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FURTHER appointments by tho President:
Alexander Davezac, Of Kentucky, to be con
sui of the United States at Nantes. United
States Marshals-William NJ. Desmond,
ants, eastern district of louisiana; Richard
b. Reagan, eastern district of Texas Charles
NJ. Newlin, district of Delaware. United
States District Attorney g. John D. Burnett.
southern district of Alabama; Charles b.
Haury, northern district of Mississippi;
George z. Bird, district Of Maine.
TIE chief of the bureau of statistics reports
that the number Of cmigrants arrived i'll tho
United States during tho fiscal year ended
June 80, 1885, was 5S1 ,S2l, being IL, ,Ol3 less
than the emigration during the preceding
fiscal year and 4O1, Ill less than during the
year ended June 80, 1857, the year OF the
greatest emigration.
TIE postofllce department has received q
dispatch stating that the assistant postmaster
at Portsmouth, Chic, had fed with s., 0Oo be-
longing to the government.
The President has made tho following
further appointments: Charles Spalding Of
Kansas to be receiver of public moneys at
Topeka. Kan; Samuel Thanhouser of knn-
sas to be receiver OF public moneys ut Gar
den City, Kan: Edward j. Dawne of Ore
gon to TO United States judge for tho district
of Alaska; NJ. L. Ball of Alaska to be United
States attorney for tho district of Alaska;
Barton Atkins Of New York to he United
States marshal for the district of Alaska;
Arthur H. Keeler of Alabama to be United
States marshal for the northern district OF
Alabama Postmasters: Joseph h. Bogert,
Wilkesbarre, Penn. Miles j. Finlen, Streat-
on, ILL.,: Charles f. Gala CHER, Salamanca, N.
Y; John L. Handley, Fairfield, ILL., Bar.
clay Radebaugh, Urbana, ILL.,; Clinton Ro'
setto, Dekalb ILL.,; George P. Sanford, Ian
sing. Mich.
THE President has appointed William H..
Mofett, Of New Jersey, M Episcop1l minis
ter, to bo consul at Athens, and John Dew
lin of Michigan, to be consul at Windsor,
Ont Mr.. Devlin has been assistant labor
commissioner of Michigan
SECRETARY MANNING has sent out a circus
lar inviting from manufacturers and other
their views as to the feasibility of simplify
ing the tariff and making the duty specific,
so us to protect home industries.
Foreign.
THE failure of the Munster hank at Cork
has caused a run OH other Irish banks.
THE British steamer WiIlinga!e. from
Madras for Boston, has been to tally wrecked.
drowned.
HUNDREDS OF people are dying daily in
Spain of hsiatic cholora.
Two HUNDRED persons were poisoned by
leo cream at Rlposto, Sicily, during public
holiday. A crowd severely punished tho
vcnder, who narrowly escaped with his lifo
A MADMAS arrested near Venice, Italy, for
kidnapping, confessed that ho stole, killed
and ute number of children because ho was
starving
ApANIc has occurred in Vienna financial
circuits on account of tho revival of Anglo
Russian war rumors, and many failures have
followed.
A SOLDIER at Bombay, India, who had
| been reduced i'll rank, shot dead several na
tive officers
MORE than fifty persons were killed and
much property was destroyed during the re
cent recurrence of earthquake shocks in the
| Vale of Cashmere, India Tho same district
which have seriously damaged the crops.
NJ. ELY, French acronaut, has been LOST
at seq while making balloon ascent.
A BATTLE in which 600 mon were killed
has just taken place between the revolution
lists and government troops i'll tho Unitc'
States Of Colombia. The government troop;
were worsted..
INTELLIGENCE has been received from
West Africa that the king of Dahomey, will
many followers, made raid on the village:
under French protection near Porto Novo
His troops indulged in wholesale massacre
of the inhabitants md burned all their dwell
ings. One thousand youths and womel
were taken prisoners and carried back into
Dahomey to DC eaten by thoir captors.
\ PLYMOUTH (Eng1and) dispatch says tha
the Liverpool and London steamer Cheerful
foundered through collision, and that clever
persons on board were drowned.
a LARGE forco of Arab rebels attacked
Kassala, but were ropulsed with n loss OF
5000 in killed and wounded The garrison
at Kassna, following up their victory, cap
turcd the rehcl camp, with 1000 oxen ant
sheep and 100 rifles.
INall Spain on tho ed there were o.:S5'
cases of cholera, and OIL deaths from tho dis
| case.
FL MAHDI, the False Prophet is reporte
to have died of smallpox.
EIGHT married men were drownel at Var
mouth, England, by the upsettinS Of tho life
boat in which they, with seven others, wcr
going to the assistance Of vessel in distress