The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-10-16

ol thls denomination has been received.
TBE following dispatch has been received
at the Navy Department:
! PENSACOLA NAVY lARD.-Iieutenant-
Commander Kellogg, Of the Ajax, died this
afternoon Of yellow fever. Paymaster Nc.
Mahon is dangerously III.
| THE Redemption Bureau will not resume
the redemption Of National Bank notes un-
I'll probably the Goth inst. The redemption
might be recommended now, but the Treas
ury Department desires to perfect such ar.
rangements Ne will make business contin.
uous.
! THOMPSON BCRSAN has been appointed
Internal Revenue Gauger for the Eighth
District Of Kentucky.
TnE report Of General Babcock, superin-
tendent Of Public Buildings and Grounds,
shows a vast extent Of improvement Of the
puslic grounds during the past year. His
total Of estimates for the next fiscal year Is
nearly 100000
| INF receipts and expenditures Of the Post
office Department for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1874, have been furnished to Mr.
Jewell. The receipts from all sources were
s26,Ei ,O1.s2, and the expenditures So, 1896.
Iit5s, or apparently $685., ,3i2. GO in excess
OF the receipts. Congiess however, appro-
priated s5,396, 602 for deficiencies, and s625,.
600 for steamship service. This, added to
the deficiency provided for, leaves an unex.
pended balance Of si66, ,260 in the department
for the fiscal year lately closed.
| THE Postmaster.Cenerali Is determined TO
put a stop to the claim agency business in
his Department In the following telegram
TO the President Of the Erie Railway, he ex.
plains himself at is my desire that no
agent shall stand between this Department
and any parties with whom it has business.
II any neglect in transacting our business
or making payments is perceived by your
company, ! beg you will promptly inform
me Of it, and will try to see that your in
terest is protected; but | can not permit
claim agents to come around the Depart
ment BY this do not mean proper officers
Of the company whs wish to come here to
transact their business, or to accelerate their
claims, but ! can not and will not tolerats
claim agents"
The new bonds for the liquidation Of the
debt Of the District Of Columbia are ready
for issue. New York capitalists have al
ready negotiated for large lot OF these
bonds at very favorable prices.
In addition to the so-called "Granger"
cases, involving the constitutionality Of the
Wisconsin Railroad law, and the Grant Par
ish 1,ouisiana) ease, involving the constitu-
tionality of the "Ku-klux" law, there will
come before the Supreme Court this term a
ease to be certified from the Supreme Court
Of the State OF California, involving the
constituiionalty Of a law of that State pro-
hibting the landing Of Chinese women
brought TO the United States for immoral
purposes. Ii will he remembered that Mr..
Justice Field, recently holding Circuit Court
in California, decided on a writ of hoLeas
corpus that this law is in conflict with the
fourteenth article of the amendments.
| Personal.
BRYoS WALLER PROCTOR, wellknown as
Barry Cornwall the English author, is
dead. lie was in the eighty-fourth year of
his age.
BRIGHAM YorSG is convalescing.
PROF. SWING presented a letter to the
Chicago Presbytery few days since, asking
leave IN withdraw from the church. After
some discussion the request was granted by
a vote Of eighteen to eleven.
IT is announced that Senator Jones, the
millionaire OF Nevada, will soon be married
in Washington to 4 Miss Sullivan, of New
York.
The Grand Lodge of Free Masoas of the
| State of Illinois, in session at Chicago,
elected John +. Lounsberry, of Metropolis,
Grand Master.
RIGHT Hon. WILLIAM EDWARD FOSTER
and Sir Powell Buxton, Of England, have ar
rived in New York.
| CHAs. q. HAMMOND, Of Chicago, has been
appointed member Of the Board of Indian
Commissioners.
GEN. SHALER has taken charge Of the
Chicago Fire Department ata salary Of slo,'
coca year.
| DoCKRAy is reported at Santander, Spain,
in destitute condition.
Grimes. Fires and Casualties.
/ AT Holly Springs, Miss, a few nights ago,
| five negro prisoners broke Jail and escaped,
one of them, James Perkins, who was under
death sentence for murder, struck the guard,
Mack Hill, on the head with bar of iron,
causing Hills death. A sherifi's posse re-
captured all the prisoners. Hill is n brother
of James Hill, Secretary of State. The feel
ing among the colored people is such as
would render Perkins life unsafe outside
the jail.
SOME person, unknown, misplaced the
switch at Spring Station, Ky, on the Lexing-
ton road, one night last week, for passenger
No. II, en- reute for Mt. Sterling, which was
thrown from the track, and the engine, ex.
press, baggage, and the first coach diiehed.
The train fortunately was running slowly
at the time, else there might have been
serious loss Of life.
A FIRE at Paxton, Ford county, Ills, re-
Gently destroyed $4,000 worth of property
A DISTINCTIVE fire occurred at Evans
Vile, Ind, last Tuesday. Total loss, $500,
600.
I'M. ECEFELDT, Superintendent of Con
struction OF the new branch mint at San
| Francisco, shot himself through the head at
Oakland, a few days ago, in III Of mental
alteration.
| ing, Nss. 5l6 to $50 West Twenty.ffth street,
/ New York, last week, occupied ny the uulta
Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Compa-
ny, aud spread with such rapidity that
| large number Of men and boys, employed in
the building, were unable To escape by the
stairways, and had to jump for their lives
| from the second-story windows. Among the
number was John Brennan, whose clothes
| took FIRE, and he was so terribly burned
that his life is despaired Of. The walls of
the factory, which were Of poor construe,
/ tion, fell soon after the FIRE commenced,
crushing in the roof Of two-story brick
/ tenement in the rear Of the factory. Patrick
Galligan, who occupied the upper door, was
| crushed to death. Total loss, Sis5,O0O.
A COLLISION occurred a few days ago be-
| tween coal and passenger train, on the
North Pennsylvania Railroad. Fortunately,
no lives were lost, although several persons
had limbs broken, and were otherwise in.