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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AMERICAN. On Aug. 7th, there was a very destructive storm in central Pa. Great damage has lately been caused by terrific storms in Ohio and Pa. A forest fire threatens Sandwich village with destruction and annihilation. Nine-tenths of the wheat in several counties in Michigan have been destroyed by a seven days' rain. The police will not allow the glove fight between Sullivan and Wilson, announced for the 11th inst. to come off. On Aug. 7th, there were three cases of sunstroke in New York and four in Brooklyn. One of the latter was fatal. A terrible conflagration occurred in Gardner, Me., on Aug. 7. Several saw mills and foundries and about 60 dwellings were burned. On August 7th, an old farmer, Theo Horn, and his brother-in-law, were frightfully wounded by a reaping machine, the horses running away. They were nearly sawn asunder by the sickles. The Irish of Philadelphia sympathize with Arabi Pasha. They have voted to sent to him the proceeds of a grand excursion to be given under the auspices of the Philadelphia Land League Sept. 3d. All other branches are recommended to follow this example. Letters received by business houses at St. Louis Mo., from correspondents throughout the South, Southwest and West say there have never been such crops of corn and oats raised in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Indian Territory, Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas, as those of the present season. At Kansas City, Mo., on the evening of the 7th inst. Maurice Bricker, a train robber and escaped convict, well known in Pennsylvania, was arrested. In April Brickers, with three others, received a life sentence for robbing a train at South Mountain, near Philadelphia. In May during a prison delivery three of the train robbers escaped. In Alabama, the election for Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Superintendent of Education, Treasurer, and Auditor, and members of the General Assembly was held August 7th. So far no disturbance is reported. The election was very quiet. Democratic success is conceded. Very few Republicans are running for the Legislature. Returns are yet very meager. At Pomeroy, Ohio, on the night of Aug. 6th, a mob of a hundred men, surrounded the jail to get Holmes, the negro charged with outraging a little girl near Rutland. When they had nearly broken the walls they found Holmes had been taken away. He was sent to Columbus, to-day, for safe keeping. The mob are well-known, the men having made no effort at concealment. FOREIGN. In France a new cabinet has been installed. At Matamoras there were fifteen deaths on Sunday, twelve on Monday to 3 p. m. Five persons are reported drowned by the capsizing of a boat at Nantucket. The mortality in Ottawa, Ont., is great among the children owing to the intense heat. Of the total 650 Chilian soldiers in garrison at ??, Peru, 300 died from yellow fever. At Brownsville no deaths occurred since the last report. The troops at Fort Browning are preparing to leave. In London, Ont., Aug. 7th, was the hottest of the season, and a terrible hail storm did great damage. Chas. Schild, a well-known Galveston merchant, was killed, to-day, by a falling sign which broke his neck. At Port Said there are one Austrian, one Italian, one Greek, one Spanish and four French men-of-war. The French are expected to leave shortly. A U. S. officer at Colon reports the population of 6,000 dying at the rate of one hundred per month. The natives as well as the unacclimated are attacked by the fever. The brigs Gold Finder, from Hayti, and Stacy Clarke, from Havana, are detained at the quarantine in Boston. Each had a fatal case of yellow fever during the voyage. On Monday night Thomas Hogan, a prominent railroad contractor, died from the effects of self-inflicted wounds. Ten days ago he disemboweled himself with a mason's trowel. Domestic trouble led to the terrible act. It has been rumored at St. Petersburg that Russia is making warlike preparations at Odessa in the view of the possibility of complication between Turkey and England. Recently the Chilian garrison 70 strong, at Concepcion, ?? Valley were massacred by the inhabitants. The soldiers ill-treated some women, hence the action of the populace. Riot, disrule, and anarchy dominate in the ports of Peru. A dispatch from Matamoras, Mexico, to-day, says: News just reached here of the execution of twenty-five Apaches who were captured by Mexican troops and publicly shot at Chihuahua on Monday. They met their fate with the expression of the greatest contempt on their faces. In Aspinwall lately many deaths have occurred from fever. The unknown are carted off and buried without ceremony. The Mother Superior of the hospital, a French lady, the parish priest, an Italian and the second in charge of the canal work (a Frenchman named Montief) died. The chief of canal in Colon is also sick. The Governor of Texas received from the State health officer at Brownsville a statement that 8 or 10 deaths from yellow fever occurred at the at place the last two weeks. He urges the citizens to organize, as the disease is epidemic. No mails, freight, or steamers have been quarantined at this place against Matamoras as it is useless. At Bluffton, Texas, on Sunday a gang of desperados robbed several stores, destroying a large amount of goods and taking large sums of money from merchants. They were overtaken in Hardin County by a Bluffton posse in the act of robbing the place. A fight ensued in which five robbers were captured and one wounded, it is thought fatally. One of the posse was also wounded. The deserted village of Feltsville, Union Co., was sold at Master's sale by the receiver of the Globe Mutual Insurance Co., New York, for $11,400. The village contains twenty houses, two mills, a church, a schoolhouse, a store, and a mill ??. In the sale were included 800 acres of land (200 acres tillable). The village was first owned and built by Felt, the paper manufacturer, and was then very flourishing. He sold it to Townsend, a sarsaparilla man, and the latter borrowed $60,800 from the Globe Mutual on mortgage. The President of the Globe Co. office offered $250,000 for the property. It is admitted in London, England, political circles that Russia is making extensive war preparations. Troops have been hurried down towards the Caucasus, where it is said 200,000 men are now collected, with all stores and munition of war, ready for descent upon the Bosphoras, should an opportunity offer. It is said the delay in England in forwarding her army to Egypt has been caused by the knowledge of these facts and calling out of the English reserves, and acceptance of the services of some of the volunteer artillery are due to that knowledge. The internal state of Russia is such that any change would be for the better. Not only are the great bulk of the people discontented, but among the upper classes there is considerable hostility to the present Czar. Under these circumstances the Emperor turns toward foreign affairs with the expectation that a war with England-which would be very popular, would unite all Russian classes against the common enemy. The only obstacle to the war is the attitude of Germany. Bismarck is said to give his unswerving support to Gladstone's eastern policy, and in the event of a general European war. Germany would be supported both by Austria and Italy. In Alexandria, Egypt, the re-immigration of Europeans, if continued may lead to serious embarrassment as no business is doing. The Government thought it right for the present to prohibit the return of refugees who own no property here. An armor train started from ??, yesterday, going with a party to build a bridge across the ?? ??. In three hours the work was complete and available for the passing of guns. It is reported that American Fenian agents are encouraging the Irish police agitation with a view to inducing the men to strike, and that a more systematic attempt is about to be made by offering the men who leave the force a guarantee of employment in America of equal value. |