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Show The news of the death of James L. Orr, United States minister to tho court of St. Petersburg, is scarcely re-ooived re-ooived beforo already oomes tidings of the gathering at Washington of flocks of political cormorants awaiting tho return of President Grant, to present their own olaims or those of their friends for tho vaoant position. Decency would suggest the propriety of permitting the remains of minister Orr to become cool ere the scramble for tho succession began. But common com-mon decency is a virtue unknown by politicians, and many of them have no respect even for the death-bed, when official position is in view. |