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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. The various departments of the government at Washington will be closed on decoration day. At Reedsburg, Win., on Tuesday, a fire destroyed seven or eight stnrcs; Ioes $10,000; insurance f 20,000. It is rumored that Dvens will eoon retire from the c.-iti net, inking a foreign for-eign mission, to bo jucccoded by Mo-Urary. Mo-Urary. Tiie bark Azof was gunk Inst night near Cape Henry by the steamship Xiiratberff. The bark and cargo ie insured for $40,000. Jacob D. Blondell, the well known New York painter, was found dead on Monday in his studio. Tho Times says he starved to death. Tho effects of Robert Fellows, the New York jewelry importer, have : been attached on claims amounting to $:JO,000; liabilities said to be $100,-000. $100,-000. Tho treasury department has ordered or-dered an investigation into tho irregularities irreg-ularities charged against Superintendent Superinten-dent Lngrange ot the San Francisco mint. Bishop Spaulding of the new diocese of Peoria on Tuesday gave the black veil to three young women, the first in this country to enter the order of presentation nuna. A dispatch to ueueral boendan from General Miles dated at the letter's let-ter's headquarters on Tongue river, says that 300 hostile Sioux surrendered on the 22d of April. Wednesday's New York steamer takes out one millioo dollars gold coin to Pcsth. The engagements for Friday's Fri-day's steamer are $7o0,000, with the prospect of a fourth as large shipment on Saturday. The charges made against La grange, superintendent of the San Francisco mint, wero investigated in 1873 and nothing found to ail'ect tho personal character or official integrity of the superintendent. An explosion of gas occurred Wednesday Wed-nesday morning in Tradesvillo mines near St. Clair, Pa. Thirty men are imprisoned. im-prisoned. It seems impossible to rescue them. Their cries for assistance assist-ance can be plainly heard; six bodies have been recovered. Tho rumor that Attorney General Devcns is to roliro from the cabinet and bo sent to Constantinople and that Secretary McCrary will succeed him, and he be succeeded by Senator Gordon as secretary of war is officially declared without foundation in any particular. |