The Sun. — 1869-04-19 (London, England)

MIF3I.„r• Corps Engineers, has been assigned to the charge of 00.'4/ hour improvement of Lake Erie west of Cleveland, OhiO4. Mr. George Douglass died suddenly, March 29, at his reolt dence, 35, West Sixteenth-street, New York, in tbe n. year of his age. A. and E. Amos, leather dealers of ltor tree', Canada, have failed for a large amount. lii' „00 lingame's Chinese Embassy, it is said, will make s Pool tour to Berlin, St. Petersburgh, Stockholm, Spais' tteJ Italy. Judge S. W. Brockway, a prominent 10,11106,e politician of California, died at San Mateo, March 2 / The Rev. Ambrose O'Neil died at Albany, Afarch 0 of . The Hon. Thomas C. Acton, President of the Boa', lc Police Commissioners, has returned from the s°ll, tie New York.—The President has nominated Dili' lot chester to be Consular Agent at Bremen. The Preelow, has nominated George Earle First Assistant Postrees tot General, vice Gen. Skinner.—J. Townsend Conno/1970 son of the Comptroller, of New York, is aunounee'of the engaged list, and is to be married early in. to a Miss Oxnard of Pittsburg, Pennsylvanis."loo Fire Marshal Baker announces that the total 09 fires in New York, for the month of March, ria $427,850, an increase of $154,000 over the losses cis of the month of February.—The Hon. Benjamin F. Wadesfl Ohio has written very warmly in reply to an au" ,eo from the National Executive Committee of Coloelip Mon. He says nothing has given him so much Pre and satisfaction as their appreciation of his CT;o DO —Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins has resignni office as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Ile °lo' assigned to other duty.—David Clark, of Hartford, sit'', necticut, after a personal inspection of Howard Univer has given $25,000 towards its endowment. —Rich° a did Wood, one of the oldest merchants in Philadelphia, on the Ist inst. He was 70 years of age.—Harrie°/jitii Turner, aged 51 years, a commission merchant of ajji# more, committed suicide on the Ist inst. by cuttings./ throat with a razor. The cause was business misfortueeltel The Memphis Common Council has appointed a Con°3lsoo' of Arrangements for the reception of ex-President Jobs illy —Governor Morton, on account of illness, has hee°o° able to be present in the Senate for .two days.'" Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge is seriously ill st 089 home in Danville, Kentucky. General Ths sed recently had a purse of $lOO,OOO tendered him and refuol, , it.—The Buffalo man who made the $2OO pair eo 130 for the President now swings a sign, "Bootmaker l° ,00t Excellency t. S. Grant."—By direction of the Presei'teo Brevet Major-General George Stoneman, Colonel of rod 21st United States Infantry, is relieved from the tower command of the First Military District, and will sce.6e pany his regiment to the Military Division of the Ps.colgo —J. Tobens has arrived at Washington from St. Donll 4",/ with power to annex that Republic to the United Stanlo John W. Johnson, Esq., recently appointed Judge °f el 3 Abingdon District, is not a brother of General .1°'1". E. Johnston. He is a nephew of the general- -915' Raymond is at Washington working up Tracy fief toP trict Attorneyeee.Ex-Congressman Tom. Stewart le,eoo there pressing Inspector Dilks-for the Marshalshipi°,,a ~ Southern District.—Mr. Foster Blodgett, suspesafe of the late Administration from the Postmasterslor Augusta, Georgia, has been re-instated. • I w Ali; rADVEßTlSEMENT.]—Holloway'sPills.—Conee,A Pills.—Confidential vice.—To all persons who suffer from bilious heat re biliousness, or flatulency, these pills are most strongl commended as the safest, best, and quickest mode taming ease without weakening or irritating the oS,l„,eiee, system. Holloway's pills are especially useful in e'si. titio away any excess of bile, which usually produces W.f.,. '4 less remedial measures be adopted without del asthma, bronchitis, and congestion of the lungs thquior be relied upon for removing all danger, and by Pulit and regulating the circulation they effectually presTe and lapse. By rousing the liver to a fair secretion of bile' • quickly carrying it off from the system, these off low spirits, listlessness, and those distressing often called nervous.  Births. Wert