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Show The following comes from South Carolina : The union reform convention conven-tion lias nominated 11. B. I 'arpenter, a K-ntuckian. formerly a colonel in the federal army, for governor, and Gen. M. C Butler, ofthe confederate army, for lieutenant governor. The latter was insisted upon by the colored delegates. The Maine temporaries convention is indefinitely postponed, the republican repub-lican action being satisfactoiy. Judge Clifford, of the U. S. District Dis-trict Court. Boston, has decided that Congress has no power to tax the salary of state officers Fifteen to twenty thousand miners held a jubilee at Wilkesbarre, Penn., on Thursday. Springfield, Mass., had a 70,000 dollars tire on Thursday nicht. The principal sufferers are the Morgan envelope Co., the Bay State valve Co., E Stebbins. A. V. Burnham, Russell Bro s. , and J. E. Gillespie. The House Committee on foreign affairs has gone to Philadelphia to confer with a committee having charge of a world's exposition of mechanics and arts, on the centenary of the declaration of independence. LAST WIGHT'S FLASHES. Chicago says the White Stockings, base ball, defeated the Forest city's at Rock ford, 28 to 14 Ten thousand persons witnessed the game. A freight train on the Louisville and Cincinnati R. R. ran into a handcar yesterday, and killed James Dugan instantly. A convention of the manufacturers and inventors of the American continent is proposed to be held in Cincinnati next September. Dion has accepted Rudolphe's challenge chal-lenge for the American, English, and French games, 1000 points each. Aaron K. Cary, New York ticket seller for the Erie railroad,i3 arrested for embezzling $3900 ticket money. Thre was another "scene" in the San Domingo investigation committee yesterday, when Howard and consul Perry gave each other the lie. Margaret Daly, charged with the murder of her uncle, Rev. P. B. Daly, ex catholic priest, was yesterday touud guiity of manslaughter, in New York, and sent to the penitentiary for four years. The latest dispatches leave scarcely a doubt that the Cuban expedition on the Upton failed. A number of the men and 2000 stand of arms wore landed land-ed and immediately captured. Wilkie Collins has und,rtaken to finish Dickens' "Edwin Drood." Six monthly parts are completed, and the rest is outlined so that the task will be easy. The Irish Time says Dickens left a fortune of 80,000. A new ironclad, Swiftsure, was successfully suc-cessfully launched ou Thursday, at Durham, England. Municipal elections will be held all over France in July. Heavy thunder showers visited England Eng-land the night before last, but it is feared they came too late for the wheat on light 1: nd. The gold mines in Southern Africa are reported worthless. A heavy silk crop is anticipated in Italy this season. The big concert at Cincinnati last night was a jam. Crowds had attended the rehearsals rather than encounter the crowd at the performance. |