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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. New York specie shipments Wednesday, Wed-nesday, ?87,'JS0. Joesc D, Bright w..s believed to be dying on Wednesday. A terrible conflagration was raging on Tuesday at Launceston, Cornwall. Hon. Michael Kerr has returned from a prolonged visit to the south entirely restored in health. The nope is much pleased A'ith the enthusiastic reception of Cardinal McCloskcy in New York. Tho suspended Grant locomotive works at Patterson, X. J., show liabilities lia-bilities of $531,000 and assets of $712, 000. A fire at Waco, Texas, Tuesday night, destroyed ten business bouses. Loss estimated at $1 23,000; insurance $50,000. The belief that the New York gold clique will do nothing in the way of disturbance this week has induced a further recovery in foreign exchange. United States Marshal FiBke, on Wednesday morning, received a pardon par-don from president Grant for Oscar F. Wainwright, convicted of perjury in February, 1874. Affairs at Rio Janeiro are still in a critical condition. The Ductche-Br.izilianische Ductche-Br.izilianische bank has suspended. Its paid up capital was $5,000,000, and it was mostly owned in Hamburg. The sides of the wrecked 6teamsbip Sctitltr have fallen in, covering the specie, the best part of the cargo, and probably a number of bodies. Blasting Blast-ing operations will be commenced ns souu ;ls practicable. A dispatch from St. Joe, Mo., says that the grasshoppers are utterly destroying the winter wheat crop in that locality. Dispatches from a number num-ber ol other points iu Missouri and Kansas say the crops are being injured by grasshoppers. Xingo Parks, the agitator, was arrested on Wednesday, at Osceola, Pa. Twenty-five Italians have arrived from New York for the Philadelphia mines. Tho strikers' meetings at ' various points last night were poorly attended. The strikers are demoralized, demoral-ized, and many men have gone to work. Gordon's train of Black HilLs explorers ex-plorers from Sioux city are slowly proceeding to their destination, awaiting await-ing the opening of the country to immigrants. They had been informed by tho Sioux and Indian scouts that the troops would not interfere with them as long as they kept off the reserve. re-serve. Si.it no one wrote to Horace Greeley, inquiring if guano was gocd to put on potatoes. He said it might do for those whose tastes had become vitiated with tobacco and rum, but he preferred prefer-red gravy and butter. |