The Newtown bee., 1880-10-13
From Washington.

The amount of foreign gold that has come to this country since July l last is estimated by the treasury officials to be about $35, ,0U0,- GOO.
 The statistics relative to mail transporta- ton show that on the thirtieth of June 1880, there were 5,862 contractors for the trans portation ot the mails on public routes. The aggregate anl4aal cost of the entire service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1880, was S22,- 296, ,269.
 1t is estimated that the coinage of silver for tfe fiscal year will amount to about BPS GOO 900.
 Superintendent of the Census Walker has submitted report to the secretary ot the in- terior in which he says that the recent inves- tigation conducted by Special A gent Gannett into the alleged frauds committed by census enumerators in South Carolina last June shows that the census of 1870 was very de- tective, and the enumeration made in June last is correct.
 The second annual exhibition of the National F ,ir association was inaugurated by process sion illustrating the industrial interests of the District. The display was highly creditable, and the streets through which the procession moved were densely thronged. At the tair grounds the exhibition was formally opened by an oration by the Hon. J. s. 0. Blackburn.
 Foreign News.
 Thirty men were killed by an explosion in an arsenal at Osaka, Japan.
 Thirty feet of the masonry and an immense mass of rock have fallen in the St. Gothard tunnel, under the Alps. Four men were killed and many wounded.
 MT. Lowell, the American minister to Eng lar d, will deliver the opening address ot the session of the Edinburg Philosophical institu. ton tor lS80-81.
 The notice of the Newfoundland authorities has been directed to some complaints made by Gloucester (Mass.) fishermen ot ill treatment at the hands oi Newfoundland fishermen and an interference with the just rights of United States fishermen in British waters. While at Upper Small Point the crew of the Gloucester schooner Minnesota were attacked by the people on shore, furiously pelted with stones and compelled to flee to their vessel.
 A number of residents of Victoria Bay, Canada, had been attending church at Megan- tic and after service twelve crowded into small boat to return home. When near their destination the boat capsized and Mrs. John Murray, her son Angus, Miss Mckenzie and Miss McDonald were drowned.
 A fire at the Louvre, in Paris, damaged the building to the extent of S200, ,000
 M. Jacques Offenbach, the French composer, died in Paris the other day, aged sixty-o one years.
 Ex-Governor Rubi, of Mazatlan, Mexico, has been executed by the military there for participation in a recent rebellion
 Heavy rains have caused disastrous floods in Rohilcund, Bengal. Many lives have been lost and the crops have been much injured At Markham, Ont. two brothers named
 Hoy quarreled, when the elder struck the younger on the forehead, inflicting probably fatal wound. Their father, seeing the tragedy, tell dead.
 A fire has been raging in the town of AK,
 France. fhirty-fve houses had been burned at last reports.
 Advices from the Fiji islands by way of San
 Franeisco state that the natives have mur- dered Captain Mcintosh, Mate Saffney and four ot the crew of the schooner Esperanza.
 The schooner was stripped and burned Last
 month boats crew belonging to the schooner DauAtless, of Fiji, was attacked, and second officer Frazer and MT. Nichell, government agent were murdered by the natives. Two chief aims in Persia, with their allied force ot 15,0c0 men, have been devastating portiofs ot the country. A Persian general has been sent against them. President Diaz, of Mexico, in his message to the Mexican congress, states that telegraph1c communication between Vera Cruz and 8 port in Texas will be completed in the month of
 January, 1881, and the work is now going on favorahly.
 During hurricane at St. Michael, Azores islands, tnree British steamers were wrecked. Two ot them toundered and the third went ashore. Loss about $l, 600 900. The German government is contemplating fresh repressive measures against the social | vention ot socialists in Zurich, in 1881 During fierce gale at Penzance, England, numerous vessels parted their cables and eus- tained other damage. The harbor works and qnays have also been damaged and the 1 promenade flooded. Several small yachts and boats have been destroyed. A fishing lugger capsized at the entrance of the harbor and i've persons were drowned.
 The largest crowd ever present at funeral | in Paris is said to have been present when ] Offenbach, the composer, was buried. l A telegram from Breslau, Germany, reports | that an accident occurred in @ mine near | Kattowitz. Fifty-four workmen were over- ! whelmed, and it was feared fifty were suffo- | cated.
 1 The Dublin Gazette contains proclamation l declaring Galway and Mayo, Ireland, in a
 state of disturbance requiring additional 1 police.
 | President Gaurdea, of Costa Rica, has con- 1 sttuted himself dictator, suspended the na- | tional assembly and arrested about fifty lead l ing citizens oi the republic. | One ot the murderers of Dr. Parsons, the | American missionary who was murdered son @ time ago in Turkey, has been condemned to
 death, and two others have been sentenced to 1 fifteen years penal servitude. The Chllian war vessel Covadonga, while I cruising of the coast ot Peru, picked up an
 empty boat which, on being hoisted on deck, | exploded and sank the Covad onga in few minutes. The empty boat was torpedo. | Only four ot the crew of the Coyadonga are reported saved.
 The Chilians have bombarded Ancon and l Chorillos, the latter a fashionable Peruvian
 watering place, and destroyed much valuable
 property.