Show a V Washington Advices Chicago 27Special from Washington Washing-ton Advices from San Antonio say the records of the Flipper court martial have reached headquarters I in charge of Acting Act-ing Judge Advocate Clanfwho was judge advocate at the trial The records CoI ered 500 pages of foolscap and the find ing are understood to sentence Flipper to dismissal The Presidents friends say healthy and robust as be is the constant strain of meeting and talking with office aeekres is beginning already to tell on him In point of fact the burden is i greater than any man can bear bud under our present pres-ent system it cannt b i helped The nuisance is constantly increasing and it will soon amount to the signing of his own death warrant fir a man to accept the Preidency UQC e a change is baa A warm political contest is in progress pro-gress over the position of chief naval constructor con-structor of the navy Naval constructor construc-tor T D Wilson has the supp rt of New England naval constructor S mupl H PoOi that of Ntw York and Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania men nnv1 constructor George A Meech The Utter l is also understood to have ton support of the secretary ot tru navy The appointment will be made after the holidays Ditribution of standard silver dolUrs for the week ending December 24th was 411486 against 390497 for the corre ponding week last year Arrangements have been made for the pre = ent tion of the new Ohme = o minister to President Arthur next Saturday by which time it is expected that both the President and rfpcretary Frelinghuysen will have return d |