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Show tiEKERAL WnthlnCton Advices. "Washington, 6. James Lindsay, pension pen-sion agent at St. Louis, has been sus-pectedof sus-pectedof irregularities and A. E. Stone, of tit. Louis, is appointed to succeed him. Orer 200 congressmen have accepted invitations to participate in an excursion excur-sion planned by the tit. Louis chambor of commerce, to leave that city on tho Itith for Texas. Senators West and Pinchback, just arrived from New Orleans, had a long , conversation with the attorney general, le-day, on Louisiana adairs. A coinmisiion will shortly be sent to negotiate with tho tiioux and other Indians, on the reservation in southwestern south-western Dakota, for a modification of the treaty of ISOo, so as lo withdraw from the Indians the privilege of bunting bunt-ing outside thpir reservation. The commission com-mission will consist of three or four persons, per-sons, and the board of Indian commissioners commis-sioners will probably name tho chairman. chair-man. Messrs. Perry & Ashton, together with Joncks, of ihude Island, lately associated with them as counsel for the government, having obtained all neoes-sary neoes-sary information from Brooks, of the U. P. railroad and the Credit Mobilier, have substantially completed a bill in equity against these organizations, to be hied in accordance with the act of the late session of congress. Ashton, today, to-day, submitted to attorney general V illiams a draft of the paper. It is not yet determined where suit ehall be brought, but Philadelphia and Boston are mentioned. Last month 380,414 dead letters were received at Lhe dead letter olhce, of this number 0,475 were held for postage. The navy department will, to-morrow, issue proposals for supplying the machinery ma-chinery for the eight sloops of war authorized to bo built by the last congress. con-gress. SHip Lout. Boston, 0. Tho ship Tennyson, from Calcutta for Boston, which is reported as having foundered at sea, had on board a cargo of Kast India produco, valued at largely insured in Boston offices. Total loss $435,000- Kuiilan Immigrant. SL Louis, G. Mrs. Bourand Peter, frm Kussia, passed through here yesterday yes-terday en route to southern Kansas and Texas, to select locations for a colony of 40,000, bow in Kussia, which country coun-try they have decided to leave. Onkci Ames Drlng. North Easton, Mass., 0, midnight Thero is no improvement in Amos' condition) con-dition) he is gradually failing. New-York Xutelllficnce. New York, G. Gtn. Joso Antonio Paez, ex-president of Venezuela, died here this morning aged 84 years. Andrew McClelland, another Brooklyn Brook-lyn policy dealer, was convicted to-day, ! and remanded for sentence. Vice-presidont Wilson arrived this morning, and at noon a deputation from tho Germ an-American society called upon biro to ascertain if he would speak Hi a mass meeting, to bo gotten up under the auspices of the society, at the latter end of this month. ilson regretted ho oould not be present, but assured Iberu tho objects of tho society, tho unihcation of the ditferent peoples in the United Slates, had his approval. It is undor-stood undor-stood tbat Charles Francis Adams and Andrew White will speak at the meeting. meet-ing. All the gambling bouses within the l;nh precinct, wero closed by te police this evening Nothing definite about the cause of Ibis sudden action of the authorities au-thorities can be learned. In the farmers convention, to-day, the representatives of a few working-men's working-men's societies and labor reform organizations organi-zations wore present, who proclaimed themselves ready to co-oserato with their western brethren in a grand etlbrt to throw on" the shackles of monopolists. Train la Bu. New York, G. The investigation which has been going on for the past few weeks, before chieT justice Daly and a sheriff's jury, into tho mental condition condi-tion of George Francis Train, was concluded con-cluded tins evening by a verdict rendered render-ed that he was and is sane, and responsible respon-sible for his acts. The district attorney will now prosecute Train on the indictment indict-ment found against him, for publi.-liing an obscene paper in connection with lho Woodbull-Ciarlm mailer. The auperintendent of police has issued is-sued an order to the captains, requiring them to report the number of li.junr saloons sa-loons in their respective precincts, the nsn.es of Hie proprietors, whether they are kept opn on Sundays and elrction day, whether females are employed a bar tender? or waiters, and various other points of information. In consequence of the discharge "f the horse shorr in the employ of the Eicblh Avenue Kail road, Ibe horse-shoers of theSiith Avenue Railroad struck this afternoon. Their pi aces will be fi.led by non-society men. Jc-hn Komyn Broadhead died in thU city to-day. He was the author of a nisl-vy ef the 'tate ef New York. ar,d heid lhe position a cavai oicor tou pert for . r years Tht T'rf. Na&h villa, 0. A large numb; of fleet horses have arrived imii Memphis and Monie fr tho sprir.g meet;: g of tne ashviile blood horse b.-sjl at:on, be-ginni.-g the i lb in-L More than sixty r..-rfes will take part, ar.d the prospect for the races it extreme.y faltering. lottltna flatter. New Orleanj. u. The rain fall for the hours, ending b a. m., was 8 6-iu Tne VtTvp-.h:s-.a f--k q p -. r;s. nH M .Man.nfvii.e, rn Sr...av atr.-v.n. Tim n.c-t two t. .-its w-tV li'ff'r w.-.-.j.H ir. the i;' -:s. .,; I-,--:.; r, T: ..- rr rr..re a :.-e r. e -;" ? I i.r..... n r. Ai tj."h.-.-: a". ;'p:-V-d A -i..e-": vi ioi 1. 1 i : ina-ar,e i'.':-,,. nio'tT .r. cw ur.car.i o:i.:e. -w u:.a-, M-i.i:-t r:n st--r aA't :-j ,t.t cyr.Vr! .'' wr'Var'r :!. Ni r-i n-rrin wre reseat U 7r : tr.e t-t.-.t: y. Lrpe luteur.? tiiii p. m. at the C.sy laiue, Oanai ELTfrM, aadjeuod by I Genera! Hch J. CapbeH aid o&er erirse tne aciion of the peoD'.e of l m. lir::zi. Another baiih of a' M-' M-' rcT-l-'3.:..s iesve :h:s evening to reiser reis-er ;e St- Martinsville. Hicr 1 rpotillcn. : I- i-:rar- ::s. '3 Tne Jcuraal of to-' to-' eotow crntaii a. letter written by ; ijvt-:Sai::b, of Georgia, addressed i ;o ihe ftj-oiers of tie west nd north- t d:scufsizg the question of water ' tri?rwr;i' n fro:n tne lk to Le ' I eap.ia-i, and caliir.? aiie::n to tie -rt--.:; of governors and piemineni c;i: -eri to be" held at Atlanta on the I ilorristccn, N. 6. The court of ' pardons refused 10 commute the sentence sen-tence of death of Lu-.gi Luaiqnaui and he will be executed ilsy 16. Puburg, 7. It is understood the Facihc & Atlantic telegraph company has passed iargelv into the hands of parties mteres:ed in the "Western Union. |
