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Show GENERAL. NtWjYork; Intelligence. Now York, 20". Judgo Barratt, today, to-day, granted a peremptory mandamus against comptroller Groon, directing him to pay the salaries of ninety-throe attaches of the supremo court. Tho loss by tiro in tho bonded warehouse, ware-house, to-day, is set at $200,000, covered cov-ered by insurnnco. Tho Republicans of tho 21st district havo ro-nominalwd O. L. Alerriam for congress. A number of straight-out Democrats, including senator Stock ton, of .Now Jersey, Henry Thotupson, of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, J- it. Gilbert, of Kentucky,' V. H. Curtiss, of Ohio, and IKmry Williamson, Willi-amson, .of Alary land, met at Long Branch toe-day, to hear tho report of-tho oxeoutivo committee jipjtoinled by i,ho conference held "at Long Bram:n lat J uno. After reading a long report and a Hpeech by tho chairman, Gilbert, and tho passage of a series of resolutions, delegates were. appointed to tho Luuis-viile Luuis-viile convention, instructed to support Charles U' Connor for President. .Hliicellaucouti, - - Boston, 20.AI Oanian, N. II., yos-terdsy, yos-terdsy, tho wifo of Dr. Asa "Wheatdiod from chloroform, administered by hor husband to extract tooth. - Atchison, Ks., 20. Tho Atchison and Hebraska railroad was completed on Saturday to Lincoln, tho capital of Nebraska. Ne-braska. To-day tho trains commenced running. The completion of tho road to Lincoln makes a direct short lino from St. Louis to Fort Kearney, on the Union Pacilic. Indianapolis, 20 Tho venerable bishop L'pford, bishop of this diocese sinco '1'.', died to-day. St. Louis, 20. Tho weather was fearfully fear-fully hot to day. Tbrco hundicd cases of sunstroko aro reported, and that number num-ber will probably not cover moro than half that actually occurred. Seventeen inquests were held, and sixty-live burial permits issued to-day. Dubuque, la., 20. Tho scicntitic congress con-gress lias adjourned, selecting SaH Francisco Fran-cisco for the next meeting. Professor Lcvaning, of Cambridge, whs elected president. ' Political. Lock-port, N. Y., 2R.-Tho "straight-out" "straight-out" Democrats of tho 2?ih district wiil meet at Niagara Falls, to-morrow, to select delegates to Louisviil. Columbia, S. C, 26. The Republicans Republi-cans reassembled and completed their elecWrial ticket. The bolters nominated J. H. Hague (colored) for governor, Maoon B. Allen (white) for secretary ol Stale, general E. C Garray (white) for treasurer, and B. L. Roberts (colored) for superintendent of education. A platform was adopted endorsing President Presi-dent Grant and the Philadelphia platform; plat-form; and denouncing the State government govern-ment as imbecile and corrupt; pledging tho State to pay ali honestly and legally contracted deDU ; and promising an honoet administration and a reduction ot taxation. " Pottaville, Pa-i 2k Tho Democrats of this county have nominated honorable honora-ble li. Keil'.y for congress, Jacob's Majority Reduced. Greenbrier, TV. Va.," 2k Tho third Co ntrres.-i on al district, nine cou:-,tics, hoard from, gives Camden a maioritv of 1,000. Tlie lw.-'".o counties unbo.irJ from will, it is estimated, give Camden 2,0 majority, making in the di.-tricl |