The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1875, Page 7

BISMARCK AND BELGIUM. PRUSSIAN DIPERLALIST STRATEGY AGAINST EIvO | LEOPOLD'S MINISTRY. : Lonpon, May 21, 1875. Aspectal correspondent of the Daily Telegraph ceports that the German Ambassador at Brussels | Bas been instructed to request the Belgian gov- ernment to prohibit religious processions, and that the objet of this mancuvre i+ the overthrow | of the Belgian Cabinet. ‘Ihe correspondent guarantees tie accaracy of the report. 4 PERSONAL ENEMY OF THE GERMAN PREMIER DISCHARGED BY THE BELGIAN JUDICIARY. . Brussess, May 21, 1875. The tribunal at Li¢ge, which has bad the alleged plot to assassinate Prince Bismarck under inves- figation, has dismissed the charges against Du. ehesn “ENGLAND. A PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION CARBIED BY THE LIBERALS. Lonnon, May 22—5 A, M. W. Fuller Maitiand, liberal, has been retarned | to Parliament for PROSEDOCRABITEL | DISRAELI'S PREMIERSHIP. ee THE CHIEF OF THX BRITISH CABINET LIKRLY TO RESIGN—HIS PHYSICAL SYSTRM WEAKEN- { TYG FROM AGE. Lonpon, May 21, 1875. ‘The Examiner mentions @ rumor that Mr. Dis Faeli 1s to resign at the close of the session of Par- lisment, and believes there is foundation for ii, ae the Premier's disability for continuons work 1s | damaging the government, An understanding, however, exists among bis supporters that he shall nov de replaced unti! he voluntarily resigns JOHN MITCHEL’S EE TRISH PATRIOT JUDICIALLY DESIGNATED ‘‘A FELON AND AN ALES.” DUBLIN, May 22, 1875. Judge Keogh, before whom Mr, Moore's election | petition was tried, bas decided that the late John Mitehel was disqualified from holding a seat in Parliament because he was afelon and an alien. | Amotion for appeal to the Court of Common | Pleas was granted, and the case will come up again cext week. FRANCE. ate CUTE THE ASSTMBLY TO ELECT A NEW COMMITTEE 0! ‘VEURTY. Pants, May 21, 1875. MM, Laboulaye, Cezanne, Waddington and Vacherot and tne other remaining members of the Committee of Thirty nave resigned, and a new econrnitiee will be elected on Tuesday, to whien | Mtnister Du‘anre’s bills will be referred, ELECTION. INTERNATIONAL METRIC CON- VENTION. Paris, May 21, 1875, An International Metric Copvention was signed ig (his city yesterday by te representatives of all | the Powers which participated in the conierence on the metric system. — ITALY AND THE PAPACY. CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL APPOINTMESTS TO BE AP- PROVED BY THE STATE—AN ARCHBISHOP NO- TIFIED TO QUIT HIS SED. LONDON, May 22, 1875. A despatch tu tie Standard irom Rome says the | Ttaiian government has ordered tie removal of | ali bishops who have not received the royal éxe- quatur \ocorsing their appointments, Tue Archdishop of Palermo nas already been Botified to jeaye his see. CENT RAL ASIA. BUSSIAN GOVERNMENTAL ADMINISTRATION I CONQUERED TERRITORY. Lonpox, May 21, 1875. A special despatch to the Morning Post an- founces that General Kauffman has returned to Turkestan aud resumed the LOWISVILLE LOUISVILLE, May 21, 1875. The fifth day’s races of the Loulsville Jockey Club were rao in the mud. A drenching rain pre- vatie? througuout the forenoon and during the contests, making the track exceedingly heavy. Notwithstanding the untavorable Weather, the actendance Was large, the main attraction being the ruce ior the Gentlemen’s Cup. FERST RACE. Tuk TENNESSEE STAKE, lor two-year-olds; $25 eptrance, p. ot Alexander ciation to hire ata Brusied. winuers of os Louisville Ladies’ q fifteen 3 ers of a mile. Tairty entries; Wiitams and Owings’ ch. ¢ Creedmoor, by asteroid, out ol 1p. by Kuflemaa.... 1 GW, Stewart’ Tecuies, by imp. General Athol, out of Volga, py ump. Glencoe 2 Td. Nichols bg. Vagrant, by Virgil, out of Lazy, vy imp, Seythian..... . 3 Cu. c. Giaseow, by War Dance... 0 hardner’s cn. 1. by Lexington. 0 en, f by Planet... 0 Hudso! C ne Dintel Hoone. Asteroid... Virgt Se, Melnoite, by seibourne. Dongressman....... A In the pools jast bere the race Creedmoor waa the favorite, irom the fact of bis baving previously made good rime in mud, Tae favorite Wot! eastiy by two lengths. SECOND RACE. ‘THE GENTLEMEN’ COP, Valae $250; members of this or any other club to ride; 160 Ibs. minimum Weight. ‘Daso o: one mile and one-eighth, Three entiles: two started, A. Trigg Mose, of the Loutsvilie Jockey Clav, ridiug Misfortune.. Major Jonu H. Coster, United States Army, oi the America Jockey Club, ria ug Uxmore... 3 Time—2:11! Misiortnne came in only a neck ahead. THIRD BAUR. ASSOCIATION PURSE, $300; mile heats; $50 to second horse. Four entre: ii started. * J. Bul Bruce, 3 years, by Ea- 1 Salyer rer 1 F. Licya’s Maiisai, @ years, by Jack Malone. 2 2 | ae Cheatham’s Vandernilt, 4 years, by | i m Bul Ma pe was (he favor @ in the Sects against | bial DEATH GREY BE ARD. THE CHEYENNE CUIRF SHOT WAILF aTTPM! TN@ TO FSCAPE. JACKSONVILLE, Via. May 2, 1875, Seventy-three Indian ‘prisoners under gaara avrived bere this morning em tovte for St, Angnae Grey deard, neaa « 5 1 outet @ car Window, hear Raldwin Wolle the train ing thirty miles aa nour. tue train was backed @ ¢ fang Grey Beard was tound in the & »the road. He ran and Was shot down by ture, The oall passed through bis bedy avove the w fie expired as the train was leaving, S0OUs two hours alter he Was suO% * THE G RASSH( )PPE RS. ST. Pact, Minn, May 21, 1875 The Pioneer Press punishes despatches from a sonaderable nomber of localities im all purts of the State relative to the grassnoppers, The pnrport of tne re) ports is that there are no grashoppers in the istrict devastated by them last year, nor in any pact of Minvesota, ‘norte, south, east or west, ‘xcept a very smail area, and in * comparatively wall nambers, confined to a group of counties ow ime Great Bend of the Minnesota | ther do mot have all | tessor Marsh declared tho NEW YORK HERALD, WASHINGTON. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. —— WASHINGTON, May 21, 1875 QUARTERMASTER GENERAT, MEIGS EUROPE. Quartermaster Genera! Meigs has at last con- sented to go to Enrope, and has been ordered to of the European armies has been accomplished, especial.y all the points of importance developed by the Franco-Prussian war. It ts understood | that Rufus Ingalls will be Acting Quartermaster General, THE REPORTED SHIPMENT OF ARMS TO TEXAS. In connection with the Texas border diMoulties i$ has beeu reported that there have recently | been large shipments of arms to Texas, The caitore of tae Springfeld rife has been changed To Go 10 | wigned to duty as | FOREST FIRES. The Woods in the Lackawanna Valley Still | | Burning Fiereely. | TOWNS AND LUMBER YARDS DESTROYED, | examine the method by which the mobilization © | Death of a Woman and Narrow Escape of Others. | The Dry Underbrush and Dead Wood All Ablaze. from 50-100 to 45-100 of an inch, and the only arma — sent to Texas by the government have been 2,000, inconded to supply the troops in shat State with the new rifis. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. 5 Owaaniartik: May 20, 1875. THR PRESIDENT'S NAMY: CANT FOR OFFICK--A MAN FROM ALABAMA WANTED. AD applicant for reinstatement to a clerkship in § the Pension Bareau recently presented te the Commissioner hia application, apon the back of | which was a forged indorsement of tne President. ‘vue Commissioner suspected the genuineness of the indorsement when tt was presented to him, and wrote to the President regarding it, and received acommunication trom Mr. Luckey, pri- vate secretary, saying that the indorsement was | a forgery. Yesterday morning the applicant again appeared at the Pension (ifce, when the Com- misstouer escorted him to the office of Gene.al | Cowen, before whom he laid all the facts. General Cowen questioned him as to how he obtained the | and be said he got tt through @ man irom Alabama, at the same time mentioning the last name of a mem- ber of Congress, of excellent repute, from the State named. He did not know whether the man Was & member ot Congress or not: but he | told him (the applicant) that he could get tue President's indorsement through General Dent, and afew days later handed him this paper in- dorsed as above stated. He gave this man $10 for his services, the last money he had in the world, and supposed the indorsement genuine. He did not know whether the man was in town-or not, and did not know where he boarded. General Cowen in- jormed him that forgery was a very serious offence, and that ne raust find this man from Ala- bama and bring him before kim, as he was deter- mined to sift the matter to the bottom. The young mnan, who is a German, went away exceed- ingly sorrowfal, and itis just barely possinie that ‘be may find the man, who, he says, securert the forged indorsement. THE indorsement, SIOUX CHIEFS. ANOTHER TALK WITH THE ‘COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFATRS—-A CHANGE OF QUARTERS | DENIRD—DISSATISFACTION IN REGARD 10 AMOUNT OF RATIONS ISSUED. ‘ WASHINGTON, May 21, 1875. Red Cloud and Spotted Tall, the Sioux chiefs, accompanied by their interpreters, visited the Commissioner of Indian Affairs this morning, and | somewhat imperiously demanded that their head- quarters be at once changed, for the reason that their rooms at the Tremont are too small. Commissioner promptly and decisively informed them that the change could not be made. He — would, however, if they desired it, give them a camp and supply them with tents and good food; but “they would not be allowea to change their quarters and they must s#y no more about it, Botn of the Indians seemed to take umbrage at the decision of the Commissioner, and Rea Cloud said that he would not go intocamp, that he wanted his old headquarters or none at all. ‘They then lett, apparently ina bof, The Commis- sioner has secured another parlor at their hotel, large enough fur # eounctl, should they desire to hold one. Lone Horn and the other chiefs or the Cheyenne River Sioux had a talk with Commissioner Smith ana General Cowen, Acting Secretary of the Inte- rior, this morning. , THE PRINCIPAL SPEECH was made by Long Mandan, an old man, wearing | green goggles. He complained of short rations and annuities, and said his people do not have all the oxen and wagons they need. {hey want borves aud guns, It they had guna they would noteat so much beef, and it seemed hard when they want to eat that the Great Father would not give them guns to kill antelopes and ducks, They have 350 honsea, and has # piece of cbitivated grouny. They wise have some schools, The Commissioner s: that all the tronbie about | rations arose from the fact that their numbers bad increased by nearly 4,000 (Black Hill Indrans) since tne estimates were muuc, and that i tuey sed Ir cousins they must expect to be short themselves. Tae difficulty in the way of sapoly- | Ing them with guns Was tot some bad lodians use their gans to shoot white men, and ne was afraid to let even good indians bave them, for tear they would loan or em to toe bad Inaians, He asked if muzzie joaders would do to shoot an- telopes and ducks, aud Long Mandan repned in tue Negative. saying they preierred Winchester rifles, Charger said @ i¢¥ words, alter which Waite Swan sad 1b could not be possible that ail the agents are ander one Great Father, because some of them give more than others, He com plained that fed Cloud aud Spotted Tail got more n thelr share. ye Commissioner said that formerly Red Cloud and Spotted T: ere not counted. Thev are now connt ive no more than what they ure justly entitled to, White Swan said he had aiways nouced tnat the worse an Inaian be- haves, more he gets. 10 waich the Commis- sioner made po rept, Doring the Interview, the Commisstoner called np Spotred FIk, & Black [itis Chief, and asked nin: about his country. He replie abont toe Biack Ihills country wi to white men, ieave 11." en Tam talking butLlove it and don't want to PROFESSOR MARSH visited the Indian Bureau late 1a the afternoon, and is attention was called to a report whica ba reached the ears Of tie Comissioner, that be bi sent he card to Ked Cloud and Spoited Tati, de: ing them to come aud see at bis hotel. atement erroneou and said the fact was that the two Chiefs nag sent olim that they desired to see tim. He g interview with the Commissioner, dur- h the Red Cloud rations was treeiy dis- cused by them. THE BLACK HILLS. AN EXPEDITION OF weowens CAPTURED BY THE | TROOPS. Stocx Crry, Iowa, May 21, 1475. A conrier {just arrived reports that Gordon's train, consisting of forty-seven fonr-mule teams and 170 well armed men, were captured on the | 19th inst, by & detachment of tnirty-ceven soldiers from Fort Randall, Dakota Torritors, and are aow er route to hat post in charge o: troops. No was. offered to the troops, ad io party was captured i# {n Ne- me forty reatavance gd given Up [he wea of goin and concinaes to move try until the Bills were FRONTIER TROUMLES OVER Sv. Lovie, Mo, May 21, A special despatch to the Aepwiiican from Kan- sas City says that Ueneral C. H. Smith arrived there to-night from Port Riley, Kan. He reports that there sre occasional straggling banos of Inaians in that viciuity, but heleves the frontier troubles to be over for tne summer. Six com- panios o (he Sixth cavalry starved to-day from Fort | Lyon to reiteve the Fifth iniantry, @ portion of | wolca will meet them a: = ch ESCAPE OF hes COUNTERFEITER, Wasitxaron, May 21, 1875, A despatoh was received last evening at tne Secret Service Burean from Tyler, Texas, that the notorious counterfeiter, Pete Macariney, has again escaped from custody while being conveyed by nm Staves Marshal Porneli from Tyler to aust FOR 72h SUMMER, FORGED BY AN APPII- | The | | THE EFFORTS TO SUBDUE THE FLAMES. 1 | Fourteen Hundred Square Miles | of Forest Land Doomed, SORANTON, Pa., May 21, 1875. The foreat fires are still ragiug on the mour- talus, sweeping like @ simoon over Shia portion of Pennsylvania and blotting out towns, bamiets 4nd Iumber industries tn their fearful path, Tne scene at Stoddartavilie, Goideberough, Evergreen and Other small towns on the monntains of Mon- roe county to-day is throiling. Scores of homes are laid in ashes, The sun 1s odacured by the density of the smoke. The atmosphere 1s hot and oppressive, and no one who has not witnessed the weird spectacie | ofa whole region in fames can forman adequate idea ofthe picture, The greatest excitement ex. ists at Stoddartsville, Last night when the | flames swept down upon the village THE INHABITANTS FLED every way in the wiidest confuston, and amid the | scene 4 Mrs, Cox jell and perished inthe fire, Th | schouluouse and nearty ali the residences in the™ | villages of Evergreen, Stoddartsville and Golas- | borough have heen wiped out by the fire. Thousands {of acres of torests are tlaming. The lumber yard of David Dale at Moscow caught fire last night, | and upward of 150,000 feet of lumber were de- | atroyed, and it was with great difficulty the saw mill was saved. | BOW MIL3 are Loreavened, and If 1s Joared THE WORST HAS NOL BEEN SXEN. | . Anerrorio puoctuation made my despatch in to-day’s MERALD (0 Dodge, Meivs & Uo, on the Moowic Highlands, whereas they aro located at Tobyhanna, on the line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rauroad, Three miles of the Pennsyl- vauia Coal Company's gravity road, on tne celebrated Higniand range. about twelve miles | aistant, were destroyed bs the flames last nignt, | aud the immense coat and passenger trate of | this prosperous company bas been completely embargoed for the time being. As @ consequence the company’s mines at Pittston and Duniaere | are rendered Idle ior a lew day: A STRONG FORCE | of the company’s men, under the leaderanip of | the General Supermtendens, John 6. smith, are | fighting the flames along tne’ line to-day, followed by an army ol track layers and laborers, tearin , Up tho red hot ties and ratis and repairing the track where practicable. Yesterday miternoon, nm the road was at first enveloped by e where the forests are thickest, at | Plane 2], an excursion party, inciuding | Mrs. Thowas Deekson, of this city.’and several ladies trom New York, were returning over the | Highlands from Hawley, and for a time were | hemmed in by the flames, Toey were finally forced tu abandon the cars and procure convey- ances at a distapt farmhouse wo convey them here, where they arrived laie iast nigot. Five nundred coal cars are standing on the track between the burning railroad and Hawley, and atone time tis morning they were threat- ened) bur the gangs of meu stationed along the road Saved them, ‘The trees and biushwood are ‘N y as tinder and the flames rush along with amazing rapidiiy, ROARING LIKE DISTANT THUNDER, ‘im their mad career. Mayor McKune, ot ‘ois cit | Went to Tobyhanna this m: rng so as to be ready tocali the firemen to tbat point; but the wind has changed and is now blowmg the fire in an | Opposite “direction Irom tie town. The woods aroun Carbondale, Avenidaid, Winton and eise- where tn the Lackawanna Valley are buroing flerceiy, und the entire destruction of the forests 1s expected before tue tide of fre subsides, THE SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS, LACKAWANNA, Pa., May 31, 1875, The.spring forest fires which are usually looked upon with @ grim indifference by the innabitants of Luzerne, Wayne, Carbon, Monroe and Pike counties in this State, are this year assuming | alarming proportions, and in every township of | these districts to-pignt squads of muscular young | men will be organized to go out and fight the fire, drink cider and apple; and be entertained by the farmers whose homesteads are now tn serious peril. THE DANGER. ‘The residents of the counties borderiog on the | Delaware might have learned @ good deat of Wholesome wisdom within the last three weeka, as wellas studied a waolesome lesson from the majestic spectacle afforded oy the great fires in New Jersey, which extended a distance of about twenty-five mies ond devastated a hunting region jrom hali a mile to dive miles broad, A shower Jast week saved many a homestead, {0 IS THIRTEEN YEARS since a serious jorest fre occurred in th regions, and up to now the nuderbrush, always thick on the Pennsylvania mountains, as nuntera | ol rutted grouse only know too well, was last year | almost impenetrable, and ola bunters tast fall pre- dicted awlul re-uits should a large fre get a good start, Their predictions are being verified, KEx- tending through the counties named for adistance | of about thirty-five miles are two ranges of moun- tains, thickly grown over with underbrush, dead ferns and leaves, dry as tinder. sparsely covered with sernb oaks and pines, on which there are more dead branches than live ones. The season, too, Is iate—nearly every forest presents a wintry aspect, and tt sonly ip Warm glens and sheltered nooks that the country presenta a vernal appearance. THR WESTERN RANGE of the two mountains spoken of extends from Salem, in Lazerne county, almost to Manchester, Wayne county, and the other from Sngar Loat Mountain, alo ig Luzerne county, +o Lacka- axen, Inike county. A smatierrange of moun- tains, known a¢ the Shawangunk Mountain heave thelr origin in New York Stare, ana with few breaks extend to tne Delaware | Water Gap. For ten days past westerly winds, amounting at times to burricanes, have prevaiiea, | | and an orehin’s bon@re, a huater’s pipe or a spark from @ locomotive have sufticed to start a fre that | with racehorse specdsias darted over the moun- | tains, sweeping underbrush, dead wood, ricks, | homesteads and fences before tt, and from de- spatehes received bere this evening about twenty | | large and over 100 small fires are raging in every direction, and unless rainfalis promise co DEVASTATE THR MOUNTAL between tae Susqueuanna and the Delaware, The prospect and people in the State of ennsy!vanta sre tn- eredulons when told “iat on Wednesday last generous showers [ell in New York. Last niger the scene from one of the eminones around Lackawaxen wis awiillt grand and impressive. Miles 4 m the beech wOote near bere & forest fire waxed flere na altermateir throwing agiare over bongreds of square mriex of foress conntry, (ightiog up the Delaware anti in anone ilae 4 siiver thread, and anon, as if pane ing tor apotwer ff, if settled sulkliy oown aud ajlowed the fires in Wayne. Pike, Monroe and Luzerne cou @ chance to display themsetves. Some were fickering on the horizon like a spat- tering candle, others standimg out in bold relier on biulfs and visiviy eating their Way eastward, | THR Alt 18 P v ‘With a jight, diapbanous, irritating smoke east of | | the Susquehanna to Paterson, N.J. In hollows | where it settles abjects are with dimenity di cerned a handred yards of, and on the tops of the | mountains to the leeward of the Pros it is intensely acrid and breathing Is by no mean. y. In fact & pall of smoke extends from the Susquehanna | clear to tue Passaic, and from the Erte Railway _ to the borders of Schuylkill, Lehigh aud North- | | ampton counties, Peonsyivania, and Hunterdon, SATURDAY, peveral other settlements and | te the extensive sawmiils of | They are aiso | of a rainfall to-mgnht ta very doubtial, | Somerset and Middiesex counties, New Jersey. | Om the line of the frie Ratiroad, from New York to Port Jervis, passengers say eit is aim. cult to breathe in the cars. The inhabitants of Port Jervis, Milford, Dingman’s and Bushktll are | compelled to close their doors and windows, and 80D appeared only a bieod red disc until 1t was forty-five degrees above the horizon, ‘that 14 proved, Ho say the banters, by the action of the game. Deerare fleeing north and south; ph ante are fying back of whe Susquehanna region and tv the cool, verdant giades that fringe the Delaware, and fugitive foxes and other four- footed fauma are encountered everywhere, Wood- cock shooting 18 probably spotied in ai! the coun- ttes named in Pennsyivania, as the birds are now batching, and the parent birds will not desert | their young till the fire ison them, and at night would fall an easy prey to the fames. ALONG THE DELAWARE the wild pigeons ate congrega'ing in large num- bers, and should tue Sres reach the Shawangunk Mountains sporting this fall will be mfl in the Delaware aud Susquehanna region, It is painful to have to relate that the experience of 1802 and this year do not appear to impress the residents of the Imperilied districts with tne importance of | ar. | cultivating a taste forestry and boricuture im these counties, A little labor Incurred in clearing tracts of brushwood as | a bar to possiole forest fires, and some attention | Im the matter of relieving forests from the militons for | of dead trees with which they are crowded would | tend to greatiy Jessen the dangers which droughts | and gross barelessneas incur, Added to this alaw impesing heavy penaities in cases where persons are detected setting fire to woods end promiting | ste Nghting of bonfires, would work very bene- tieiaily. Aa THE SiTCATION ands, unless the wind change or a rainfall occur, about 1,490 square ities of forest lands are ooomed. No great loss in dwellings or human life can occur; bus the beauty of what has been extolled as the American Switzerland will be marred for several years, and summer visitors, on Whom the farmers depend to make their rent, will seek some other | Mecoa for health and rural enjoyment, MINERS’ HOUSES BURNED. POTTSVILLE, Pa,, May 21, 1875, A fire in the vicinity of the Elangowan colliery The men are out working agalust the Names and | the remaining houses nave been saved. They | Teport the heat intense and the smoke vers dense. FIRE AT COHOES. “Conons, N. ¥., May 21, 1875. The saw mill, handling shop, polishing room, | finishing and packing departments connected the Weed & Becker Manutacturing Company were | destroyed by Gre at an early hour this morning. ‘The building was of brick, three stories hign, and formed a7. The upper ssory was packed wita goods ready for shipment. ‘The loss is estimated at $50,000; fatly insured in New York companiey, ‘The fire 13 supposed to Dave becn cansed by spontaneous combustion. A ment by the disaster, GLUE FACTORY BURNED. * BALTIMORE, Md., May 21, 875. Coulson’s glue and bone factory, near Greens burned this morning. Tbe loss on the buiiding, | red as follows:—In the k River, of New York; Old Dominion, of Virginia, and Virginia Fire | and Marine Insurance companies, $1,875 eacn, and in the Brewers’, of Milwaukee, and Mer- each. THE .LUMBER CONFLAGRATION. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 21, 1875. The insurances of the Moshannon Lana and | Lumber Company, whose property was destroyed by fire yesterday at Osceola, Pa.. are as foilow: Continentai, Niagara, Repablic, Hanover, Faneuil Hall, Orient, New York and Equitable, £tna, Manutacturers and Mercbante’ of Newark and Pneenix of Kartford, $5,031 eac German-American, Scottish, Commercial, Bosion Underwriters’ and Home of New York, $10,062 each ; Connectiont, $3,515; Royal Canaaian, British American, Atlas and Mauutucturers’ of Newark, $3,000 each: New Jersey Central, Germania, People’s, Citizens’ of New York, Equitable ot Provi- ce, Mercnants’ of Providence, Hoffman, Mer- | cantie, Rocae-ter, German, Adriatic, New Jersey, | Fire and Marine, Star and Atiantic, $2515 each | Royal Guardian, Atianta of New York, Manufac- burg, Birmingham of Pittsourg, Pennsylvania of | Pittsburg, Iron City of Pittsburg, Benjamin Frank- | lin, Lancaster and National of Allegheny, $2,500 aking a total of $18. GREAT FIRE IN SOUTH NORWALK. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF SIX BUILDINGS IX THE | CENTRE OF THE CITY—THE WORK OF INCEN- DIARIES— oss, $150,000. Sovru Norwa.x, Conn., May 21, 1875. The city was visited this morning for the second | time witnin a peried of two years by a destractive conflagiation, which has wiped ont of existence two ofits finest buildings. The frst indication that a fire had broken out thls morning was | 4 terrife explosion im the upper’ story of the large iron structure on Main street, oppostie le railroad depot and occupied by the Fairfield Fire Insurance Company, Lounspury Brothers & | Rockwell, boot and shoe manniacturers, and Com- stock Brothers, wholesale clothing. from this explosion awoke slumbering citizens to a realization of the danger to which they were ‘The explosion, asis supposed, was caused by the Ore | coming in contact with a quantity of ogotmaker's cement, and it ripped of wae corner of the buiid- ing, sending fragments of brick and Limver 100 feet, into tee air. An alarm was sounded and the Vivre Department and Bua themselves fhe fire now ce the irons Norwalk fell into the st from thetr posts of dut; the rear Wall went cr | buidings corner of Main | streets, setting them on consternation — prevailed, it structure 1, ariving the firemen i @ few minutes ater i tn Soutu | i | % through the iow and at ume 1s seemed that the entire city must burn ap. Tne | = umes communicated with Mr. A. Landers bniia- grocers, and L. P, steam dire engi | prompthess got the macuine iu operation, With iwo streams o, water, soon hed the fire wi | der control, At six o'clock fre broke oat im th jemaining portion of the low irame bi and tne water supply gi out atthe | e time. At the risk of their lives the fremen succeeded in pulling the butidi down, ‘Tne steamer Was taken to ths river, fresh streams were set Gpon the fire and at seven A. M. ail dan- ger nad passed. i The Joss reaches $150,000, only one-half of which | is coverec by insurance. Io tne Pairfleid Fire | ra. Company Brown & Wilcox have $2,000, L, BP. Foote $1. G. . Stulsom ony B. Sullivan ! $1,000. Coms'ock Rroivers lowe $15, red in the Pacem, of Brocklyp, $5,500; Hanove | York, $4,000; Germania, New York, $2,000. | Rood, State’ Matual, $1,000. Bckingha furnitnre, Fireman's Pand, $1,500; Americ: and mo same amount in tr Fatrfeic Fire t hailding, lagara, of New | Le New York, $2,500; Commercial #2500; Continental, Sew Ve Sy Lowasbury Bret: 7 $1,000 on "building, mot Which i tna, and twenty otaer mparnies have frow $15,000 to on the | priiding and stock.» The fire, Which Was desolated efi portion of the city, I# suppose nave incendiary origia. 1+ will ve an incentive to the (immediate incr waier, which has long been ne pity, and tene to aid Ii movement tor the 12atton of a better fre department, The burned builaings | will be immediately reoulit, the contracts, in one Instance, Baving been signed to-da\ FIRE “AT ers A five broke out late on Wednesday night last in | eler’s pottery, Trentun, N.J., and destroyed property to the vaice of about $20,000, It origin- ated in the boiler room of the pottery, and is sup- | posed to have been accidental. The property was Insured in the following companies :— | Liverpeol, Londun and Giobe Franiin, Philadeipnie Renance, (’hiladeip North America, Pai People’s, Trenton... | TOWN, ceccrrreeeees this morning in nearly all the counties named the | mount Cemetery, just outside the city limits, was | The sound | destroyed twelve miners’ houses this morning. | MAY 22, 1875,-TRIPLE SHEET. CINCINNATI'S TRIBUTE. CONCINNATI, May 21, 1875, An ordinance was introduced in the Board of Councilmen to-day, and iavorably received, cre- ating a Board of Music Hai! Commissioners, and donating \o them in trust the site of the present | Exposition butidtng, for the purpose of carrying 4 CATASTROPHE IS IMMINENT | | out the provisions contained in tae recent munif- cent offer of Reaben K. Springer. The proposed builaing will be cvnstructea to accommodate the ennual industrial exposition as well as the musi- L testivais, THE EPIZOOTIC. CINCINNATI, May 21, 1875. A special despatch to the Enquirer from St. Louis says an epizootic disease made its appear- ance there to-day in the Belle Fontaine street car stables, ten horses becoming suddenly affected and foor dylngin a short time, The discase made its appearance at other points tn the city during the day, horses in the ciiy Were reported sick. The veter- inary surgeons cousiser the disease an infaenza affecting the nervous system something like cer bre-spingl MeoiAgiis io Juman beings. Sever prominent nedicai men have given their opigion to the effect that the disease has been brought on by atmospheric intiuences ana thas i¢ will um- coubtedly spread, REGATTA AT CHARLESTON. CHARLESTON, 8. C., May 21, 1875. The whole city was gathered iipon the water frout to-dey to witness the great jour-oared contest of the spring regatta, Six sheila entered, aud the fact that these included the Palmetto and Vernon crews, which represented respectively Gnarleston and Savaotaa at Sara- tog last year, gave great interest to the race, ‘dhe crews came in m the toilowing oracr:—Firs:, Carona; secona, Kieetric; third, Vernon; fourtn, Queen Ciiy; flita, Conver. The Palmetto buat stood @ good cnance of win- | iy ning, but was swamped when the race was pe: completed The regatta cencindes to-morrew with the yacht race, for which there aré six en- tries, YACHTING NOTE. Yacht a NY.Y.C, ‘parsed Newcastle pel., om her way to Philadelphia, on Thursday evening, ~~ OBITU ARY. BEY. GEORGE D. HENDERSON, CHAPLAIN U. S. N. A telezram received at the Navy Department in Washington yesterday morning, from vommodore | Bryson, commanding the Portsmouth, New Hamp. ' shire Navy Yard, announces the death of Chapiain | with the extensive axe manofaciuring works of. | | Machinery and stoc< will probably be $15,000; in- | cbants and Mechanics’, of Richmond, Va, $937 | | everywhere. Lepot, C&ITs Yonkers, | } turers’ of Boston, Connecticut, Allemania of Pitts. | | Mond street, snddenty subjectea, and was heard for milesaway. | George D. Henderson, U. S*N., at that place, The event vccurred on Thursday, 20th inst, Rev. George D, Henderson was a native of the State of New Mampsbire, bus he received his commission as chapiain in the navy trom Kansas, took place on the 2a of July, 1864. He served in the frigate Wabash, His ministrations were zeai- ous and most useful during some extended cruises at se4 and when he was employed on duty on snore. Ills last cruise was terminated in the month or saly, in the year ie, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in large number of men are thrown out of employ- | the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, | im comparison with the corresponding date of last | year, as indicated by tne tnérmometer at Huanut’s Ynarmacy, HERALD building :— 1874, 187. 1874, 1875. ” + 6 86 esterday... Average temperature for correspo: last year... emperature If Is NOT UN NUSUAL FOR P PaTl TS SUFFER- ing trom diseases tor which sulphur baths are recom- mended to travel thousanus of miles to avail themselves of sulphur bathing ‘Ibey wor ind it less expensive to buy GLENN'S OULPHUR Soar and. pete athome, sold oO No. 7 sixth av. A.—DR. a Vv Dispensary, Buffalo, PIERO OF THE WORLD'S Y., whose family medicines have Won golden opimions and'achicved world wide repu' tion, alter patient study and much experimenting, sm ceeded in perfecting a compound extract of sinart weed, or water pepper, that is destined to become as & As his other medicines. Tt_owes its efficacy not enurely to the sinart weed, which, however, is a sovereign reme- dial agent, but largely to a happy combiyation of that 1 NJaauaicm ginger and ctner veretabse agents. ion 14 such asto make at a very pleasant remedy to take, Taken internally it cures Diarrhe, Dyseniery (or Bloody Flux), Summer Complaint, ho’ Cholera Morbus, ( in in the Stoma h breaks un © Inflammatory Wis sold by all druggists and dealers in medi. > A.—BUCKINGHAM Hi HOTEL. Fifth avenue, corner ner of Fiftteth street opposite iathedral; Location tnsy high round: splendid outlooley near the Centra Grand Central Depot aud tn close ximity to many of the prominent. churches ai mee for fami ols, ain expecially desirable re be completed by September next. FOR MOTH PATCHES, FRECKLES AND | tan ask your drugmest for Penay's Morm axp Freceie ‘is reliable. For pimples on e Gesnworm sc Y, the erent skin medicine, oF consult bre KC. Pe bern 49 Bond stroot, New York. 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