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Evening Star, Issue 4129, 22 May 1876, Page 2

SUMMARY.

Ex-Secretary of War Belknap has been arraigned on pf impeachment for swing offices. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is exceedingly grand. A stream of lava is flowing towards Pom 1 * peii, and the fires cast splendid crimson tints upon the ol juds. It is expected to last for font weeks. The steamer Agxigentiß, from Italian. ports, cob lided with the English steamer Hylton dastle off;. Cape Malta. The Agrigeatis immediately sank. Of V sixty-four persons on board nine «f the crew and twenty passengers were drowned. Bnlicoa, coiner of the mint at California, has defrauded the Government out of 14,000 dollars ih gold.; Shocking cruelties to the insane in the "Washing, ton Asylum are exciting indignation. Four powder magazines at Salt Lake City ex> plotted, causing terrible devastation in the city. Damage is estimated at over a hundred thousand dollars. One child's head was knocked off by debris a mile away. Several people were killed. The Pacific Mail Company’s difficulties are the topic of discussion in commercial circles. Another large failure of a West India house is re> ported in Liverpool. The Revolutionists in Marti. deposed the President. . The latest Turkish advices report that the Monte* negrins have Joined the insurgents. Tweed’s accomplices, under threats, have agreed to refnud the plunder from New York city. Heavy snowfalls at Bordeaux damaged the vines.