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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AMERICAN. At San Antonio, Texas, Charles Ward, a negro, was hung at noon, Aug. 21st, for ravishing a German girl a year ago. THE Mayor and fifty-five councilmen of Reading, Pa., were lately arrested on an indictment for not keeping clean streets. A HEAVY white frost occurred near Corry, Pa., on the night of Aug. 20, but there is no apparent damage to vegetation. THE issue of standard silver dollars from the mints for the week ending Aug. 20th, was $289,000, against $312,891 for the corresponding period of last year. THE strike of the ?? operators is virtually over. When the mill gates were opened on the morning of Aug. 21, the largest number of strikers that have yet applied for work flocked in. SURGEON-General Hamilton received a telegram from Brownsville, dated Aug. 21 as follows: Thirty new cases of fever, and three deaths. CONDUCTOR Sheppard and Ed Christine, a boy, were killed by a collision on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Road, Aug. 21st, near Easton, Pa. Three other persons were injured. WILLIAM E. Kilpatrick, claiming to be heir to the throne of Ireland, has been writing to Gladstone to urge on his Royal Sister Victoria that she renounce her title to his country. He does not appear to be a crank. AT Cincinnati on Aug. 21st, a courtmartial was organized at Newport Barracks, General C. C. Augur, president, to try Mayor Joseph H. Taylor, for attempting to use political influence to secure revocation of an order from superior officers transporting him from this post to the west. THE Evening Journal's Little Rock special of Aug. 22d says: intelligence reached here this morning of a murder in Chicot county, of one Roy, a Texas cattle buyer. A man named McNalty is suspected. Roy was killed in a lonely highway and robbed of a large sum of money. A DENVER, Col., dispatch of Aug. 22d, says Rymer, who stabbed to death McGarvey, near Fort Lyon, last Friday, was taken from jail at West Las ??, on the night of the 20th, and hanged by a mob of 40 or 50 masked men supposed to be soldiers from the fort. Thus ends the second chapter of the killing of McGarvey: and the end is not yet, as Mayor Brayton, commander at the Fort, is exercising all diligence in his power to find our who composed the mob. IN Chicago, at daylight Aug. 21st, in the presence of a large crowd of toughs, Chas. Hart and George Martin, ??, fought a prize fight for $500 a side. The fighters are a pair of local middle weights of considerable science. The fight lasted ten rounds, time, 10 minutes. Hart won the first knock down, first blood and the fight. Martin was badly punished. AN Omaha dispatch of Aug. 21st says Agent McGillicudy has telegraphed from Pine Bridge agency that he is assembling all the Indian police and will probably arrest Red Cloud, Woman's Dress and one or two other chief conspirators and hold them till further developments. He feels confident of the loyalty of the police and of a majority of the Indians. He renews his request that Red Cloud and others be sent to the Leavenworth military prison and asks transportation and escort for them after their capture which will likely take place to-day. GEO. ?? of New York challenges Wilson or Sullivan to fight for $2,500 to $5,000 a side, within 300 miles of New Orleans in October or November. He expresses contempt for their pugilistic abilities. THE following telegram has been received in Washington; Pine Ridge Agency, Aug. 20th, 1882.-Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, Red Cloud and the hostiles are completely squelched. He refused to come to the office yesterday and hear your warrant for his arrest. He is now on parole. The chiefs and police are responsible for his conduct. A DISPATCH from Cairo, Ills., Aug. 21st says Coup's circus left here this morning in two sections, and when about fifty miles north of this city, the engine of the second section ran into a passenger coach on the rear of the first train, completely demolishing the coach, killing three drivers and wounding about twenty-five or thirty others. They were going down grade, the first section heavily loaded and the second section rather light. The second train was running very fast at the time of the accident. The stock and cars ahead of the coach in the first section and in the rear of the engine in the second section, escaped unhurt. Relief trains with physicians were sent to the scene of the wreck at once. FOREIGN. SMALL-POX is spreading at Capetown, Africa, and many are dying from the disease. A DISPATCH from Melbourne says Archbishop Goold of the Roman Catholic diocese there, was shot at, Aug. 21st, and slightly wounded. His assailant, named O'Farrels, was arrested. He is the brother of the man who attempted to assassinate the Duke of Edinburgh on a Sunday in March, 1868. AT Montreal, on Aug. 21st, the American Forestry Congress commenced its session, 100 delegates being present. After organization the Congress adjourned and afterwards met in sections, speeches and papers being produced at each meeting, hearing on the planting and cultivation of forest trees. An evening session was held. The Mayor of the city, being present, tendered the freedom of the city to the American gentlemen present. Other speeches were made. HE who loves to read, and knows him to reflect, has laid by a perpetual feast for his old age. BETTER bare feet and contentment therewith, than patent-leather boots and a corn on each toe. IT IS always better to keep out of a quarrel than to make it up ever so amicably after you have got into one. THE moon, like some men, is the brightest when it is full; but like them again, it soon begins to lose its lustre. THE unhappiness of this life seems principally to consist in getting everything we can, and wanting everything we have not got. IT is strange how often it occurs that the person who thinks he knows most about a business is one who has never been engaged in it. THE surest way to attain success in life, according to the elder Pitt, is to be as regular and careful of the books you read, as of your dinner. FORGIVENESS.-A [unreadable] person being asked, "What is forgiveness?" took a pencil, and wrote a reply containing both poetry and deep truth embodied in these few words. [unreadable] |