Tombstone epitaph., 1891-03-08
NEWS BY WIRE.

died last Saturday night, will be em' balmed and sent to San Francisco fol interment.
 The land court bill has passed both branches of Congress and gone to the President for his signature. Arizona is exempt from it's provisions.
 Tho United States Treasury con- tains $35,OOO,O0O in cash. Of this amount $31 ,OOO, 900 will be paid out in pensions by Wednesday night.
 -The President has nominated Thomas N. Hart to be postmaster at Boston, Mass.
 The committee having in charge the raising of fund for the widow of Hon. Wm. Windom, sec'y of the treas- ury, up to yesterday had received sub scriptions amounting to $3OOOO. It is the intention of the committee, said MT J. J. Knox, the treasurer, to raise enough to make the total $5O,OOO. ,u Gen de Fonseca, who was chosen provisional president of Brazil at the time of the overthrow of the emperor, has been formally elected President of the republic.
 -Itis unofficially stated that Worlds Fair Commissioner F. J. Skiff, of Colo. rado, has accepted the position as chief of the bureau of mines and mining.
 Physicians in New Orleans state that there are twenty-five cases of lep- rosy in that city.
 Anna Dickenson, the well-known lecturer, is said to have become de. ranged.
 Henry w. Blair, the present sena- tor of New Hampshire has been nomi- mated by President Harrison as minis ter to China.
 The boss plasterers of Chicogo will not grant the demand of the union for an advance in wages. A strike is expected.
 Secretary Proctor has selected the following officers for duty in connec- tion with the survey and location of the proposed intercontinental railway connecting North, Central and South America: Captain Edgar L. Steever, Sd Cavalry; First Lieuts. s. M. Foote, 4th Artillery, and Arthur Williams, Sd Infantry; Second Lieuts. A. s. Rowan, 9th Infantry; A. T. Buffinton, 7th In fantry; c. A. Hedekin, Sd Cavalry, and Samuel Reber, 4th Cavalry. Three other officers are yet to be selected, making ten in all.
 The shipping bill as passed by the house is radically different from the measure sent to that body by the sen- ate. It merely authorizes the post. master general to enter into such 8 contract for not less than five years nor more than ten with American citizens for carrying the mails on American steamships between United States ports and foreign ports (the Dominion of Canada excepted) as will subserve and promote the postal and commercial interests of the United States, the mail service to be equitably distributed among the Atlantic, Gulf, Mexican and Pacific ports. The ves- sells contracted with must be of Amer ican build and officered by American citizens.
 -Bostonians are to buy their Bern hardt tickets at auction. The origin al plan adopted for the sale was being availed of by spectators to monopo lize things.
 A suit for $2OO,OOO damages hal been commenced against the editor O the New York Druggist Circular by Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, attorney fo the Radam Microbe Killer company Several months ago the Druggist Cir calar made an attack upon the mi crobe killer, and assailed the compan. by saying: "Every man connected with it is direputable scoundrel."
 Three of the newly appointed con suls are men who were in the servic before the Cleveland hiatus. Ma! Byers, of Iowa, who goes to St. Gal Switzerland, was at Zurich, and ha been promoted to the Italian Consu Generalship by President Arthu shortly, before President Clevelan recalled him. He is best known to tn country as the auther of Sherman March to the Sea-" A volume of poem called ''The Happy Isles" is the prod