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Show I ' DOMESTIC BRIEFS. Floods are threatening Khode Island towns. High water ia still doing great damage dam-age in Connecticut. Judge Whitaker has refused a new trial in the AnderBon case. A cabinet officer thinks the president presi-dent will veto the Bilver bill. Professor Albert Smith, medical instructor, died at Peterboro, N. H., on JTiiday. The ship Ivanhoe, with 160 emigrants, emi-grants, left New York lor Australia on Saturday. . All the space in the American department de-partment of the Paris exposition has been assigned. J. Fred Thornton, circuit clork ol St. Louis, has been suspended. He is a heavy defaulter. At Oakland on Friday, Dr. Carvei, with a rifle, broke S85 glass balls out of 1,000 fOBsed from a point twenty feet distant. Time, including all stoppages, three houra and three minutes. Henry Williams, colored, was hanged on Friday in Iele of Wight county, Virginia, for committing an outrage on the person of Margaret A. Stephens, near Carrsville, August 19, 1877. Samuel F. Schwartz, olerk in the pension office, San Francisco, who disappeared lait May with about $7,000 of the funds ol tbe office, wah captured in San Francisco on Saturday Satur-day by United Slates Detective Km negass. |