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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. Tbo total amount of appropriations in the river and harbor bill is $2,-275,800. $2,-275,800. John D. Gallaher, formerly auditor of the treaaury, and a well known journalist, died on Sunday night, aged 81, Tlie house bill appropriating half a : ported back adversely by the committee commit-tee on appropriations. ThomaB R. Agnew, grocer, of Vesey street, New York, has been adjudicated adjudi-cated a voluntary bankrupt. Liabilities Lia-bilities estimated at $884,000; assets, $460,000. A New York Tribune correspondent correspond-ent has information that if the verdict ver-dict of the commission is opposed to Tilden he will further test his rights in the courts. By the caving of an iron ore mine on Monday at Allentown, Pa., Henry Hunsberer, Lewis Engle and Reese Lewis were killed, and David Fred- I erickB severely wounded. A typographical war has commenced com-menced by the Priater'a Union of Chicago against the Evening Post, ( which has reduced the price of composition com-position to 30 cents a thousand. The steamer George Washington, from Cromwell on the 18th of January for St. Johns, is a total wreck. All ; hands were drowned. Fourteen ij bodies have been washed ashore. ) "The houae has reduced the appro-' priations for the mints $2GS,000 below the estimates, which Dr. Lmderman says will cause the discharge of one-third one-third of the force now employed and seriously interfere with silver coinage. A mail bag containing letters and about $25,000 worth of bank checks, was robbed while en route from Newport, New-port, Kentucky to Cincinnati a tew days ago. The bag was opened and the contents abstracted, and there is no clue to the thief. . ' Iu the case of the city of St. Louis against the St. Louis gaslight company, com-pany, a judgment has been awarded the plaintiffs of $207,000, which extinguishes ex-tinguishes a claim of $800,000 for gas lurniahed the city for three years, and gives the city all the property of the company. - . . Gen. Sheridan has been official!) notified that about 100 renegade Sioux Indians have arrived in the British possessions, near the Montana border, and are destitute of provision! and clothing. The English officer have ordered them to leave unlesc they have come for permanent settlement. |