Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIEs.


New York. Sept. 23.-The e1plos ior
| at He'll Gate on Sunday is the talk Of tn,
people and the papers. and revives agair
the Sabbath question. The work hs:
been successfully completed without &C
cident. The lunatics who occupy the
buildings on Wards Island will be KEEP
in the open air during Sunday afternoon
From Wards Island the civic authorities
will view the explosion.
A large force of po!ice will SO to
Wards and Blackwell's Islands to assist
the regular keepers in the care o! the
lunatics, prisoners and others in the nu
merous county buildings. The police
in force will be in all fifty and be dis
tributed along the East River, from
which a view of Hallets Point may be
had. to keep away the sight-seers.
General Newton has published reply
to the communication of the Sabbath
Committee, saying that he would not
take the responsibility, on account OF
certain probable consequences. Of delay
ing the explosion one day after all is
ready. One thousand invitations have
been issued. The holders of these will
be conveyed to the scene by four steam.
ers, which will be assigned eligible posi-
tions beyond the safety lines.
The receiver Of the suspended Mechan-
les and Traders Savings Institution
has made statement of the condition
of the bank to depositors, which shows
a deficiency in the assets Of over $S4 900.
New York, Sept. ga Reading, Pa,
dispatch gives an account Of a terrible
disaster in Forest county. On Thursday
the mountain streams became greatly
swollen from recent storms and flooded
the partly settled valleys near Ralston.
Two cabins. occupied by George Banks
and Daniel Cooper, woodchoppers, were
washed away at an early hour in the
morning. Banks family, father, mother
and five children, and Cooper's family,
father, mother, six children and Mrs
Cooper's mother, in all sixteen persons,
were drowned. Three lives were lost at
Smith Pond, in Tioga county. and four
more at Wellsport.
Chicago, Sept. 23.-Wheat receipts are
Market active, but feverish
prices have shown great irregularity.
The general tone, however. has been
firm and the average higher. Advices
from wheat growing sections more fully
confirm previous reports regarding the
deficiency in the spring wheat crop in |
he Northwest.
Vienna, Sept. pa difficulty has
risen because the Porte. before granting |
prolongation of the armistice, desires
he Powers to give their opinion in re-
.ard to its peace propositions. The
covers, on the other hand, persis. in
demanding a pro!ongation of the armis-
ice, irrespective of this condition, be-
ause, as they have from the COM
insisted that the armistice
vas indispensable. they consider it
7ould be derogatory to admit any
ort of compromise Oh the subject.
he Powers also intend this attitude
8 a concession to Russia, she hav-
ng throughout the negotiations deter
,inedly supported an unconditial
rmistice. As the term Of the present
of hostilities draws to close
he demands of the Powers become more
ressing. some Of them having tolerably
lainly intimated that the Porte's re-
lsal to grant an armistice would lead to
suspension Of their diplomatic rels-
ons.
St. Johns, N. b.. September 3d.
rice and Fulton have been expelled
ON the Paris crew, each having
larged the other with selling the re-
mt race at Philadelphia.
London, September 23.-1t is under
God that Sir J. Stepsone has been
'dered to Port Natal Immediately
I'd intrusted with special powers to
present Great Britain in the Trans
,al Republic, and to give assurance
the willingness of Great Britain to
mex Transvaal if tho inhabitants of 7
at Republic SO desire. q
Silver 81 pence, in London at latest