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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS. A $70,000 fire iu Jacksonville, Flurida; $2Q,GuO insurance. At a fire in Newton, N. J., one mau was killtd and five wounded. The New York Tribune arcues that the recent rapid rise in silver is only temporary. Bullion to the amount of 52,000 was withdrawn from Biuk of England Eng-land Wednesday. The republicans of New Hampshire Hamp-shire have nominated Benj. F. Pres-cott Pres-cott for governor. The silver payments lrom the treasury from April 20, 1S7G, to the Gth inst. were $20,075,930. It is rumored that a Russian army i in Turkestan, 40,000 men, have been destroyed by au upriiing of the inhabitant. in-habitant. Ex-Governor Isham S. Harris has been elected United States senator from Tennessee to Bucceed Cooper, whose term expires Marcli -4th. Mr. Ortou, president of the Western West-ern Union telegraph company will proceed to Washington in obedience to the summons of tho house of representatives. repre-sentatives. The senate committee on elections has ordered D. M. Frost of St, Louis, to be eubpeenaed to testily in relation to his alleged inelegibility as a presidential presi-dential elector. A Chicago paper publishes an oath said to be signed by members of the ; wnite league, promising under penalty pen-alty of death to take up arms for the inauguration ot Tilden and Hendricks. J. A. Van Volkenburg and G. W. West, respectively ferry master and collector of tickets at the Jersey City ferry, are on trial for conspiracy to defraud the company of a large sum of money, amountiug to $05,000 a year. The house commitLee on Indiau affairs has agreed to an increase of salaries of Indian agents hi the amount of $100 a year after two years continuous service until the salary shall reach $2,000, which shall be the maximum. |