OCR Text |
Show LAST KISHT'S FLASHES. The Parien expedition is impeded by heavy rains and swollen streams. In a twenty mile survey Irom the bay of Sau Bla.;. the highest elevation was 309 feet, aud the elevation of the rivers 295 feet. The Pope has entered on the 25th year of his pontificate. The Massachusetts shoemakers ,are urging the U. S. senate to pass the bid prohibiting Chinese servile labor. A Fortress Monroe dispatch says a military force lias been sent to drive negro tqatters from the farm at Ocean view. Ackerman's confirmation is believed certain. The grand jury of New York has indicted the absconding collector Bailey, Bai-ley, and a warrant is issued for his ar rest. '. Forty thousand persons attended the sangerfest picnic at Cincinnati on Sun-. . day. One of the steamers carrying thein got damaged creating a panic, but nobody was injured. Jacob Cerf shot and killed Y. L. Smith at Leavenworth in a quarrel last Saturday. : Three mad '.dogs were shot in New fork on Sunday. Sixty Chinamen have landed direct at New York, and 150 more of the celestials ce-lestials have arrived there from Boston, Bos-ton, where they couldn't get work. Many, Cubans are fleeing to Aspinwall Aspin-wall from Spanish cruelty. Great heat is reported in New York, Chicago and other places, with sunstrokes. sun-strokes. T':e crops in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin Wiscon-sin and Michigan look favorable since the late rains. An average wheat crop is expected ; corn looks well. Red Cloud and party left Chicago yesterday lor home. C. C. Crowe, confirmed secretary for Utah on Friday, died at his residence iu Alabama on Saturday morning. The Southern P- R. R. question comes up in the senate this morning. Two bill-i are to be considered ; one, by Sherman, which may be called Fremont Fre-mont s ; and one by Howard, which is I antagonistic. Thomas Day, while drunk in Cleveland, Cleve-land, on -Saturday night, stabbed and killed R. Longholuie, taking him. for another man. Eight houses were burned in Windsor, Wind-sor, Illinois, on Sunday night. Slight showers are reported all over Englaud The drought had become alarming. There was art explosion at one of the Waltham Abbey powder , mills, near London, on Sunday Several were killed. Dickens in his will declines a monument. monu-ment. The funeral of Mrs. See'ey, mother of some Fenian couvicts. was attended by an immense crowd of Fenian sympathizers, sympa-thizers, on Sunday, in Dublin. The English seamer Doria, with the new West India cable, has a.rived at Porto Rico. Louisville had three fatal quarrels on Saturday, and one likely fatal on Sundiv. Two of the lormer giew out of an insult offend to the mothers of the young men who avenged the wrong by killing the offenders. New York has had its usual Sunday Sun-day murder William Hamilton, a fireman, shot fatally Patrick Friell a let to" carrier. . , |