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Show GENERAL. Another Terrible S tot 111, Galveston, Texas, 14. There was another storm yesterday at 10 a.m., which continued with great fury, till midnight, destroying tho telegraph, injuring the railroad, and doing immense im-mense damage to the city aud shipping. ship-ping. St. Patrick s church was blown down, and is a total ruin. New Scheme for Cuban Independence, Independ-ence, New York, 14. The Sim says : Wo learn from unquestionable authority that a proposition of the ibllnwing nature has been made by the British government to the represeutativo in London of the Cuban Republic. England Eng-land is willing to guarauteo to Spain tho sum' of one hundred million dollars for the cession ol' the is laud to the Cubans; Cuba to bind herself not to become annexed to tho United States for one hundred years from the date of her independence. Tho control of the Cuban custom bouses will be given hy Cuba to England as security for the loan, 4n1.il the latter be repaid and, lastly,' Cuba' Jo be willing, it the' Eowcra possessing the other West ndia Islands consent thereto, to form i one of a confederacy consisting of all tho islands. An Old Brntc. ! Chicago, 14. Thomas Diegnaw, an' Irishman, nearly seventy years old, I yesterday beat his divorced wife over the head with a hammer, inflicting fatal injury. The crop reports are still most encouraging en-couraging from ail parts of the west-Snn west-Snn Francisco News. San Franoisco, 14. Stocks are extremely ex-tremely lirm to-day and sales very heavy, over $30U,lXiO. I The patent right tor the San Francisco-invented imperishable block pavement pave-ment has been sold to New York and Philadelphia for a large sum. The Britinh ship Golden Age, con detuned, was sold at the Merchants' Kxchange this afternoon for $3,600. which is es than tho value of her copjwr and iastenings, A large number of anti-Haiirht Dem ocrats bFe fioijo to Santa Clara to-day to be present and assist the resident-of resident-of that county to carry op their prima ries to-morrow. Bonds, 112 Q IU. Weather cloudy, warm and damp; wind south west, Chung Toy, who killed a fellow coun-trymaa coun-trymaa at a cigar factory 04 Sacra mento street, on Monday niiiht, wa examined this mornim: and held tor trial at the county court on the charge of murder. A son of Rev. Dr. Ackerly, Oak land, Icll from a tree this morning and dislocated his arm, breaking the bone. Cap'ain Wm. Rankin, a veteran of the Mexican war, forrnt'riy a resident ol' Pitt-burg, Pa., died last uiirht. Senator Cole, on his arrival from the cast last nicht, was received and welcomed wel-comed by a large number of federal officeholders. of-ficeholders. Letters from Stiellinc, Merced county, coun-ty, leave no doubts as to the success of the California Cotton Growers' Association Asso-ciation in coiton planting this seasuu. The stand is represented as very tine, and not perceptibly affected by the drought. Joseph Frazier, the well known contractor's con-tractor's ibreman, died suddenly last night. Liter San Francisco 'tw. San Francisco, 14. Partial returns from eleven of the principal grain growing counties, received and coUted this week by the grain operators here, show nothing like a total failure anywhere any-where but in a part of San Joaquin valley; and the average is much beyond be-yond the highest estimation uf two weeks since; considerably over half a crop, and possibly two-thirds. An operation for the removal of an ovarian tumor of immense size, from a married lady of this city, was performed per-formed yesterday by Dr. MeNutt, -assisted by Dr. Storrer, of Boston, Drs. McNulty, Maxwell, Davis, Stillman, aud others- of this city It is thought to be one of the most difficult on record, and promises complete success, suc-cess, the patient, whose life was despaired de-spaired of, being very comfortable today. to-day. The Wallapi Consolidated Silver Mining Co., to operate in Arizona, with a capital of two millions, was incorporated in-corporated to-day. A cargo sale of Japan teas o-day was fully atrende 1 by eastern and local dealers and was a -ucccss. The city is biug flooded with circu lars of the new million dollar Louisville lottery scheme, under the management "f C. R. Peters, who mauaged the San Fruicisto mercantile lottery, alter which this is modeled- The weather is warm and fiue. |