The Phoenix herald., 1879-03-15
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs
Real estate is looking up in Nev

ReaI seseatc iS 4oOhiH5 fup III 1T ANe" York.
 Thenew pension bill places Jeff Dar;s on. the pension list.
 The rSeent local election in Maine shows that the Greenback, party move ment in Maine has culminated.
 Henry Ward Beecher was weighed at Plymouth church fair on Wednes- day, and turned tie scales at 219.
 The damage by the storm in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, is esti- mated at 100000 francs. In the Lausanne district 100000 trees were destroyed. r4
 The Governor ot Thesaly telegraphs that band of five hundred Greeks crossed the frontier and destoryed the village of Kicntikenter.-
 The New York Tribune discloses a plot of. a confidence gang in Washing ton and New York to obtain subscrip- tions to pretended memorial to Bay ard Taylor.
 Kis reported by the New York World that the HerdZd has reduced the price of composition to forty cents per thousand, and that the paper will Be sold at two cents per copy.
 James Beck. baggagemaster on the Iron Mountain railroad, Mo, who was recently sent to the pcnitentiary for robbing the mails, has confessed, and implicated others, who were ar rested and also confessed.
 The boiler of a saw mill, three miles southwestern Sullivan, Illinois lately exploded, demolishingt the mil and machinery. The head sawyer was blown to atoms and pieces of his body scattered nieyery direction.
 The Workingmen of San Francis co will send & lecturer, accompanied by Chinese leper, to follow on the ttack of Otis Gibson and his convert to Christianity, that the people of the East may see what Chinese immigra- ton means.
 Ex-Scnator Patterson lias received letter from the attorney general of South Carolina announcing the can ceiling of the indictments against him in that state. Patterson leaves soon to take an important trust under the Southern Pacific R. R. in Arizona.
 A party of Indians raided Lopita rancho. Mexico, taking all the horses sud wounding the herders. It is re- ported that they killed two shepherds atAgua Verde. Citizens and soldiers from New Laredo are pursuing them. American troops are guarding the fort.
 The steamship Gellert, bearing re- mains of sBayard Taylor, is expected at New York on Wednesday. The vessel will enter the harbor with flags at halfmast, and after landing the passengers, the officers and crew in full uniform will assist in landing the Femains.
 FoFt Buford advices say that two detaehnents have been sent from Keogh to the Yellowstone country to Intercept the rest of the renegade Cheyennes. The chances of their sue cess are good, as the Indians cannot cross the river on account of high water.
 The United States Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the cir cult court for the district of Califor- ni4 in suit brought by tlie United States against Carr and many others to quiet title to four lots of land on Rincen p.int in the cityof San Fran ciseos BOW used for marine hospital.
 By order ofthe Kansas house, Smith the Western Union telegraph mana ger who refused to give up certain messages supposed to show bribery in the recent Senatorial election, and who, for such refusal was taken into custo- dy and has been a prisoner for two weeks, was released yesterday with out action being taken.
 Rev. Sidney NJ. Stray, pastor of the Presbyterian chnrch of East Lake George, while exhibiting revolver to his wife, 8 short time since, it was discharged, wounding her. Think ing he had thus accidentally killed his wife, he placed the revolver to his own head and fired. The wounds are notstheught fatal Hu 2 6AtLos Angeles, on the morning of the 9th, the woolen mill reservoir, containing 100,0OO,O0O gallons of wa ter, burst its dam, flooding the lower portion of the city. Fortunately the reservoir is at such a distance in the bills back of the city that it was un- accompanied by disaster. The prin- cipal damage is the loss of water for irrigation the coming summer. On some of the streets the water was two feet deep. Cellars were flooded and some hay and barley ruined.
 On Monday evening next a grand reception will be given at the house