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Washington.

IHE President has approved tne acG
amending the laws relating to navigation:
animals for breeding purposes in certain
cases
THE Committee on Postoffices have agreed
upon a bill appropriating $50, 1884 for
operating the Postoffice Department during
the next fiscal year.
THE President has nominated Brigadier
General George Crook for the position of
Major General, made vacant by General
Terry's retirement. He will command the
Division of the Missouri.
THE President has approved the act grant
ing pension to the widow of General John A.
Logan; the act to increase the pension OF the
widow of General blair; and the act to
authorize the purchase Of a site for public
building at Buffalo, N. Y.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been invited
to Austin, Texas, to assist in the dedication
of The new State Capitol on May 10th, and it
is highly probable that he will accept.
The United States Supreme Court has
rendered decision sustaining the Pennsyl-
vania law regulating the sale of oleo-
margarine.
The United States Supreme Court has
adopted resolutions presented by Attorney
General Garland eulogistic Of the late Chief
Justice Waite.
THE President has nominated Jasper \.
Hammond to.be Postmaster at Seneca Falls,
NY.
THE President has approved the act au-
thorizing the construction Of bridges over the
rivers st. Mary's, Satilla, Little Satilla, and
Crooked, in Georgia and Florida; the act for
the erection Of a public building at Lowell,
A. Curtice, of Hampshire, and several other
persons.
THE President has nominated Henry B.
Lowering, of Massachusetts,, to succeed Cen
eral Banks as Marshal Of the United States
for the District of Massachusetts,.
Foreign.
A BATTLE took place at Sooloo, in Phillip
pine Islands, between the Spanish garrison
and the Malay natives. Ten Spaniards and
2G0 natives were killed and seventy Spani-
iards, including number of officers,
wounded,
The Italian Government has decided to
cease military operations against the Aby-
ssinians in Africa during the summer, and the
troops will return to Italy Immediately.
AFAM1NE was threatened in Posen, Pome-
rania and Silesa by reason OF the lncalcula.
BILE damage done by the recent floods, and
the Empress of Germany went to Posen to
fererS
A SEVERE tornado has done great damage
in the native quarter of Dacca, India Nine
teen persons were Killed.
THE Sultan has agreed to leave the dis
pute between the United States and Morocco
to the decision of Moorish representative
and the American Consul. IT they fail to
agree a European representative will be
chosen whose decision shall be final
LARGE crowds assembled at Kilrush, Ennis
and Loughrea, Ireland, to hold political
meetings. but the police and the troops were
| in attendance in such force as to prevent or
| eanization. The soldiers charged the crowd
with bayonets and seriously wounded twelve
persons.
| GENERAL BoULANGER has been elected by
| a majority of "a, ,000 votes to represent a De
part,nent in the French Chamber OF Deputies
but he has declined to accept the seat
JOHN AND DAVID BowMANs, farmers. aged
! eighty-two and eighty-tour years, hvnc
alone few miles from Barrie, Canada, wert
burned to death in their house.
PRINCE BISMARCK has abandoned his oppo
sition to the marriage of Prince Alexander
of Battenberg, and the Princess Victoria
having gained certain other concessions, ant
all the differences between the Emperor ano
Prince Bismarck have been settled.
A FIRE broke out on the steamer Hyakkar
Morn, on Haumanada, an inland sea in Japan
Out Of sixty-seven passengers on the vesse
sixteen lost their lives. The captain anc
several fremen were severely injured.
AN explosion occurred in a dynamite fac
tory at Grenoble, France. Nine persons were
killed and others we're seriously injured.
WILLIAM M1LLMAN has been hanged iI
Prince Edward Island for the murder Of
Mary Tup!en
The late Emperor William Of Germany
| left the sum Of thirty marks about $lV tc
| every invalid soldier Of the war Of 1S7h