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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. General Sherman spent Sunday in Boston. It is said that Bayard Taylor has been offered his choice between tho Russia a and Belgian misbious. There are 7,000 applications for consult-hi pB on the tile of the state department de-partment and only one vacant, Tho centennial of the revolutionary battle of Hubbardriton, Vt., was celebrated cele-brated on Saturday oa the battle ground. Colonel J. W. Woodruff, tbe oldest officer of the New York diviiion of the Pennsylvania railroad, died from paralysis on Suuday. A fire at Del Norte, Col., ou the I 6th destroyed two blocks, including the poetoflice and San Juan bank; lots $200,000; insurance Btnall. Rear Admiral John Rodgors is to be assigned to the command of the American squadron in European waters, in place ol Rear Admiral Worden. The dust which has been allowed to accumulate on the roof of the Phila delphia mint during the past twenty-five twenty-five years has heen collected and reduced. It yielded 42 ounces of gold and 9CA ounces of silver, worth about SS50. H. J. omallcy shot and killed his brother Andrew, Saturday, noar Mo-Pherson, Mo-Pherson, Neb. They were from Illinois, Illi-nois, bound to Celorado. Andrew wished to return home, his brother refused, put him out of the camp, shot him, and is now in jail. The Merchants' Loan and Trust company of Paterson, N. J., has suspended. sus-pended. The depoBitore are probably safe. The stockholders will lose heavily. heav-ily. Capital $200,000. Canae. de pression in business and injudicious purchase of paper and real estate. John Ennis and wife, residing five mils from Lacrosse Wis., were found dead and burned until nearly unrecognizable un-recognizable in their house on Sunday. It is believed an employ of Ennis's Joseph Marquette, shot the aged couple and fired the house to hide hia crime. |