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Show EASTERN SPARKS. McCook's nomination as Governor of Colorado, is said to have been on the motion of President Grant alone. McCook not seeking the position. The Brooklyn Presbytery pronounce, pro-nounce, as worthy the gravest disapprobation, disap-probation, the act of two Presbyterian churches in permitting Rev. Sarah Smiley to preach to promiscuous congregations. con-gregations. The Senate will sustain the action of the House in cutting down the appropriation ap-propriation for the civil establishment in all the navy yards forty per cent, below last year's figures. The residence of R. H. Marr, Washington counsel for Governor McEnery of Louisiana, was searched, Wednesday morning, under warrant, issued on the oath of James L. Smith, a New Orleans detective, that there were stolen documents there. Nothing Noth-ing was found. St. Bridget's church, opposite Tomp-kin's Tomp-kin's Square, New York, was fired in two places Tuesday. father Moo-ney, Moo-ney, the pastor, thinks the object was not eo much the destruction of the church as to procure employment, it being known that the large congregation congre-gation could soon rebuild it. |