The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
GEN NERAL NEWS.

A Chippewa Falls (Wis.) special says that general rain and high floods are prevailing through that section. So many bridges and roads are washed out through the country, it is impossible to gain full idea of the total damage. A Warsaw special says that the heavy rains caused much damage to the crops, besides carrying away dams, resulting m the loss of several million feet of logs. The tracks of the Wisconsin Valley Railway are badly washed, and trains will be delayed several days.
 Samuel D. Hinman. former mission ary of the Protestant Episcopal Church to Nebraska has brought suit in the Su- William H. Hare, missionary bishop to Nebraska, for defamation of character.
 Justice Westbrook, at Albany, has rendered decision in the case of the at torney general vs Belden & Go, setting aside Judgment of over $l00, 900 entered against the State as a counter claim.
 The New York Produce Exchange has elected the following named officers for the ensuing year: President-Forest H. Parker; Vice President-J. H. Herrick 1; Treasurer-Samuel Jacoby.
 Ship Gondellier, from Rotterdam, bound for New York, has been wrecked off the eastern end of Sable Island. One of the ships boats sank, and it is sup posed that five of the crew were drowned.
 John Terry, for stabbing his wife at Ameliasburg, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
 The ravages of the army worm upon the wheat, corn and timothy crops in Ocean and Monmouth counties, and other parts of New Jersey, continue.
 At Annapolis, Md, lately the cadets at the Naval Academy were exercised in a fotilla drill on the Severn, under Lieut.. l.. c. Logan. The fiotilla performed a number of man9uvres both under sail and under oars. In passing the Santee, off which in launches was the Board of Visitors, the f1otilla lowered sail in salute to the Admiral's flag. The drill lasted about an hour and half, and the man. wuvres were excellently performed.
 The Treasury Department recently pur- chased 410,000 ounces of fine silver for delivery at the Philadelphia and San Francisco hints.
 It is understood that the question of a general amnesty has been raised in the French Cabinet Council by M. Constans proposing to bring the matter before the Chambers. The proposition was unani- mously adopted. M. De Freycinet will probably bring the matter forward. The conference report on the River and Harbor bill has been adopted in the House. This action passes the bill.
 The announcement that the port of Buenos Ayres has been closed means that the gunboats of the national government 1 have blockaded the harbor. It is possible l that third candidate for the presidency of the Argentine Confederation will be started out at the last moment.
 In response to Senate resolution, the Secretary of the Treasury has furnished that body with an elaborate statement, showing the expenses of the Government on account of the war of the rebellion, l from July l, 1861, to June 30, 1879, in elusive. The statement exhibits the gross expenditures, ordinary expendi- l lures, and expenditures growing out of l the war in all the branches of the ser l vice either directly or indirectly affected l by the war. The grand totals are as fol lows: Gross expenditures. S6, 795, 792, 599; ordinary expenditures, $60e, ,54e,- I24; expenditures growing out of the war, $6, 187, ,243. 385.
 The New York police have informa- l tion that a person travelling through l the eastern states, selling and buying