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THE NATIONAL GAME.

MICHIGAN furnishes nine-t -tenths of the base
ball bats used.
THE Toledo club is said to have the slowest
TURNER'S in the profession.
THERE is intense rivalry between Boston and
Providence over the merits of their respective
league teams.
INDIANAPOLIS so far appears to be the
weakest club in the American Association, not
excepting Washington.
THE Chicago excel all other players i'll their
hard and swift running TO first base on every
ait, no matter how weak.
BARNIE will distribute S21 ,0O0 in salaries to
the members of his Baltimore American As
sociation team this season
The umpires are pretty generally enforcing
the rule prohibiting anybody but tie field cap
tain from questioning decision. This is as
it should be.
In New York baseball is unprecedentedly
popular. Not only are the games well pat
ronized, but every day in the week at all the
vacant spots within the metropolis games are
going on.
THE championship pennant of the League,
during the whole OF its seven years existence,
has never been floated in any city outside of
Boston, Chicago or Providence. 1t was held
in the last named city only one year.
SAM KING, first baseman of the Wash
ingtons, is rich, and plays ball only for fun.
He was the first baseman Of the famous old
IiGIA7 qA1a- ef I1znn, and likes at Willards
room and board.
The New Yorks are drawing much better
at fifty cents than the Metropolitans at TWEEN
Uy-tive cents when both teams are playing il
the city at the same time. 1t is characteristic
of New Workers that they must have the best
even if it comes high.
KANSAS CITY has 100000 population and no
base ball club. The reason for this omission
Is said by local paper to be because the
grown people of that metropolis are too busy
! TO sit in the sun and listen to eighteen men
quarreling with an umpire.
ThE New Haven NetCS says, that with his
| frontal liver-pad, his hands cased in thick
! gloves and the familiar wire helmet on his
head, the average baseball catcher looks for
| all the world like an animated combination
of a modern bed-bolster and a medieval
knight.
SWEENEY, of the Providence club, catches
the batsman mapping thuswise: The catcher
trIlndleS the ball slowly TO him. he picks it up,
and before he has fairly Strengthened himself
in his position the ball is driven over the plate
for strike. The patent will expire before
the season does.
! The votaries of base ball are Observing one
| noteworthy feature in this years League
championship contest, which is likely TO make
| it contrast widely with those which have pre-
ceded it, This feature is the superiority thus
FAR of all the Eastern to all the Western in
games won. Last year and in some others the
Western clubs either had the majority of vic.
tories, or at least were able to put half of their
clubs into tine first half of the championship
/ roll
At the close of the fifth week of the league
championship campaign the record of the
| nio-ht cnntendinr clnhS was as follows:
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PROMINENT PEOPLE

THE revivalists, Moody and Sankey, will re-
turn to America soon.
Mr.. FRoUDE, the English historian, is to
take i'll America in his voyage around the
world
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER is said to
have one of the rareSt china collections In this
country.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, celebrated as the
Crimean nurse, has become an advocate OF
woman's suffrage.
DR.. LoRINfER, q prominent Chicago clergy,
man. is writing a novel, the basis OF which Is
TO be the Thirty Years war.
LUCKY BALDWIN, one of the California
rnillionaires, aged sixty, has just taken for his
fourth wife girl of twenty summers.
HENRY BERGH, president of the New York
s. F. C. A., favorS cremation. and says that
on hygienic principles the cemeteries should
be gradually removed and abandoned.
BISHOP GREEN, of Mississippi, the eldest
bishop of the Episcopal church, has transferred
to the Rev. DR.. Hugh Miller Thompson, hls
associate, all the administrative work of his
Office.
Mr. CILLEY, OF Nottingham, n. H., says
that he reasonably hopes TO live to the age OF
one hundred years. At ninety-three, he IS in
good health and enjoys life, taking particular
pleasure in reading the reports of the pro
ceedings in the United States Senate, of which
he was once member.
JUDGE RICHARD REID, who recently killed
| himself because Kentucky society turned
against him for not fighting q duel with the
lawyer who horsewhipped him, was typical
Kentuckian in appearance Hewore heavy
nustache, long beard, low-cut vest, turn
down collar, and no neck-tle.
JOHN Ericsson, the inventor, is eighty
years old. and has lived for twenty years OF
more in the same house in the lower part OF
| New York city. His life is regular and
/ methodical Rising early, before +, he walks
for an hour and, after q light breakfast. goes
to work on his inventions from II o'clock un
til 4 is spentin reading, during which he alsc
| INDUCES in a luncheon; and after an hour:
| return to work he ends his days labors with
another walk through the lower part of the
| city-generally along the wharves.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate.

Mr.. Cullom reported from the committee
ON pensions to-day bill which confers pen
sion upon all persons who served three months
during the war and have honorable dis
charges and who are or shall become disabled
from any cause not the result of their owl.
gross careleSSneSS, disreputable conduct OF
vicious habits, and shall also be dependent
wholly or in part upon their own labor or
upon pecuniary assistance from others for the
means of comfortable support. :: The Meu-
can pension bill was further considered
The House joint resolution which makes
an appropriation for the relief of sufferers by
the Mississippi floods was passed so amended as
to reduce the sum appropriated from S1o0, ,0W
TO 5000. 80. The conference report on the
agricultural appropriation bill was agreed to
-. The District of Columbia appropriation
bill was passed
The Senate passed the House bill fixing the
rate of postage on mail matter of the second
class, when sent by persons other than the
publisher or news agent This bill, as it came
from the House, fixed one cent as the rate of
postage on newspapers weighing three ounces
or less Mr.. Marcy explained that the Senate
committee on postoffices and post roads had
newspapers weighed little over
three ounces, and had there
fore extended the newspaper limit of weight
for one-cent postage to four ounces. The
bill passed the Senate with this amendment
80. Bills were passed providing for the col
lection Of statistics Of marriage and divorce;
for the repression of the opium traffic; to es-
tablish a forest reservation on the head
waters of the Missouri river and Clark's
Forks of the Columbia river
rSdse.
Consideration of the legislative appropria-
ton bill was begun. The amount appropri-
Gted is $40, SIC, being an increase of SSS,
100 over the appropriation for the current
year and $685., GIG less than the estimates.
| The House passed a joint resolu.
ton for printing 400,0 900 copies of the report
Of the commissioner of agriculture for 1884
-. The conference report on the agricul
tural appropriation bill was adopted. =. The
House committee on elections decided by min,
| 20 one to report in favor of Chalmers in the
| Mississippi Chalmers NJ aiming contested elec
lion case, and by seven to four in favor o.
Wise in the Virginia Massey Wise case.
A bill was reported to prohibit the confir
nation, certiication and patenting of un
| Earned land grants. Bills were also reported
regulating the form of bills of lading; regulat
| Iag the expectation of articles made in inlita
! lion Of butter and cheese; establishing por
| Ff entry at Salamanca, n. w.. The legisla
| live appropriation bill was amended in com
| tnittee of the whole and reported to th'
| House.
| Mr.. Buckner introduced bill to amend th
| National banking laws. Mr.. HutchinS In
troduced bill amending the act authorizing
| the coinage of the standard silver dollar.
The legislative appropriation bill was amend
cd and passed.
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Washington,

A SUBCOMMITTEE of the House committee
on agriculture has reported bill to establish
agricultural experiment stations in connec-
tion with the various State agricultural col
leges.
THE grand lodge of Good Templars in session
at Washington resolved to petition Congress
to submit prohibitory. constitutional
amendment to the States. The delegates called
in body on President Arthur at the White
House.
COLONEL J. O. P. BURNSIDE superintend-
ent of the postoffice building and disbursing
clerk of the postoffice department, has been
found short in his accounts to the extent of
about $45 600 He lost the money through
speculations in connection with the fraudu-
lent oil syndicates conducted by the broker
Lewis who fled recently. His arrest followed
Burnside has long held various government
POSITIONS in Washington, was prominent r.
A. - 49,
REPORTS from various parts of the country
say that immense damage has been done to
crops and small fruits by the recent frosts.
D. w. MIDDLETON & Co., welllnown
Washington bankers, have failed for about
$500,000
- The last national debt statement issued
shows the decrease of the public debt during
May to be 81, ,763, ,241.20.
Decrease Of debt since June 80,
1888. S3........,............... So, 81, IA IS
Cash in the Treasury. 3S9 ,36S, ,637 49
Gold certificates outstanding g, ,S12. .260 90
Silver certificates outstanding. III ,300,091 90
Certificates of deposit outstand-
ing ............... IL ,050, 600 90
Refundng certificates. ...... 291, 100 90
Legal tenders outstanding 346 ,6S1 .0l6 90
Fractional currency mot includ-
ing amount estimated as
lost or destroyed .......... 6,9S1, ,379 80
Cash balance available .........1 IA, 81, $50 80
GOVERNMENT receipts in May aggregated
$321, ,23f6lj against 1868, 81, ,413 during May
1883 Government expenditures in May were
t22269S, 300, against $50, GA, 100 during the
same period last year.
DURING May the various United States
mints coined 242, 100 gold pieces, worth 50 951
600; 2,520,000 silver pieces, worth g, ,33l 600,
and 7,27S,000 minor coins, worth S12S, 300.
Total coinage, 1O,040, l6o pieces, worth S, 4o6.'
10a
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Gardening in a HOgshead.

Some time ago Mr.. G. L. Record, OF
this city, bored holes in rows around a
hogshead, at regular intervals. six inches
apart, filling the hogshead with earth,
and set strawberry plant In each one of
the holes, beside putting number of
plants on top. There are 100 plants
growing from the sides of this novel gar
den, which are in full beauty and bloom,
having prolific growth of berries, and
looking remarkably thrifty and healthy.
Some of the berries attained great size,
one measuring three inches in circumfer-
ence.-Eeao Orleans Times Democrat.
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A Cure of Pneumoui,

Mr. d. FL. Barraby, of Owego, N. Y, says
that his daughter was taken with a violent
cold which term mated with pnenmonia, and
all the best physicians gave the case up and
said she could live bat few hours at most.
She was IN this condition when friend re-
commended DR.. VIM Halls Balsam for the
Lungs, and advised her to try it. She ac-
cepted it as last re5orr, and was surprised
to find that it produced marked change for
the better, and by persevering permanent
cure was efecte1.
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A nice, light business---the gas mans.

MENsMANs PEPToNIZED BEEF TONIC, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire nirtI-i-
1ous properties. 1t contains blood-making,
force generating and hfe-sustaining properties;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility;
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result Of exhaustion, nervous prostration. over
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Ciswell, Hazard 4
Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists.
The bee., 1884-06-07

A pongee is made with some narrow
pleated fiounces of the same, with one or
two very narrow in cardinal surah be-
tween. The upper drapery is of the
pongee embroidered with small sprigs.
The basque of the plain goods has an
embroidered Fedora front showing mar
row pleating Of 4be cardinal on the edge.
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PiIcs, Piles, Piles,

Sure cure for Blind, Bleeding and Itching
Piles. One box has cured worst cases of 20
years standing. No one need suffer five
minutes alter using Williams Pile
Liniment. 1t absorbs tumors, allays
itching, acts as poultice, gives instant relief.
Prepared only for Piles, Itching of private
parts. Mailed for 81. Frazier Med. Co.,
Cleveland O.
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Never wash the feet in warm water;
except just before retiring. Cold wa
ter, with little ammonia or salt
dropped in, is much pleasanter and
Sore healthful.
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The Eastern League record was as fol-
THE WHEAT CROP,
Estimate of This Years yicTd in the
Various StSI.S.

A Milwaukee dispatch gives an account Of
the reoeipt OF briet private specials from se>-
retaTies of state, agricultural reviews, and
other official sources, containing information
to date concerning crop prospects in ali tho
whcat-growing sectors Of tie country.
With very few exceptions all reports are
highly favorable. The following IS a liable of
the probable wheat crop of the country for
this wear:
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The ancients were acquainted with the vir-
tue OF petroleum. Herodotus refers to it and
speaks of wells being found in Zante. Now
adays everybody has heard Of it through Car
bOllne, the great Natural Hair Restnrer
The bee., 1884-06-07

---------It is truly wonderful to see how the
name of Mrs. Pinkham is household word
among the wives and mothers of our land.
Alike In the luxurious homes of our great
cities and in the humble cabins of the re-
mote frontier of one woman's deeds have
borne their kindly fruit in health for others.
The bee., 1884-06-07

Hartshorn (aqua ammonial is one of
the best remedies for a bee sting.
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Faynss' Automatic Engines and sep-MB
GOLD GIVEN AWAY!

Oh4fease our EnD5Cr ptlOn lat Tor the mOnthBnaB
aslne, BOSTON SCRAPS. for the year commencing July
NEXT We viii give 20 those sending G for year ssuo
feIlpuon as fllOws S0 on to The subscriber sending
aIgest number of Engl sh words composed OF the le
ters IN BOSTON SCRAPS. 4" and 90 to the one seno
ing longest verse in the Bible. To tho sending
cents Tor three months subscription. astooWs; f0U
70 me one sending largest number OF words sni 9-Vs
20 the one sending longest 7prse IL more than one nav
sane number of words or longest yrSe to the aecond
81, 20 third $1,000. BOSTON SURAPS PUB
IISFfTN(s I'm ccLc,.I
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The greatest man is he who chooses
right 18th the most invincible resolution,
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WE WANT 1000 BOOK AGENTS
for the new book TIIIRTY.TMREE YEARS AMONG
0UR WILD INDIANS,

By Gen. DODGE and Gen. SHERMAN. This Great hoit s
Is Endorsed by Prest Arthur. Cen Grant and tousaDa'
yndges Bishops Clersymen. Editors. Etc. as ne fes % r.
ItTtlg, and most Valuable Indian book trrlttr
superb Illustrations, Great Authorship and SOiti ls
% ne booming book for agents. ~ 10000 sold
sell 10 TO 90 day. Send for Circulars. EJfd I.
A. ID. WORTITINETON a CO.. Hartford. Conn.
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Headache is Immediately relieved By the
use of Piso's remedy for Catarrh.
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Won Lost.

The twelve clubs of the American aSSocia-
ton stood as follows at the end of the fifth
weeks play:
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Fortify the 81 stem.
Az who have expert
enced and witnessed
the effect Of Hostel
tsr's Stomach Bitters
upon the weak, brok-
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victils of dyspepsia,
liver complaint, fever
snd aRue. rheuma-
tism, nervous de-
bIlity, or premature
decay, know that in
this supreme tonic
and Alternative there
exists a specific pr1n-
eiple which resches
the very source of the
trouble. and efeetsan
absolute and perma-
nent cure. For sale
BY all Druggists and
Dealers generally.
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Ihe aa-Ip Ir,nah fa.,ll aal1.ln- Tho sosallruich
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Trnnsfers s5, OOO, 1000 10 HIs Som.

Mr.. w. II. Vanderbilt has transferred
$5,OO0OO0 in United States four per cent
bonds to his son, W. X. Vanderbilt. The
transfer was made at the treasury department
on Saturday.
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Futures



BALTIMORE. May 26,-uottQn .dulli middling,
YSse Flour steady ana quiet Howard sT SS aa
Ts''efm sIPerne is sioo'S So eTiTa
s9.0o@S5Oi do. extra, s365al7b do. Rio brands,
so62@5 vi Patapsco family 1926 DO. spperattye
patent, 500. Whcat-Southerh quiet and steady;
western lower, closing dun southern red, sl.o5
CLIO do. amber. Sll0@l.1S. No Maryland, 81, IL
PlI; Nc oS Western winter red sppt o
Sl.0lM bid. Oorn-Southern steady; western dull
aud lirmer; southern white, 67@70c do. yellow,
IpSSiG western mixed sp9ts and May SGs Sid
629sc. Oats dull and easier southern, lO@i2c;
western white 40942c; DO mixed, 37@89c Penn.
steady; prime to choice Pennsylvania and Mary.
land, sl5,00@17.00. Provisions steady and fairly
sHts %s pork ga s3 b
S$SS}sc baeon0sh9nlders sAe; clear ri6 sides,
seF qu EGs western pa9 Ss ioG s
cargoes, ordinary to fair, s]l@io4c. Sugar quiet;
nominal at six Freishts to Liverpool per steamer
dull cotton. ll6id; -four Is. 3D.; grain, 292t2d.
Reoeipts-Flour, 1902 barrels wheat, 10000 bush
400 bushels. shipments-W Wheat, 1900 bushels
sales-Wheat 5000 bushels; corn $1,000 bushels.
BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET.
BALTIMORE, May 26.-virglnls s., deferred, 5;
past due coupons, 49, new IS, 5212 bid to-day.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET.
BALTIMORE, May 26.-Beef cattle-The market
opened fairly active, with an advance which did
not hold out till the close, averaging only ~,
with much better quality; very best 6i59Tc; frat
quality, 5l9@6l9c medium, 4lg@5gsc; ordinary
8kag4I4c; most Of the sales were from 51a to 634c
receips-l ,4H head; sales-752 head. Swine-Fall
head; quotations, T6D79Ic. The receipts Of sheep
and lambs were 1887 head; quotalions-sheep, 80
5lc; lambs, 417@61ac.
QUEENSTOWN CATTLE MARKET
Quotations by w. s. Hoge.l
WAsHIsGToN, May 26.-249 cattle aud 2 400 sheer
and lambs up 249 cattle sold market active; best
69s@D65sc good, 6ls(D6l4c; fair, 534C06c medium
| l,s1O sold $50 shipped away; old sheep and lamb
both full lc lower, ut close 1l5c lower old sheer
sold at 3C96c few above &c; lambs bId@7lfc, witt
600 each. ~
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THE COURT RECORD.
Bpainess Transacted by the District judi
ciary Yesterday.


curt In General Term--C1tsf Justice Carter and
Justices; Wplie and James.-sunderland & Hillyer
vs. Kilbourn Latta; argument for complainant
resumed Assignment for to-day unchanged.
Circuit oourt-Jusltce ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ma
tional Bank Vs. Pomeroy; motion for Judgment
oyerrued. Mills ct al VS.. District of Columbia;
demurrer to two please sustained, and ten days
given to amend. Bennett VS.. Taylor motion for
judgment granted, appealed by defendant.
Shehan VS.. Nevis; order to open case. Tyler.
trustee, vs.. Gilmorei leave to file additional pleas
within fifteen days. Dalton ct uX. vs. Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad company; leave to amend
declaration. Glenn, trustee, VS.. OHare; leave to
amend declaration. Boall OF uX. VS.. Baltimore
ana Potomac Railroad company; leave TO amend
declaration. Assignments for to-day: Regular
calendar-Nos. . g. L. 6, ~, s. ., 10, l0l, IL, u,
10, and H.
EQUITY Court-JudOe Cor.--Creswell VS.. Brooks;
reference to the auditor ordered, Wheatey vs..
Lewis; withdrawal of exhibit allowed. Riley VS..
Riley; auditors report ratified, Beach vs. Farm
hen; sale ordered and q. L, Hamilton and Il. j,
StelLwagen appointed trustees to sell. Rays VS..
Rays; trustee required tn pay fund into court on
before 9th instant Bushman VS.. Bushman:
leave granted to amend original bill. Mosler VS..
Mosler reference to the auditor ordered, Smith
vs.. Thomas demurrer sustained and cross bill
dismissed Assignment for to- day. Nos. 80 and SO.
Criminal COurt-Justice MdcArthur.-John Is.
Stetson false pretenses, plead guilty sentence
pended. John ID. Chuller, larceny. Chris, 8. Will
merth, United States witness released on his per :
sonal recogni2ance. Frank Laugston, murder; on
trial. Assignment for to-day unchanged.
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2lio Frank H. Briggs, administrator estate Of
Harrison o. Briggs, surviving partner firm OF y.
4 \; o. Briggs, 1881, March - 1864. 10 r 2l2s,
Mlnot, jr., executors will Of George II. Minot,
deceased, 1852; William Minot, s75, July
s, 1864. No. 2239, Frances A. Free
man, executrix will of Peter w. Freeman,
deceased, $3.50; John H. Swain, $50. Dec. 81, 1882.
No 22il, Frederick A. jarvis, Jacob Hall, and
Granville Hoycy, firm Of jarvis, Ilall& Co.
Weaver, $1,000, Feb. TO- 1854. No. 2ll0, John
G. Moses. $780, Nov. H. 1864. No. 2620, Elias II.
Millken. surviving partner firm of G. II,
Millikon & Co, SOC, oct II, 1884 No 1924, Keturah
NJ. Pritchard. exeoutrix will of Thomas Pritchard,
deceased, $780, March H. 1864 No. 1890, Chandler
Robbins 1851, March 6, 1865. No. 1850, Francis NJ.
Weld, 1929, June 6, 1864. The Pembroke Mills,
Si3y, June 6, 1861
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Agreeably to notes which were received at
the department of state from the special mis-
on of Corea lately in the United States, Mr.
Frelinghuysen caused the announcement to
be mado public in October last that efforts
were then in progress looking to the holding
of museum or exposition ct Seoul, in that
kingdom, and inviting participation therein
by American exhibitors. Under date of
April IL last, however, Mr.. Frelinghuyseu
has received dispatch from Mr.. Footo, our
minister there, wherein he states that the
Corean government has as yet done nothing
in the matter, and until some definite action
has been taken tho sending of goods by our
merchants and manufacturers would be pre-
mature, and might involve possible loss.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-27

Senator ingalls, reported to tho senate yes
terday, from the committee on the judiciary,
substitute for the joint resolution intro
duced by Senator jackson, proposing an
amendment to the constitution of tho United
States, in relation to the terms of Office OF
tho president and vice president. The amend
ment to the constitution provided for in
Senator Ingallss substitute is as follows
ARTICLE 2. Tho executive powers shall be
vested in president of the United States Of
America. Tho president and vice president
hereafter elected shall hold their offices for
the term of six years. but the president shall
not be re-eligible, nor shall the vice president
be eligible, to the Office of president If he
shall have exercised the same in the case of
vacancy therein.n
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-27

The test case of ]. II. Simmons against tho
United States was decided in the court of
claims yesterday in favor Of tho claimant.
This was suit for interest on direct taxes In
Charleston, s. G. Tho court held that the
interest was enormously collected, and that
tho statute of limitations does not affect the
provision Of tho act Of February, 1867, author
izing the secretary of the treasury to correct
errors and to return money collected through
mistake under direct tax laws.
Tho court gave judgment for $4,000 in
favor of Gallagher 81 Loona in their suit
against the District of Columbia for damages
on account Of work on tho TibOr creek sewer
In the suit OF John NJ. Muller against the
United States, for work on tho Chicago
custom house, judgment was given in favor
of the claimant for $4,000. The claim o.
Capt. Allaback, of tho capitol police force, fol
one months extra pay was dismissed.
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hOlloN MARKET,
The following We're opening, hiahest lowest,
and closing prices:
Month Opening. Highest, Loves. CLOSING