, 1882-08-11

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Chicago, Aug 3. \ special from New
York states that over quarter of Il mill
ion dollars worth of property has been
destroyed i'm southern New Jersey by
forest fires, There has been much excite
mcnt and hard fire fighting The fires
were arrested yesterday, however, by
showers.
ALEXANDRIA. Aug. ,. tits persistently
rumorcd that Arab PaSha intends to
| attack Alexandria with Il large force mn
der Tuebla PaShn. Admiral Seymour
visited the Nets forts today. He went on
| Lake Maratcs. and observed the Bedouins
entrcnching in the distance.
PoRT SAID, Aug, =, Turkish men-of-
war strongly occupy the Suez canal mt
Ycrat, Malta and Suez. All Europeans
have left Suez, Only four French men-
Of-war remain.
ALEXANDRIA. Aug. 3-The English sGl-
diers are much OycrwOrked. The def
cheney Of officers is especially felt. Tele-
graph communication between the khe-
dive and Arab Pasha is restored Grave
doubts are entertained regarding the
trlstworthiness Of the interpreter, whom
the English are forced to employ for lack
of better When the forces move for
ward the English will be at the mercy Of
these men, rs through them rebel author
! tiles can obtain their information.
RAMLEH, Aug. 2.-The Forty-sixth reg
| iment moved to the front today. The
| naval contingent and mounted infantry
are reinforced.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 Yesterday was
| a bad day for the defense in the star
route case. \ lawyer who is not con-
nected with the case says the musterly
cross-examination OF Buell. by Merrick,
the government counsel, has broken
down the defense and confirmed Walsh's
testimony in the essential parts 1t
proved that Brady had bought two pa
pers here, the capital and critic, and
had been running them, as Judge Wylie
said, to libel with the vituperatiOn Of
hired scribblers, every one connected
with the administration of justice and
this case. The testimony showed that
Brady had been spending money long
ago, as an investigation in Congress to
create further opinion in favor of the
star route people, and contractors have
paid large sums of money in connection
with the appropriations for starrOutes in
the last Congress, which was called in
vindication of Brady.
! New YORK, Aug. I. The storm today
cooled the air very materially,
LONG BRANCH. Aug. 7. The summer
house had an end torn out by lightning
Four persons were injured. one police
man, John Connors, 1t IL thought fatally.
STANFORD Conn, Aug. l. The Pres
byterian church was burned by lightning
this afternoon. Loss, S25, 600 insured
| When the roof fell in it is supposed two
men persisted. Tom Brown, "A contractor,
was rescued, but seriously injured. The
residence of Roswell Hoyt was also de-
stroyed. Loss, $4,000. The hat factory
of II. X. White was struck in three
places. The residence OF George Rob
erts was also struck and damaged. Rob
erts himself was fatally injured.
MIDDLETON IN. Y.),Aug. Z, Lightning
struck three places in this village. The
farm house of Q. Holbert was set on fire
by lightning. Seventeen persons were in
the house at the time. No one was hurt.
a SCRANTON, Aug. L. Three terrific thun.
! der and wind storms visited this city to-
day. Trees were uprooted and houses
unroofed. Many cellars were flooded.
Considerable damage was done to crops
in eastern Pennsylvania. Lightning
struck a house here today and destroyed
barn on neighboring farm. Much
damage was done to townships in the
vicinity OF Hapton; adjoining easterly.
| Gullies from three to ten feet deep were
made in the earth and the streets in the
town were damaged seriously.
LONDON Aug. I. With reference to
the expected acceptance by the Porte Of
the military convention demanded by
! England, the Post prints an informal ru-
NOR that Duflcrin. British ambassador at
Constantinople, has been ordered in the
event of the Portes Noncompliance to
quit Constantinople.
LONDON, Aug. T. 1t is rrmored at ST.
Petersburg that Russia is making war
like preparations ut Odessa, i'll view Il
the possibility of complications between
Turkey and England.
WASHINGTON, Aug. T. Contirmntions
Gen. Grant and w. H. Trescott, Com
missioners to negotiate a commercial
treaty with Mexico: Col. G. H. Crane,
Surgeon General of the United States Of
America: w. II. Hoover, OF California,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Arizona. United States Consuls.
Thomas J. Banyot. at San Louis Potosi.
Mexico; +. W. Rice, of Maine. Mt Aspin-
wall: w. l.. Welsh, of Pa, at Florence:
Wm. II. Francis, Receiver OF Public
Money at Bismarck, Dakotl. Postmns.
ter E. W. Nye, at Laramie City, Wy
Oming Territory.
GALVESTON. Aug. Gases Of suspi-
cious sickness on the schooner Henrietta
for Matamoras as quarantined developed
yellow fever One death occurred.
WASHINGTON, Aug.7. Two years ago
the total appropriations for the general
government were $l00.0O0,000; last year
they ran to S2l6,694,3SS and this year
they haze reached the sum of S273,555,-
/ 1870