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MORE than one-half of the United States
Senators own real estate in Washington.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER thinks Presi-
Dent Cleveland will be renominated in
1SSS, and that he will carry Illinois.
A COMMITTEE Of the British Cabinet is
preparing land bill for Ireland, based
npon an extension of the Ashbourne act.
EXPRESS MESSENGER FoTHERINGHAM
was called into court in st. Louis on the
10th and pleaded mot guilty" to the in
dictments against him.
: THE retirement OF General Raul bars
from Bulgaria, is spoken of in all the
European capitals as the retreat of Russia
before the united force of Europe.
! THE Cologne Gazette is forbidden to
enter Turkey on account of having
printed a remark of the Sultan that ''the
English were dogs and the Germans
pigs"
! THE prospect that the American exhili-
ton in London will be the only exposi-
ton open during the jubilee year (1SS7)
has increased public interest in the enter
prise.
THE Vermont Legislature (both houses)
has passed a bill prov iding that all hotels
or restaurants using oleomargarine shall
put up large signs notifying the public of
the fact.
AT an immense Socialist demonstration
in Trafalgar square, London, on the Dist,
resolutions were adopted calling on the
government to relieve the distress among
workingmen.
! The report of the committee appoin ted
to investigate the charges against Secre-
tary Vail Of the National Trotting Asso-
citation severely criticises the official con-
duct of that gentleman.
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THE President will attend the funeral Of
ex-President Arthur and will be accom-.
panied by the Secretary of State, Score
tary of the Navy, Secretary of the In
terror and the Postmaster General.
THE Berlin police seized 5000 Socialist
pamphlets on the Goth. They found that
1000 had already been distributed. Five
workmen, who were employed to circulate
them, were expelled from the city.
SECRETARY MANNING is steadily i'm
proving in health and strength. He walks
every pleasant morning and drives out in
the afternoon. The Secretary has dis
pensed with the daily attendance of a
physician.
SroRY's statue Of America for the mon
pment to the author of the "Star-Span-
gled Banner" which he is making for
California, has been successfully cast in
bronze at Rome. The operation lasted
three hours.
THE Cook County IlL) grand Jury
ignored the bill against the Pinkerton mer
charged by the coroner's jury with COM
plicity in the death of Terrence Begley
near the Union Stock Y ards after the close
of the former strike.
THE Vermont Legislature on the 1871
passed joint resolution expressing sor
row at the death of shat illustrious anC
eminent son Of Vermont, ex-Presiden
Chester A. Arthur" eulogizing him ant
rendering sympathy to his family.
THE American legation at Berlin wa
closed on the goth, under the suppositior
that that was the day fixed for the fun
eral of ex-President Arthur. The Berlin
press eulogizes General Arthur as an up
right man and an Independent politician
THE estimates for the civil establish
ment of the navy were submitted to tn
Treasury Department on the 10th. They
are $1,000, 900 less than last year and in
clude 100000 for the continuance o
work on the new cruisers already author
lied.
THE Third Auditor of the Treasury is
sued acquisitions on the Treasurer of tn
United States on the Goth for 81 $50, 625 t
pay the pensions accruing December
OF this the Topeka (Kas,) agency get
$500 900, and 81, 2O7, 900 goes to the Chicag
agency.
COLONEL JOHN MOORE, Of the medica
department of the army, has been ap
pointed Surgeon General by the Presi
dent, to succeed Surgeon Gen eral Muir
ray, retired. Colonel Moore, who is /
San Francisco, has been directed to re
port at Washington Immediately.
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THE overtures made by the tenants o
Lord Clanricade's estates in Ireland, wit
n view of settlement of the rent ques
tion, have been rejected. Messrs. Dillo
and O'Brien spoke on the 18th at Portumnt
in County Galway, where these estate
are situated. There was much excite
ment.
GENERAL KAULBARs and his staff dc
parted from Sofia on the Goth. Onl
twenty persons were at the station to hi
him farewell. The town was decorate
with flags and illuminated; not in hone
of General Kaulbars, but because it we