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Show LIGHTNINGJLASHES. The Ohio congressional convention for the tenth district re-nominated, by acclamation, Chad. Foster. Gov. Geary, in a letter to the labor reformers reiterates bid expression of sympathy with the cause. Army ball worms have appeared in Alabama aod are doing great damage. 1'be cotton crop will bo light. E. A. Piko has been unanimously nominated for coneress by the Belfast, Maine, anti-IIale Kcpublicaos. Baucher & Walkowiiz's white lead color workB of StLouis were burned at 3 a.m., yesterday.- Nearly a total loss. At the afternoon session the Columbus, Colum-bus, Ohio, convention elected Ang. 'Iherme and Thos. Kwing electors at large. A number of tho Japanese in New York attended, on Tuesday, the lauuehing of the steamboat Keivada, which has been built for the Japenese Govt. Senor Mariscol, of Mexico, minister of foreign affairs under Juarez and now a second timo representing Mexico at Washington, arrived at New York on Tuesday. At the New York reform conference, confer-ence, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Connecticut, Connec-ticut, Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, Georgia, and Virginia were represented. The underwriters estimate the loss at $1,500,000 at the Hunter's Point fire. Thousands are visiting the scene. The tire will probably continue till tho supply sup-ply of oil is burned out. The New York Timet, Raleigh dis-yaiches dis-yaiches Bays no one expects election day to pass without bloodshed. It is j estimated there will be hundreds of; ferocious affrays throughout the State, i The longshoremen in employ of the Metropolitan lino from New York to Boston have been on a strike since Monday. New hands were threatened and the police called to prevent violence. vio-lence. Horace Greeley has reconsidered his purpose of making a stay on Long Island. Is-land. Ho has now determined, in company with his family, to visit his old home in New Hampshire, where ho will remain a month or more. While the officers and clerks of the Prarie City bank of Terre Hante, Ind., were gazing at a circus procession yesterday, yes-terday, a thief entered the back door of the bank and stolo $4,000 in our-rency our-rency and about $5,000 in checks, and escaped. The Ohio Liberal and Democratic mass convention, to choose presidental electors, and ratify Greeley and Brown, mot at Columbus yesterday. Judge d. P. Spaulding was elected chairman, with Liberal and Democratic vice-presidents from eaoh district. A firo in New York, night before last, destroyed a large slaughter house on 47th street. Seventy cattle and two or three hundred sheep were burned. Loss over $100,000. In an adjoining tenement house, whioh was also destroyed, a obild of two years oid was burned to death. The mayor of Chicago has removed captain Kennedy, chief of police, and has appointed Elmer Washburne, late warden of the penitentiary, to the office. As Washburne is not a citizen of Chicago, and has never been connected con-nected with the police anywhere, it is thought his appointment will not be continued. Io the Malburn explosion, on tho i Mississippi, the number of lost is six, one of them a ohild. Out of sixteen , saved, four are wounded or scalded, i As usual there appears to have been no cause for the explosion. It is rumored the boat was racing against time, but this is denied by passengers. The engineer says there was a flaw in the boiler iron. The boat is sunk under ten feet of water. |