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1t is semi-officially stated that Gen.
Babcock's connection with business al
the Executive Mansion has ceased.
The President has signed the act as
amended admitting Colorado as State
on an equal footing with the rest Of
the States.
The reduction in Congressional sal
aries agreed on by the committees Of
both bStsses will net a saving of 5000,
600 year.
THE Boston Post is willing to3bet
that Blaine will go to Cincinnati with
only one New England State, and
that his own.
One of the numerous newspaper
rumors in New York is that the Har.
pers will buy the New York Tribune
and engage Mr.. Jennings as lesding
editor.
Washburne seems to be dropping
out Of Che Presidential race. The un,
expected absence of any support for
him in Illinois has discouraged his
friends.
Mr. Louis j. Jennings, late editor Of
the New York Times, has sold out his
interest, which consisted Of nine shares,
for 100000, the purchaser being Nh
Geo Jones, the publisher.
E. F. Wolf, having refused to am
sSefquestions put by Whitthorne, of
the naval expenditure COMMITTEE, is
to be brought to the bar of the house
and forced to answer or go to Jail.
Herschel V. Johnson, candidate
Gr Yice-President on the Douglass
ticket sixteen years ago, is now loom
ing up as an sspirant TO the Democrat
nomination for Governor of Georgia.
King Victor Emanuel opened the
sessions of parlaimentn Monday. HIS
speech treated of the prosperous con-
dition of the ccahtry and its perfect
" friendly relations With foreign
States.
The President has sent to the Sem
Ate the name of Richard Dana, Jr.,
Of Massachusetts,, to be Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to Great Britain, vice Robt CSchenck,
resigned.
I Horrible accounts of Turkish cruel
ties continue to arrive from Bosnia.
Twelve hundred Turks attacked the
christian inhabitants of the town of
Crupa last Sunday, numbering many
and plundering the shops,
j. d. Pitts, county collector of
Hickory county, Missouri, absconded
with about twenty thousand dollars of
public end private funds. The for
gerry Of notes in his private business,
for large sums, has been also diseov>
cred.
The schooner Matte w. Atwood,
drawing 49, feef of water, passed
through the jetties, at the South Pass
of the Mississippi, Sunday, being the
first merchant vessel that has done so.
Before the jetty works were begun
there were but eight feet Of wafer
where there are now fourteen.
There occurred recently in Calumet
county, Wis, three weddings in one
family in one day. The old folks eel
ebrated their golden wedding, their
oldest son and his wife their silver
wedding ;5and : their youngest son and
his wife. their linen wedding. Besides
this, The baby of the young couple
was baptized.
Besides their 120-feet plank, the
Oregonians have made up their minds
to exhibit at the Centennial section
of fir tree I feet 6 inches in diane
ter $50 feet from the ground, and a
section of another fir 5 feet through
300 feet from the ground. Oregon
will not have any palm tree at the Ex=
hibition, but she is sure I'd carry the
palm away so far as trees are con-
cerned.
+. a celebrated wholesale merchant in
London sometime ago presented the
proprietofs of the Telegraph with a
printing press that cost twenty-five
thousand dollars, as d slight token of
appreciation. In doing so he accom-
panied the gift with a letter, in which
he said: "In your paper, by judicious
advertising, l first built the founda-
ton of a fortune, and in your paper,
by misunderstanding, 1havs amas-
sed the same which enables ME to offer
you this testimony of regard and good
will"
The Chicago Tribune says the En-
ma mine investigation unfolds chap
ter of fraud, bribery and corruption in
high places less startling and enor-
nous than the credit mobilier dis :lo;-
ures, duplicating United States sena-
tors, United States judges, learned
scientists, bankers, etc. What an in
spring theme for the sarcastic pencil
of Mast, if the implicated parties were
only Democrats or ex-Conf3erates.
And these are the worthless that would