Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-06-27
Latest kilograms.
Hale Accepts the Postmaster
Generalship.
The Secretary of the Treas
uyy Defines His Policy.
Vermont Democratic State Convention.
EASTERN.
About IL Cable.

WASHINGTON, June 2G.-President
Grant and the Emperor of Brazil have
exchanged congratulations upon the
completion of the Brazilian cable.
Miscellaneous Items.
WASHINGTON, June Ex-Governor
Moses has pardoned the three commits
sioners of Barnwell recently convicted
of corruption in office.
President Grant will not take part
in the dedication of the new bridge at
st. Louis on the Fourth of July.
The postal treaty between the United
States and France was ratified by the
French Assembly yesterday.
severe storms and Loss OF Life.
CHICAGO, June 26.-Severe storms
are reported in northern Indiana.
Several were killed and great damage
was done to buildings and crops. The
mill on Long Island was blown down
last night and four men killed.
New Cabinet Officers and % New Com.
missioner.
CHICAGO, June ga Washington
special says Hale has accepted the
Postmaster Generalship, and will en-
ter upon his duties the first of July
the beginning of the new quarter. The
appointment appears to meet general
commentator.
The new Secretary Of the Treasury
is said to have contemplated thor
ough reform in the red tape system in
his department and the dispensing of
all supernumerary dependents. The
new Secretary says he has no new
financial schemes with which to star
tie the country, and his main objects
will be to economize carefully and to
execute vigorously the laws govern
ing the Treasury Department.
1t is genera ly understood that Mr..
Cottrell has advised the President ver-
bally that he will accept the nomina-
ton as one of the District of Columbia
Commissioners.
Democrats of Vermont in Convention.
MONTPELIER, VI, June 25.-The
Democratic State Convention to-day
nominated for Governor w. H. Ii.
Bingham; for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
Henry Chase; for Treasurer, Otis
Chamberlain. Resolutions were adopt
ed renewing devotions to the Demo-
cratic party; favoring repeal of the
pIOHlulloiy law, anu INC duoJlloii VI
stringent license law. The conven-
tion was largely attended.
loss of Life by the Gale.
BATHURST, Me-, June 26.-The gale
last week resulted in the loss of thirty
two lives along the eastern coast of
New Brunswick; nineteen being fish
crmen. -Four barks, and nine schoon-
ers were stranded and about thirty
fishing boats were wrecked.
A Strike all Round.
CHICAGO, June 26.-During the storm
yesterday the lightning struck a man
: at Circlevile, Ohio, a woman at Hunt
ington, West Virginia; two young
men at Kalamazoo, Michigan; the
postmaster at Marin, and three per-
sons near Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Ratification Of the French, Postal
Treaty.
WASHINGTON, June 26.-The Post
Office Department this morning was
officially informed by the French Min
lister of the ratification Of the Postal
Convention, between France and the
United States by the French Assem-
bly,.
Heavy Railroad Transfer.
CHICAGO, June 26.-The stockhold-
ers Of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railroad have ratified the agreement
with the Erie Company of May 9th.
The indentures bind the Great West
ern Company to the Erie for ninety
nine years from the first of May. The
property of the Atlantic and Great
Western is sold to the Erie Company,
the actual value of the same to be
credited to the Atlantic and Great
Western Company's account of dues
for labor, material, etc. The amount