the addair andain aff hir hit cincinnati 0 15 the enquirers era ers canton 0 special says bays that jerome market has been arrested there on suspicion of having with accomplices committed the most extensive robbery which whichever ever over occurred there the property stolen consists of nen nea nearly riv in mortgage notes worth of silverware W sire and gold and silver watches wat elles clies and other articles the total value of which is about nearly all of which has been recovered ST louis louls 15 the Republican can caw Iq special at Win Yin cheta Ks says chati the jail at that place in which were ten teu of the most notorious horse thieves in southern kansas was broken open by the prisoners last night and all escaped wallace and bennett ot of the last gang brought from the cheyenne agency by U S marshal Lef febra three weeks ago were among them they are all armed having been assisted by friends after the escape officers are in pursuit and it is believed that a terrible fight will occur when they overtake them which will be within 24 hours most of the thieves are cut throats of the worst character and they will make desperate resistance to recapture WHITE hant HALT N Y 16 the steamer champlan cham plain which I 1 left eft fort ticonderoga last night for rouses roused point ran ashore she wil will probably be a total krecl wreck eight passengers on board were taken off by the steamer adirondack CHICAGO 16 A special from toronto says that the globe this morning publishes an article of the tribunes which comments on the attitude of the london standard Stan daro darc towards the theu U S as well as similar articles from the N Y world the boston advertiser and the buffalo courier the globe fully endorses lord dufferin Duffer ln and says the americans may with perfect safety accept his statement as certainly a faithful reflex of opinion in canada it also says that if the american journals discuss the mani wani manifest fest destiny of annexation at all it will be on the most purely speculative grounds only and the very friendliness of their tone sustains by implication the canadian view on the subject A washington special says that elliott the special agent sent to alaska has submitted his report from which lit appears that the lanb lana fane lane Is worthless for agriculture that thai the fisheries are not extensive ane and scarcely profitable that there is no evidence of mineral deposits of commercial value and that the only onix considerable industry is that of f the annual catch of Re seals beals alsand and a new few less important fur beaning bearing animals the profits of which go to the alaska commercial co cd A special from st louis says that the U 8 grand jury have just returned 20 indictments against parties connected with tho the wh whiskey islLey ring one third of which are ate against general john medon McDon mcdonald aldand and col J A joyce ex supervisor and ex revenue agent the others are against distillers and dismissed gaugert gau gan gers so far mckee of the globe democrat and constantine mcgrew the latter a collector have not been indicted mcgrew was disbursing agent he says that the weekly pay he understood were mckeon 1000 ford joyce mcdonald avery mcgrew 1500 the figures were changed from time to time as the parties grew restive under the division NEW 1 ORK oric IG 16 jos JOL loeder indicted with john J price pree for per ker perjury in connection with the tilton beecher case was arraigned in brooklyn yesterday and pleaded not dot guilty price was not arraigned ned the banks here have been advised from london to be prepared for the of offering in this market of forged bank of england and bank of france notes BALTIMORE 16 A heavy min rain last nIght caused an overflow of chatsworth and shraders Sh ra runs flooding floodine the cellars of a large number of private dwellings and wholesale houses the track of the washington branch of the B 0 railway was flooded in several places ST 16 the ile Jle publican publishes the official report of john A A joyce J oyce revenue agent relating to his bis investigations about one year ago of distilleries rectifying rectify ing houses cigar stores and other establishments on the coast from which revenue is derived the re is addressed to toj J IV douglass comal commissioner salener of internal revenue bevenue he venue and shows that the revenue laws have been violated by various par pari j ties in california oregon and other pac places ea on the pacific coast it is mad made public mainly to refute the recent charges by san francisco papers that in consequence of the great personal attention paid him while in california mr joyce failed to find and report irregularities in the whiskey business and made a favorable report of the la lavastia vestia investigation NE NEW IV HAVEN 16 NV win m curtis wood author of the salutatory of the class of 1868 at yale yalo college committed suicide in the tremont bouso house bouse yesterday louisville ky 16 geo H jackson the deputy U S collector who ii is an alleged defaulter in W 45 died yes erday a little after midnight he evaded the question as to whether he had hat taken poison but a post mortem examination was made this pm at the instance of an insurance company jackson having on his hid life Collector Buckner positively refused to give additional facts to the public in the journal this am but it is thought that jacksons speculations have been carried on for some time the collector reposing such entire confidence in his honesty that be he was able to cover evidence of his crime it was discovered yesterday by a special agent of the treasury deportment who bad been instructed to examine into the discrepancies that there was some deficient in his accounts in the louisville office jackson was a prominent member of tho church representative from the ward in the board school of trustees and was esteemed and respected by all who knew him he has been living for some time in a style which his salary of 2000 did not warrant he had given a bond for 2500 and there may be sufficient property found to indemnify the collector for his loss the news of the defalcation crea created teda a profound sensation in the city jackson leaves a young wife wire and several children NEW nev YORK 16 this p m judge donohoe gave a decision ordering the bill of particulars asked for by the defendant in the civil suit of the people vs ym wm M tweed CHICAGO 10 prof Donald donaldson go n and mr korswald Mor of the evening journal made a balloon ascension leaving this city at five pm the balloon took an easterly course across the lake and was seen by a schoon schooner tr at 7 with the basket dipping in the water As the schooner neared them the balloon again ascended and bore away north nothing has been heard from them since and as a violent storm passed over the lake jake about midnight it is feared that nothing but disaster can be recorded CONCORD N H 16 hon W alfoster A foster chief justice justlee of the uhe circuit court in this state while riding in a pullman car from boston last evening was vas suot shot in the right arm through an open window as the train passed merrimac station the shot was doubtless fired by a tramp trump in revenge for being put off the tho cars the night before NEW YORK 17 A case involving the constitutionality of the amended postage law has been brought inthe in the U 8 circuit court for this district A gentleman offered a book for mail transmission to philadelphia from this city the postage at the old rates being tendered and refused he applied for a mandamus to compel the postmaster to receive the the argument of the applicant is that the sundry civil appropriation bill into which the amendment increasing tho the rate on third class mail matter was inserted was a bill for revenue that the amendment did provide ways and means for raising the revenue that the senate has no constitutional authority to or originate measures for that purpose sd that being the sole prerogative of the houe homes hou e and that the postal amendment having originated with the and en grafted on the bill wab was one for revenue purposes and Is unconstitutional tut ional MILWAUKEE 17 ex senator carpenter has geen been been retained by the city of N ifor Y for the prosecution of tweed LONDON special d dispatch from berlin says that the J german rm n government has ordered that the names of the catholic clergy who submit to the new laws shall aall be kept strictly secret to secure them from persecution by the tanes lanes CHICAGO ja A adne washington special says that whiskey men from chicago and st louis make up about as despair despairing 1 i ng a crowd as has ever visited that tha t city the government move towards selling the distilleries and the grounds attached for the fines assessed against the owners is a fatal blow to the whiskey men but they hope to get a little longer time before being thrust into the cold world penniless in their coming fight to keep out of the western penitent diaries they haye have made assaults upon secretary bristow apt he is immovable in and pays the work must go on the ruin of ot the distillers ia Is a sweeping disaster for which he declines decline s to be pe personally r anally responsible on the report of the yellow fever in norfolk turns out to be a mere in petion of sensationalists louisville ky 18 several officials have been closely at work in the collectors office examining the late defalcations the amount will be much larger than ai at first supposed probably not less than BANGOR 19 geo medway killed his wife yesterday they had been separated NEW rork york 19 during a quarrel among some drunken negroes in a saloon yesterday one man was killed another fatally wounded and two or three badly cut ST LOUIS loujis 1 13 the furniture factory of mitchell co was burned this morning loss insurance FOREIGN mackenzie the can adian adlan premier in ln a speech at dundee last night referred to the great resources af canada he contended that it was quite consistent for two nati nations ns to exist on the Nort hArner ean lean can continent governed differently and with differing political institutions and he was convinced that so long as great britain maintained her present attitude towards the colonies friendship and confidence woud would be maintained the following Is the number of meetings held hold by moody bloody and ban san san in london during daring the past four months with their aggregate attendance tenda nce uce meetings attended by people victoria theatre 45 meetings attended attend edby by in the opera house 60 meetings attended by in B bow ow 60 meetings attended by 60 10 and in agricultural hall 60 m meetings attended by the amount of money expended for building printing stewards ac is moody and sankey decline to receive any compensation from the committee the council of the british national rifle eifle association at a meet meets ing today to day adopted adap fed a resola resolution tion that the new now york rifle association be invited to accept a challenge cup io to i o be competed for in 1875 at wim ble bie baledon doii doll by the americans the winner td hold the cup until the next meeting of the new york association so when he hd la Is to hand it over to tho the council of that association in order that it may he com competed for then and annually there atter alter fter after at a range of 1000 yards on conditions to be determined by the new york Assod association lation EDINBURGH 13 the american team and their friends visited ab ali botsford and melrose today to day william nelson neison a leading citizen of edinburgh gave them a banquet tonight to night in the course of which chho ho made a speech warm in eulogy of america gildersleeve responded lin jin in fitting terms the in members embers of the le atre eave for london tomor to mor row LONDON 14 tho the daily telegraph reports that tents tor the american team were pitched at wimbledon Wimble don yesterday A special to the limes reports that another destructive storm visited buda besth on the lith luht just nearly all the temporary works erected for the rep nep repaid altof of the damages caused ty by the tem tern pest of june jun 6 20 26 were carried away houses were e unroofed