The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-06-20

! be aeked for gun 10 shoot himself II
was suggested that he might as well
hang himself, wheu lie Immediately
climbed the tree, PLACED tho rope around
/ bis neck, bid the company good bye aid
+ dropped.
/ WASHINGTON, June Secretary
! Bris.ow in a letter TO the President.
written this morning. formally tenders
his resignation of the Office Of Score
tsry of the Treasury, to take effect
Tuesday next, the 10Th inst. The res
ignation has been accepted. The res-
sons assigned FOR his retirement are the
same that have been already stated.
Mr.. Blair. Superintendent of the She
nandoah and Allegheny railroad, was
examined to-day by the House com
mittee on commerce investigating the
alleged railroad com binations, but he
declined 10 furnish information rs TO
what arrangements have been made
with the shippers Ia charge less rates
Of freight than those fixed in the pub
li.hed tariffs. The committee has taken
nnder advisement the Question whether
it will insist on this information being
given, and will announce lis decision on
Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON. June l7--Owing to
the interruption of legislative business
by the Cincinnati convention, and by
the impeachment proceedings iii the
Senate, very little work has been &c
complished III Congress this week.
Nothing has been done regarding the
Chinese question since the passage by
the House last Monday of Pages joint
resolution reported by Piper from the
committee. Ssrgent's Chinese treaty
resolution awaits the resumption of
general business III the Senate for a
chance to urge action on it, and his bill
TO restrict the number of Chinese pas
sengers admissible Oh any ono vessel is
still in the hands Of the Committee on
Foreign Relations. The Hawaiian
treaty bill is also yet awaiting the ac
tion OF this committee. Sargent, Jones
and other Senators who went 10 tho
Cincinnati convention yesterday, re-
turned tonight. and reports on the
above named subjects are hoped for Mt
the hands Of the committee next Tues
day. Representatives Wigginton aud
Luttrell have this week made argu-
ment, before the Ways and Means com
mittee in advocacy of the latter's bill 10
reduce the tax Oh native brandy to fifty
cents per gallon. and 10 allow fruit dis
tillers 10 keep their brandy in bonded
warehouses without payment of tax I'm
til such time "a they can sell it.
PHILADELPHIA. June The Bat.
tie OF Bunker Hill was called to mind
at the exposition TO day by. tho ringing
Of chimes in Machinery Hal. and 10y a
concert in the Massachusetts building
which was attended 10y foreign Com
missioners aud distinguished citizens.
BosroS. June Business ia gen
orally suspended to-day, ii honor of the
one hundred aud first anniversary of
the Battle of Bunker Hill, many build
ings were decorated. and several parades
took place. The day was generally
observed as q holiday.
NEW York. June II Dom Pedro
visited Providence aui Newport to-day.
BosroS. June i7-Fraucisco Peralto
in match agsins. time for $4,000 at
Bacon Park, this afternoon, rode one
hundred aud ten miles in four hours.
fifty minutes and forty five seconds,
riding twenty mustangs; ne was al
lowed five hours. A match also came
OF between Hacker and agl Francisco.
distance ten miles, each 20 Use three
mustangs. Hacker won by length and
a half in twenty FIVE minutes and fifty
one seconds.
New YoRI. June l7.--At ihe Cap.
itol limo grounds to-day. Chicago beat
the Mutuals Score 10 /, AZ Hart
ford, the HartfoFd's beat the Louisville
one to nothing. At Boston. i. Louis
bca, the Ros,ous, u 20 s ~ Phil
adpl phia the Athletics beat the Cincia-
uatians y 10 IS
AUGUSTA, Ga. June l.--Eains have
becn general throughout this section
Tor ssven days, par; If both sides Il tie
Savannah have been submerged, ana
there IS total destruction Of caops on
bottom lands The river rose thirty
feet.
CHARLESTON. 5. c, Jane IA
special train GA tire Anderson branch Of
the Grconvillo anl Columbia L. Il. was
wrecked last night on hrokea trls-
tie, the engineer. oonluctor, fireman
and enc train hand were knled. .ud an
other train hand fatally injured These
wtre the only persons 81 the train.
Sr. LoUss. jane IL. - Frederic
Prince. Secretary Of the Democratic
national COMMITTEES. arrived here to-