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Show DOIESTIU BRIKFS. W. P. Chaptimn & Cn., New York, fruit importers have failed; liabilities $175,000. Sitting Bull said that Custer was a great fool to attack 8 3 largo a villago with bo email a force. President Hayes was treated to a genuine) illiode Island clam bake at Rocky Point on ThursJay. Henry Duning, the great ship buildjr of Quebec, hua failed; liabilities liabili-ties $o00,00U; aseeta large. A narrow gauge railroad convention conven-tion id in daily session at St. Louis, discussing the project of a railroad to Colorado. Collector Arthur ol New York will i discharge about one hundred of hit men on Saturday and a few more next week. During eleven months of the present pres-ent Uacal year the exports or gold and 1 silver have been $4.9,000,030; imports $39,000,000. Juftice Hall of the supreme court of Vermont has been declared a bankrupt, with $150,000 liabilities above assets. A monument in hoa!T of the de-lenders de-lenders of Fort Moultrie was unveiled at Charleston, 8. C, on Thursday, the anniversary of tho battle. Sixteen persons were injured by the I explosion on the Lady of the Lake at Plymouth, Maes., On Thursday, several of whom cannot recover. Eight thousand dollars worth of smuggled laces were found in a house on Spring street, New York, with a large batch ol smugglers' letters. Senor Mata, Mexican miniator to W.mlnnolm, Kna nrrivarl fit. NfW Orleans, and will endeavor to obtain the recognition of the Diaz government. govern-ment. Ex-Governor Tilden and Cyrua W. Field, who had engaged a passage to Europe by the Bosnia, which tails next VVedneBday, have decided to defer de-fer their voyage. L. C. Carpenter, internal revenue collector at Columbia, S. C, haB been arrested for raising two state warrants war-rants from $55 and $95, respectively to $055 and $695. Mr. Trucsdale, the manager of the Chicago relief fund, hub made some I valuable suggestions to the reliel society of St. Johns, embodyinj the experiences after the great Chicago fire. Hitting Bull recently told one ol General Miles' scouts that Custer's men fought like devils and Cuiter was tho bravest man he ever saw, repeatedly repeat-edly charging and killing Indians with his pistol. c oi ;n Wvo Washington on Monday for a cruise along the coast to inepect the life-saving life-saving and the revenue cutter services Irom tho Chesapeake to Maine. The trip will occupy thrse weeks. United States exports for the eleven months ending May 31st reached nearly $560,000,000; an increase of 165,000,000 over the Bame period last year. The imports are nearly $403,000,000, a falling of $24,000,000. The legislative life insurance commission com-mission of Connecticut have reported a deficit in the assets of the Charter Oak life insurance company of over $2,000,000, and questionable assetB amounting to $l,7o0,000, but it is thought that policy holdere should not sacrifice their policies. The New York Tribune says it is very plain that the republican conven tion of Iowa is not pleased with President Presi-dent Hayes, and that the diHCUBsion of his policy was exceedingly acrimonious. acrimo-nious. A majority of the delegataa manifested their hostility to the administration ad-ministration in the most contemptuous contemptu-ous manner. |