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Mrs. CHARLOTTE SMITH, sister of Odlum
who leaped from Brooklyn bridge, blames +,
"the low sports" for hisHeath.
Mr.. VALENTINE p. SNYDER, OF New |
York, who is at present acting as priv.te
secretary to Secretary Manning, will he
appointed chief clerk of the Treasurer's |
Office
THE Gear of Russia is going to visit the
King of Denmark.
A NOTED counterfeiter named Jacob
Stadfelt died at Dayton, O., on the 3)th.
\ CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, Q. c., has been
selected to prosecute Riel.
THE President reviewed the Decoration
Day procession at New York.
GENERAL GRANT is better. He stood at
his window and reviewed the Decoration
Day procession.
PROF. YoUMANs comes to the defense of
Herbert Spencer on the charges of literary
piracy made by Frederick Harrison.
JEFF DAVIS thinks elements of disn-
tegration and disruption are at work in
our system of Gover4mer and that the
Constitution has been made "a rope of
sand"
The Partisan authors and journalists are.
raising subscription for bronze or mar
BILE representation of Victor Hugo.
THE Russian Commissioner, NJ. Lessar.
has left London for Afghans tan to assist
IN making the frontier line.
]. PARKER VEAzEY has assumed charge
Of the Baltimore (Md) Post-office.
THOMAS SMoNs, United States Assistant
Attorney General, has resigned.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS makes some in
teresting disclosures concerning the pub
lie domain.
AFTER the usual consultation on the 31st
the physicians reported no change in GEN
eral Grants condition.
THE President spent Sunday quietly at
the house of Secretary Whitney in New
York. He did not go to church.
MINISTER FOSTER is negotiating with
the Spanish Cabinet for the establishment
of general treaty, including Cuba, Porto
Rico, the PHILIPPINE Islands and other
Spanish colonies.
In sending his card and wreath of i'm
mort Giles to be placed on the coffin of Vic
tor Hugo, Karl Blind, the German revolu-
ZIONIST wrote: "rhat which has latterly
been apt to estrange Germans from
Frenchmen, can not restrain the feelings
of those who appreciate genius"
SECRETARY LAMAR has recovered from
his illness and is at his desk again.
A. N. HATHAWAY has been appointed
Consul at Nice, France.
On the 1st Colonel SwitzIer of Mis-
souri,, took charge Of the Bureau Of Stat
istics.
BEACH's acceptance Of Hanlan's chal.
lenge for race for 5000 is expected.
ISAAC MAYNARD, Of New York, has beer
appointed Second Comptroller of tn,
Treasury.
MISS CLEvELAND's forthcoming book
will be entitled, "George Eliot and Othe
Studies"
Hon. GEORGE W. JULIAN, of Indiana
has been appointed Surveyor General o
New Mexico.
On the evening of the 1st Secretar
Bayard left Washington for Lawrence
Kas., where he will deliver an address be
fore the literary societies of the Kan ga
State University. He will also attend tn
commencement exercises of the Missoul
State University.
ACCORDING to the Washington Post tn
request of Bayliss w. Hanna, Of Indiana
to be transferred from the Persian mis-
sion to that of the Argentine Republic wi
not be granted by the President
The report Of the death Of Baum, I'll
Texas cotton swindler, at Chatham, Cans
da, has been confirmed.
FLANAGAN, who wanted to kno
"What are we here forp will be succeedt
by r. M. Henderson as Collector of Re-
enue in the Fourth Texas District.
THE funeral of Victor Hugo on the l
was the grandest demonstration of IL
kind Paris has ever witnessed. II
solemnity of the occasion and the wort
of the orators seemed to awe even Il
Communists into decency, and there WI
no rioting or exhibition of disorderly col
duct
The select Senate committee on int
State commerce has arranged q pr
gramme for the month of June. Its ne
meeting will be held In Chicago on t
18th inst, four days; in st. Louis, tN
days, beginning on the 18th; two da.
in Des Moines, beginning on the lit
two in Omaha, beginning on the 22d, a
two in st. Paul and Minneapolis, begi
ming on the oath.
A TYPE-sETTING match is announced
take place in New York on the 4th ms
between Joseph Mccain and Ira Some
for $3.50 a side. Much interest is mai
tested among the craft, and the cont'
will be witnessed by the delegates to
International Typogr aphical Union
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
BY the burning of New York furnitr
factory on the 9th, damage to the exte
of kS5O,00O was caused and 800 workm
mt y idle.
AT Charleston, w. Va, on the 9th, fc
miners were killed by the swapping of
brake band of an incline, letting the car
at great speed.
On the 9th William Prentiss killed
father at Orange, Mass. The man "
drunk and, placing a cup on his head,