A line is being installed between Hazleton & Wilkesbarre, PA with Emminger insulators

Telegraphic Brevities.

DURING a thunder storm Friday afternoon, 14th inst., four of the through telegraph wires of the Western Union Telegraph Company, between Providence, R. I., and Hartford, Conn., were burned off, and a portion of the electric fluid came into the battery room, directly over the reporters' room of the Providence Journal, and made a lively snapping and cracking on the lightning arresters, and its effect was felt, but without injury, in the operating room on the ground floor.

The Marine and Inland Telegraph Company has built a line to and established an office at Long Branch, N. J., for general telegraphic business.

On Thursday, June 13th, 2,155 messages were exchanged between New York and Boston. Of this number Mr. Barrett sent, with the Phelps Printing Instrument, in seven hours, 606 messages, being at the rate of over 86 messages per hour.

A telegraph line has recently been completed from Sunbury to Hazleton, Pa., along the line of the Danville, Hazleton and Wilkesbarre Railroad, under the direction of Mr. H. R. Rhoades, of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. Emminger's new pattern of glass insulators are used, but are found more liable to fracture than the common kind. The line is worked with Callaud batteries.

A handsome telegraph office has been fitted up in the new depot of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad at Sunbury, Pa., for the use of the railroad operators.

A dividend of $2 per share has been declared on the stock of the Franklin Telegraph Company.