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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. The Shoshone Indians are to be saved from starvation. Barber, third assistant postmaster general, has resigned his oihee. I t i , stop the issue of oue and two dull&r bills. New Orleans Wharton gives Butler the lie, and snyi he stood by Packard to the last. The New York papers regard the Sweeney settlement as a broad political politi-cal farce. The inauguration of Governor Pres-cott Pres-cott took place at Concord, N. H.t ou Thursday. The confederates decorated the southern graves at Arlington cemetery ceme-tery Thursday. The financial squabble in South Carolina is ended by the paesage of an appropriation bill. Secretary Sherman estimates that Si 1,000,000 of the fractional currency will never bo redeemed. The Beat of Judge R. B. Carpenter, Suulh Carolina, has been doclired vacant by the legislature. Sweeney is to pay the city $156,000 down and the rest of the $100,000 of his settlement in thirty days. Associate Justice Wright of South Carolina has been impeached for drunkenness by the legislature. Filzsimmeni, Clark & Co., New York dry goods dealers, have failed; liabilities $113,900; assets $95,000. At a tenement house fire in Bos ten having but one exit, two persons were fatally injured by jumping from the upper windows. The western lake vessel owners have agreed to withdraw a portion of their vessels, and pool the earnings of the remander. The Louiaiann constitutional uuion association has sent the president a bre terra cotta bust of himself, in appreciation of his southern policy, A revenue steamer has sailed from from Key West to interview the captain cap-tain of the whaling schooner recently detained ofl the Cuban coast by the Spaniards. The stockholders of the Chicage and North Western railroad have, elected as directors, David Dows, Sidney Dillon, J. H. Howe, Marvin liughitt, J. M. Burko. McVaigh to Ben Butler Those who know me wiil not believe anything any-thing you Bay against me, and those who know you of course will not believe anything you say against anybody. |