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SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. Flashes of News from all Parts of the World A special from Boston says betting is 100 to 90 against Butler's re-election. Earnest appeals are made for relief for the earthquake sufferers of Tchesme. Nine additional deaths have occurred in Alexandria from cholera, mostly Europeans. Thomas Brennan and John Dillon, leaders of the Irish reform movement, are in Chicago. at An explosion in a room of the Royal Palace Naples created much excitement Wednesday. The Czar promises his subjects more reforms, and has ordered the preparation of a constitution. A meeting of colored citizens was held at Chicago Wednesday night to protest against the civil rights decision. The steamer Farraday, which is to lay the Bennett-Mackay cables, sailed from New York last evening for London. One hundred and thirty thousand Americans were registered abroad during the season just closedthe largest number ever recorded. Owing to the prevalence of small-pox in Seickow, a suburb of Douvle, a cordon has been established to prevent the spread of the disease. It is stated that the Commercial National Bank of Reading, Pa., will be placed in liquidation, and depositors will probably be paid in full. The Secretary of the Navy has awarded the contract for armor-plate turrets and pilot house of the monitor Miantonomah to an English firm. Frank R. Sherwin, the millionaire ranchman, has been convicted at Albany, N. Y., of cruninal contempt of Court, with recommendation to mercy. In Chicago, Wednesday night, & game for the cushion carom championship was played between Sexton and Slosson. The score was : Slosson, 500; Sexton, 483. Eddv, Harvey & Co., of Chicago, wholesale dealers in hats, caps and furs, made voluntary assignment yesterday. Their liabilities are estimated at about $200,000. In faro bank at West Kansas City, Wednesday night, George Wilson killed the colored porter, W. Ruff who had reproached him for turning out the light in the hall. The Corean Embassy will return to Corea on the United States steamer Trenton, BOW being fitted out in the New York navy yard for an Asiatic station. She will sail in November Dr. J. F. Taylor. of New York, has secured a judgment for $20,000 against the Metropolitan Elevated Railway for running trains past a house which be had previously rented for a hospital. The New York Board of Aldermen ask for $20, 000 for the celebration of the centennial of the departure of the British troops from New York, and ask the Mayor to proclaim it a general holiday. It is reported in Madrid that Castelar and his Rea publican supporters have resolved to maintain friendly attitude toward the new Government if it fulfills its promise, especially to restore universal suffrage. At the business meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland in Cincinnati yesterday morning, the Committee on Nominations reported in favor of re-electing the present officers. Adopted. A Turk killed a Greek at Tchesme Wednesday, and rumors of the murder of Christians threatened of serious trouble, but the Governor-General Smyrna prevented disorder by the prompt arrest of the Turk. Sir Moses Montefiore received numerous congratulations from all parts of the W rld yesterday on the occasion of entering upon his one hundredth year. Among the letters was one from the Prince of Wales. Diphtheria in the vicinity of Greensboro, N. C., has carried off, it 19 thought, no less than 300 children. So alarming was the condition of affairs for a time that there was a quarantine established by people of some counties. During the storm in Chicago yesterday the can vas covering of the bicycle rink fell, and Woodside, one of tre riders in the six-days' contest, was in jured, but will be able to reappear. The race will be started again to-morrow. On farm in Kansas, once occupied by the murderous Bender family. J. C. Murphy plowed up a sealed tin can containing $30,000 in greenbacks and coin, and other parties are digging up the ground in the hope of similar discoveries. Serious apprehensions exist among New York merchants in the China trade that formidable uprising is impending at Canton against all foreigners, and it is stated that the Government is being strongly urged to dispatch more war ships there. The Emperor of Austria received the Austrian and Hungarian delegations in Vienna yes'erday. He declared that relations between Austria and foreign nations were entirely satisfactory, and the people of all countries feel strongly the need of peace. Captain Finley, William Fowler, M. Wheeler and another seaman were drowned near Vinevard Haven, Mass., by the capsizing of a schooner. William A. Finlay, the mate, clung to the upturned boat and drifted ashore twelve hours after being pitched into the sea. Mrs. Langtry left New York yesterday upon her professional tour. On the 29th instant Mrs. Langtry opens at Montreal, whence she goes to Chicago and San Francisco, playing in all important towns en route. She will probably continue her journey to Australia. Sullivan, one of counsel for the defense of O'Donnell, has cabled from London that the prisoner had good prospects for acquittal, but money was needed to procure witnesses from South Africa The treasurer of the 'Donnell defense fund in Chicago at once forwarded $2,000. A man who said his name was Thomas Parker, from Cerro Gordo, Cal., has been soliciting relief from the Masonic fraternity of Newark N. J. A a telegram from Independence, Cal. savs Parker is swindler, and cautions the Newark Masons to have him arrested and punished. In the village of Lakeville, Conn,, a life size picture of Christ is fastened upon a crucifix at a street corner. Merchants who petiti ned for its removal have been boycotted by the Catholics, and now the Protestant ladies propose to retaliate by securing colored servants from the South. Anderson and Mann applied to Judge Barrett in New York yesterday for an order to examine Henry Villard, President of the Northern Pacific in reference to the standing of the company. The order was granted. William M. Evarts and Roscoe Conkling have been retained by the Northern Pacific. A mass meeting of compositors was held in New York Wednesday night. The chairman said strike would begin before Saturday if the new scale of prices was not acceded to by the employers. The new scale is 40 cents per 1,000 ems on weekly newspapers, 35 to 40 on book work, and no man shall work for less than 818 per week. The survivors of Stevenson's regiment dined Weanesday evening at Martinell's, Fifth avenue, New York. A permanent organization was formed, of which Francis D. Clark was elected President and Joseph Evans Secretary. The next dinner will be given by John H Welch, of Company E, at his residence in New York, October 24, 1884. In the Episcopal Convention at Philadelphia yes terd-y, Rev. Mr Chatwood, of California, offered the following resolution That in consideration of the report of the Joint Committee on Prayer Book no motion shall be entertained involving changes by way of correction of prayer book not contained the report Joint
