, 1876-03-24
LATEST NEWS
BY Telegraph and Mail.

nc steamship Ddhpld SdtiS nun
San Francisco for Victoria and the
Sound ports tomorrow.
Astounding irregularities and very
questionable transactions are report
ed of navy yards by thciDvestigating
committee.
Mary Ray, an actress, with her in.
fant.child, were fatally burned at the
Eagle Theatre, New York, on the
18th inst, by the explosion off lamp
Rubenstein sentenced to be hung
for the murder of Sara Alexander ir
Brooklyn, has been granted stay ol
execution.
Gen. Geo. L. Cook, of Rhode Is.
land, declines the Democratic nom
ination for Governor.
Gen. Schenck is staying quietly at
the Breevort House, New York. He
declines to talk with reporters.
The judiciary committee expect
to formally report The articles of i'm,
peachment against Belknap, and the
testimony supporting them within a
week.
Ten inches of snow fell in Mem
phis, Tenn, on the goth instant.
A brigantine sank off Barnegat on
the goth, taking down the captain,
his wife and the first mate.
The developments of the House
Committee in the straw bidding
frauds at Washington, show lamen-
table state of affairs in the Post
Office Department.
c. P. Marsh, witness in the Bel
KNAPP Fort -Sill-tradership case has
returned from Canada to New York.
Gen. Sherman is encouraged by
the new state of things in the War
Department, and army people look
for an early return of headquarters
to Washington.
The Congressional Democratic
committee is announced to be now
fully organized for the Presidential
campaign, and the Secretary may be
addressed at 1924 F street, Wash
ington city.
The board of directors of the Bank
of California on the 18th inst, made
a third assessment of $40 per share
on the stock of the corporation, pay
able on the 18th of April.
The Irish population of San Fran
cisco celebrated St. Patrick's day
with much enthusiasm.
Mary Connolly, of Los Angeles,
was acquitted last week on the
charge of shooting a man named
Dunn.
A man named Edward Tremmar
committed suicide at Carson on the
18th inst, by shooting himself. He
was in the house alone at the time,
his wife and FIVE children being
absent.
The DemeeFatie State Central
Committee of Ohio have decided to
issue a call for State Convention
to meet in Cincinnati on May IL.
A dispatch from Omaha of the
10Th says: The rush of people to
the Black Hills increases daily.
Eighty-four went west yesterday, and
to day a special train of IL cars, con-
tanning mostly persons bound there,
left here for Cheyenne.
In Boston, on the 18th inst, bu-
siness was suspended in honor of the
one hundredth anniversary of the
evacuation of Boston by the British
troops. Flags were displayed from
the shipping, and national and pri-
vate houses.
A foot of snow fell in the northern
portion of New York State on the
18th inst. .,.also in Maine, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont.
Attorney-General Pierrepont sew
eral days ago sent aRmessenger to
Canada to bring Caleb Marsh to
Washington. Pierrepont has heard
from his agent and expects that
Marsh will come. Terms of safety
have been assured him.
st. Patrick's day 4" in the morning"
was dark and dreary in New York
city, with streets heavy with mud.
Notwithstanding this the usual mill
tary and civic parade took place but
was not as large as usual owing to
the almost entire absence of the
Father Matthew Society, and the
great decrease in the number of
church societies.
On being relieved at Santa Fe,
New Mexico, Capt. @. P. Egan will
proceed to San Franciscofor duty as
purchasing officer and department
commissary of subsistence at San
Francisco.
John Costello, an old and WE'LL
known musician of San Francisco,
was arrested in that city last week
on charge of incest. The alleged
victims of his crime are four daugh-
ters, aged respectively, 9, Is, IS and
10 years. The officer declares he has
collected sufficient evidence D show
that the prisoner is an utter brute.
Wilcox was fined $500, for his as
sault on the San Francisco Chronicle
reporter, which was immediately
paid. The verdict of the jury is
universally regarded as a condemns
ton of the Chronicle.
A block of shipping warehouses
was burned in Manchester, England,
on the morning of the 10th. The
loss is estimated at several hundred
Thousand ,ouDds sta.l;no.