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Spa uhich editions % the New York
pspes are being worked OF.
loua shows among exhibits in Ag-
riculiural Hall specimens Of soils
from % counties, in glass tubes six
feet long, showing the depth Of floam.
Oregon's exhibit is rich in wheat,
oats, woods and dried fruit.
Washington Territory shows the
tallest wheat and oats exhibited.
California prodigies Of cacti excite
general wonder.
The receipts on the opening day
of the Centennial we're $4,000 on
the second day, $4,000.
The London Times had a warm,
congratulatory editorial on the sue
cessful opening of the American
Centennial Exhibition.
Reports from various parts of
Maine and New Hampshire announce
very destructive floods in the rivers,
and the water is still rising. Great
excitement prevails. No loss of life
has thus far occurred, but the des-
truction Of property is immense.
Dom Pedro visited the Naval
Academy at Maryland, on the 18th,
as the guest of Admiral Rogers and
Governor Carol. The visit was en-
tirely informal.
The Executive Committee of the
New York Liberal Republicans last
week passed a resolution that mas
much as no Liberal organization is
known to exist in any State except
New York, they fail to recognize
the organized existence of the Lib
eral Republicans whom in their ma
tional capacity recently issued call
for national convention of the party
they claim to represent. They there
fore advise the Liberals Of New
York to await the action of the con.
ventions at Cincinnati and St. Louis
with a view of supporting the least
Objectionable candidate thereby
nominated.
At a meeting of the Union League
Club in New York the following
resolutions were adopted:
"That the Republican party must
be faithful and leave no ground for
doubt that it intends to be truth
full to the three great and paramount
principles to which it has long been
publicly pledged and for which it has
done more and is capable of doing
imore rnan any other party
First, that an ciEzens shall be equal
before the laws and shall be protect
ed by the laws.
Second, That specie payment and
gold as a standard Of value shall be
speedily restored.
Third, that the civil service shall he
reformed on these points0at least,
and that both resolutions and nomi-
nees of the approaching Republican
National Convention should be such
as to leave no ground for doubt or
distrust.
Dispatches received at London
from Athens say that vessel has ar
rived from Salonica which brings
news that the American Consul was
in Salonica at the time of the mur-
der. The Christians took his car
riage, which chanced to be at the
railway station, put the girl into it
and drove her to the consulate. The
provisional council and the mob met
in the mosque; the governor was
present when the consuls wore muir
dered. He merely protested and
treated the matter lightly. The
Turks fled past the corpses and spat
upon them. The body Of the French
consul had "a wounds. 1t is report
ed that the bodies of the murdered
consuls remain unburied at Constan.
tinople. The excitement is so great
it would be dangerous to attempt
funeral. The lower classes of Mo-
hammedans are purchasing daggers
and revolvers with money supplied
by those hoping for the massacre and
plunder Of Christians. European
residents are leaving en- masse.
lonica has been blockaded. Non.
the inhabitants are allowed to lei
town until the inquiry into
rage is terminated Tv
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