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for the position of doorkeeper of tho House of Representatives and for a pension. When United States Senator Bogy died General Shields was elected to serve out the small re- maning part of his term so that he had the distinction of having represented three States in the Senate. AM@ # VI Seventeen Chinese lepers were shipped to China from San Francisco, by order of the Board of Supervisors.
 From Washington.
 The Chief ot Statistics announces that the excess of exports over imports during the month of April was SIP, III ,999, it having been in April, 1878, 1928, ,927, ,3se For the ten trade was large--$24l, AS ,623, compared with $227 ,042 ,0S7 in 1878, For the year ended April 30 1879, the balance was S272, ,215 ITO against S22l ,6S0,0l3 in the year ended April 30, 1878.
 In the Senate the bill relating to and regu- latng.the transportation of animals has been laid over until December; and in the House the Senate bill to prevent the intl oduction of contagious diseases has been passed. In his message vetoing the Legislative Ex- ecutive and Judicial Appropriation bill the President refers to his previous message for his objections to the practice of tacking gen ernl legislation to the appropriation bills and says that eff this bill is approved only the shadow of the authority of the United States at the national elections will renain;" that | ''the object of the bill is to destroy any con | trol whatever by the United States over the | Congressional elections" and that the existing | laws are constitutional and valuable and should not be repealed " except in connection | with the enactment of other legislation which | may reasonably be expected to afford wiser | and more efficient safeguards for free and honest Congressional elections"
 The last public debt statement issued shows the increase of debt for May to be fS62, ,25O. 20. The following is the Treasury statement: Cash in the Treasury, Ss430, ,59l, ,29772; debt less cash in the Treasury, $2, ,027, ,182, ,46S l9 gold certificates, $l5, 5,4l37o0; silver certificates, | $2, 66,960; certificates of deposit outstanding, $26, ,795, 900; retunding certificates, 1928, 723,- 660 legal tenders outstanding, $346,6 ,681 ,0l6; fractional currency outstanding. $l5,S7 | 77.l2; United States notes held for redenp- tion of fractional currency, $S, ,40S, l06; called bonds not matured, tor which four per cent bonds have been issued, $l69, ,77l,O60. ga-
 Tho President has accepted the resignation of United States Circuit Judge John F. Dillon, of Iowa, who has accepted a proiessorship in Columbia College It is said that Secretary MoCrary will be Judge Dillon's successor, and that he will leave the Cabinet in September.
 Ebon c. Ingersoll ex-Representative in Congress from Illinois, and brother of Col | onel Bob" Ingersoll. died at the capital of apoplexy, aged forty eight years. The only | ceremony which took place at the funeral was q eulogy uttered over his brothers coffin by l Colonel Ingersoll.
 During May there were executed at the various United States hints 18l .990 gold pieces --eagles and double eagles--worth S2, ,S78, ,550, and 2, 2,330,000 silver dollars.
 Among recent nominations by the President is that of George w McCrary, Secretary of l War, to be judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, in place of John F. Dillon, resigned.
 At joint caucus of the Democratic mem bers of Congress it was agreed to pass an Army bill, with q clause forbidding any expenditures for keeing soldiers at the polls, Legislative bill, without any political riders, and third | bill providing for judicial expenses, repeating the Test-Oath law and forbidding the payment of supervisors and deputy marshals' fees.
 Foreign News.
 James Grant a ll-known London journal ist and author, is dead at the age of seventy four years. za.
 Official announcement is made that Eng lands with Afghanistan is at an end | Yakoob Khan having signed the treaty of peace. The British are reported to have gained every political and commercial advantage that they sought. -s .
 Lord Chelmsford has been succeeded by Sir Garnet Wolseley as commander of the British troops in South Africa, but retains a subordi- nate command.
 A fire in McLaren's lumber yard, Carleton, Ontario, destroyed l4,00O, 900 feet of lumber, valued at $l00, ,000. -z-.--...--.-
 The arbitrator to whom was referred the question of reduction ot wages betw cen the South Yorkshire (England) coal owners and the miners, has decided against any reduction | whatever. The masters demanded l2A per cent. and 7A per cent. reelection, according to the character of the labor. The decision affects fifty thousand men and boys.
 The great English race for the Derby Stakes has been won this year by Lord Marry s brown colt, Sir Bevys. All the tavorites were beaten, and Lorillard's American horse Uncas was withdrawn. This makes the one-hun- dredth race tor the most important of English tuii pli-~e, i,.s.itsse-l i-7- I~.I Taly i-- 17aa Four men were drowned in lake at Valle- field, Quebec s
 The Zulus of South Africa have taken to lighting among themselves and great battlo took place recently, when King Cetewayo completely routed with terrific slaughter a subordinate chief who with some thousands of his followers had determined to join the English.
 A great naval battle in the war between Chili, Peru and Bolivia has been fought off Iquique, a port in the south of Pern. The vessels en- gagged were the Peruvian iron cads Indepen- dercIa and Huascar and the Chilian wooden vessels aEsmeralda and Coyadonga. The Huascar alone came out of the fight the other three having been sunk. s@ The Paris International Congress for discus 
 sihS tlS -ontes tor an interoceanic canal across 'he isthmus of ra.c..,s closed it's labors by passing, by n vote oi "A yeas 0 I.,.yr~ O ,eso- lution stating that the proposed canal should proceed from the Gulf of Limon to the Bay of Panama. The American engineers abstained from voting. I The volcano of Mount Etna is again in full eruption, streams of lava flowing down the western slope and threatening several villages with destruction. "
 The American horse Parole has won another race in England, capturing the Epson Gold Cup, which was run for at the Epson summer meeting. ...
 Four Nihilist prisoners have been hanged at kiev, Russia r@
 The Chilian fleet has burned tho town of Meiiuones de Peru and destroyed all the launches there.
 I Baron Lionel Nathan de Rochschild, head of the English branch of the world most famous banking house, died in London few days ago, aged seventy-one years.
 T Late advices from South America state that President Prado, of Peru, had left Lima to take command of the Peruvlan army.
 
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