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CAPITAL CURRENTS.
THE INDIANS CONE AWAY
HIGHLY DISPLEASED.
Mysterious Treasury Robbery--Local
Notes.
from Our Don Correspondent

Mysterious Treasury Robbery--Local
Notes.
tFrom Our Don C0respondeni)
WAsHIYeToN, JUNE 8, 1876,
Our Indian guests left the city on Saturday
last after conncil with their Great Father oil
something over ten days duration. They de-
parted, it seems in high dudgeon, aud we may
expect Indeed the Star actually predicts III
general uprising Of our forest wards 10 a shoi
time. This will be owing to the refusal OF the
Government. to grant any Of their REQUESTS. and
endeavoting, at the same time, to enforce their
compliance with its own wishes regarding the
Black Hills. They refused to sign the papers
ceding 10 us this Bonanza, but carried the doc
uments of for consultation in their wI9wams,
at which Indian conferences the government
is 10 be represented by Rev. s. ID. Human,
and the oily-tongued Newman.
Sal, 500 STEAL!
On the Ord instant, Treasurer Spinners de-
partment in the Treasury building was robbed
OF a package containing 81, 500, and up 10
the date Of this writing, official and local de-
tective work has utterly failed 10 tracing the
matter. The stolen SUN had been counted, re-
counted, recorded, packed-up and sealed pre-
paratory to its shipment per xpress TO Sub
Treasury at New York. The latest theory i'm
plica,es none of the Office employees, but is to
the effect that dishonest visitor while inspect
ing the department branches on that day by
permit, managed to seize the package and
make of undetected. Spinner Is terribly
worked mp about the matter, thinking all this
time to leave his post on the LIST proximo. with
a clear record and sympathies are extended
him on all sides. As has been done for him
in the past, Congress will probably make good
the loss next December And right here
cannot forbear commenting upon this Congress
s;onal action towards public servant whose
salary is ample while the poor female depart
ment clerk, getting but mere pitance IN pay
for her services, receives, in such case, no
sympathy or aid, but is compelled TO make
good an occasional miscount out Of her own
scauty purse. We are enjoying quiet
LOCAL FIGHT
here between the District authorities and The
butchers. The latter have bees in the habit
of driving their herds of cattle through the
city to the slaughter house. We are trying to
break up this practice but the custom has
gained such tenacious hold that it will be
hard to stop it. The streets, now all parked
and newly laid should not be made the stamp
ing grounds for butcher-stock aud yet a com
promise is talked of which may possibly sue
coed. 1t grants these men the right to drive
their cattle through the STREETS only in limited
numbers, and just before day-dawn, this latter
clause to prevent possible accidents to chill
dren. Our
FIRE DEPARTMENT,
according to the Chief Engineers report has
proved quite an efficient one the past year.-
The total losses by FIRE for tie year ending
March 81 last reach SOS, 900 being decrease
of $3l ,565 over last year, and, over the aggre-
gate loss Of the past ten years, decrease OF
$sS,OO JEAN SANDS.