Savannah Weekly Echo, 1883-08-26

NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. William H. Ostrander was hanged at I n ,i N. V.. for the murder of his brother. < >n th*- xaffuld he did not 'rant any one to I tuv for him. Prayer was offered, however, of:, i which (Mrander spoke for a few min- « - Hr was frequently profane and obscene, and i ndrd his remarks with an oath. I mii ax ('duration was one of the chief topics <iMussed liefore the National Educational .--Mf r ibly nt Ocean Grove, N. J. Y '\'i telegraph wires were cut in New V- r. citx and vicinity. The telegraph com companics - panics companics claimed their wires were cut by the but the charge was denied by the lath Other trades unions in New York held meetings and resolved to furnish fl nan- < t«> the striking telegraph operators, - 'st .it Wilde is again in this country- H« arrived in New York from Europe a few lay-'in< <\ for the purpose of looking after th production of a play which he has writ writtoll. - toll. writtoll. auf S. Lyon, the Buffalo (N. Y.) hanker <..-,,u.-t<.l of complicity in City Treasurer IkZlf- 'ln ft of over half a million dollars. )4i -1» m ntcnced to four years' imprison imprisonn - n- imprisonn nt loon is upward of sixty years of age :n<d his venerable apjiearance as he stood up to r- . ive the sentence rendered the scene .affect mg, V< itf. a flurrv was caused in Wall street, N- York's financial center, by a heavy faj! ill Stocks 'lin sub commit toe of the United States S< it. committee on education and lalior wl-ii-h nas appointed to investigate thecauses 'i at bd to ihe strike of the telegraph opera operat-: - t-: operat-: o.in its investigation in the New V p oofjiec. They wore Senator Blair, of N. Hampshire. Senator George, of Missis Missis-i| - -i| Missis-i| ri. Senator Pugh, of Alabama, and Sena Sena' - ' Sena' i 1 ci. ot Florida. , The fifth member of the -i i.minittoe. Senator Aldrich, of Rhode i: wtc- not present. District Master W man John Campbell, of Pittsburg, ap- P n 1 tm 1 gave a history of the strike and t r itcd the case of the operators. I hf Devon Inn, a fashionable summer ho hot«-: - t«-: hot«-: il-.«-line of the Pennsylvania railroad. ki ratoon miles from Philadelphia, ha« I*-:' burned to the ground. The fire was < .1 bv a defective flue in the kitchen, and br ike out shortly before 9 o'clock, while th- guests were at breakfast. The fluir s spread rapidly, and in an hour nothing remained of the once handsome sume mor resort but some detached outhouses- About 1:25 guests and 100 employes were in the building when the flames broke out. No in-u a-injured, and nearly all the property r hi-guest* was saved. The loss is more than .»H »,(MlO. The failure of George W. Ballou & Co., tt .all street linkers and brokers, created a turmoil in New York financial circles, already n ii ii shaken by the sharp decline in stocks. firm was caught on the wrong side of the murki't, and was compelled to notify the Stock Exchange of its suspension. Its liabili liabili: - : liabili: ii < are est imated at from $1,500,000 to $2,000,. i. The failure also involves a branch house in Boston. ,i- ... -« . tAt S', the (. HJllOtml*' uuuidii uuuidiiaire. - aire. uuuidiiaire. has l*oen elected president of the Postal Telegraph company. started in New York, in Pposition to the Western Union and other telegraph companies. Mr. Mackey, it is lateil,will use his immense wealth to push t' fortunes nf the new company. I - convent ion (>f Amalgamated Iron and r- . : workers at Philadelphia it was de- I - it there should lie no present disturb disturbn - n disturbn < of the wages question. Miv-iit I jisi.a, of New York, has been ill by Western Union Telegraph n - i-iy that the city would lie held responsi responsi-1 - -1 responsi-1 - I damages caused by the cuttug of I'h. pohei- were notified to protect I oe w ires. \t a mi-etmg uf the New York Republican , ;nti)il!«- held in New York city it w.i Im-.I t - hold the State convention for t - >ninatii.ii of candidates at Richfield 8 j-t on Septemlier 19. < >i Mri< x Ham an won the boat race at U itkie- \ Y regatta. Hosmer coming n. >nd and Ross 1 iiird. i.inc ill-- |»)st six months 160 persons killed .utd injured in the State of N Y.rk I-v railroad ac'cidents. Stedman A Co., New York bankers ar- okers. Hum leeii involved by the heavy J . <-.-ks ami -otnjielled to suspend with -t about 5150,000. Mr. Stedman, ir memlier of the firm, is the well well-i. - -i. well-i. : and essayist, and the suspension ini .lu> son's heavy and unsuccessful Mu*-h sympathy was expressed - M- stiiiman. and financial assistance to - -.tin through his troubles was tendered I v ,pr- rniuent btAiness men, but he was com- .n> i tn d* line all - .tiers iN VEsrn. ation into the affairs of F. Khaw a Bi - . the Boston tanners, shows them to lie nt. idition than was at first supposed. i . nubilities aggregate $7,509,000, and the hsm : good .-ind laid, only $5,262,000. t Art ain J 1> Rhodes having announced -'-rmin.ition of attempting to swim n. h the whirljsHil rapids at Niagara Falls - iif- saving armor, an open letter was - it- him bv the Canadian authorities i- ni-.i.g that am such attempt would be re rei - i rei :- <i b\ them ns coming from an insane 1-1 and that they (vould take measures to pi i-M-nt its living carried out. as far as taking tl- n iter from the Canadian shore is con- South and W«it While workmen were repairing a bridge r a fo t Ik! on the Kentucky Central rail- . ' r.o I/xington. Ky., a scaffolding fell, r them into the depths below. : nu n were killed, being terribly i i.\ th<» sharp rocks; the others es- i v th slight injuri(*s, i n-.. 11n -introduction of cholera from i i Jnpan the San Francisco board of 1 .1 pt*-d a resolution that all Asiatic j. - i- .c ol infected, and that all vessels ;- - . -piarantin«l. A i p.i - >anvilie. Va . destroyed the cot. El. A X. Gerst, the foltacco t S H. Holland A Co., the tobac- f Hale. Hickey A Oyer and W. j i --v.-ral outhouses. The lon is I < -1 .it i?lsto< 1 ..' nial 1 tank and the Indiana ii '."f Indianapolis, 11l . with u'-ital of $600,000, have closed (bii-THEKs. dealers in agricul- ' n ii-.i i< iiieuts. Sioux City, lowa, have oitb li.ibilitii-s at $160,000, and assete about .- -4o.'««t Tm -tM.mdiip William 1-awrence collided with ti- - hooii'-r I/>vina in the Cheaapeake lai-, n- i Point Bek out. and the schooner surik n '* >i fathoms i f water, carrying down t'r «ih- and two children of Captain W. H. A >,d, rs. w hoow-r. and Joseph Ixiv Ixivett. - ett. Ixivett. tin' colored cook The reunion of the surviving Federal and C-i idi-h-ia'i l lwre who |K».rtici|«at«d in the Imt' .f XX .ii'- Creek, ctilniinaD-d in tbe fm mat mu of (Ul organization known as the Surviving Holdiei Union league. It em embnaoes - bnaoes embnaoes «okhers of b >th armies, b nd the officers

THE NATIONAL GAME. Lewis, of the St. Louie club, leads the American association in batting. Pigeons are used in Philadelphia to carry baseball news from the grounds to the Zoolog Zoological - ical Zoological garden. A DEAr mute catcher, named Ryan, is to support Dundon, the deaf mute pitcher of Columbus. Hadn't they better secure a deaf mute captain ? It is rumored that a new league is to be organized, composed of ten dubs, taking in the largest cities not represented in the league or American association. Latham, the third-baseman of the St. Louis dub, is the dude of the American association. When off the field he always dresses in the latest and most approved style, and parts his hair in the middle. Two ladies' nines, the Kaatskills and the Sheldons, played two games of liall at Lake George recently. They were guests at the hotels there. Each side won one game and declined to play a third. Of the twenty-four players who composed the Athletics' and Bostons' teams when they made their successful tour through England in 1874, Joe Battin, the third-baseman of the Allegheneys, is the only one now in the Amer American - ican American association. There are now over 100 new ballplavers. nearly all of whom are first-class, who have entered the professional arena this season. The national game was never so popular as It has been this year, and more jxirsons are making a livelihood out of it than ever be before. - fore. before. In 1881 the Boston club receipts were in round numbers $28,000, against an expend! ture of the same amount. In 1882 the re receipts - ceipts receipts were $42,000, against an outlay of $38,- 000. This year the receipts bid fair to reach nearly $45,000, with an outlay of lees than ten per cent, of that amount. Ward, pitcher of the New York club, will enter Harvard next fall. His ability as a ballplayer has enabled him to further the laudable ambition of educating himself. Under the college rules, he cannot play with the Harvards in championship games, but his advice and experience will be of great value in training. Beside lieing a fine pitcher. Ward is one of the best general play players - ers players and runners in the country. The position of Allen, New York's pitcher, when preparing to deliver a ball, is described thus: He spits on the end of his thumb, looks up at the sky and down on the ground, grins at the Ixitsrnan, winks at the catcher, throws a kiss at the umpire, plant# his right heel firmly in the ground, sneaks a look at first base, then stands erect, puts both hands behind him, rolls the lxa.ll around over the small of his back, raises his left foot and makes a wicked dive forward as he delivers the l>all. He then pants until the ball i.'i returned to him, and goes through the same maneuvers. LEAGUE CLUB RECORD. The official record of the league champions championsship - ship championsship games played up to the 11th is as follows: CLUB. ti a I 1 . C 2. . bit > - * « » H H hls e a JsX A b. x: £; « rf Boston 4 3 6 7 310 5 38 67 Buffalo 6 2 4 3 7 7i 5 34 67 Chicago > 7 sj 25' 9' 540 66 Cleveland !46; 4 7619,7 43 66 Detroit i 4 4 5 1- 6; 8 2 30 69 New York i 5 4 4 4 5 7i 2 31 69 Philadelphia | 0: 4 2 2 3 1 2i 14 70 Providence 36|64 9; 8; 6J - , 42 70 Games lost 3:j{26 23;39;38|.56 l 28; - 1 American association record. ;' r. 5 Club. g'o| ' s I - s-3 * - §.5511 © 5 I 8 5 Z s ° a A « .5 .5 <<fi C; ESi . 3 0 Allegheny : - ! 2932 2 5: 1 24| 65 Athletic 12- 11 3 5 3 7 4 45 67 Baltimore 3- 3 2 4 1; 3 0 16 66 Cincinnati I 3, 4 5 - ll 9i 3 8 43' 68 Columbus ; 5 1 3 3 5 2 3 22 68 Eclipse i 5 3 6 4 9 4 5 36, 66 Metropolitan : 9 6 10 4 5 2 1 371 67 St. Louis i 6 3 6 6 10 8 6 45 67 Games lost ;43 22 50 25 46 30 30 22 - ! - DROWSING HERSELF. Suicide of a United States Senater'n Wife. A Dubuque (Iowa) dispatch says: Mrs. A. B. Allison, the wife of United States Senator Allison, of lowa, drowned herself in the Mis Mississippi - sissippi Mississippi river some time last night. She left home yesterday afternoon after 1 o'clock, telling her servant that she was going to one of her near neighors. Instead of this, how however, - ever, however, taking her gossamer under her arm. she went in the opposite direction, toward the country where she had l>een accustomed to take daily walks. It is ascertained that she wandered around in the outskirts of the city during the afternoon, where she was seen by several persons walking rapidly, and appar apparently - ently apparently somewhat excited. Not returning by 9 o'clock from the place where she was sup supposed - posed supposed to be. a search was maintained during the entire night. This morning her boay was discovered soon after 7 o'clock in tne river, about a mile lielow the city. She had cut up her gossamer, placed some stones in it, and tied them securely about her neck, then walked deliberately to the river, about thirty-five feet from the bank, lain down, and drowned herself, where the water was two and a-half feet deep. Mi's, Allison was of a highly nervous tem temperament, - perament, temperament, and during the past two or three vears had suffered from and been treated for irnental disease. While at the water cure es establishment - tablishment establishment in Western New York in 1881, under medical treatment, she attempted sui suicide - cide suicide in much the same manner, nut was fortunately rescued. She was the niece and adopted daughter of the late Senator Grimes, of lowa, and had lieen mar married - ried married for ten years. She had no children. Senator Allison had opened the campaign at Clarinda on Saturday, and yes yesterday - terday yesterday was at Council Bluffs. A dispatch was sent him last night as soon as his wife's disappearance was known. He came home by special train. The shocking event has thrown gloom over the entire community.

Savanna!!, Florida and Western Rahway. Superintendent's < Ifficf, ' Savannah. Jrt». I', 1883. ( ON AND AFTER THURSDAY, Jannarf 18,1883, passenger train; oil ih'.< rwl will run as follows: FAST MAIL. - DAILY. Lv Savannah 11 40 au? Lv Jesup 1 P 1,1 Lv Waycross 3 (JO p tn Ar Callahan 4 4 > p m Ar Jacks >nville e 55 p m Ar Live <)ak - ' J !**' l ' lTt Ar New Branford - '2Q I' Ar Valdosta *-- '' P 171 Ar Qttitman 5 bj p m Ar Thomasville ' p trt Ar Albany <; ' 1 r m Lv Albany ' a Lv Quitrnan 9 20 a m Lv Valdosta b' ft Lv New Branford 1 Lv Live <>ak 2 Lv Jacksonville ? ' Lv Callahan a !1 m Lv Waycross .......2 Wp m Ar Jeeup ' Jf! Ar Savannah - 3 p . " l Between Savaufiah and AVa,v<~ »s this train stops only at Fleming, .ohn.tons. Jesup and Blackshear. Be.w.en Uuycro-s and Jacksonville stops only an< * Callahan. Between Waycrotg sn I Albany stops only at telegraph station.: and on sig nal at regular st a ions. .. , Pullman Draw,n t Room Cars da ly be between - tween between Savannah and Jacksonville. Pul. 'K.n Sleeping Car> bet Wvet. ill# ' Mnntcomr rv daily. This train connects at New Bra . , with steamer Cadlo Belle, le* ylng for Gedar hey and Suwannee river prints eiery Tuesday and Friday mornings. ALBANY A NESV ORLEANS EXPRESS.- DAILY. Lv Savannah 4 05 p m Lv Jesup Ar Way cross 8 0., p in Ar Callahan 10 3^J P m Ar Jacksonville 11 15 p m Lv Dupont L H m Ar Thomasville ' 'a in Ar Bainbridge .am Ar Albany a Lv Albany J *>P Lv Bainbridge ' m Lv Thomasville 8 s;> p h* Ar Dupont 12 10 a m Ar Waycross 1 ap> Lv Jacksonville ® 19 *' lll Lv Callahan 5 * P rn Lv Waycross 5 S p rn Ar Jessup f X? a ni Ar Savannah 7(X. a rn Pullman Palace Sleepers between Bavan nah and Thomasville daily- Pullman Drawing Hoorn Cars from Sa van nah to Jacksonville daily. , , , Pnllman Palace Sleeping Cars from Jack Jacksonville - sonville Jacksonville to Washington, and from Jackto i ville to Savannah daily on this train- Connection at Albany doub e d uly wit - passenger trains both ways on Southwesie ti Railroad to and from Macon. Eufaula. Mom gomery. Mobile, New Orleans, etc. JACKSONVILLE EXPRE-rS.-DAIIO Lv Savannah V, 99 m Leave Jesup a m Leave Waycross * I 1 in Arrive Callahan *2 a ri Arrive Jacksonville 7 ;r > p m Leave Jacksonville r 19 Ijeave Callahan ,91?' Lv Way cross p Arrive Jesup Arrive Savannah - 4 30 am Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on this train daily from Washington to Jacksonville, Savannah to Jacksonville, between Cincin natiand Jacksonville via Jesup, and Chi Chicago - cago Chicago and Jacksonville via Albany. Passengers leaving Macon at 8 00 pm con connect - nect connect at Jesup with this train for Florida Passengers from Florida '»y this tmin con - nect at Jesup with train arriving nt Macon at 700 am daily, making connections for points West and Northwest. Passengers for Brunswick take this tram, arriving at Brunswick at 535 a m daily. Leave Brunswick 830 p m. Arrive Savan Savannah - nah Savannah 4 30 a m. , . - -n Passengers from Savannah for Gainesville. Oadar Keys and Florida 'I ransit Road (ex (except - cept (except Fernandina) take th s train. Passengers for the Florida Southern Rail Railroad - road Railroad via Jacksonville make close co mection at Palatka. . , . Main steamers leave Ba.nbridga f >r Apa Apalachicola - lachicola Apalachicola e*. ery Sunday, anl for Columbus every Saturday. .. Connection at Savannah di 1 y with harles harleston - ton harleston and Savannah Railway for all points North and East. Connection at Savannah daily with ven ventral - tral ventral Railroad for points West ar.d Northwest. Close connection at Ja kscnriHe daily (Sunday; excepted) for Green Cove Springs, St. Augustine, Fa'atka. Enterprise, banlord and all landings on St. Jo'm's River. Trains on B. and A. R. IL ieue jnnc'on, going West, at 12 2) p m. and for Brun-wi.-k at 3 43 p m daily, except Sunday. Through tickets sold and sleeping c-r b*>r! h accommodations secured at Bien s lici et Office, 22 Bull afreet, and at the Corm any fl Depot, foot of Liberty street. Tickets also on sale at Leve & Al len's 'lour.st O llcjs. A new restaurant and lunch co inter has boen opened in the station at Waycro is. and abundant time will be al'o ved for meals by all passenger trains. J. S. TYSON, JAS. L. TAYLOR. Master Transp'n Gen'l P*ss. Aj;t. R. G. FLEMING. Superintendent. AST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GA. R'Y. - The Great Southern Trunk Line between all Principal Southern Cities for Freight and Passengers. Shortest, direct and most comfortable route to all Eastern and Virginia Cities. Only direct route to the Watering Places and Resorts of Las'. Tennessee t n I Virginia. The Great Emigrant route to Texas and the Northwest, via its Memphis and Charleston Division, and to all points in Southern and Central Texa , via Calera or Meridian, nnd New Orleans. Through Sleeping cars from Memphis to New York, via Roanoke and the new bl en andoah Valley Line; also through Sleei»e.* to New Orleans, via Roanoke, connecting with line to New York. Georgia Division now oi>en through from Brunswick to Dallas, via Macon and Atlanta, and wi 1 be open through to Chattanooga, via Rome, at ,n early day. Waycross lune to Florida and its Georgia connections. Pamphlets free on ,i)i>iie»tTon to Gen. Pass. Agt., Atlanta,

HOW CHOLERA TRAVELS. THEORIES AB TO TKM CAUSB OT TBI TERRIBLE EFXDBXXO. The Terrible Outbreak and Fatality a Few Vein Ago an a Railroad Train In Hen. gn'-How the IM.-ease Begins. ( holera is a disease that comes and goes mysteriously. Although acting under some unknown law of nature, its movements are so erratic as to ap appear - pear appear to be the mere result of chance. While leaving a long trail of death be behind - hind behind it as it sweeps over a long line of cities, it will suddenly pass over entire districts and reappear on the other side of them and renew its fatal progress. It has baffled the ablest phy physicians - sicians physicians in the world. They cannot tell whether it is in the air or in the water.* All they know is that it is. The most general opinion held by men who have had an opportunity of studying its characteristics in its nat natural - ural natural home, the East Indies, is that the malady is born of germs that have sprung out of masses of decayed vege vegetable - table vegetable and animal matter played upon by a blazing sun; that these invisible germs are borne over the earth by the air < urrents, and that they have art affnity for pl ices characterized by the decay and corruption whence they sprung. This theory is at least as plausible as any other, though occa occasiona'ly - siona'ly occasiona'ly those who hold that it belongs, to I>ad water have their theory sup supp - p supp rted by such awful calamities as the one tnat took place a few years ago in Bcnga 1 . On that occasion a train packed with natives started from Cawnpore f r Lucknow, a ride oi about six hours. When it arrived at its destination the sight presented to the officials was ap appalling. - palling. appalling. Hundreds of men and women we e either dead or dying from cholera- Some survivors testified that the dis disease - ease disease broke out almost immtdiately after a native passenger had handed round to a few of h s acquaintances a drink of Ganges water from his 1 tab. For four h urs these wtetC'.iel people had been packed in that tra n, sur surrounded - rounded surrounded by the revolting agonies Of the dead and the dying, and several were taken out of it stricken, not with the di ease, I ut with insanity. The observations made by well-in well-inf - f well-inf r.ncd Egyptian correspondents are suggestive of the fact that the rulers of Egypt are greatly to blame for the epidemic. The lakes around Damietta produce enormous quantities of fish, which are imperfectly cured, dried in the sun, and eaten in an almost putrid state by the poor fellaheen. Vast quantities of dead and rotten cattle are cast into these lakes as food for the fishes, and travelers have been frequently filled with disgust at the spectacle of bloated carcasses floating on the waters. The fellaheen would probably gladly bury their dead ani - hut fnio tp Jhn characteristics of Egyptian misgovernment, cne of the tuxes of the country is laised on buried cattle. What is the result? Rather than pay the tax each fellah throws his dead animals into the canals or shallow lakes and takes no further hee 1 of the transaction. The New York Times gives the fol following - lowing following particulars concerning the dis disease - ease disease : The first cases are generally widely scattered and sporadic, and no connection can easily be traced from one to another, and the whole thing seems a great mystery. A most pro productive - ductive productive source in obscure outbreaks is the introduction of soiled clothes, either sent to washerwomen or to rela relatives, - tives, relatives, or sold as old clothes. These cases are often obscure, for the wash washerwomen, - erwomen, washerwomen, if robust, do not die first, but some delicate person or child in the same house or neighborhood. In the meantime the healthy washerwoman may merely have choleraic diarrhea, and may recover entirely and never be suspected, or may finally die when five, ten, fifteen or even twenty whom she has infected have gone to their graves. The initial case is not always the first fata! one--far from it. The least common occurrence is when persons absolutely and greatly affected by the disease come into a place with such evident signs about them that none but the least informed can mistake them, and die quickly, and thus really fur furnish - nish furnish not only the initial case of every kind, but the first fatal one.

THE NEW POSTAL NOTES. H«w They Are EM<raved and Printed-\Vbnt They Look Like. The new postal notes, which are to lie used after Septemlier 3 in the transmission of sinal sums of money through the United States mails, are being printed rapidly in this city and they will be ready for shipment to all the postoffices in the country on Wednesday. Books of notes for the postoffices in the far West were completed yesterday. Every book contains 500 postal note forms, with the ad address - dress address of the postoffice printed on each note. The pages of the books are perforated, so that when the notes are torn out stubs re remain - main remain to show the amounts for which they were issued. A note can be filled out by & postmaster for any amount not exceeding $5, at a cost to the sender of three cents for each note. The notes are made payable to "the bearer," and they can be used as fractional currency n any place to which they are sent. To guard against the use of the notes before the law author authorizing - izing authorizing their issue goes into effect, C. F. Moc Mocdonald. - donald. Mocdonald. superintendent of the money order system at Washington, has caused to be jiasted in each liook or forms the following notice: " The postal note business will com commence - mence commence on September 3, 1883. Under no circumstances whatever are any postal notes 'o lx* issued from this book before that date." The notes are printed on pure linen bank banknote - note banknote jiaper of the best quality, chemically pre]»are<i in such a manner as iiot to lie af affecteaby - fecteaby affecteaby moisture or exposure to light, while it is sensitive to the action of acids or other liquids often used by forgers. The color of the irajier is a pure lemon, and the front sur surface - face surface is printed over with an underlying tint of golden brown - a combination selected by Superintendent Macdonald as lx*ing the safest and most suitable for the purpose. The water watermarks - marks watermarks in the jiaper. twistM in the form of a figure eight, have the words " U. 8. Postal Note" in duplicate - reading from both left and right. These water-marks can be seen only when the note is held up between the light and the eve. Three printings are re required - quired required to complete the note. In the under underlying - lying underlying tint is a vignette consisting of a classi classical - cal classical female head wearing a helmet, which was engraved from the portrait of a postmaster's pretty daughter. Much of the tint is made up of miniature photographic designs, com taining the words "United States Postal Note, repeated many hundred times, and en engraved - graved engraved so finely that one can read the words with the naked eye, while it would be difficult to make a counterfeit. Winged wheels, with a halo from behind, make up a portion of the tint. The liack of the note is elaborate and is printed in a dark green. In the center is the monogram " U. 5.," engraved with a geomet geometrical - rical geometrical lathe. The monogram is imbedded in an intricate cycloidal lace work of white line cutting, the tracings for which were done also with the geometrical lathe. The contract for engraving and printing thi several millions of postal notes which will )>e required by the ]>ostoffice department in tl next four years was awarded to the Homer ]ee liank Note company in June, and the jxistinaster-general obliged the company to give Itonds to the amount of $2,000,000. About 200 skilled artisans were em employed - ployed employed by the company to complete the first part of the contract, and they nave been at work in relays day and night for a month. The notes are received by F. Raymond, the United States postal note agent, and by A. G. Lathrop, of the post postoffice - office postoffice dejiartinent, who have their offices in the printing-rooms of the bank notecompany, at Broadway and Prince street. A fireproof metal vault, alxrnt fifteen feet square and eight feet high, lias been constructed in the building in which duplicate notes, not needed for immediate use, and all the engraved plates are to be stored. - New York Tnovns.

wdeure of a workman's newspaper, bat were dispersed by a large body of police with drawn swords. They subsequently gathered again, but were charged and dis disjiersed - jiersed disjiersed by dragoons, who were pelted with stones. A riot broke out in the Labat quarter of Alexandria in consequence of a report that the English doctors were poisoning natives. The mob attempted to destroy the ambu ambulances, - lances, ambulances, crying " Death to the Christians I" Tie outbreak was easily quelled by British troops and gendarmerie patrols. English doctors in Alexandria who have had experience in India in cholera epidemics rejiort that the disease now prevailing in Egypt is of a distinctly different character from the Asiatic cholera. Forty-two workmen who took part in the attempted demonstration at Vienna before the office of the director of 'police, owing to the seizure of a workmen's paper, were ar arrested. - rested. arrested. Fourteen of the prisoners were suf suffering - fering suffering from wounds inflicted during the charge of the police and dragoons on the crowd. Four Spanish sergeants who took part in the recent reliellion against the government have been shot. A fire in Salonica, Roumalia, destroyed 100 warehouses. There were 1,715 deaths from cholera in Egypt in two days. The recent reported death of Cetewayo, i Zulu king, is denied. Colonel Bandola, of the Twenty-second Mexican regulars, commanding the forces operating against the Indians, has been killed by the San Carlos Indians. A band of thirty Apaches had made an attack upon Opulet and killed four men. Colonel Ban Bandola. - dola. Bandola. who was at Husaris with sixty men of his regiment, upon receiving the informa information - tion information started immediately for the scene of the murder, going through a canon. Colonel Bandola, a bold and fearless man, was riding some distance ahead of his com command - mand command in company with two men, when they were fired upon from an ambush. Colonel Bandola feel, two bullets piercing his breast and killing him instantly. His companions also were mortally wounded. The troop® came quickly to the scene, but the savages had disappeared. The next day three Mexi Mexicans - cans Mexicans were killed in the same neighborhood, and the following day twenty-three horses were stolen. Elections in France for members of the council-general show large republican gains. Cholera has become epidemic in the East Indies, the Dutch government having re received - ceived received news to that effect from Atcbeen. The chief prelates of the Roman Catholic church in Europe and America will assemble at the Vatican, Rome, in November next, as the pope desires to consult them as to the means of maintaining friendly relations with all the powers. A private insane asylum in the town of Ealing, England, was burned. Five of the inmates perished. The yield of wheat in France this year will lie only four-fifths of the average crop of the last ten years. Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, has been shaken by an earthquake. ihe British house of commons rias agreed . to the proposal that £lOO,OOO of the church surplus fund be applied to emigration pur purposes. - poses. purposes. Mr. Trevelyan, chief secretary for Ireland, assented to a suggestion of Mr. Par Parnell - nell Parnell that half of the sum be devoted to mi migration - gration migration purposes, and promised to amend the arrears act so that the grant to emigrants should in certain cases be raised to £8 per head. A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, says that several sergeants who took part in the revolt at Santo Domingo have been hanged at that place. They refused to make any disclosures in relation to the revolutionary plot. A party of depositors in a small savings liank in London, angry at their inability to draw their money on demand, entered the liank and wrecked the premises. The police were called on. but refused to interfere.

elected were chosen from both Federal and Confederate eoldiers. Smai j,pox is creating havoc among Indians in Minnesota. In two small villages about 100 deaths are reported. Joseph Fulford, a farmer of Miller county, Ga.. aged about thirty years, with the assistance of two negroes, murdered his wife, an estimable woman of forty-eight years, sank the body in a creek, and then spread the report that she had committed suicide. He paid the negroes seventy-five cents each for their work. The crime was discovered, the two accomplices confessed and Fulford and one of the negroes were hanged to a tree by the iMrighbbrs. The Kimball house, of Atlanta, Ga., a prominent Southern hotel, has been com completely - pletely completely destroyed by fire. -The 300 guests all made their escape. A total loss of about $1,000,000 was inflicted. Four desperate-looking strangers stole four horses from Asbury camp-meeting in Monroe county, Georgia. They were pursued by men on horseback and captured in Mississippi. The stock was recovered, and the four men were taken into the woods and hanged. Presiden-t Arthur and party spent severe days of their trip to the Yellowstone region in fishing in Wyorning Territory. While suffering from mental aberation the wife of United States Senator Allison, of lowa, committed suicide by drowning herself in the Mississippi at Dubuque. Charleston, 8. C., has celebrated its cen tennial as a city by appropriate ceremonies in presence of the governor, mayor and lead leading - ing leading State officials. James Nixon is working seventy men near Cumberland Falls, Tenn., making railroad ties. On Sunday night one of his men, named Charles Slagel, who slept in the same bunk with James and John Adair and a man named Claiborne, arose after his companions were asleep and crushed their skulls with an ax. He then rifled their pockets, obtaining about $6O, and escaped. Nixon put his whole force in pursuit, and Slagel was captured. At a meeting of the Georgia State Agricul Agricultural - tural Agricultural society in Atlanta President Hardiman spoke in favor of diversified farming and home manufacture of cotton goods. President Arthur caught some fine trout and members of his party killed several ante antelopes - lopes antelopes and other game near the forks of Wind River. Wyoming Territory. Rev. R. G. Sewell, a Methodist minister at Luling, Texas, was shot and killed by Law Lawrence - rence Lawrence Denman. The dispatches announcing the tragedy say: " The causes leading to the shooting are of a domestic nature, and can only be published on the trial of the case. No one blames Denman, and yet the Rev. Mr. Sewell is regarded as the victim of a conspir conspiracy, - acy, conspiracy, as he asserted in an ante-mortem state ment.'' The " straight-out'' Republicans of Vir Virginia. - ginia. Virginia. composed largely of colored men. held a convention at Ri'-'unond and adopted a platform favoring strict adherence to re republican - publican republican principles ;;-i I a protective tariff, indorsing J. G. Blai:-' :r President, and con condemning - demning condemning Mahone. While thirteen men were being hauled to the surface at a mine near the town of Red Rednun, - nun, Rednun, Cornwall, the rope artactieo xo me car in which they were standing broke. Twelve of *he men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and instant!}' killed. A band of Apachee attacked a small State guard at Nacari, Mexico, killing five of them. They were pursued pluckily, having severe] of their number killed, but being in strong force the troops were compelled to retreat. The Indians drove off large herds of cattle.

A VILLAGE IN FLAMES. Vineyard Haven, a New Englaad Summer Resort. In Aehe*. The village of Vineyard Haven, Mass., has beep almost entirely swept away by fire. Over fifty acres were burned, caus D Kr an aggregate loss of about $200,- All the hotels, stores and public buildings were burned, with about fifty other buildings, including several small manufacturing establishments. Nearly one hundred families are homeless and many almost penniless, and with no other clothing except prhat thoy chanced to have on when they were driven out into the night by the flames. Vineyard Haven was an old-fashioned sea seaport - port seaport xillagp, the buildings mostly of wood and the streets narrow, and the fire swept over it unchecked. It broke out at 9 o'clock in the harness factory of R. W. Crocker, when two-thirds of the inhabitants were asleep. .V'nost immediately the whole struc structure - ture structure was rn flames and the fire began its devastating march through the town. At 10 o'clock it had progressed across the main street and vas sweeping toward the southern part of the village. The only means of check checking - ing checking it were the primitive buckets. The whole village w«s aroused and the streets were crowded with the effects of homeless people. A severe northeasterly storm was blowing and a slight rain falling. Most of the residents of Cottage City started for Vineyard Haven between 10 and 11 o'clock, and the scene they witnessed on ar arty - ty arty ring at the burning village was very dis distressing. - tressing. distressing. The streets were filled with all sorts of iiersonal property, over which the women and children, the sick and infirm were lament lamenting - ing lamenting in a pitiable manner. Every store in the village was then on fire, and the postoffice, express lively stables ana hotels - hotelsexcept except hotelsexcept the Grove Hill hotel - all were in flames. 8 ue forty acres had been burned over. The wind that fanned the Are was lit little - tle little short o;.n hurricane. There were about two hundred and fifty summer residents in the village, many of whom were obliged to flee precipitately to places of safety. The dweking houses destroyed were not more than half insured, and they were owned and occupied by people who live on their fru frugal - gal frugal savings and who find themselves in their old age dep ived of the homes that have be belonged - longed belonged to their ancestors for generations. The village will never recover from the blow, and a large proportion of the sufferers are wholly without means with which to re rebuild. - build. rebuild. There was no loss of life, but quite a number were badly injured while endeavor endeavoring - ing endeavoring to sai c personal property, and the wife of James Davs, an aged citizen, died from ex excitement - citement excitement consequent upon the fire. An ap apjieal - jieal apjieal for aid was issued. The aggregate loss is placed at $190,000, on which there is an in insurance - surance insurance of