The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-01

Part of the building was occupied as a
store.
The site for the burial place Of
General Grant has not yet been selected
Colonel Fred Grant went TO New York
on the 9th from Mt. McGregor, and,
accompanied by Mayor Grace and Pres.
ident Sanger, of the Board of Alder
men, he visited Central and Riverside
Parks, and examined the sites offered.
He returned to Mt. McGregor in the
evening, saying that the matter must
be referred to his mother for decision.
The management of the New Or
leans Exhibition on the 9th decided to
allow cities of the United States to
make collective exhibits Of their manu-
featuring industries at the American
Exposition.
1t is reported in Washington that
General Finley, lately Adjutant General
of Ohio, will succeed Mr.. Harrison as
Assistant Commissioner of the General
Land Office.
Admiral Jouett arrived in Wash
ington, ON the 9th. He reports every
thing quiet ON the Isthmus.
"A revolutionary disturbance is re-
ported at Tuxpan, Mexico. 1t is be-
lieved in Government circles that ''tEe
only object of the outbreak Is to plum
der the custom house of a few thousand
dollars"
General Hazen, the Chief Signal
Office, will sail from New York OF the
29th, for Europe, to be absent until
October. During his absence Captain
B. f. Jones will be acting Chief Signal
Officer.
The President has refused to modi-
fly his proclamation requiring cattlemen
to remove from the Indian Territory
within forty days.
General Sheridan is expected i'll
Washington in a few days to report
verbally to the President the state of
affairs at the Cheyenne and ArapahQe
Agency.
Colonel William L. Barrows, OF
Connecticut, and DR.. Langdon e.
Duncan, of Washington. have been
appointed special Commissioners to
visit the countries of South America,
to secure governmental exhibits for the
North, Central and South American
Expositions, to be opened at New Or
leans next November. Col. Barrows
will visit the Republics of the west
coast. They will sail from New York
on August LIST.
Riverside Park, New York, has been
selected as the place for the mterment
of General Grant. The New York
Board of Aldermen on the 18th passed
resolutions giving to General Grant
and to his widow, upon her death the
right of sepulture in Riverside Park,
and directing the corporation counsel
to prepare a proper deed of cession.
Messrs. Carlisle, of Kentucky; Randall,
of Pennsylvania; Morrison, of Illinois;
Tucker, of Virginia; Singleton, of
Mississippi; HIscock of New York;
Reed, of Maine; Brown, of Indiana,
and B%utterworth of Ohio, have been
chosen as the committee of the U. S.
House of Representatives to attend the
funeral.
The president on the 28Lh appoin-
ted Anthony Eickhoff, of New York,
to be Fifth auditor of the treasury Con-
rad Krez, Collector of Customs at Mil
waukee; Samuel Flower, Assistant
Treasurer at New Orleans; Truman Ii.
Allen, Pension agent at San Francisco
and Henry E. Slaymaker, Postmaster
at Lancaster, Penna., III place of James
N. Marshall, suspended.
Severe thunder storms on the 2Sth,
passed over portions of the Northwest.
At Minneapolis and in the surrounding
country considerable damage was done
by wind and lightning. A team of hor-
ses was killed by lightning, and three
men were injured by the blowing down
of a platform. At Cumming, Dakota,
several buildings were blown down.
The trial of Louis Rel, for high
treason, was resumed OF the 28th at
Regina, In the Northwest Territory.