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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. Coii2ree-'nien think a fin U adjournment adjourn-ment can take place by ihe laat ol June. The Commerce Insurance company of New York, in about to cloee its doore. The Royal order of Scotland (Masonic) baa been formed in Washington. Wash-ington. Mrs. Tilton is preparing a dalaiKd statement confirming and expanding j ber late confession. Tbe Washington povernment has reoeived no iDtimattun ol a Fenian invasion of Canada. A commission has beeo appointed to examine the afliirs of the Union Savings bank, Providence. An agent of the British government is at Ellsworth, Me., watching the movements ol the Cimbria. Felix Adler will leave New York, Mav 20th. for California, where be ii I to deliver a course of lectures. Fiieuds of tbe Texas Pacific are confident of the passage of their bill ut the present session of oongreeB. Tbe stoppage of the plundered Fall River mills has decreased the production produc-tion of prints 15,000 pieces a week. Eflorls will be mode in congress this week to lay the tariff bill on the table, or postpone it till next session. Thomas E. Ldd who disappeared from Luoania, N, H., is thought to have puicided. His accounts were crooked. Ezekiel Smith, Chicago, ban filed fi voluntary petition in bankruptcy. Serured debts, $263,000; unsecured, 81, 450; assets $600. The. New York Tribune thinks the democrats will not try to oust Hayes because Buch action would reunite the republican parly. One hundred and seventy five dpie-I dpie-I Kates attended the convention in New Orleans on Saturday, of the district Lirand ledge, I. O. B'nai Brith. Tbe Paoifio railroads funding bill was delivered to the president on Wednesday, and he will permit it to become law by the ten days' lapse. The United States marshals, on Monday, sold C. H. Lilienthal's tobacco to-bacco factory, New York, to satisfy a judgment in favor of government for $178,000. At Memphis, nn Monday a portable ongine exploded, killing Engineer Tom Halst and fatally injuring the fireman. Four or five laborers wore I wounded. Conkling is in sympathy with the movement to investigate the presi dential title, und iB said to be in consultation con-sultation with leading democrats on the subjeet. The general offices of the Des Moines and KeoKuk railroad and , Brokilt's notion store, Keokuk, Iowa, were burned on Monday. Loss covtred by insurance. A rumor comes from Baltimore that ten Russian officers are coming to this country, who iu connection with two American gentlemen will select filty fast ships to be purchased by Russia and fitted out as privateers, some of tbe crews to be dratted in this country. At Fall River, attachments have been ieeued as follow: On Bor.'er ctiy mills, $273,000; Sagamore mills, ' $106,000; Union mills, 303,300; (-stale of Nathan Durfee, $400 000; George T. Hathaway, $100,000; H. B. Durfee, $24,000; Maseasoit mills, $13,200; directors of the Border city milla, $03,000; total, $1,272,500, |