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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. Great Heat in New York. Southern Pacific Railroad Mils. Butchery by an Insane Woman. Military Arms and Tactics &c, &c, 5cc. . GENERAL. HEAT IN NEW YORK. New York, 20. Yesterday was a scorching day. The thermometer at 3 p.m. was a hundred and eighteen in the shade, with a little breeze stirring. stir-ring. The street cars were almost stopped owing to the effects upon the men and horses. There was an alarming alarm-ing number of sun strokes. the southern p. r. r. bills. Washington, 20 The features of the two Southern P. R R. bills are about alike- The proposed road is from Marshall, Texas, on the thirty-second thirty-second parallel to El Paso, and through New Mexico and Arizona to the Pacific coast at tan Diego, California. The land grant in Texas comes from the st -te government. The grant in California Cali-fornia is twenty and in Arizona and New Mexico forty sections per mile, all even numbered sections, and to be hel 1 to settlers at $2 50 per acre after five years from the completion of the road. Howard's bill provides that the whole line must be built of American irou or steel; Sherman's, all of foreign to be used in Texas where the grant comes from the state. Sherman's insures the completion in ten year.-, Howard's in eleven years. Howard's authorizes the company to isue the first mortgage bonds on all its property and rights of property to the extent of forty thousand per mile; Sherman's authorizes land bonds to the extent of $2 50 per- acre on 1 nds mortgaged, and construction bonds to the extent of 50 000 dollars per mile on t. e track. Howard's bill calls the main line the J exas Pacific railroad, while Sherman's Sher-man's names it the Southern Transcontinental Trans-continental railroad. The point of fight over the two bills is whether Fremont and his fricnas shall be allowed to have a hand in the work or not. HORRIBLE FEROCITY OF AN IN SANK WOMAN. Chicago, ' 20. Near Woodstock, Ills., on Friday evening, Mrs. Weitzi 1, a German won.an, while temporarily insane,- attacked with an axe and razor her snn aged 18, and daughter aged 8. inflicting terrible injuries on them, and then cut her own throat. The children may recover; she will die. MILITARY ARMS AND TACTICS. St. Louis, 20. The board of army officers, - of which General Scofield is president, appointed by General Sherman Sher-man to select and report upon small arms anu accoutrements for use in the United States army, concluded its experiments ex-periments last week. The variety of small arms and accoutrements, presented pre-sented for consideration to the board, was unusually large, consisting of forty-eight forty-eight different systems of, breech-loading rifles, carbines, pistols and revolve revol-ve s, each possessing distinct peculiarities peculiar-ities and being a valuable improvement on former systems ; seventy two sets of accoutrements and cartridge boxes. J'he board subjected all the arms to rigid experiments, the result ef which will be promulgated only through the official reports. Among those tested were arms sent by several European parties and in u.-e by some foreign governments; but all hougn excellent weapons, they were found interior to many American inventions. Hereafter the rifle for infantry and carbine and pistol for cavalry will be the same system of breech-loaders ; and as soon as the selections of this board are.'ntrodueed among the troops it irf thought they will be armed and equipped superior to any foreign arm its. 'J'he same officers have also harmonized harmon-ized the tactics fur the three arms ot L lie service as far as practicable. A committee of the board is now at Fort Hays, where eight companies are assembled as-sembled to allow them to practically test their uew tactics.. |