The Morning herald., 1878-06-03
TELECRAMS.
BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH.


The public debt was decreased during
May by sS.O94, ,7s4,47.
Cbace, the Fall River defaulter, Is going
into bankruptcy for the benefit of his credi"
tors.
There was ninety.fye failures 10 New
York In the month of May. Liaolhtles'
S., $50, 800 assets, 1856, ,4S3.
The official rerols shows the totalearnings
of the Sing Sing Prison for May to nave
been $20, ,157, As; the expenditures, Si4,-
S39. Al.
One county in Ohio has pronounced TOR
HAYES, and elected delegates to the Ohio
State Convention favorable to the admins
tration.
The fishing schc oner Teddis @. Pyle WAS
run into twenty miles east of Thatchers
Island, by an unknown bark and two men
were drowned.
The case of Rev. George B. Voeburgh,
charged with poisoning bis wife, went to
the jury, after two weeks trial, In Jersey
Chyon Saturday, and a verdict of net guilty
was rendered.
A Chicago jury yesterday found Joseph
Crwford guilty of the murder OF William
Shaudley on July 10, 1s77, and fixed the
verdict at Imprisonment In the peDitentiary
for seventeen years.
Upon the reorganization Of the New
Jersey Central Railroad Company, Judge
Latbrop, the receiver, will, it Is said De
elected President, In the place OF Mr.. 4.
G.. Knight, of this city.
Madame Psppenheim IT is believed went
to Europe on the Massachusetts on We'd
nesday, in consequence of telegram from
London threatening to break her engages
ment If she did not go.
The condition of William Cullen Bryant is
unchanged, and there are hopes OF bis re-
coyery. he is eighty>four years OF age,
and ar active as a man of thirty until bis
accidental fall upol doorstep few days
ago.
While a serenade was being given to 9
newly welded couple named Sewers, at
Alsme, Fountain county, Ind, on Thurs
day night, the bride was shot and instantly
killed by q paper wad fired from o musket
in the hands of one of the sereDaders.
The Watkins toat races came of on Sat-
urday. The final heat OF the four-oared
representative race was won by the Shaw
cemittis Club; the single scull race BY Lee,
of Newark, N. j.; the four-oared special
by the shawcemittis, and the double scull
by McLafferty and Andrews Of the Wat
kins Club.
Invitations for the Berlin Congress were
issued on Saturday. Count Andrassy sAys
Germany has proved herself q mediator.
The Agence Beige says 1t is certain that
there will be only one session Of the Coh>
ference, and that the basis Of peace between
England and Russia will be arranged.
William E. Gray, the American forger,
who ran away in 1859, after defraudins
Wall street bank Of half q million dollars,
has been arrested In London. The detect'
tives have had their hands upon him sew
eral times, but he escaped. he has been
associating with the Rothschilds and Other
high financial monarchs since he has beer
in Europe.
It is extremely difficult to obtain exact
information about the sinking of the Gros'
ser Kunurst and loss ef life, because all the
survivors were taken on board the othei
iron>clads, End nobody from either of tht
three vessels has landed at Folkestone Oh
Dover. The Pail Nall Gazette says that f.
now definitely stated that out Of the 50(
men on the Grosser Kurfurst about 2l(
were saved, including IL officers, anon:
whom was the captain, who was net, al
previously stated, drowned.