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Show Getting Bid of Hungry Applicants. Washington, October 2. The President has issued the following special rule for the regulation and improvement of the civil service: ser-vice: Special rule number 2, approved July 18th, 1884, is hereby revoked. All applicants on any registers for postal or customa service ser-vice who, on the the first day of November next shall haye been thereon one year or more, shall, in conformity with rule 16, be no longer eligible for appointment for . such register. The special rule which is now revoked provided that the names of those persons on the registers of the commission, eligible for appointment prior to Julyl6th, 1884, should not be taken off at the end of the year of being entered thereon, but should remain on the registers as eligible for appointment for two years from that date without further notice or examination. The President to-day appointed Spruille Braden to be assayer in charge of the assay office at Helena, Montana. , |