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Show Executive Proclamation. i Long Branch, 22.-The following has just been received from the president: presi-dent: It is with intense rain that the : president announces to the people oi ; the United States the death of the speaker of the house of representatives representa-tives M. C. Kerr of Indiana, a man of great intellectual endowments, large culture, great probity and earneitnegs in his devotion to the public interest!. He has passed from the position of power and usefulness to which he had been recently called. The body over which he had been selected to preside not being m ?-ir,n ?-ir,n to render its tribute of affection and respect lu the memory of the de-ce-utul, the prident invile the people t.f the United States to a ol.-n rt-cogniiion of the public and prjvnte woiUi and services of a pure and eminent num. (Signed) U. S. Grant. Bv the President. ; J. L. CaUU'alader, A.-tiug Secretary o State, Wash- ington, August 21, 1S76. |