The Phoenix herald., 1879-03-19
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs

San Jose is infested with gang of skilled burglars
 Bayarli Tay1or's remains have ar rived in New York.
 Washington is excessively dull; no new arrivals of congressman.
 Tine republicans have nominated Wm Wright mayor of Chicago.
 Democrats in the house intend to get up q new agitation about the presidents title.
 The sheriff of Douglass county, Missouri, has been killed while trying to make an arrest.
 The Secretary of the treasury has issued call for the redemption of ten million five twenty bonds.
 General Thomas T. Eckert has ten dered his resignation as president of the Atlantic X Pacific telegraph com pany.
 A Sacramento jury has acquitted Samuel Poorman, late president of the Odd Fellows bank. He was on trial for embeZZlement.
 Dr. John NJ. Woodwork, super vising surgeon of the general marine hospital service, died at Washington on the morning of the 14th.
 The mortality statistics of St. Pc tersburg for the past week show that typhus has increased in violence. Spotted typhus is also prevalent.
 A fire at Los Angeles on the night of the 18th inst. destroyed two wood en buildings belonging to MT. Dalgar- ando. Loss, $2 2,50O; insurance, $1 800.
 Robert W. Hayden and M. W. Barder, brothers-in-law, residing in Charlotte, N. C., had quarrel on March t4th and the former was killed.
 The officers of the Carson Mint have been notified to stop coining sil- yer after the present suply has been exhausted, and to reduce the force for gold coinage alone hereafter.
 One of the financial acts of the last congress was bill for the issue of $1O certificates bearing interest at 4 per cent per annum, to be converted into interest bearing bonds at the same rate
 An ice gorge has formed at Far randville, extending a distance ot three miles, piling up ice thirty feet high. The Philadelphia & Erie rail road track is covered ten feet deep, and the telegraph poles are swept away.
 A prominent democratic senator has admitted that the democracy has lest the chance of success in $50 by . series of blilnders, of which the ex- tra session is the greatest. This is the Chicago 1ribune's Washington cor respondent.
 The Manhattan savings bank, rob- bed some time ago of $3,O0O,O0O of its securities, which have been dupli- cated and redeposited with the bank, resumed business last week with a surplus of $5OOO0O. Its officers say they can answer all claims.
 A fire swept over some fifty square miles of forrest, a few miles from Yankton, Dakota, Sunday, destroying standing timber, cord wood, house hold furniture, clothing and cattle in all, property to the value of $25- 900. A strong wind prevailed and the fire burned itself out. No lives lost.
 A party of thirty-four New York street boys was started for homes on farms in Kansas, by Whitelaw Reid who thus used a portion of the fund of $1,OO0 given him by stranger from New England for any charita- ble use he might select. MT Reid also sent six destitute families west, numbering in all 42 souls. These families also mostly intend to begin life on farms.
 Navigation on the Hudson river opens two weeks later than last year. The steamboating season bids fair to outrival that of many previous years. beth in elegance and number of boats and in competition in prices both in passengers and freight. It is rumor- cd that mammoth iron steamer, in- tended for night travel is now build ing, which.in elegance and outfit will 1 excel anyboat engaged in the Hud- son travel.
 A Chicago Inter-Ocean Washing ton special says: There is much speculation here as to what sections 1 of the country will show the greatest growth and development in the cen suE reports next year, and which are the coming young cities of the future. It is generally conceded that the northwest will outstrip all other sec tiOns, and that the states of the union showing the most rapid growth vii; be Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, California and Colorado.