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Show CJE1NEUAL. The Kngllhli Mission. New York, 10. The Tints' "Washington "Wash-ington correspondent telegraphs that there is excellent authority (or the statement ihat the English mission was offered seven or eight days ago to a prominent western politician, and that his letter of acceptance is now in the hands of the President. It is generally gener-ally believed that .Judge Orth, of Indiana, Indi-ana, is the gentleman elected. lie was unanimously recommended lat spring by the Democratic delegation in the lloase to the mission to Berlin, which was thought at the time would be offered him. lie is the leading member of the foreign affairs committee, com-mittee, and one of the strongest men in Congress. Chicago Ai(vs. Chicago, Sept. 10. Four workmen were seriously injured by the fall f a scaffold in the Court House yesterday. The political campaign in Illinois i. now fairly opened, and promises to be unusually interesting. Gen. Anderson, the Democratic candidate for Concros-man Concros-man at large, will canvass the state. The Iowa State fair, w hich doses today, to-day, has been the most sue.v.sl'ul oir in every respect ever held in tie State. A Wa'-bington special says, it was decided to-day at the internal bimau. that the exemption of promissary u. t. from stamp duty, for a let.s sum tlcm one hundred dollars, under the section of the act of July 1-lth, IsTn, a pie equally to other written or printed dencc of an amount of money to b. paid on demand, or at the time de nated. |