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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Vanderbilt is much better. John Frederick Lewis, R. A., a well known English painter, is dead. Tho weather in New York is cooler. There have bcoa refreshing showers. Four colored people were drowned ! at Long Branch by the capsizing of a boa. The republicans of the 6th Missouri district have nominated II. E. Havers lor congress. Edwin Booth and his troupe left Chicago on Friday by special train for San Francisco, i Many seuaton and representatives called al the White house on Friday to lake leave of the president. Albert E. Smith, adjuster ol the Charter Ouk life insurance company, was drowned at Sharon, Mass. ! The Chicago whisky convicts now have bopea that their sentences will bo equalized, and of some of them being mitigated. The king of Dahomey holds four Frenchmen as hostages, and threatens, to kill them if the British squadron fires upon the natives. Two negro thieves have boon murdered mur-dered at Houston, Texas, and at tho last accounts the negroes wore assembling for vengeance. Railroad agents say that unless the freight war is stopped Boon all the lines will be ruined. Every pound of freight carried west is at a loss. The sculling match between Edward Ed-ward Trickott of Australia, and Wm. Lumsden ol Blythe, for 200 a side, ib or!, Luoisden payinc the forfeit. The sensation of the Chicago pulpits 1 last Sunday was the Sullivan-Hanford tragedy, several of the preachers making it the subject of special sermons. ser-mons. Wagner said to the audience at Bnyreuth: "I thank you by word and deud for your approval, You have Been now what we can and will do if you wish. We have a German art." The breach in the republican party in New York widens. Tho address of tho republican reform club announces that a set of delegates will be chosen entirely separata from tho custom house wiog. Friday being the birthd-iy of the emperor of Austria, tho Austrian department of the main Centennial building at the exhibition was handsomely hand-somely decorated with flags aud uiusio was performed by a full band. The habeas corpus eae of Harry McCabe, the circus bny, was decided in San Francisco. The child is given to Charles Sountaa, of the society for the prevention of cruelty to children, to by forwarded to his parents in New York. |