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charged with being one Of the burglars who
robbed the Manhattan savings bank so mys-
t~eriously one Sunday morning last October
Hope is the son Of g notorious burglar, and it
is claimed that his capture will lead to the ultl-
mate arrest and conviction Of the whole gang
engaged in this, the most audacious and sue
cessful burglary ever committed in this coun-
try.
Edward r. Thompson, a retired commodore
OF the United States navy, disd IN Philadelphia
a few days ago, aged seventy.
Tho venerable Peter Cooper's eighty-Rinth
birthday was celebrated by a reception in his
honor, given by his daughter, Mrs. Hewitt, at
her residence in New York. William NJ. Evarts,
Samuel J. Tilden, Mayor Cooper, Thurlow
Weed and other well-known gentlemen were
present. The degree Of LID. was conferred
upon the aged philanthropist by the regents
Of the University Of New York.
The New York legislature has appropriated
ten thousand dollars for expenses to prevent
the spread Of cattle disease in the State.
Western and Southern States.
Grief caused a young farmer named Posset,
living near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to shot
himself through the heart on the day following
the death Of a recently married wife.
Advices from Belleville, ILL.,, say that George
". Sieber, treasurer OF St. CLAIR county, Is a
defaulter to the extent of about 100000.
Members Of two families at Queensville,
Ind, were made dangerously i'll by eating
buckwheat cakes in which al senic had been
unintentionally placed.
A fatal landslide has taken place at Kansas
City, Mo. At half-past seven in the morning,
as 8 gang Of thirty-si1 men were working IN a
cut Immediately beneath perpendicular walls
eighty feet high, small particles OF the earth
above. began to fall. Joseph MCCARTHY, the
contractors clerk, called upon thetm men to stop
working. but they laughed at him, and he left
Jumps OF clay began to fall, and the foreman
ordered the gang to leave the spot. He and
most Of the gang had barely got away when
suddenly the south wall crumbled and came
down with q rumbling sound, covering men
and teams beneath about 5000 yards Of fallen
earth. Notwithstanding the imminent danger
Of another slide the laborers dashed into the
mass and began digging for the victims. The
most extravagant reports in the city brought
thousands near the spot, but the dangerous
look Of the wall overhead kept the crowd from
the scene Of peril, and the work o irescue went
on u%nimpeded. At two o'clock six dead and
three wounded one fatally-were taken out.
A gentleman who has recently returned to
st. Louis from q trip to the South, confirms re-
ports Of yellow fever prevailing in certain
places. In New Orleans there we're several
deaths during his stay, and in Yicksburg he
witnessed the funerals of four victims OF the
disease.
Judge Baxter, Of the United States court,
has appointed Thomas J. Latham receiver, to
take charge of the effects Of the city OF Mem
phis, including unpaid taxes amounting to
nearly So, 900, 600, with power to collect by gar
niehment or otherwise. All the creditors Of
the city are ordered to make themselves par
ties to the action, and file claims on or before
the third Monday in May.
At q meeting Of the Northwestern Dairy
mems association, held in Chicago. it was re-
solved that the Western dairy interests be rep
resented in the great agricultural fair to be
held in London, England, next summer, and
that q dairy fair be held in Chicago next No
vember in connection with the fat stock show.
The first North Pacific train, loaded with
visitors and railroad iron, crossed the Missouri
river at Bismarck, Dakota, upon q track laid
on the ice, which was three feet thick.
From WASHINGTON.
Tho President has nominated Ex-Governor
John 2. Hartranft to be postmaster at Phila-
delphia /; James Pollock to be naval officer at
Philadelphia A. Louden Snowden to be super
intendent of the Philadelphia mint Martin
Parry Kernard to be assistant treasurer OF the
United States at Boston, Mass; Thomas Stew.
enson to be collector Of internal revenue for
the fifteenth district OF New York.
The naval appropriation bill, as agreed upon
by the conference committee and passed by
both houses, appropriates S14,O29 969. 95, be-
the present 6scal year, and S157,412 so less
tbop tho aufinnofap for naSf vapr
The secretary of the treasury has Issued the
eighty-eigh:h call for the redemption Of 500
bonds Of 1866, consols OF 1867. The call is for
800, 900, 900, Of which &c. 00, 900 are coupon,
and $40, 0O0, 600 registered bonds.
From the bureau Of statistics it is learned
that the number of emigrants who arrived in
the United States last year is 153, POI an in
crease Of %, 7O4 over the previous year.
Foreign News.
NJ. Grevy, the new president Of the French
republic, has sent in his first message to the
national assembly. He says he will never enter
into conflict with the natiC nal will, conveyed
through it's constitutional organs, but will be
guided BY the wants and wishes OF France.
NJ. Gambetta also delivered his inaugural ad-
dress as president OF the chamber Of deputies.
The st. Petersburg press bitterly denounce
LQ6 pEeCduUOub Ldhcu Wy NOlAAuOS ohu
Austria to prevent the plague from reaching
their territory as attempts to ruin Russian
trade.
Frederick Lewis Malgarini, Of London, has
failed for 1886, 600.
A Singapore dispatch says the Chinese crew
Of the Australian bark Kate Waters, from Hong
Kong, bound to Foochow, mutinied and MUIR
dered their officers and scuttled the vessel.
III . r~-T -z 100000, 80 loko
Over 3d. 900 laborers are idle in Liverpool, and
a dispatch from London says 800 engineers had
struck, and 200 more would follow their OK
ample the following day.
While the British troops 80 far have been
uniformly successful in their campaign in
Afghanistan, they have not been 30 fortunate
in South Africa, where the Zulus-a powerful
Caffre tribe, under King Cetywaya-have de-
fed England's authority and are in open revolt.
A British invading column, consisting Of a
portion of the rWenty-fourth regiment, a bat
terry Of artillery and six hundred native aux
%iliaries, was utterly aDnihilated near the
Tugela river, the dividing line between Natal
and Kahrland, by 20 900 Zulus, who captured
a valuable convoy of 1O2 wagons, 1000 oxen,
two cannon, 400 shot and shell. 900 rifles,
$50, 900 rounds Of ammunition, 10000 pounds
wight Of provisions and the colors OF the
Twenty fourth regiment. The British lost
forty-eight officers ard five hundred privates,
while the loss o: the Zulus is estimated to have
reached 5000 in killed and wounded. Lord
Chelmsford, the commander Of the expedition,
was forced to fall back, and the utmost con-
sternati1n prevailed for q time in Cape Colony
hut seven attacks subsequently made by the
Zulus were repulsed, and the c~olonists re-
covered somewhat from their fright.
A London dispatch says the report printed
in New York papers that "the British govern
ment have issued an order %forbidding live
cattle from the United States to land at British
ports, is incorrect, no such order having been
issued.
General Loris Melikoff, governor-gereral of
the plague-stricken districts in Russia, has
summoned tho governors CT the governments
of A~strakhan, Samara and Saratof to TART
yin, and proposed to them that all the old
paper money now circulating be exchanged
for new through the Kama. Volga bank and de-
streyed. The st. Petersburg sanitary COM
mittee have proposed to cleanse the canals and
to organize barge hospitals on the Neva, which
could be anchored in the gulf Of Bothnia, and
also to organize sanitary committees in each
district Of the city and province of st. Peters
burg, The president Of the board Of health,
speaking in the italian chamber Of deputies,
predicted that If the plague penetrated Europe
it would destroy a third Of the population.
a Halifax (Nova scotia) dispatch states
there are several cases Of Cyprus fever IN that
city, brought there by the 101st regiment, and
the question now asked is, Has the terrible
plague reached the shores OF America I"
The following communication has been re-
ceiyed at the British war Office, in London,
from Lord Chelmsford. commander Of the ex-
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