, 1880-06-10
TELEGRAPHIC.
EASTERN STATES.


rme Agricultural Department.
wasENGToN. May s6.-The senAte ap-
proptiation conmities authorizes an amend
neni 10 the agrieul;aFal appropriate on bili
oi $4,000 for nachinery, etc, ~ stperi-
anens in the mAnafaetare OF sugar from
ssrghHn. corn stalks, ETC.; also increasing
the salary Of The commissioner from s5.oOc
90 $4,000.
Bsdian rixht.
CHrcAao. May 2s.--A dispatch dated Can
ada, Alanosa, 25ih. fron Col. Match, rs
ceiyed by Gen. SheTidAa. arrived yesier
day and confirms news Of q fight With th,
hostiles at the hxad os PolomAs river, in
which from Al 10 IS hostiles were killed
He reports that Major Morrow had joined
him with four companies. and be was ar
ranging for an active campaign. later dis
patch from him reports more lighting, but
gives no particulars.
The a. n. II. u.
The House committee on Pacific railroads
have the subject Of the Texas Pacific under
considera,icB, and the friends Of the road
are sanguine that the same action will be
taken in, regard toit as With the Newberry
bill.
AClsver Thief
While having check cashed at the treas
ury department, a clerk OF the librarian OF
Congress laid In q side pocket package Of
bank notes, and when be reached the street
he found that some one had substituted for
his package q lot Of treasury tape in similar
&9rm.
Belmept Park Races.
PHtLADrIrHrA, May 2s.--Belmont Park
races, for 220 class Driver, 2 l 2 il;
Eta Jones, q S / 8 3; yoltaire. 8 IA q 2;
dime, 2:22, 2:24, 2:2oA, 2:24. 2:22H. .
II w "a Terrible scene.
BosHAx, Texas May 80. A terrible cyclone
visited Savoy. on the Texas Pacific railroad,
last night, destroying the town, killing niue
persons and wounding sixty. Some will
probably die. The following were killed !:
Samuel Gill, DR. Keon, Miss Pansy john
son, e. l.. Andrews, o. Horn, VIM. Sud-
deth, Matte Best. infant Of Gallagher, child
of Andrews. Nineteen business houses
the railroad depot and twenty buildings
were destroyed. Only Eve houses in the
place are not damaged. Physicians. nurses,
medicines, cofins provisions and every
thing are ,being Jfurnished.T The seems
beegars description. The earth covered
with debris and the sroans Of the wounded
are hearrending.
agtxa Confirmation.
WAsaMoroN, May 2o.--The Senate has
confirmed p. b. Sinnott, Indian Agent at
% Grande Ronde, Oregon.
rhe Wool MARKET.
BosroS, May 29.--The wool market is
dull, manufacturers holding off in the pres.
ent uncertainty regarding the future pros
z pect Of trade In goods with scarcely any
demand for new goods and with old con.
tracts being thrown up whenever reasonable
excuse can be found for doing go. Manu-
fscturers are not inclined to purchase. bat
are simply keeping quiet, hence small sales
I, and continued decline in prices. During
the past week aales, of California woods
! amounted to only 10000 pounds Of new
Spring wool at so cents and 5000 pounds at
"a cents. Sales Of the, week aggregate
1.006 50Opounds. Of which 748,O0O pounds
we're domestic. o ~ ftN ..74,n0
LONDON, May 29.--At the wool sales to-
day $500 bales were disposed OF. chiefly
Sydney, Port Phillip and New Zealand
Bidding was leas animated, but prices were
mainsained. ~ OTIS has
wtittakev's Side of she Case.
WAsHrNoToN. May sl.-Prof. Greener ar
I rived from West Point to-day. OF th,
Whitaker inquiry, and the finding of tn,
court, he says that Wnittsker has been pre-
Judged on suppositions, assumptions, insln-
nations and expert testimony upon which
according TO military laws. little il any reli-
ance should be placed He says that tn,
academy dexterously shifted the response
bility by haymS Whitaker call for a cour
@of inquiry instead Of having it come from
the president. By doing SO they placed
Whitaker alone in the position of defend
ant. while had the president ordered an in
4quiry. the whole corps OF cadets, Whitaker
included, would have been placed on tr,al
Prof. Greener intends 10 follow the case uI
with the secretary Of war. as he has already
been assured by Secretary Ramsey that op,
portunity will be afforded him to cri,iclst
the methods, procedure and findings of the
court.
~ 81 Postal Chaeges
Postal changes on the Pacific Coast: Es
tahlished, Rawthprne. UmatilIa Go /, Ovn.
Miss Sarah 8. Simmons P. NJ Juniper
Lake Co., .ORn., Albest Jonas F. M. Nam,
char Red-Newellsville Marion Co., Oxn.
70 Champoeg. Postmasters appointed--E
whiting. Milton, Umatilla Co., Ogn.; Johl
II. Gholson, Monument, Grant Co., Oun.
y. w. Cnrris, LaConner. Whatcom Co.
W. It. ~.,-- ,.-.svs ~ ~
G "a On nTheirTrach. -
1, LARAMIE, May i3l.A-oompanies I, z, I
and b, 3d cavalry left this city for the Mort,
Park to-day TO uro spct the fninera and nro
pectors from the Utes. MAJOR Carleton
commands the expedition. Twenty-av,
wagons, each drawn by six mules accom-