The Newtown bee., 1880-07-14

At cabinet meeting the other day, discus. sion arose regarding the recent hiring into the American schoOners of the Cuban coast. The information received at the department of state from the Spanish government is that there is no such Spanish vessel as the " Nun cio,p and the authorities ot that government are inclined to the impression that the vessel which overhauled the American schooners was run by pirates.
 Some one with o troubled conscience has sent the treasury department one hundred dollars The money has been credited to the conscience fund.
 The treasury department has purchased 3Sl ,O00 ounces of silver for coinage into standard dollars.
 A statement made by the postofice depart ment shows that the issues of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards during the past fiscal year amounts to $3l 932, ,5l9- an increase of nearly $3, ,500, ,000 over the pre-. ceding year. This percentage is about double the average rate of increase during the pre-. yious five years. The greatest proportionate increase is in postal cards, the issues of which amounted to ss2,753,470, against $2,2l7,9l7 for 1879. The largest actual gain was in post, age stamps, which during the year aggregated S22, ,414, 92S-an increase of $2, ,297 ,669 over the preceding year. The issues of newspaper and periodical stamps in 1879 amounted to $l ,oSS,41l and $l ,252, ,903 for the fiscal year of 1880.
 Foreign News.
 Three teams of marksmen-one American and two Irish-contested at Dollymount for the All-Irelapd challenge shield The prize was won by the Irish team consisting Of Fen. ton, Rigby, Warren and Miner with total score of 636. The other Irish team, consisting of Joynt, Coghlan, Johnson and Murphy made 626, and the American team-Browne Jackson, Scott and Laird-made 625. The Americans made seven misses at the ], l0( yards range. At the close of the shooting a the l, 1000 yards range the score stood-Amer jeans, 342; Fenton's team, 329; Joynt' team, 334.
 Bradlaugh is to be prosecuted for taking hi 1 seat in the British house of commons. | The Chilian papers announce the compile | tiaa of the Canal de la Merced. It is seventy | i've miles long and has been twenty-fiv' l years in construction. It has cost about SS40o, 900 and is one of the most important works il 1 South America.
 | The Midland counties of England have beer visited by terrific storm. The town of Not tingham was flooded so that the water cam | up to the horses breasts and poured into tn stores. Many streets caved in, several house collapsed and man and boy were killed b l lightning.
 i The report of the commissioners who ex amined into the Fay disaster condemns tn manner in which the bridge was built and tn neglect ot it's proper supervision thereafter
 Patrick Goshen and Thomas Remedy whil under the influence of liquor were run owe and instantly killed by a train on the Gran Trunk railroad, near Cob ug, Ontario.
 Prince Dem;dolf, tue eccentric Russia nobleman, recently gambled away the eno nous sum of s 600, ,000 in one night at Madrid
 1t looks very much as though there ii going to be q war between Turkey and Greece and that it will end in tho dissolution of th Ottoman empire. Troops are being rapidl, enlisted in both countries
 Peace prevails again in Buenos Ayres.
 Meetings in favor of the abolitionism O landlordism and the establishment of peasan proprietary are being held in Ireland. Tn, potato crop in Ireland this year promises t, l be enormous.
 The Marquis of Ripon, the new viceroy ( India, has reached Bombay.
 Pierre Lorillard's brown colt Iroquois wo the race tor the Chesterfield cup, valued 8 S5, 500, at Newmarket, England.
 The village ot Guisa, in Cuba, has been dt stroyed by fire.
 Pierce Egan, the well-known English ar thor and journalist, died in London fe' days ago, aged sixty-six years.
 Switzerland, in the vicinity of Geneva, ha been shaken up by severe earthquake Two men wore killed and portion of tn summit of & mountain fell, overwhelmih a large wood. An earthquake at the islan of St. George, one ot the Azores, has resulte in the formation of another island 600 yard distant and about lS,000 square yards extent.