Show v TV DOMESTIC NEWS dy union NEW YORK sept the alar ic received hia a story of a disastrous swept over jamaica on the night of august the wind rayed with such fary nt ning that the street cars had to caaso running vessels have been sunk and driven ashore wharves destroyed roofs blown off trees api upi rooted and a catalogue of other dam ages sustained which ii is impossible to estimator est imato not a single coaster in kingston harbor rode out tho gale in safety twenty seven brigs barks etc were driven ashore or went to pieces at their docks every wharf bat one was blown away and the beach strewn with cargoes of vessels wrecked many seamen are missing and they are supposed to have perished all penitentiary vessels foundered and ilio port royal sustained considerable sid erable damage the damage on landals roughly estimated at cocoanut Coco anut trees snapped in the villages town brownstown Browns town Passmore town smiths and bletch arai land suffered ered severely schools and boue were leveled and church and tho barracks at upper park camp went down in the gale the banana crop ia destroyed and trees of all ands vanished three severe shocks of were felt during the storm communication with the country ports ii cut off tho wires all trains could not pass tho bio cabrie the bridge having burgled when abo storm was t its height boards trees household furniture etc were rushing through the air with lightning like rapidity while families were flying from house to bouse seeking refuge the roads are impassable for cain ages and dangerous to pedestrians nearly the whole of tho crop is destroyed and groat want will ba felt by the peasantry currency NEW YORK sept the Waa hington special says consider able comment has appeared recently with regard to tho advisability of reviving lor the convenience of commerce the fractional currency the facilities offered by the new system of registering packages by mail for making purchases of small arti cle at a distance make it very desira be there should bo in existence same circulating medium of a smaller denomination alian a dollar which may be sent by mail major powell chief clerk of the treasury department proposes to meet this demand iby issuing greenbacks green backs of the denoma I nation of Is and which may be to halves and quarters his p an is to have the lace of the boies printed as at present on the back he would have them divided into four sections each bearing a separate obligation on tho part of the bov eminent for its redemption these may be figued as they are called for an ct may pass in their complete from or as holders find occasion to cut them for the purpose of change when tendency would bo towards tha treasury for redemption as mutilated currency by an order of the treasurer issued by spinner the regular greenbacks green backs now current are redeemable when cut in two or more pieces the amount being pro port ionato the BUO the piece pro dented it congress should authorize the adoption ot proposition it would legalize the long standing practice the two action yew YORK sept athe cominer claff washington special saye on the authority ot a prominent democrat hancock per anally brought about the agreement between tammany and committee iian cock was in communication not only with faulkner but with Dan manning and commanded them to test kellia sincerity for peace and bar mony lie declared the state could not be carried if alie party was divided and it was timo personal bia hatred and wre bur ed the bartys good exacted as much from every loyal democrat and he would consider no man who refused to lake the olive branch offered by i tammany a loyal democrat ijan cock did not take the step until the very last moment although repeatedly advised and urged to do it by the conservative democrats who surrounded him abe credit of the step is accorded to general franklin for it was well known that just after the cincinnati Cincic nati convention he doubted the sincerity of the public iem bracca of john kelly and col fellows and declared at tint time that nothing but decided action on iian bocki part would the two factions bidy smith aad franklin aro the powers behind iian cock chrono they wili be all powerful in his should II ancock be the next president n alio bl CHICAGO sept numerous railroad accidents are reported today to day at near beddia N Y a freight rain ran into the rear of a construction train on the new york central at north adami mas abo new york epenial express ran into several freight cara loaded with corn scattering ho the pas the en per fireman locomotive and badly injuring at white house N J a coal train on the central railroad of new jersey broke the coupling nd forty scattered their jou the mountain A Lr akeman was injured and many cars broken at Stock pon bridge on the hudson river railroad fan angino drawing a train of fifty three cara jumped abo rack c irr ying twelve cara with ii and badly damaging the engine and care at springfield while ft chicago alton freight train waa switching in tho yard alio llio locomotive be cinie o and backed at full into tho train wrecking five cars and fatally injuring jacob aike a in the caboose lie crushed lower part of his body being terribly |