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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AMERICAN. THE Lahigh Valley railroad bridge and part of the track washed away. THE total number of yellow fever cases has been estimated thus far as great as in 1870. A KANSAS joker had to pay $7000 for destroying a man's eye with an explosive cigar. JAY Gould contemplates a journey round the world extending over a period of two years. MRS. Scoville, Guiteau's sister, continues action in the divorce case against her husband. FOUR miles on the lower Rappahannock, Va., washed away by a terrible rainstorm. GREAT damage by flood at Plainfield. Three bridges swept away. One boy drowned. FRENCH influence is actively opposing a reciprocity treaty between Mexico and the United States. HANLAN'S winnings in England, amount to some $50,000. $16,500 being realized from his last trip. BISHOP Bergess, of Michigan, has issued a pastoral forbidding the marrying of Catholics and Protestants under pain of excommunication. THE flood at Bordentown, N. J. washed away the feed-mills and overturned an engine and number of passenger cars on the Pennsylvania railway. AN appeal for charity comes from the fishermen of Labrador coast. Failure of crops, seal and cod fisheries have produced the distress. A HEAVY fall of coal occurred on Monday in the Kingsland mine of the Maryland Coal Co. at ??, Md. Four miners including the mine boss Byer are known to be under the coal. JACOB Roosely, a farmer near the Boy's Reform School at Lancaster, while plowing a field on Monday morning, fell on his face in an epileptic fit and got a mouthful of earth and smothered to death. The freshet in Assaupeek Creek, N. J. caused damages in the amount of $200,000, the torrent made for the Delaware carrying everything with it en route. One youth drowned. TWO men were killed and several wounded at Governor's Island on Monday by the explosion of one of the guns on Castle William, which was being used to salute the French men of war lying off the battery. LAST Thursday, officers in search of Richard and Wm. Skaggen, the Indian murderers, found them at Scotishedge Marion county, Ky. The murderers refused to surrender and opened fire on the officers, when a general fight began Richard Skaggen was killed and Wm. Skaggen captured. None of the officers were injured. FOR some time past the postoffice authorities have been receiving complaints from the west that certain postmasters, in violation of law refused such small coin as cents and three cent pieces in exchange for postage stamps. The postmaster has decided to give instructions to all Postmasters that they must conform to the Postoffice regulations and accept legal tender coin. FOREIGN. NUMEROUS strikes in England for advanced wages. NUMEROUS arrests of "suspects" continue in Ireland. FIFTY million dollars have been wasted in the Chilian war up to present time. THE Khedive will shortly issue an amnesty against nearly all the rebels. FIFTY families were evicted within the past week in Barony-on-Davis, County Mayo, Ireland. BAKER Pasha, the Englishman, has accepted from the Sultan the task of reorganizing the Egyptian army. A NUMBER of men enrolled to serve in the gendarmie in Egypt have arrived from Geneva and more will shortly follow. THE Khedive has offered the British Consul General the grand cross of ??, the highest decoration he can bestow. 150,000 persons witnessed the Khedive's return to Alexandria. The proceedings were of a festive nature. De Lessop's house was not decorated. THE R. C. Archbishop at Toronto has called for the attention of the Canadian government to the use of Sir Walter Scott's "Mormon" in a text book as insulting to Catholic. GLADSTONE, replying to a correspondent reiterates the declaration that he is unable to interfere with the operations of the Mormons in England, as he presumed that their converts go with them willingly. PANAMA and Aspiswall have experience earthquakes at intervals since Sept. 7th, and much damage has been done. The damage is estimated at over half a million dollars, and four persons are known to have been killed. THE Sultan has ordered the immediate surrender to Greece of the whole of the familiar fixed by the international commission. The representatives, who at the invitation of the Ambassador assembled to discuss the Turko-Greek frontier question, dissolved their meeting on learning of the settlement of the difficulty. BLOODY CONVENTION. New Orleans, Sept. 20.-The Republicans of the seventh Congressional district, after indulging in a free light in which a number were knocked down, pistols were drawn and fired, and a negro (the sergeant-at-arms of the convention) was fatally stabbed, nominated Judge Wash. Marks, Internal Revenue Collection of this district. A HORRIBLE DEATH. Woodstock, Ont., Sept. 26.-The inquest last night on the remains of a young woman named Ellen Windergarten alias Camp, who died under suspicious circumstances, resulted in the arrest of an old negro doctress named Murson, at whose house the woman died. The evidence went to show that for some years the house had been the resort of women seeking unlawful medical aid. Several deaths had taken place there. THE ASIA'S PASSENGERS. Collingswood, Sept. 26.-The body of A. Duncan, of Hamilton Ont. one of the passengers on the wrecked steamer Asia, has been recovered. The following are additional names of passengers on the vessels Jacques and Andrew Terry, Julian, Jane, James and Felix Jandreau; Octave Valiz, Peter ??, Peter Roberge, Sr., and Jr.; Jos. Liseth and Robert Barelle. All were from the vicinity of Arthabaska, Quebec. COMET. A large comet has been simultaneously discovered at several points on this continent. Professor Birkard, of Nashville Tenn., will be the first person this year who is enabled to lay claim to the Warner prize of $200. |