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Show The I'nleut Oilice Fire. Washington, 25. Thirty thousand models were destroyed by the fire in the patent office. The value of the properly destroyed in the abstract will aggregate about $1,000,000, but as a large class of the models cannot or will not he replaced, the actual loss will probably not reach over SSOO.OOO or $900,000. The patent office baa to ita credit with tho treasury, over and above ita earnings, a sum sufficient to meet this expenditure, but it cannot be used without an appropriation by congress. The president with his party returned re-turned this evening. The president was conaiderably fatigued, lbe president pres-ident has concluded to postpone hiB visit to Richmond until next month, when the Virginia state fair will be in progress. |
