The Phoenix herald., 1882-08-11
TELEGREPbIC.
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 Tribune telegraphed T. Shober, ac
 ing Secretary of the Senate, for
 fuil text of the amendment to til
 Sundry Clvii Appropriation bll
 which passed the Sen ste yesterday
 and received the following in reply
 "The Governor of the Territory o
 Utah is hereby authorized to ap
 point officers in said Territory tC
 fill all vacancies which may bt caused by failure to elect in Au-
 gust, to hold their offices until their successors are elected ard qualifl d provided the term of office shall not exceed eight months-" This is a complete surprise to the Mormons as it takes from them all county off ces and will place the Territory on an American footing. Without this amendment law-defying polyga- mists would hold all offices which the Edmunds bill was intended to deprive them of No doubt the bill will pass the House as it came from the Senate It is the greatest tri- umph yet achieved over the polyga- mists.
 The President has nominated Will liam Waldrof Astor, of New York, Minister 10 Rome. Astor was one of the 26 in the New York State Sen ate who voted from first to last for the reelection f Conkling-
 A Boston dispatch of August 4, says: A dispatch from Chicago to- day foreshadowing railroad war between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts stirred up the people here. The business obtained by taking the California trade at cheap rates is re- garded as sufficient to lduce certain roads to break the pool.
 Four elephants belonging to a circus broke away from their keep CTS at Troy, x. r, on the 4th inst, and injured several persons. One elephant entered rolling mill and cleared it out. Three elephants were secured but the most furious is still at large.
 The Greenback Convention which met on the Sd adorted resolutions favoring Arabi Bey in his fight with bondholdcTs, tax eaters and Shy locks.
 A destructive fire swept over Mil waukee yesterday. The damage to was from $5O,000 to $10O,- 600. Two lives are reported lost. Meager election returns indicate the defeat of call for a Constitu- lional Convention at Nashville, Ter l nessee, hy large majority I The Union Paci flc railway has en tered in;o racing overland freight rains against the Southern route. At five o'clock on the evening of z -he 3rd, says San Francisco dis patch, Patrick Burns, a gambler re- v gently from Virginia City, was shot :. .hree times by Julian Pinto. a young :, lttoIney. at 427 Bush street The u hot took effet in his leg, arm and Jack and the wounds are considered cry dangerous. The parties had quarrel on the Sd of July resulting n n Burns giving Pin.o sound whip u ing When they met on Thursday V; lst Pinto drew pistol and shot m i'm Pinto is in custody. n Lieut.. P. A. Fletcher left San Di- u go on the 2d with a detachment of n' company A, Eighth Infantry, to te 1rvey the monuments along the g Iexican boundary hne. He will be q' let half way by detachment from te una, under Lieut.. Ames. ly Thirty cases of smallpox are said - , exist at Lake City. Iowa. ~
 Turkish Troops Moving. as CoNsTANTTNoPLE, Aug. 3. The -st Turkish transport left last eve r, ng for Egypt. She will take on ,ard troops at Balonica. The Flu pean official at Smyrna has warned yo $ government that man-of war is ar au cessary there, as the slightest 1T larrel might lead to 8 SC rious dis an rbance. tn'
 ParneII's Circular.
 DUBLIN, Aug. 3.-Parnell is about ''G issue a circular with view to go eek the operations of land corpo- mi IIons. mo
 War News. pel ALEXANDRIA, Aug. IA recon ant isance was made at 4 p. m- yester- ch' 7, five miles beyond Ramleh. The eve tposts of the enemy's position ra' re found almost abandoned, with apl exception of few videttes, and the ne of their force was observable. EeI few shots were fired. but there as re no casualties. WI
 vey sUEz, Aug. 4.-Sevel al hundred wa iiish marines occupied the town of thout resistance. The Egyptian !" ops fled ort