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Show GEM!UAL j FurlougtiB ltirlctcd. Jg Washington, 24. The liberal system of graining furloughs which heretofore has prevailed in the Treasury Department, Depart-ment, particularly among tha heads of bureaus and other head officers, has been curtailed as the Secretary has issued general orders that no more than thirty days' absence in his department de-partment will bo allowed during any seal year uuder any circumstances whatever, and that no appeal from this decision will be considered. Smuggling Increasing, Cases of attempt to smuggle goods along the Canadian border are becoming becom-ing very numerous. KtTtDui UctiIon. ew York, 25. A special says that Secretary Bout well, yesterday, on transmitting to Commissioner Plcaa an-ton an-ton the opinion of the Solicitor of the Treasury relative to the collection of the tax on coupons, said " I ncepi the Solicitor's conclusions and 1 havo to request that you wiii communicate this decision to the officer of the Internal Revenue Department I'or their gid-ance gid-ance and their future attention to the fact that it applies only to interest on bonds paid here." A Veicrau Engineer Dead. Charles Dyke, an engineer on Robert Fulton's first sieamer to Albany, died yesterday, aged fc2. l'nturtful Inaeudlarluu. An unsuccessful attempt was made a few nights ago to burn a Protestant church in Williamsburg. Another Allaiourl Bride. Boston, 6. At a meeting held in this city yesterday, in which tho central cen-tral branch of tho Union Pacific, Chicago, Burlington and Qiiincy, Hannibal Han-nibal and St. Joseph, Chicago and South Western, Atchisun, Tupeku and Santa Ft railroads were represented, it wus agreed to construct a bridge across the Missouri river at Atchison; work to be commenced immediately. Tho Central Branch Company has made arrangements to extend their road up tha river to conneot wkh the Union Pacific at the ono hundredth meridan. The Indian Chief not Killed. St. Louis, 20. The Republican has information from Jaxboro, Texas, tli at tho report of tho big ohhfs, Satanta and Big Tree, having been killed while attempting to escape, is untrue. They were both tried at Jaxborg and found guilty of murder in the 6rst degree. Judge Seward, who presided at tho trial and -ontenced them to death, said the punishment pun-ishment ought to bo commuted to imprisonment im-prisonment for life. Tatum, the Indian In-dian agent, was also using his influ ence to secure this result. General Sherman had ordered that they be held till afioal order from the President -hould bo reoeived, and, it is probable, therefore, they will not be hung. Satanta takes his imprisonment very ' hard and says the raid on the White-stone White-stone train is the first one he has been engaged in, and if the whites will release re-lease him he will never make another. |