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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. A fire at Carrpaharie, N. Y., destroyed de-stroyed property valued at $200,000. Chamberlain hag left South Carolina Caro-lina or good and goes to New York. Ex-Senator W. G. Brownlow died at Knoxville, Teun., suddenly on Monday. Larijo sales of horaes for the French light cavalry eervicc havo been made in New York. The late republican state officers in South Carolina will all relinquish the cont&jta fur their seats. A BQVere, if not destructive snow and hail storm prevailed in Iowa and Illinois on Friday night. Tbe receipts from internal revenue for April will reach .$9,500,000 and from customs about $11,000,000. Internal revenue receipts to the 30th of April show a gain of $2,600,-000 $2,600,-000 over the ten mouths of last year. It is not probable that Minister Waahburne will relinquish his position posi-tion 8B minister to France until the fall. The New York Stan charges Secretary Secre-tary ThompHon with corrupt transactions trans-actions in reference te naval contracts. con-tracts. The president has received a delegation dele-gation urging the nomination of Ex-Mayor Ex-Mayor Emery as District commis-H.oner. Edward Satro has been found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Alice M. Butler, at Highgate, Vt., on the 2d of June last. Judge John G. King baa been appointed ap-pointed collector of the port at New Orleans. He waB one of the Packard supreme judges. The 59th anniversary of the birth of the czar of Russia wag celebrated on Sunday on the Russian fleet in Now York barbor. During the absence of James H. Hurd of North Wearo, N. H., his insane in-sane wife killed their son, aged 10 years, and then hanged herself. The government coin balance on the 31st of March will be nearly $95,000,-000, $95,000,-000, including coin certificates, which amount to $10,000,000 or $48,000 -000. A bill will be introduced in the coming congress reducing the army to 10,000 men, the Indian war being ended and neither Sherman nor Sheridan Sher-idan believes it will be resumed. . A citizen of Kansas named Dubois Claims tO hftVll hnfn nna nf a C Citizens who had a fight with the Bender family, which resulted in the kiin,ng and burial of the whole family. The '.public debt statement for April, will show a reduction in the debt for the current month of about $3,500,000 and an aggregate reduction reduc-tion sine July .1st of about $28 00 - ooa. Thomas Lewie, an Irish laborer claiming to be the son of Joseph Lewis, the Hoboken millionaire who left hia property to the United States government, has employed counsel to contest the will. Ieiah Hanscomb has been relieved from duty as chief of tbe bureau of construction in the navy department and naval constructor, and John W. Barley has been assigned to duty as chief of the bureau. General and Mrs. Grant with their son will sail for Liverpool from Philadelphia Phila-delphia -May 19th in the Indiana. President Hayes and cabinet offered |