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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. New silver dollars coined to date, 2.451.0J0. j Major-General James J. Peck died in Syracuse, N. Y., on Sunday. John S. Norton, aotor and elocutionist, elocu-tionist, died in New York on Sunday. A number of banks and business houses in Pennsylvania are disbursing coin. The Bteamcr Brittaruc brought from Europe $GOO,000 in silver bars lo New York. Bishop McCjskrey of Michigan denies the scandal stories rooently published concerning him. The State Savings bank building, Chicago, was sold by the receiver, at auction, on Monday, for $110,500. The Benate has not, as published, passed the houBe bill granting three mouths extra pay to Mexioan war veterans. On Sunday the police raided a Chinese gambling den in Mott street, N. Y., capturing forty celestial ....mlilprn. Henry T. Porter, attorney, has commenced suit in Ohio against the B. tfc O. R. K. Co., lor $51,816 (or cervices during the last aix years. A prize fight is nearly arranged between Patrick RyaH and John J. Dwyor lor the American championship. champion-ship. The battle ground will be in Canada. On Sunday the Azor, with the first shipload of negro emigrants to Liberia, sailed from Charleston, S. C, haivng on board 250 passengers, one-fifth one-fifth of whom are young children. The house committee on agriculture have agreed to report with tavorable recommendation, u bill providing that cattle in transportation shall be fd at least once evory twenty bur hours. At New Orleans on Sunday, J. K. Renaud won the Lilienthal cup, at long range rille shooting, and Captain James Buckley won the first prize, an tdegant silver cup, at the glass ball match. |