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to get rid of the pra&ssss4ion.
Two colored members of the Arkansas Legis-
lature engaged in a fight in the hall OF the
House of Representatives at Little kock, the
other day. over the ownership OF pistol
The Governor of Tennessee has vetoed the
"local option tipping bill.
Bardstown, KY, was recently the scene OF a
cold-blooded and unnatural murder. MIR. o.
III. Holtshauser, an old and respected citizen,
was sitting in his office with one OF his SONS,
when another son entered the door, and, with
out tutoring word, pulled out his revolver
and shot his brother three times in rapid sue
cession, producing instant death. The muir
derer fled, and is still at large.
Washington.
The President has appointed Gen. j. ID.
Webster Assistant Treasurer at Chicago.
Jason Brown, the Indiana Democrat who
made the fight in his Stat against Greeley,
has been appointed by the President Secretary
of Wyoming Territory.
The rush for Office since the 4th of March
has far exceeded that four years since, when
President Grant first entered the White House
Ex-senator Sawyer, of South Carolina has
been appointed Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
The following additional appointments have
boon made by the President Collectors of In
ternal Revenue Richard III. Whiting, Fifth
District of Illinois; VIM. Il. Sapp, Thirteenth
District of Ohio Henry Harnden, Second Dis
trict of Wisconsin S. H. Bailey, Fourth Dis
trct of Michigan Alexis Cape, Sixteenth Dis
trct of Ohio. Postmasters-W. s. Krake
Ravenna, o.; VIM. Jackson Rock Island, ILL.,;
James Newsby, Cambridge City, Ind. =. Cuner
Upper Sandusky, o.; II. j. Tompkins, Mount
Carroll, ILL.,. +. NJ Cassiday Winterset, Iowa
The President has committed the sentence of
the murderer OBrien, of Washington, to inn
prisonment for life.
Minister Mori, for long timeJapanese Min
lister to this country, has left Washington for
Japan.
Frederick T. Lowe, our Minister to China,
has resigned 1t is said his successor will be
either ex-senator Cole or Nye.
Samuel II. Elder, has been appointed by the
President Governor of Colorado, in place of
Gov. McCook, resigned.
The following nominations were sent to the
Senate on the 10th Cyrus J. Scofield, United
States Attorney for Kansas. Registers of Land
Office-Wm. H. Fellers Duluth, Mimi. John
Z. Owen, Taylors Falls MINI. Receivers of
Public Moneys-Lewis Lewiston, Duluth,
MINI. James G.. Bradin, Ltchfeld, Mimi.
James +. Casey has been confirmed as Col
lector at New Orleans.
A Washington correspondent sends out the
following item of political news: Parties
who have conversed with Gov. Hendricks
and other leading Democratic politicians from
Indiana, now in this city. say that the leaders
Of the Democracyin that State have concluded
to abandon the ancient organization, and to
form new liberal party based on the living
issues of the day
Senator'S Sherman and Stevenson have been
appointed members of the Board of Visitors
to West Point.
The commissions of the present Ministers to
the Central American States will expire on the
LIST of July, when, by law of Congress, the
missions will be consolidated and only one
Minister assigned to all those States. Col.
George Williamson, of Shreveport, La, an
ex-Confederate army officer will probably re-
ceive the appointment.
The President has indefinitely postponed his
Southern trip.
Hon. John A. Bingham, of Ohio. will prob
ably be appointed Minister to Japan.
Foreign.
The annual budget of the French Govern
ment shows gratifying condition of tho
public funds There is now in the treasury
half the sum due Germany.
Three shabhily-dressed men, believed to be
Americans, have been arrested in Cork, Ire
land while attempting to deposit $4,000 in a
bank They are supposed to be the parties
who recently committed frauds on the Bank of
England.
The three Americans arrested in Cork on
suspicion of being implicated in tho Bank of
England frauds have been released, nothing
being found to crminate them.
A serious riot between Englishmen and
Irshmen occurred at Wolverhampton, near
Birmingham, recently. At least 5000 persons
were engaged in the conflict. Firearms and
knives we're freely used, and there was much
blood she'd though no cases Of fatal injury
are reported.
Francisco Salmeron has been elected Pres-
dent of the Spanish Assembly.
The French Assembly has ratified without
a dissenting voice, the treaty for the payment
of the war indemnity and the evacuation of
French territory.
The English political crisis has been brought
to a conclusion Mr.. Gladstone and his col
leagues having agreed to resume their Offices.
The preliminary inquiry into the case of
Marshal Bazaine has been concluded The
manner and place of trial have not yet been
decided upon. .Many Frenchmen of noble
rank are serving with the Carlists in Spain.
Christianity is tolerated in Japan by special
edict. 1t is determined to throw the whole
country open to foreigners. The Government
is endeavoring to form CODE based on
European systems.
Japan is making arrangements for grand
Universal Exposition at Yeddo.
France has forbidden the expectation of war
material from that country to Spain.
Austin Byron Bidwell, alias Warren, has
been arrested at Havana. He is believed to
be the principal in the Bank of England
forgeries
II is stated that the United States surveying
party in Nicaragua has demonstrated the prac-
ticablity of ship canal through that country.
The 22d of March was observed az general
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