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Show NEWS OF THE DAY. Great distress is reported from Switzerland, Switzer-land, on account of the failure of the American Amer-ican tourist crop. The Massachusetts Greenbackers yesterday yester-day nominated for Governor James Sumner, of Milton. The Republican State Convention meets to-day. The work of converting the Desert of Sahara into an inland sea will be completed in a few days. Two Chicago men, J. Jones Russell and Lake Jay-Kay, have obtained the exclusive franchise of running pleasure steamers upon the new lake. There is a well developed opposition in the Republican party of Ohio to Senator Sherman's re-election on account of his "intemperate "in-temperate waving of the bloody shirt." Money is being subscribed, it is said, and, if the next legislature be Republican, there will be an organized effort to make Charles Foster a United States Senator to succeed Sherman. In New York last night a mass meeting at Irving Hall ratified the Democratic nominations. nomi-nations. Ex-Senator Eccleane made a speech, in which he referred to the Mugwumps Mug-wumps as "traitors in their own party and disturbers in ours." Civil service was a heresy and "offensive partisanship" was its twin brother? and the Saratoga nominations were meant to emphasize the reverse of these doctrines. Bengal, the largestj and most populous of the twelve main divisions of British Indlv has been swept by floods. -A great amount of property has been destroyed and a number num-ber of lives have been lost. Many families have been made destitute. Houses, crops, cattle and portable goods of every description descrip-tion have been carried away by the floods. The government authorities have been distributing dis-tributing provisions and clothes and are doing do-ing all they can to relieve the sufferers. The President yesterday afternoon appointed ap-pointed Edward A. Stevenson, of Boise City, Idaho, to be Governor of the Territory of Idaho, and "Win. B. Webb, of Billings, Montana, Mon-tana, Secretary of the Territory of Montana. William B. Webb, appointed Secretary of the Territory of Montana, has been a resident resi-dent of that Territory about five years. He is aged 34, and formerly lived at La Crosse, Wisconsin. Edward A. Stevenson, appointed Governor of Idaho, is an old resident of that Territory. Governor Tritle, of Arizona, has issued a general order calling out the militia for active ac-tive service. Lieutenant-Colonel Egan, of Clifton, is placed in command. Genefal Crook has sent out notices warning the settlers set-tlers of their danger and advising them to take measures to protect themselves. A large body of hostiles are reported to be in Grant county, New Mexico. Governor Tritle has telegraphed Governor Ross, of New Mexico, to meet him at Albuquerque, where he goes to-morrow, and thence to Clifton. Four car-loads of Chinese who were run out of the mines around Seattle, Washington Washing-ton Territory, arrived at Portland, Oregon, yesterday. The O'regonian, in an article on the proceedings against the Chinese at Seattle, says: The situation is so grave as to make it necessary for the President of the United States to act. It says he ought to send the Fourteenth Infantry, now at Fort Vancouver, to Puget Sound at once to preserve pre-serve the peace, protect the Chinese, and to see that the menace of a general massacre is not carried out. Alexander Aaron was shot and killed in the streets of Van Buren, Arkansas, at 8 o'clock last night by Charles Kyter, mayor of that town. They had a difficulty over a prostitute and had threatened each other's life. Aaron following Kyter, attacked him him with a razor. The case seems to be one of self defense. Kyter is well connected, but is dissipated. He was elected mayor of Van Buren last April, when just 21 years old, and is said to be the youngest mayor in the United States. Aaron belonged to the lewd class ana was regarded as a rougn. A London dispatch to the New York Herald says: In his campaign speeches yesterday yes-terday Roseberry said: "Roumelia, the main achievement of Lord Beaoonsfield, has faded away like snow before the sun, and the establishment of united Bulgaria has realized the best hopes for liberty, and the best security against Russian aggression in that quarter." Vernon Harcourt said he regarded the government of Ireland as dangerous and feared it was getting as bad as ever. Lord Salisbury has seen the Berlin treaty "go to smash." A conference was suggested to give the agreement with Turkey a Christian burial, bur-ial, but if there was to be a European scramble scram-ble for territory, he hoped England would have nothing to do with it. The report of the Directors of the Mint shows that in California gold will be decreased de-creased during 1885 by more than four millions mil-lions on account, of the injunctions against hydraulic mining. More than 20,C30 men have been thrown out of employment. The increased activity in quartz mining has compensated com-pensated to some extent for the compulsory abandonment of hydraulic mining. The new process of diverting rivers from their beds is meeting with success. Alaska still promises to become an important source of gold. With the limited knowledge already acquired the probable extent of the ore veins on the Douglas Island properties aggregate in value twice the amount Seward paid for the whole of Alaska. The production of silver in California is constantly increasing." The New York and Chicago ball clubs nlnved the first eame for the championship pennant in Chicago yesterday. Ten thousand thou-sand people were present. The crowd was evenly balanced, as the visitors had hosts of admirers present, many of whom had journeyed jour-neyed here solely to see the game, and very many of the leading Eastern and Western newspapers had representatives present. The crowd cheered the New Yorkers whenever when-ever they nade a good play, but became frantio in the first and ninth innings when the Chicagos began their run-getting, and when the last man of the opposing clubs went out, the New York club appeared on the field proceeded by the brilliant First Regiment Band, and immediately thereafter the Chicagos appeared under a similar escort. es-cort. Both were rapturously cheered. The score was seven to four in favor of Chicago. The new postage stamps are nearly ready for delivery. The design is verv pretty, it being a picture of a man in search f an office. The expression on the man's face i3 one of pain, as if he expected to be licked. The shading or the stamp is what may properly be called changeable. In the night the stamp glow like phosphorus. There is a barometer attached to the stamp, which will prevent the contents of an envelope en-velope from becoming wet during a storm. These modern barometers are quiet an improvement. im-provement. Some of .them have rubber overcoats, while others have umbrellas. The ones with overcoats have been selected by the government for the stamps. The size of the stamp is about that of a three-quarter sheet poster and is put on a letter by means of an ordinary whitewash brush. One of them, under the new regulations, will carry a box of merchandise, not exceeding 350 pounds, as well as a long letter. |