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LATER NEWS

CHARLES A. BUDDENsIEK, the builder o
the New York tenement houses which col
lapsed recently and caused the death Of Louis
Walters, was convicted Of manslaughter II
the second degree.
A PECULIAR accident happened the other
day to the steamship Guyandotte, which had
arrived at New York from Norfolk, Va, with {
cargo of vegetables, etc. The engineer ordere:
a fireman to take apart feed pump valve
Instead the fireman removed the cover from
the sea valve. Naturally the water came
rushing through the opening, the vessel gar
to settle, and shortly went to the bottom.
The fireman's blunder resulted in total loss
of about $50 900.
SHAD JONES (colored), and Giovanni Mono
an italian, quarrelled a. Evansville, Ind.
ever the possession of bottle Of whisky and
inflicted fatal injuries on each other.
HORACE TERRIL and Joe Barbour were
hanged at Charlottesville, Va, the former fol
the murder of Randall Jackson, and tho lat
ter for the murder of Emellne Foster, girl
eleven years old. Tho criminals and their
victims were all colored.
The naval board of examination appointed
to investigate whether the United States dii-
patch boat Dolphin had been built by Mr.
Roach according to contract, has male it;
report to Secretary Whitney. The report
says that the Dolphin is not Of sufficient
strength and stiffness to make the required
"sea-speed" of fifteen knots per hour; that the
workmanship Is not according to contract
and that nothing short OF trial at sea for
some time, and in rough water, Gun salts
factorily determine her actual strength OF
weakness, and in the absence Of such trial OF
test, so much to be desired, this report EN-
bodies the most that the Board has been able
to ascertain; but. as the vessel has been
recently on O reef in the East river
it is necessary that she should be docked and
her bottom examined. When this is done
the board will submit the result Of such ex-
animation" Before the report was made
the Dolphin had made four trial trips Sec
retary Whitney on the 18th sent copy OF
this report to Attorney-General Garland
with request to be advised legally as 10 his
duty in the matter.
THE President has appointed William L
Bancroft to be collector of customs for the
district of Port Huron, Mich; Israel Law
ton to be superintendent Of the mint Of the
United States at San Francisco, CAL; A. l.
King, of Arkansas, to be receiver Of public
moneys at Harrison, Ark; William F. How
land to b, collector of customs for the dis
trict Of Beaufort, N. c., and John A. Rich
ardsou; for the district of Pamlico, N. G.
YORK, England, has been visited by an
earthquake shock which lasted several Sec
onds and caused great alarm among the peo'
pie.
A cALAtnTous explosion has occurred in
coal mine near Manchester, England. Shortly
after the explosion twenty-five dead bodies
were recovered, and sixty miners rescued
alive. Nearly 200 men were still imprisoned
IN the mine, owing to the heavy masses Of
coal thrown down by the explosion.
OFFICIAL dispatches confirm the news o
the loss Of the French gunboat Reynard. Tht
Reward floundered in the terrific cyclone
which recently swept the Gulf of Alden
Every one on board-127 persons-perished
LATE advices from Lima, Peru, state tho
General Caceres with 5000 men was about tc
attack the city, and that tbe government
force of 5000 troops was preparing to give
the revolutionary troops warm reception.