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Show j Various Katttevn I(cm, I New York, 15. Last evening a loco- ! motive on tho Uoonton, N. j., II. II., jumped tho track near Montvillc, and: turned over, killing Christopher lien- j dricks, engineer. The iS'iiu states that the negotiations are nearly concluded for tho sale of llio : Atlantic telegraph cable to tho British government. Tho storm was very severe in tho ' cast last night. Tho galo in Now llainp- i shire was violent. ' At Long Branch. N. .1., the roiTf and : part of mio pia.za of Iho U. 8. hotel 1 worn oarriott away. A briilgu Was Car- 1 ' ried away and much damage, done to : I tho beach. i I It is reported thai six of the newly 1 I elected reform New York aldermen aro , i to bo counted out. I Tho committee- of citizens yesterday : requested tho comptroller to issue no i i bonds for widening Broome street, as t ollieinls arc said to bc iinplicatod in tho : fraud. I Six now cases of cholera aro reported I at tho quarantine, including the surgeon of iho steamship Frandin. There have been two fatal cases. A man named Pish shot himself and then jumped from the roof of a house in Sixth street, Brooklyn, tlm morning, and died in a few minutes after. A government coal bargo having liftcen hundred tons of coal sunk during tho galo last night. Bids for iluails. I Now York, 15. Tliore wero nino of-i of-i ferings of bonds to-day, amounting to Sl.S'JT.GOO, from H0. 10 to 111,87. The awards will be Ipl.OOO.OOi), from 111.37 to 111.87. New York Intelligence, Now York, lo. Giles E. Crcdocknfer, ! of llio Panama steamship company, was ; struck by a mutinous sailor on board I the Honduras with a belaying pin on I Iho !d hist, llo was fatally injured : and died ncxtdny. Tho murderer, who is n ilalay, was arrested. Another Russian frigalo has appeared in sight from the highlands. There is no doubt it is ono of tho remaining vessels ves-sels of tho lleet accompanying Alexis. Tho board ofcommissioners of Brooklyn Brook-lyn report only two Doniocrnts elected on tho city licKot, mayor Powell and city treasurer Sprague. Tho city sanitary inspector submitted to tho board of health a report, slating j past twelve days, by tho cars entering j tho now Union depot on -lnd street, ' I denouncing tho depot as dangerous to ( life, and urging that tho company bo ' compelled lo sink tracks ten or twelve feet below the streets aud place gates at ! all crossing:). Severe Slorm. I Nuw York, 15. Tho galo hist night lifted tho roof oil' of the four story brick building, il.0 Water street, and threw it s bodily in tho building. Pier 45, East , rivor, waa seriously damaged, and the shed and a largo quantity of limo and ccnionl was destroyed. At tha foot of ! liotli street, Brooklyn, an unknown j school) or was sunk noar tho Atlantic dock. The crow was saved. In Hudson j county, New jewey, tho ravage was . fearful; tho losses will reach S1U0.OOO. Among tho property destroyed is the car building of tho North Hudson ! county railway, at Unionvillo, with six : cars, involving a loss o'f IjiL'O.UuO. The new hotel in Greenville, valued al $15,-j $15,-j (lot), was completely wrecked and various vari-ous other buildings were deslroyod or damaged. i '1 lie Cliolera. j New York, 15. Commenting on the stale of the steamship 1'rnnld'm, tho committee of iho board of health to-day 1 made a report on cholera, reiterating ..their former recommendations to the t authorities, and Hiking tor a thorough execution of precautionary measures. I They say the streets are still in a danger- ous idato of uncleaullncss, and direct i the city sanitary inspector to institute I stricter measures of relief. Eighteen assistant inspectors were appointed to attend to vaccination, in view of small-; small-; po L". j Lloven new cuns ot cholera from among the Fi-andir,' s passengers are at ! the hospital. 1 Los by Shipwrecks, Boston, 15. Twenty-two vessels have : been wrecked, sunk or abandoned, valued val-ued at Slo;!,(WJ, on which was SN.'t0Iti insurance, and ono hun- 1 drcd and thirly-fis li.-hernien lost j their live-, forty-llvo of whom left widows, and upwards of ninety children . wero rendered fatherless, during 1870. I The numbor of vessels kst was V), of tho valuo of S7:'.t5(M. The number of lives lost on llicm was 88. I Se vcrc St orm In New limn pslil re. j Portsmouth, N. II. 15, A storm 1 rnuod hero very heavily ail day. with a ; wind mainly from tho east and sotitli-! sotitli-! eaM. The wind lias been tho higho&t ' fur many years. XI itch damage is done to tho wharves, shipping, etc. The oat-: oat-: crn railroad track, over tho Hampton ' 1 mar-dies, is submerged, some small I bridges washed out. and it is feared the ' tta-k is undermined, so that no trains ' have passed either way since noon. The travel and mails between BoUon and I I Portland are interrupted. |