Daily Republican., 1881-06-02
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GENERAL TELEGRAPH NEWS
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The President yesterday, appointed
Augustus Brosius, of Pennsylvania, to
be agent for the Indians of the Great
Nehoma Agency in Nebraska; Samuel
T. Brown, of New York, Consular clerk
of the United States, and the following
Collectors of Customs: William Gou-
verneur Morris, Of New Jersey, for the
district of Alaska; Henry A. Kennedy,
for Maine, at Waldoboro, Me. vice
General James A, Hall, resigned; Thos-
NJ. Broadwaters, at Vicksburg, Miss. :;
Edward j. Costello, at Natchez, Miss.
The Chicago, Pekin and Southwestern
Railroad was sold on Tuesday under
second mortgage, for $3.50, 900, to satisfy
an Indebtedness Of S96O000. 1t was
purchased by r. G. Hinckley, represent
ing the bondholders The Chicago and
Alton and Wabash Railroad Companies
were defeated in their efforts to secure
the road, and the stockholders have i'll
ed bill in the U. S. Court to set aside
| the sale.
John r. Fitzpatrick, ex-messenger,
and f. 7. King, eX-baggageman, were
arrested in TeXarkana, Arkansas, on
Tuesday, for having in their possession
valuable gold badges, set with jewels,
and other property which had been
stolen from General Grants baggage
when he went to Mexico. They were
taken to St. Louis.
The internal revenue collections for
the present fiscal year, to the 1st inst,
have aggregated 1928, 443, ,2S3. Should
they continue in the same ratio for the
present month, the total for the year
will be Sl34 ,63i 40. Commissioner
Raun, in his annual report, estimated
the receipts for this year at "nearly
S135, ,000, ,000."
jesse Little died in Jefferson, Missou-
ri, last Monday, in rather destitute cir
cumstances, at the age of eighty-three
years. 1t is said that policies on his
life to to the amount of SG8,000 We're
taken lately in different speculative
companies by various persons,
The steamer David Dows arrived at
Chicago on Tuesday by lake, with 240O
tons of coal, and was Immediately
chartered for $50, 900 bushels of oats for
Buffalo This is the largest charter
ever reported by Il vessel from Chi
cago.
The United Presbyterian Assembly,
in session at Pittsburg, adjourned IL
nally last night. Before adjOurning, the
Assembly, by n vote Of l31 to %, decid
ed in favor of instrumental music in
churches.
The Board of Visitors to the Naval
Academy arrived at Annapolis yester-
day, and were formally received by the
Superintendent, Rear Admiral Balch
The Board then began the inspection Of
the various departments.
The net annual saving in cost of Star
Route and mail steamboat service eff
fected by reduction nddiscontinuance
during May was S445, 547, making a
total, since the early part of March, of
S745, 56S.
A telegram from Newport says the
brother of Pierre Lorillard is authority
for the statement that the latter wins
5000, 900 in one bet made on the result
of the Derby race.
Admiral Porter, accompanied by his
wife and daughter, arrived at Fortress
Monroe, yesterday, and will remain
there two or three weeks. Judge
Strong is also at Fortress Monroe.
Secretary Window will leave Wash
ingtOn to-day, for his home in Mime
sofa. He expects to be absent about
ten days or two weeks.
The Temperance men of Georgia will
hold State Convention in Atlanta on
the Fourth of July, to consider the
local option question.
President Garfield will visit the Cot |
ton Exposition in Atlanta, next
should public business per-
nit.
The new Union Depot in Denver,
Colorado, costing 100000, has been
finished, and is now used by all arriv-
ing and departing trains.
There was terrific hail storm, eX-
lending from New Hackensack to Fish
kill Plains, on the Hudson river, on
tuesday afternoon.
The Supreme Court of California has
'eflsed a mandamus to compel the as
essment of certificates of stock