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CLEVELAND, August 4.-Annie Wat
,on of Pittsburg, won Sl0,0O0 trottlng (;
time. 1851, 2:35, 2:o73.
T.oITIsyILLE, August 14.-At ten o'clock
Last night, during a severe storm, the walls
of the new unfinished building owned by
s T. Suit & Co., opposite the Gait House,
we're blown down with fearful crash.
The walls which were seventy-two feet
high above the ground, fell east on the ad-
ioining two story brick residence of Mr..
Jordan Giles, entirely destroying the build
ing and its contents. The loss by the ac-
cident is estimated at $1,000. Several
small buildings on the west side were also
crashed. No person injured.
NEW YORK, Aug. H.-A Greensboro,
\. c., dispatch says that Jim Johnson, the
ice cream poisoner, has been indicted ana
nut in iaiI. Several of the persons VINO
were poisoned are yet in great danger. one
OrtwO of their lives are despaired OF. The
excitement there has greatly subsidized.
European mail advices report the death
of NJ. Kaiser the celebrated astronomer anu
Professor at the University of Leyden.
Mr. Beck, General of the order of Jesu-
its has convoked an assembly of the Jesu-
IFS at Rome to consider the project of
changing the name and dress of the Jesu-
its expelled from Prussia, making as many
as nossibIe enter into the orders which are
still suffered there.
Three victims of yellow fever on the
Numanica yesterday were inferred inQuar-
antine Cemetery. Strict health regulations
are exercised with reference to the pest,
and it is not apprehended that the scourge
will visit Staten Island, within one mile
(Which the steamer is anchored.
The Thermometer ranged from 1902 to
1862 to-day, the highest point this season.
Col, Whitley, who was sent to Albany
on mission of mercy, is he who worked
up the Adkins murder at Columbus, Ga,
some years ago. The papers comment Sc
verely upon such selection for such a
purpose.
ASHLAND, PENN, Aug 14.-At three
o'clock this morning six men returning
from Gowell & Anderwild's mines, near
Central, where they had been engaged re-
pairing the works, were fired upon by a
party of Molly Maguires, secreted in the
woods, and G. w. Davis, John p. Web
ster and Alfred Berage were badly wound
ed-Davis supposed fatally. The men had
been at work contrary to the orders of the
Molly Maguires. The assassins are still at
large
PITTsBURG, Aug. IA dispatch states
that the failure of Fisher Bros. causes
great excitement in the oil circles there,
Their liabilities it is believed will be over
a million dollars, but they ask time to
make every thing good.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 14.-Late yesterday
afternoon Mace was arrested on bench
warrant from the Criminal Court as was
also Joe Coburn, at the instigation of Mr..
Pinckery, Deputy States Attorney, charg
ing Mace and Joe Coborn with entering
into conspiracy in Maryland to engage in
fight and thus violate the peace and the
laws of the adjoining State of Virginia.
Upon this charge which seemed to take the
pugilists greatly by surprise. The accused
were held in two thousand dollars bail to
await the action of the grand jury.
A similar warrant was issued for O'Bald-
win, and his trainer, who were arrested
this morning and gave the required bail.
A large number of roughs from New
York, Philadelphia, and other cities were
here, and a number are now going down
the street to the wharfs Of the steamers
which leave for the fighting ground this
afternoon. The fight will probably come
off tomorrow morning.
CoRRY, PENN, Aug. 14.-Hugh Donnal-
ly, ofDunkirk, New York, was murdered
this morning in the lookup in this city by
Jas. Mills, an insane man, whom he was
conveying to the asylum. His head was
chopped off with an old axe.
DOVER, DEL, Aug. 14.-The Democratic
Convention formed an electoral ticket for
Delaware and nominated Curtus w.
Wright for Congress. The Convention took
no action regarding Greeley.
Ihe grinding mill of Dupont's pow der
works LODI l.