Show j j NEWS OF THE DAY I Hoadley vs Foraker The Democrats i will have a comparatively easy time in the Ohio campaign now about to open After John L Sullivan licks McCaffrev tomorrow arrangements will be made for him to meet Paddy Ryan in n fight to the finishNow Now it is said that Edward J Downe I appointed to be judge in Alaska is the one about whom Clevelands celebrated letter was written The National Association of ExUnion Prisoners met in Philadelphia yesterday and recounted their experiences in Southern prisons The convention then adjourned till next year Cleveland and Mr Tilden favor the nomination nom-ination of exMayor Cooper as Governor of New York They regard Hill as the machine ma-chine candidate and both of them are dead down on the machine and professional politicians poli-ticians Lucky Baldwins horses Volante and Rapido have been attached by Lloyd I Huges the jockey and James Stewart the trainer who claim 7000 for breach of contract con-tract It is claimed to be the result of a misunderstanding General Logan may write at some future time a history of the war from the standpoint stand-point of a volunteer officer The two histories his-tories we now have by Grant and Sherman were written by WestPointers He might write a story as a volunteer to volunteers One hundred and fifty persons in Fall River aroused at the cruelty of George Mote to his three motherless children assembled in front of his house last night for the purpose pur-pose of lynching him The police however saved Mote by locking him up His children bear marks of terrjble treatment and have had nothing to eat for some days but dough made by one of them A rich maiden lady named Mentray recently re-cently disappeared from Paris A female servant named Mercier told the neighbors that the lady had entered a convent leaving her to manage her porperty The servant brought her own relatives to the house to live Suspicion being aroused the police entered the house and discovered the body buried in quick lime in the garden The servant and her companions tried to escape but were arrested i I Haggins reason for not entering Tyrant for the great sweepstakes won by Freeland on Tuesday was that his trainers declared the colt was out condition Tyrant and Hidalgo will be entered for all the rich purse races of the fall meeting of the I Sheepshead Bay Association Tomorrow I Haggin will run Preclosa and Ben Ali in the sweepstakes for twoyearolds Among the sporting Californians Preclosa is looked I upon as the winner Thirtytwo new cases of smallpox were reported in Montreal yesterday The theatres thea-tres have all been closed Dismfectants are to be used in the watering of the streets The provincial government has been petitioned for the use of the Exposition buildings for a smallpox hospital At a meeting of the boot and shoe manufacturers today n petition peti-tion was drawn up asking the City Council to prohibit public meetings circuses etc to build a new smallpox hospital and to prevent pre-vent the health officers from riding on the street cars The manufacturers said that the fall orders from tho West were being canceled on account of the epidemic in the city The Haddingtonshire left Astoria Oregon July 6th and got as far as the equator when she struck a heavy gale which so disabled her as to oblige the Cap tain to put back to San Francisco for repairs In that gale she lost four seamen and her chronometer When uu off Astoria Wednesdav night encountered a dense fog and I while groping about run on the rocks near Point Reyes at 3 oclock this morning The I vessel and cargo are a total wreck and eighteen I eigh-teen lives were lost including all on board except one sailor and a cabin boy The cargo consisted of 12000 barrels of flour valued at 50003 and 17700 cases of salmon valued at 54000 A London dispatch says Hugh Brooks is doubtless identical with Maxwell He was formerly a clerk in the office of Brown Ainsworth at Stockport The portrait of Maxwell published in a Washington paper exactly resembles Brooks Hugh was about five feet six inches high and had a dark moustache and square chin with a supercilious super-cilious air and drawling voice It is certain that Hugh and Preller became acquainted in England and sailed for America together and it is equally certain that Hugh was short of funds The fact that Hugh dabbed in medical experiments makes the chloroform chloro-form story plausible Miss A M Francis of the London PearceFrancis scandal published in the Pall Mall Gazette exonerates Pearce from the charge of seducing her She writes to that paper Peace had nothing to do with my leaving and what you said about Pearce having seduced me is quite false I am not bound at my age to tell you why I preferred to leave my fathers house The solicitor for Pearce publishes a letter in which he says that he has baen instructed by his client to refrain from prosecuting the girls father on a charge of common assault and battery for the caning he inflicted upon Mr Pearce the other day on the alleged ground of his betrayal and cruelty to the young lady because of the trival penalty whioh would attend a conviction but to prosecute him on a far graver charge |