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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. New York specie shipments Saturday Satur-day $L,06U,000 guld coin and $350,000 silver. Want f time prevents Grant from accepting a reception from the Union League club. Peligman, the New York banker, will give a dinner to ex -President Grant next Tuesday. It is reported that BrUtow will be nominated to succeed Judge Davis on the supreme bench. William foster, New York, has made an asdignuieut. Liabilities 455,000 assets $S3,000. , The New York furniture store of H. T. Farriugton was damaged by fire Saturday morning $25,000. The New York stock exenange has again raised brokers' commissions and tho charge for buying or selling. The Franklin cotton mill at Sang-noit, Sang-noit, New York, was burned Friday night; loss $75,000; insured $10,000. Randall thiukd the president is afraid to go to the country with his policy, and that the dolay really helps i the democrats. The number of pension .agcnU in the eulire country has been reduced to eighteen and th salaries from ! $423,000 to $135,000. The New York .Herald says: The malcontents in the republican party, Blaine and Butlor aud their followers, are flanked by this change. Burglars entered the residence of Harrison 1'rescott at Newton Centre, Mass., Friday night and robbed the sale ol $21,000 in government bonds. The United States has beon a heavy buyer of silver in Europe thia spring. Large sales of the metal by Germany loworod the price no that at could be brought cheaper in Europe: than in Nevada. ,' , . - Remonstrances . are pouring io against the poitponmeut of the extra session of congress and a strong eQort w:ll bo mude to induce the president to change. the date ol the- meeting to Juno. , , Arrangements for decoration day at Arlington, Va., are complete. Brigadier Brig-adier General Goff, jr., of West Virginia Vir-ginia has been Belectod as orator; Will Carleton, of Michigan poet, and Kev. Clay McOauley of Washington, chaplain. The republican papers say there were no political roabons for the postponement post-ponement of the extra session of con-gresi, con-gresi, whilo the World thinks the cnango oi Lime was me result ol tbe fears of a republican revolt against the president' southern policy. In the Michigan legislature a resolution reso-lution oflered by a republican representative repre-sentative endorsing the president's southern policy, was referred to a committee without debate, seven republicans re-publicans voting with tbe democrats in favor of immediate action. A letter from Doadwood says that tbe snow has fallen daily. Seventeen inches of snow fell in one day and night. Prospecting ie retarded on account of cold weather. A surveying survey-ing party from Kearney to Doadwood have just arrived. The distance is 240 miles. . The New York Sun says Evarta is thoroughly alarmed. Hii eastern visit has convinced him that the republican republi-can party ia not enthuhiastic:in favor of Hayes, and Washington republicans, republi-cans, both among opponents and friends of the president say he -dare not face congress at present. The overland movement of coffee from San Francisco cast has fallen oB from 926,000 funds in 1S74 to 106,000 pounds in 1870, the heavy railroad freights being against the Pacific coast. It costs the Mississippi valley from 87 to 52 cents more per hundred pounds to land coflee in Chicago than it costs from New York. |
