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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAMS, j A $-20,000 fire at Scran ton, Ta. : The Prince of Wales bus arrived at j Aden. ! Prussian General Moltko is sliIVlt-ing sliIVlt-ing from influenza. It is denied that Riium tro pi have euttfretl Corea. Hall's hotel burned, at Whitehall, X. Y.; loss SaO.OOO. Pendleton's Kentucky railway case is to be further investigated. Catholic Bishop Coibreth of Hartford, Hart-ford, Cjlui., was consecrated on Sunday. Sun-day. The town hall nt Poltsville, Pa., burned; loss $-30,000, and a $40,000 store. John H Keyser, of Tweed rin? notoriety, hasgbeeu taken to a lunatic asylum. Charles Keekule, Mark Lane ; merchant, has failed for a large amount. The Italian ministry hns resigned, being defeated ou tho railway purchase pur-chase scheme. Don Piatt is to appear before the committee on expenditures of the war department. By the wreck of the steamer Isabel between St. Ives and Lands End, thirty persons perished. Ten inches of snow fell at Memphis on Sunday night, and the sleighs tk-w round lively for a time. Mount Vesuvius has commenced an eruption iu earnest. The lava is flowing towards Pompei. On Sunday the powder mill of Thomas C. Brainard near York, Pa., exploded. No loss of life. The Belknap impeachment evidence evi-dence it is thought will be reported to tho house within a week. London artisans desire to send a deputation of English, workingmen to tl:e Philadelphia Centennial. Parliamentary commissioners re- port the existence of deplorable electoral elec-toral fraud? in Norwich, England. The bisncp 01 raiieruorn lias ieu Holland on account of an alleged demand de-mand for his extradition by Prussia. It is said that Genera! Sherman is favorable to the reestablish ment of army headquarters at Washington. The democratic congressional committee com-mittee is organized with headquarters at 1,324 F. Street, Washington city. Gordon, African explorer, has been heard irom. He expects to complete his work in July or August. Meyer, supervisor of internal revenue at St. Louis, is to be removed re-moved on account of being demoralized. demoral-ized. A woolen mill and some houses at "ranston, K. I,, destroyed by tire Saturday. Lors, $200,000; insurance, $172,000. A slight engagement between the government troops and the revolu-onista revolu-onista occurred on Fridny near Matamoras. The president on Monday sent to the senate the nomination of John M. M. Coaghlan of California, to be chief justice of Utah. Red Cloud's band of Sioux Indians remain quietly on their reservation, taking no part in the warlike demonstrations demon-strations of .Silting Bull. A Bevere snowstorm on Saturday interrupted in-terrupted railroad communication with Scotland. At some parts the snow is twenty feet deep. The Bonapartist senators from the debartment of the Gi rondo, have been admitted, although it was shown they were favored by the prefect. And now it is the quartermaster general's department, which has been paying for a useless patent moth preventor for army clothing. It is reported that gross irregularities irregulari-ties have uepn discoered in the con duct of the Kitlerey (Me.) navy yard by the house naval committee. Negotiations are stilt proceLding for peace in the Turkish insurgent provinces. pro-vinces. Itissaid that the insurgents have refused an armistice (or twelve days. The New Idra quicksilver mine has been sold to Montgomery Blair for $1,000,000, of which $400,000 is t be paid down, but the bulauce iu five years at 7 per cent. The captain general of Cuba has issued a decree imposing severe penalty pen-alty for frauds perpetrated against the treasury, the secreting of taxable property, prop-erty, bribing of officers, etc. Mr. B.irlow, of Barlow, Sanderson A Co., testified on Saturday that he paid $40,000 in 1S72 t? suppresi an investigation inves-tigation by the committee on pf;3t-otlices pf;3t-otlices (jf the forty secot.d congrecs. Minister Schenck refuses to talk ol his case lo reporters, Schenck and ex-Scnator Stewart will ho huard before be-fore the committee on loreigu alliiirs Tuesday. Albert Graut is not expected ex-pected to appear. iui.n oouiwen unu nenry view. deny all knowledge of a letter fron the former to the latter pronminj information in regard to gold rates it return for aid in carrying tho eleclioi ot 1S72 for Boulweil. In the $2,000 two mile and repe race tit San Francisco on Haturdiu next, "Foster," ' Golden U.ito,' "Revenue," "Chance" and "Hock hocking" havo been cntcrtd "Foster" is the favorite; "Hockhock ing" second. Rev. I. S. Kallock, of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, formerly of Leavenworth, Kansas, snys he k nows al 1 iibou the post Iradcrship business, and ol money being paid by Durfee A 1'eck to C. W. Babcock, and he desires tc be summoned to Washington to give evidence. The senate Pacific railway commit lee have held a meeting to consider the question of a 32d parallel Pacific railroad, including Col. .Scott's bill and Hamilton's proposition lo build the road for the land grant. Another An-other meeting will be held on Monday Mon-day next. Among tho evidence before the house postoflice committee- in regard to straw bidding, ia a statement said to have been made- by O indemin, a mail contractor, to tho vfWt tint his firui paid $.1,000 quarterly to a certain cer-tain official in the postoflice ncrvi :e, besides carriages, hoise.-i and diamonds dia-monds to others. General Paviain lhoSpaninh Corto. in a debate on the vtutp de elal of 1874, said it was tbo euly course to savo the country from still greater dangers, and that he alone was responsible, re-sponsible, to which Ciwtellar replied i l.n 1, 1,1 l.nrn rtivnrn nf wliaL was intended ho would have been justiDcd in ordering Pavia to be shut. In ft letter from Hon. K. H. Dana, Jr., to Senator Boutwell, tiio former says he does not want his nnrninauon withdrawn, but he will not go to Washington Wash-ington and submit to hu questioned touching his honor. It nt thought that ho will b confirmed, nB tho Massachusetts republicans a'c up in arniB about it, and Grant is said to bo ignorant of Butler's opposition. A firo in Charleston, H. C, on Monday morning destroyed a largo amount of properly, tho loss being cmimated at half a million dollnrs, with very little insurance Many persons per-sons nro houselces and tultcring. There- was no water iu tho district, and the fire burned itself out. For a time bands of negro robbers sacked every house to which ibey gained : a-ccss, but the mayor t-ook command and restored onh r. Secretary H:;ctow explained his coDnectiuii with the Kentucky mule j claim before thu committee on ex-; ex-; piMidilures ot the war department ou Mouti:,y, Hoiuipiy argued the case fur the company tor a contingent fee ol one-Lenin of ihe ci iim allowed. The case was simply t:,is: The company com-pany were under engagement with the government to furnish mules. They had the mules at the proper points to be -shipped. Some ot ihem were on the train at the time the government refused to tvke them on account of the collapse of the rebellion. rebel-lion. There was ah a consequence a sudden depreciation iu the value of mules, anil the low price at which they were compelled to sell them was incontrovertible. Even Chief Justice Drake, who dissented, did so only on ft question of law. |