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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AMERICAN. Rain fell for eight consecutive days at Louisville, Ky. The window glass manufacturers are in session at Pittsburg. Dakotah Territory will have a wheat crop of about 30 million bushels. A storm in the west part of Waco Co., Texas, did much damage to property. Yellow fever is still raging at Brownsville, Matamoras and other towns in Texas. Moses Oldham, in the southern part of McLennon Co., Texas, was killed by lightning on Friday. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R. R. announce a reduction on freight westward bound. A method to raise funds for a monument to John Brown, is by a celebration at Ogden's Grove, near Chicago, on 23rd inst. [line unreadable] on Friday last at Fernandina, ?? for murdering a colored boy on 12th of November, 1881. Reports from interior of the State of Wisconsin show that the rains have greatly injured the wheat in ?? which is beginning to sprout. It is estimated that the Minnesota wheat crop will not be less than 35 million bushels. The largest yield per acre was 24 and the smallest 12. On the line of the Northern Pacific last year there were over by millions bushels of wheat raised. This year it is estimated to be no less than 12. Destructive storms raged last week in several sections of the State of Colorado, causing floods, land-slides, loss of life and property. The Central Bridge across the Merrimac, Miss., burned on Saturday. Loss $31,000. Four firemen fell into the river and were severely injured. Mr. H. Neff and wife were killed and shockingly mutilated at Spring Garden Centre, Volusia Co., Fla. The house was robbed and fired. General Ben. Butler's yacht, America, easily beat the North America over 300 miles which were run. The America was heavily laden, bound for San Francisco. The war between the Creek Indians has ended for the present and both the Sandia and Chicotah parties have been disarmed and disbanded. The Government will use troops to preserve peace. Capt. Thos. Kirkman, a wealthy planter, went to the quarters of his colored mistress, and brained her and her four children with an axe, then took a dose of morphine and laid down to die in the same room. No hope of his recovery. Rev. J. Brockwell, a specious knave, who advertises under the name of Rev. J. Harvey, "rare book at cheap rates," has come to grief, being arrested by the Post Office authorities at Lincoln, Neb., for using the mails for swindling purposes. On a long train of freight cars of the Cranberry Coal Railway, coming from the mines, the brakesmen lost control of the train, which dashed along at a terrific late and pumped the track, killing six miners and wounding fifteen others. The track was torn up and tics scattered for about two miles. FOREIGN. No European shops open in Cairo. There is a council of war held at Cairo every evening. Arabi Pasha is said to have 20,000 Bedoins at his command. The Seaforth Highlanders left Bombay for Suez on Friday. Postmaster Fawcett has received a letter threatening his life. The health of the troops in Egypt is good, only 1 ½ per cent. sick. A battery of artillery sailed from Southampton for Egypt on Friday. A working-party on the iron-clad train, has gone to repair the railway. When Arabi Pasha is beaten he will not retire to Cairo, but to Wab El Dakhet. The Porte has drawn upon the Khedive for the expenses of the Turkish expeditionary force. The British attacked the advance guards of Arabi Pasha on Saturday night near ?? The English war secretary is gratified at the way the reserves are responding to the call. Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley believes that the war will be eover by the 15th of September. Gen. Alison forbids the English soldiers from "potting off" the Arabs for amusement. The German press acknowledge that the British acted wisely in occupying the positions which are now of great importance to her. Limerick is a proclaimed city under the repression act. Any one out after sunset is liable to arrest. The second battalion of Grenadier Guards on their way to Egypt, arrived at Gibraltar on Friday. The Scots Fusilier Guards, with the duke of Connaught, passed Gibralter on Saturday on the transport Orient. De Lessops telegraphed to the Forte protesting against Admiral Symour's action in occupying the Suez Canal. On Tuesday a quarter of a million pounds, for service debt, was collected by Arabi Pasha in the provinces. O'Connell's statute was placed in position at Dublin on the third inst. amid theirs from a crowd of spectators. The British Consul warned the banks at Alexandria against negotiating drafts for the Turkish Government. The insurgents captured an English "middy" and conveyed him in a closed carriage through Cairo. The natives shouting "the Sultan is victorious," they were under the impression that Admiral Seymour was their prisoner. |