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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS. 1 An Austrian sentinel has b;en ihot by a Montenegrin. Tbe Vermont republican state con-'yentton con-'yentton will be held at Burlington, May 23d, It is now confidently stated that Sewia will not join Russia in case of a new war. Tha celebrated running horse "Leamington" fell dead at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Tuesday. General Todleben je about to retire to tbe lines of Tcbataldja, leaving a small force at San Stefano. Judge Donohue of New York granted the petition of Jewett, re ceiver of the Erie oompany, on Tuesday. Ibe house committee on judiciary, Tuesday, agreed to report General Butler's bill to repeal the tenure ot otfice act. Negotiations in regard to Shumla and Varna continue, but the Russians do not insist at present on the evacuation evacu-ation of Batoum, M. Manuel de Zamacona, accompanied accom-panied by tbe secretary of atatp, Tuesday, Tues-day, presented the president his cre-. cre-. dentials aa minister of Mexico. ' NewB from Galveston says an at. tempt was made by revolutionists to oust tbe Diaz government of Chihuahua, Chihu-ahua, but it resulted in failure. The delegation of Nex PerceB to induce in-duce members ot that band now with Sitting Bull to re lorn to the Indian territory, left Bismarck on Tuesday. Tbe RuBaiauB offer to fall back behind a straight line drawn between Dedegatch and Adrianople if the British fleet will withdraw at the same lime. Count Sohouvaloffgoes to St. Petersburg Peters-burg in consequence of hia own request re-quest to be perm-tied to report personally per-sonally respecting the pending negotiations. The thirteenth annual meeting, at New York, ot the National Temper ance BOciety, on Tuesday, made a favorable financial and moral showing for the cause. A Vera correspondent hag reason to believe the Turns will raise a Beries of fresh difficulties concerning the fortresses, based on the interpratati m ol lheSanStela.no treaty. A dispatch saya there was no no. we Tuesday, but the leelmg of confidence ib not justified by known facts. R'lesia uses friendly words but her acts do not inspire confidence Murray Hofltuan died at New York on Tuctday, aged 84. He wa one of the oldest members of tbe New York bar, ex judge of the supreme court, and hih euthority on ecclesiastical kw. George Wtyman alias California George, waa to day convicted of manslaughter man-slaughter in the Becond degree, in New York. He ia not yet sentenced. Tne penally ia from lour to Beven years. The Austrian embassy at Constantinople Constanti-nople deuiea thai Auali iao troops are concentrating on the Bosnian truntier. It is declared that Austria will not i occupy Bosnia without tbe consent of the porte. Work in excavating the ruins ol the burned mills io Minneapolis, continues. con-tinues. Another body, making the sixth, is recovered. An inquest will not be held until all tbe bodies are rei overed. A ekifl containing three wrmen ai d i two children at I'ntoburg, Pa., was struck by a raft on the Alleghany' river, Tuesday, aud capsized. Two women were drowned, the other three persona were rescued. Roumania has iswum1 another circular cir-cular to prelects aud foreign powers protecting against tbe Russian advance ad-vance and announcing that Roumanian Rou-manian officials are beinf piaeled from their posts in Bessarabia. Tne annual convention of the Ameri 'an Labor Relorm League coo-linued coo-linued to-day, at New York. Wm. Rowe of New Jersey was elected president. Among the vice nresidentB elected ia J. M. Swain of California. The Western Emigration society, (colored) at Washingtou, has adopted a memorial to congress, asking an impropriation for the transport of an outfit of aeeda, etc., for emigrants to the weat.to cover expenses for a year or two. The Vienna cabinet will inform the powers, by a circular dispatch, what measures nave oecome inuispenaaoie in Transylvaaia and Da I rn all a, and will lay Btress on the statement that Austio Hungary is acting exclusively in agreement with thg will of tht powers. The New York Times' Washington olaimeB that information has been received that a Russian officer named Mitkin has gone to tbe Pacific coast to superintend the purchase and fitting out of veasela lor naval warfare in the service of Rueaia. Count Von Bulow, secretary of elate Icr the foreign office, is (juzetted aa the official substitute for Prince Bismarck Bis-marck in the department of foreign affairs, Admiral Von Stoacb in matters mat-ters connected with the navy, and Dr. Stepban in the administration of pojts and telegraph. |