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NEW YORK.

New YoRK, May 3l.-The great trot
at Prospect Park fair grounds yesterday
between Gazelle aud Judge Fullerton,
for a $500 purse, was won by Gazells.
The Eight Hour Enforcement League
has resolved to issue an address to the
Trades Union Association requesting
them to send delegations to effect q reor-
ganization of the league, which shall in
future be known as the Workingmen's
Central Council.
The new theater to be built here is to
be located on the corner of Twenty-sec-
ond street and Broadway. 1t is to be
built for William Stewart, formerly Of
the Western Garden. 1t is stated that
when finished it will have the handsom-
est interior Of any theater in the city.
The stage will be sixty.two feet wide and
thirty.fye feet deep. Plans for the
proscenium have been designed by Dion
Boucicault. 1t will have a seating ca
pacity for 1850 persons; will be opened
the LIST of October, under Boucicault'S
dictatorship.
Some anxiety is felt here concerning
the safety of the steamship Cromwell, OF
the Cromwell line, from New Orleans,
which sailed hence May II for this port.
She has not since been heard from. She
should have arrived Sunday last.
A special from Washington to the
Times says negotiations for a postal
treaty with France are likely to be de-
layed by the change in the government.
If the Marquis Of Noilles is continued as
representative of France at the capital,
he will have to await the views ofthe new
Finance Minister before agreeing to any
proposition.
Two of the large bed or anchor plates
of cast iron for the Brooklyn bridge,
twenty.six tons each, that are to be
placed in position at an early date, 900
feet from the tower, have been success
fully landed. Connected with these are
200 immense iron bars which are to be
used in attaching the cables. The work
on the New York side is progressing
rapidly. The workmen are putting up
every week two full forces or four feet of
stone, at which rate the tower will be
completed some time this fall.
The Worlds special correspondence
from San Salvador gives the details of
an earthquake which occurred there
March 10. The shocks were dis
tinctly felt at the city of Guatemala, al.
most one hundred miles distant. No
unusual atmospheric phenomena were
observed previous to the earthquake.
1t is stated that on the 18th Lake Lo-
pango, in the southwest of San Salvador,
there rose up a column of hot vapors
and the cone of small island, which az
forwards disappeared. Shocks were felt
at Santa Teela, where some damage
was done to walls, etc. Shocks we're also
felt at La Liberted. Nearly all the
damage done by the earthquake appears
to be confined to San Salvador. Presi-
dent Gonzales estimates the actual loss
of life at seventeen persons, but hun
dreds have been wounded. Five huR-
dred buildings we're destroyed, repre-
senting the value Of $4,000 900.
The following private cable dispatch
has been received here:
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, May 3l.-DaR |
Noble, the noted bond robber, has been |
arrested here for burglary, in which he
captured 10000 pounds sterling il
bank notes, diamonds and other jew
elry."