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

The land court bill has passed botl branches of Congress and gone to tht President for hIs signature. AriEons is exempt from it's provisions.
 The United States Treasury con tains $35,O00,O0O in cash. Of thi. Amonnt $2I 9nn eA1 sr::!l!l 5s paid oui in pensions by Wednesday night.
 The President has nominated Thomas N. Hart to be postmaster al 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 seripGons amounting to S30.OO0. Ii is the intention of the committee, said Mir J. J. Knox, the treasurer. to raise enough to make the total SJ0,OOO.
 Gen de Fonseca, who vas chosen provisional president Of Brazil at the time of the overthrow of the emperor, has been formally elected President Of the republic.
 -Itis unoficially stated that Worlds Fair Commissioner F. J. skif, 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 nnmi- mated by President Harrison as minis ter to China.
 The boss plasterers oi Chicoeo 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- ton with the survey and location Of the proposed intercontiuental Hallway connecting North, Central and South America: Captain Edgar L. steey CT, Sd Cavalry; First Lieuts. s. M. Foo:e, 4th Artillery, and Arthur Williams, 3d Infantry; Second Lieuts. A. s. Rowan, 9th Infantry; A. T. Buffnton, Tth In fsntry; C. 4. Hedekin, 3d Cavalry, and Samuel Reber, 4th Cavalry. Three other officers are vet 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 a 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 porte (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 yes sels contracted with must De of Amer icau build and Ofhcered by American citizens.
 -Bostonians are to buy their Bern hardt tickets at auction. The origin al plan adopted for the sale was being avaiIed of by speeulatoTs to monopo, Iizs things.
 A suit for S2OO.OO0 damages has been commenced against the editor of the New York Druggist Circular by Col. Robert G. IDgersoll, attorney for the Radam Mierobe Killer company. Several months ago she Druggist Cir eaiar made an attack upon the Di- erobe killer, and assailed the company by saying: Every man connected with it is A direpufsbIe sconndrei."
 Three of the newly appointed con suis are men Whs were iE the service before the Cleveland hiatus. Maj. Byers, Of Iowa, who goes to St. Gall Switzerland, was at Zurich, and had been promoted to ;he Italian Consul Generalship by President Arthur shortly before President Cleveland recalled him. He Is best known to the country as the ausher ei "Sherman's March to the Sea" A volume Of poems called ~The Happy Isles" isthe prod- aet of his pen.
 Speaker Reed appointed Nsssrs