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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AMERICAN. T HE first of the three per cent. bonds were issued from the Treasury Sept. ?? THE Texas cattle fever has appeared in the vicinity of Lewiston Maine. AN Australian steamer brought $100,000 in bullion for the San Francisco mint, Sept. 5th. COMMISSIONER Marble believes that the patent office receipts this year will exceed $1,000,000. GENERAL Wallace the United States Minister to Constantinople, dined with the Sultan, on the evening of Sept. 4. ABOUT $1,000 were raised for Mrs. John Brown, and it is believed it will swell to $1,500 in Chicago. THE anniversary of the capitulation of Sedan was celebrated throughout Germany, with unusual enthusiasm. A LARGE portion of New York City was lighted by the Edison incandescent electric light for the first time, Sept. 5th. THE Greenback Labor State Convention of South Carolina, has 125 delegates, many colored. J. D. Durham is Chairman. THE Secretary of the Treasury orders that the bonds embraced in the 115th call be paid on presentation without rebate of interest. HON. Geo. R. Reeves, late Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, is at the point of death from hydrophobia. AT Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sept. 4, the Tariff Commission heard an argument in favor of protection of pottery by ?? duties. COTTON throughout the Mississippi Bottoms is four weeks later than last year. The first bale of the new crop arrived at Memphis last night. THE Telegraph Construction Company's steamer, Sciota, sailed from Plymouth Sept. 4, to make renewed efforts to repair the French cable. LYNCH, alias McCarty, who seven years ago murdered Angus McNeil, of Plymouth, Ind., has been delivered to the Sheriff at Jamestown, Dakota. THE issue of standard silver dollars from the mints for the week ending Sept. 2d was $123,000 as against $484,000 for the corresponding period last year. AT Saratoga, N. Y. last evening, the ?? Association began its annual session Francis Wayland, of Yale College, President of the Association, gave the opening address. THE number of vessels passing through the Suez Canal in July is 155, tolls $615,000. In July last year the number was 237 tolls $500,000. The difference shows the effect of the Anglo-Egyptian war. THE Government of Spain has ordered quarantine against vessels from Egypt, Malta and Cypress. An official dispatch from Manila states that 417 natives and one European died of Cholera there Sept. 4. THE Coroner's jury at Mt. Pulaski, Ill., on Sept. 6th, found that the three men found with their throats cut there recently came to their deaths by the hands of unknown parties. There seems to be no real clue to the murderers. THE probable foundation of the story about the collision at Charlevoix, Michigan, is the fact that the steam barge, Araxis, sank in ?? Bay, Thursday last, during a heavy gale. The crew were saved, and the hull may be saved. A NEW York dispatch says those agitating the whereabouts of the Irish skirmishing fund have appointed a permanent committee of investigation, the other committee not having received any satisfactory accounting from the trustees. AT the conclusion of army manouvres at ??, Russia, Sept. 4, a bridge, constructed by the military across, a ravine fell directly after the Emperor and Empress had passed over it. The Minister of War was slightly injured. AT Cincinnati, on Sept. 5th, the grocery interests were presented to the tariff commission and it was urged to continue at least the present tariff on sugar, molasses and rice. Dry goods, hemp, shoes, and other interests were represented. A DISPATCH from Princeton, Ills., Sept. 3rd, says: Will Rose, of Danville, now on a bicycle tour to San Francisco for health, pleasure and newspaper correspondence, is here this evening and reports exceedingly bad roads for bicycle traveling this far on account of the mud. AT a meeting of the District Lodge at Pittsburg, Pa., on Sept. 4th, fifty-eight lodges out of sixty-three were represented. Only two lodges voted in favor of returning to work at the old scale, and afterwards, by a unanimous vote, it was decided to accept no compromise. THE arbitration committee at Chicago, after a session of several weeks, during which time testimony of unparalleled length was taken, fixed the settling price at $1.35 for July Spring wheat. This is a victory for the ?? clique, the price fixed being near the closing rate on July 31st. THE Denver Tribune's Salida, Colorado, special of Sept. 4th says: The Bank of Salida closed its doors this morning. The deposits amount to about $50,000, mostly made by the working class. The capital of the bank is said to be $5,000. The deposits are a total loss. Hartzell Brothers, proprietors of the bank, left the city Saturday. THE Denver Tribune's Silver City special of Sept. 4th says a prize fight between Billy Lynn, of this city, and Jon Silvers, of Albany, took place in Robert's Hall to-day, resulting in Lynn's victory. Silvers being knocked senseless of the fourth round. Both men were badly punished. THE Denver Tribune's Las Animas, Colorado, special dated Sept. 4th, says there are 100 Cheyenne Indians in camp eight miles south of this place. These Indians made application several days ago to be allowed to go north. Being refused they now make the trip on their own responsibility. They will cross the Arkansas River at Grenada, Colorado. They seem to be very peaceful, during no mischief whatever. AT Wheeling, W. Va. on Sept. 4th, the Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court for West Virginia, at Parkersburg, brought in a presentiment of manslaughter against Inspector Young for granting a permit to the steamer Scioto to carry more passengers than authorized by law also against David Keller, pilot of the Scioto, and Capt. Inglebright and pilot Long of the Thomas. A DISPATCH from Denver, Sept. 4th, says: The Mining Exposition continues to be a great success and it is visited daily by large numbers of people, many from the East. New specimens and exhibits are added constantly. A new feature of county and State days is inaugurated. This is Gunnison county day and a large crowd arrived on excursion trains from Gunnison. A DISPATCH from Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 5th, says: The election passed off quietly in all portions of the State heard from the dispatches showing an unusually large vote. The Democratic State ticket is evidently elected by about the usual majority, indications point to a slight increase in the Republican and Greenback membership of the Legislature. Prohibition figured prominently in a number of counties on the legislative and judicial tickets. AN El Paso, Tex., special says: Gold. Gold bearing quartz was found in Organ Mountain Mining Mining Institute fifty miles north of El Paso, which assays one hundred thousand dollars to the ton. Specimens have been sent to the Bank of California and half a million dollars has been offered for the mine. Great excitement exists over the find. DISPATCH from Frankfort, Mich., Sept. 6: Captain Mathews, of the Life Saving Station, reports he found, bottom up the side of a steamer, the upper cabin corresponding to an Anchor line boat. The agent of the line in Chicago thinks the description does not tally with that of their boats. The Anne Young, however, is over-due and may possibly have met disaster. A SAN Francisco dispatch of Sept. 6, says: By the whaler Thomas Pope from the Arctic it is learned that the steam whaler North Star was crushed in the ice at Point Barrow, on July eighth. The crew were saved and sheltered at the United States Signal Station till the arrival of the whaler Bowhead and Belvedere, which took them off, except the captain and engineer who chose to remain at the station. FOREIGN. PREPARATIONS for the journey of the Emperor of Germany to Moscow are being secretly continued. AN ARAB paper, published at Beyrout, in Syria, has been suppressed for having published an article against the Christians. FOUR hundred insurgent horsemen appeared before Kaironan, Tunis, Sept 6th. Troops have been sent for the purpose of surrounding them. AN official report from Manilla states that 456 natives and five Europeans died there of cholera in the last two days. The epidemic is beginning to abate. IN Paris, Sept. 4: M. Dichard, editor of the Petit Corporal, and M. de Masse, editor of the Combat, fought a duel with swords. De Masses was killed. AN official report places the number of agrarian outrages in Ireland during the month of August at 165, including one murder, ten cases of intimidation and eighty-three cases of sending threatening letters. THE harvest in France is estimated slightly over average. A total yield of 112,400,000 hectolitres is expected, but an eventual reduction in the percentage of value is probable, owing to the inferior quality. A DISPATCH from Penzance, Sept. 4, says: The bows of the Mosel are broken at the foremast. The middle of the hull is upright with the funnel standing. The stern separated from the middle section yesterday and the cargo and a quantity of wreckage is washing out. AT Valtecetto Mexico, Sept. 4, Frank McRolland general superintendent of the Buena Vista and other surrounding mines owned by New York capitalists, committed suicide. The cause is unknown. McHolland was well known through Colorado and New Mexico. A DISPATCH from Paris, dated Sept. 6th, says: M. Dichard, editor of the Petit Corporal, who killed M. De Masses editor of the Combat, in a duel Sunday, is himself dangerously wounded on the head and in the armpit, and he received three cuts on the hand. M. Dichard will be prosecuted but certainly acquitted. Ettienne, a well known French authority on the subject, has issued his estimate of the harvests of the world for 1882. His report is on the whole decidedly favorable indicating no serious deficiency in crops in any quarter of the world and a general abundance throughout Europe and America. |