The Mankato free press., 1880-05-07

AT the cabinet meeting on the 30th ult., the
president tendered Postmaster General Key, the
| United States judgeship for the eastern and
middle districts of Tenncssee, 1t was accepted.
On the SOth ult, Col. Joseph L. Egan, United
States arbitrator on the American and Spanish
| claims commission, dtoppsd dead bh tile
steamer between Washington and Norfolk.
Got. VIM. HEmpHILL JoNEs, clerk OF the COM
mittoe on ways and means died OF pneumonia
ut Washington, on tho 3Otb.
:, SAMUEL nj. JANSEy d prominent Quaker and
former member Of tho Indian peace commission,
died at his home in London county, Va, on the
30th ult.
Tue steamship Bendigo reports that OF the
coast Of Cuba she picked up small boat con-
tanning eight bags Of cartridges, eleven Reming-
ton rifles, clothing, etc. The boat and contents
We're surrendered to Collector Badger at New
Orleans.
In the drawing Of the Louisville lottery, the
following numbers took the cash: 31,Oi7 drew
$50, 900; 93,5l2 drew $40, 900 and 90, 1862 cap
tured the third prize OF $1,000. The following
tickets drew 81, ,oO0i 40,GO1, 5000 and 9i, ,43G,
ID. w. MIDDLETON. cieik Of the Supreme
Court Of the United states, died at Washington
on the 9th, from gout In the stomach. He had
been connected with the Supreme Court Of the
position of clerk to the court for nearly twenty
years.
JAMES D. DURFF, connected with Tho
Memphis Acdtdiche and Ledger for tho past
fifteen years as ritor editor, died on the 26th
inst Of congestion of the lungs. Deceased was
well known by all steamboat men throughout
the mississippi valley.
JOSEPH SELIaMAN, senior member of the firm
Of ). W. Scligman Co., bankers, New York,
died suddenly Of heart disease at New Orleans
on the 2Gth, while on his way home from
Southrne tour which he began last autumn 10
recover his health.
1HE gold fever Is sprtading L, Uiedrgia, os-
pccialy In White county. Tho Lumsden Bros,
at Nacoochee, have taken out 2, ZOO penny
weights i'll nuggets from eighty square feet of
earth at a total cost of $65. From 30 ,kel
thirty inches square they gathered PIP penny.
weights IN small nuggets. Another party that
has struck the same lead took ont before they
began to clean mp nugget that weighed log
pennyweights and several others not quite as
heavy. Great excitement prevails.
THE stamerc Strassburg arrived at Baltimore
on the 25th with 1.9ll emigrant passengers
from Germany Austria Sweden aud Norway
bound for Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Ne
braska.
embargo against cattle shipped through Can
ada.
EZRA B. FRENCH, second auditor Of the treas
ury, died at Washington Oh the oath inst, Of
Brights disease of the kidneys.
The Hamilton herd Of shorthorns of Mount
Sterling, Ky;, was sold nn the 23j inst The
s:xts five sold for Sl4,l55, an average of S2l9.
AT the annual sale Of thoroughbrcdS, on the
23d inst, by Gen. Harding, at Belle Meade,
Tenn, twenty-four yearlings by Bonnie Scot
land and John Morgan, aggregated the sun of
S8,G55.
THE Dennis Kearncy habcas corpus case came
up before the Superior Court, San Francisco, on
the oath. The court decided that il had no
power to review its own action. and Eearncy
WAS semnnded t. the house Of correction to
serve out his sentence.
ON the 23d inst, the Supreme Court of Cali
fornia, granted Dennis Kearncy writ of habcas
corpus, returnable before the Superior Court.