Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-28
EASTERN NEWS.


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u fzIsszArH TO rHsrosT-ErrEl1srcsz.
A Message frs1 Grant. -
NV fozk. Aprii H. Gusna sends tie
tollosinR for publication:
10 TOE various army postsh societies..
e.1seA p1Dl1c schools. Sts4es, corpora
Hons and individuals north and south.
NEo have been 30 kind tls 10 ssud me-
coagras1lafions on nav sixfy. taird birth.
aays wish 10 oder my 9rstefui arkuou
iedgmsnt. Dispatches have beer % m
merous and ~ touehine in tone thar !,
would have been impossible 20 answer
them, II had be~n 10 perfecs health.
c. s. GRaSI.
shert Dtssasee Eeopr.s Beaten.
CxcTssArI. April ia feos racs, Us
Yards distance. for 500 O side and the
championship OF Amerlcs. vas run this
afternoon AZ Chester Park by II. N.
Soonson OF New York ard Geo. Smith
o. f1ttso1re- johnson w'Sn by sir feet
% eleven and three-quilrter seconds,
beating the record.
The sanitary Cenferenre
WASHINGTON. April THE Italian
Government having invited the United
cestes 70 send = delegation 10 the Sani.
tery Conferences which Is 20 be held at
Rome on the 18th proximo, the Presi-
dent has designated Major George N.
steinberR. OF the army, 10 represent
this Government.
Eastfied O. Pay,
Judge Upton, second Comptroller sf
thu Treasury, has made a ruling that
officers Of she army who had a brevet
rank at the time of service in the Next
can var are entitled TO she three
months extra pag allowed by Congress
Tor such service. according TO the brs
vet rank held by them at the close of
their service.
RsuPsb-Ciass onices.
Fourth class or nou- Presidential post
ofiices are nov receiving consideration
e the hands Of Postmaster General
Villas, and new appointments ara being
made IS rapidly as he can conside.
oases- Seveasy-two appointments were
made on Saturday and about sixty
today.
The Bsiifard Tournament.
NKv YoRx, April N.-Schaefer best
Dion in the seventh game of the billiard
tournament tonight. The score was
500 20 4l5. The winners average was
1872 "a. Schaefer's BEST runs were 50
and 81 Dion's only respectable run
was q.
Many CsnGrnfaiaiisns.
NEW YoRK, April 27.-t<tveen 4 and
O'Clock IN the afternoon Gen. Grant,
accompanied by Col. Grant, walked as
usual TO Madison avenue and back
Gen. Sickies called between 5 and 6
o'clock. sydney B. Dillon sat and con-
versed With the General 10 the drawing
room for nearly an hour. The house
vas brilliantly lighted up in the even
ing, and thousands of spectators passed
through the street and stopped TO gaze
for few moments at the hcnse. Large
and magnificent presents OF flowers
continued to pour in, while q continu
ous stream ct telegraph boys we're in
cessantly dslivering messages from all
over the country.
Destruction by she Texas Floods.
DALLAS, Tex, April q. Reports from
the surrounding country are coming in
giving details of great destruction to
property aKd live stock by the recent
foods. Many hair breadth escapes are
recorded. at q point twelve miles north |
Of Dallas thirty men. women aud child |
rem were surrounded by the rigging wa
ters and forced to take refuge on the |
roofs where. they remained exposed and |
without fsod for over thirty hours be- |
fore being rescued. At another point q
family named Rankles, father, mother
and three small children, were Suddenly
surrounded and compelled to take re-
fuRe on top of a rail pen where they
were discovered in starving condition
and finally rescued By young farmer
with bath tub, all the boats having
been washed down che Trinity river. |
Jno. Sparkman, q farmer, loss twenty
i've head Of fine horses. Particulars
were also received TODAY Of the drown
ing Of @. F. Royal and Matthew Mccall,
two prosperous farmers, who attempted
10 cross the stream with fraii skif.
The trinity at this point continues
slowly 10 recede. bat the iovlands for
many miles sre still submerged.
Captain Phe'an. I
NEW YoRE, April 27.-Capt. Thomas
Pheiap, accompanied by bis twelve
yeaf-old son. called today on the Dis
triet Attorney. and eonyersed with him
regarding the circumstances of his at
tempted assassination by Dick short.
fhs case will be broughs 10 trial At the
earliest possible moment.
On wall streee.
NEw YoHx. April s7.-(iovernmsnts
were very strong this afternoon. As ad
vansing Y and as y per cent. With
Gales Of 4's al l22is. stocks continue
dull, bat With q strong undertone.
pricee at the openina this morning we're
shade lower than the closing figures
of Saturday. but the decline was imme-
diateIy checked, and the upward move
mens which followed continned until
late In the afternoan. when on some
realizing, and the publication az ncws
60 the eject that the cutting OF rates
was spreading, the market reacted =
fractiou, but closed arm sf prices which
10 most cases we're Q fraction higher
than they closed last w,.ek. The war
news has ceased 20 have any decided
eject upon the market. There I'm
usually active trading In Oregon TRAM
continentai, which cioeed tbs evening
Il higher, both the activity and the ae-
vance being attributed b, inside parties,
who claim that the stock has NOS 70
spondod to the favorable influences %
tsndine negotiations for the lsass Of The
Oregon Railway q Navigation Com
pany to tho Uaiou and Nozthern Pa
oitic. Advices from Boston received on
the street this aft<rnoon state that
.int lease OF the Oregon Railway q
Navigation Company has practically
been agreed upon.
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