Delta chief., 1883-08-15
BY TELEGRAPH.
A Summary Of Important Dispatches,
Domestic and FOREIGN,

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Many members of the British Parlia-
ment will visit America during the coming
recess.
Dodge City, Kansas, emphatlcally de-
nies the reported existence of Texas cattle fever
at that place.
1t is now thought that Proctor Knott $
majority for Governor of Kentucky will not be
less than 10000.
Nine of the fourteen prisoners in the
Berrien Mich, county jail, escaped on the
2Sth through tunnel under the cells
A lot of seventeen Cinnamon were
smuggled into Washington Territory on the 4th,
near Port Townsend. This is the third lot.
Charles Ford, the slayer of jesse
James, who was arrested on the charge Of COM
plicity in the Blue Cut train robbery, has been
released on 5000 bail.
The Acting Postmaster-General has
approved the design for the new four-cent post
age stamp. The stamp will contain bust en-
craving of Andrew johnson.
The Vermont National Bank at st.
president, Bradley Barlow, having become in
volved in the Southeastern Canada railroad.
Kansas dispatches state that nearly all
kinds of crops in that state will be unusually
heavy this year. The corn crop of last year
WAS 16O, 900, ,OOO and 1t will be exceeded this
The Northern Pacific railroad will be
about sixty miles west Of Helena,
Montana, on the 25th instant, but the formal
opening will not take place until September $.
The British government has decided
emigration, the money to be taken from the
British eIchequer instead OF the church sur
plus fund.
The French newspapers are bitterly
assailing the attitude OF the British government
in regard to the Suez isthmus and canal, and
there is quite belligerent feeling between the
two countries.
O'Donnell, who killed Carey, the in
former, was committed at Capetown for trial on
the charge Of willful murder. In the ordinary
course of events he will be tried at the Port
Elizabeth assizcs in October.
Another earthquake was felt at the
towns Forio and Ischa, on the island of Ischia,
at 2 80 O'Clock p m. of the 4th. Several houses
at Forio collapsed. Three persons who were
buried in the ruins were rescued alive.
Bishop Logue in q letter states that
the people in the county of Donegal, Ireland,
have passed safely through the crisis OF dis
tress, having been saved chiefly by the charity
OF the Irish people throughout the world.
The American Minister to Persia. S.
G. W. Benjamin, was received by the Shah
with true Oriental pomp, and the Shah ex-
pressed his qualification at receiving the first
sent by the United States to his
court.
Dodge City, Kansas. was struck by
severe storm on Wednesday night which dam
aged property TO the extent Of about $4,000.
There was heavy rain accompanying the
storm, and the velocity Of the wind was esti-
mated at 30 miles an hour.
News comes by the steamer Eureka to
Victoria OF an afIray with the Indians in Alas
ka, in which a whisky seller, named Rennic,
and Major Givens, late Of the U. s. army, were
killed One Indian was shot and two hanged.
The affair grew ou, OF whisky.
The steamship Parthian with Kava-
nagh, Hanlan and the other inforners in the
Phoenix Park cases which was refused perrnis-
sion to land at Melbourne, has arrived at Sid
ney, New South Wales, and tile informcrs were
transferred to the iron clad Nebon.
A company has been organized in st.
Louis to build narrow guage road from st.
Joe through eastern Kansas, southwestern Mis-
souri, and Arkansas to some point on the Gulf
OF Mexico In Louisiana. The survey Of the line
will be commenced at an early day.
A Melbourne dispatch denies the re-
port that Kavanaugh had been murdered. Kav.
anaugh and the other informers are still on
board the steamer Parthan. The governments
of New South Wales and Victoria are ncgoti-
ating with a view to settling the difficulty.
A fire in Post street, in San Francisco.
on the 4th, caused a loss OF e2OO,00O, on which
there was an insurance of $4,000. Among the
burned were the Winter Garden the
ater and Druid's Hall. The area Of the fire WINS
the greatest of any that has occurred since 1875.
English papers state that the weather
has been unfavorable for crops. The rust Is
rapidly, and the red maggot is scri-
ously prevalent. The acreage Of wheat is much
smaller than in 1852. The barley crop, how
ever, will probably he good. Oats are In a for
ward state.
Last week was disastrous one for
The aggregate clcarings were S196,
a