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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. John Goodc, jr., ot Virginia, 1ms announced himself as candidate for speaker of the next bouse. Commodore Carpenter, United rttates navy, died at Shrewsbury, N. J., on Wednesday. Quielfy, the wife murderer was hanged on Sunday morning at Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, dying without a struggle. Dr. J. II. Vandyke of Brooklyn preached the annual sermon before the Presbyterian general assembly at Chicago on Tuesday. S. F. Dixon, said to have been a railroad engineer in California was run over and killed by a train at Leavenworth, Kansas, on Friday, The heaviest rain for twenty years fell on Thursday in Kansas, flooding the creeks, carrying away houses and doing several thousand dollars' worth of damage. The Grand Army of the Republic at Baltimore have voted down 12 to G a resolution to decorate the confederate con-federate monument in London park cemetery. It is now stated positively that "Arifilides" will not run against "Tenbroeck" at the Louisville races on the 2-Uh. "Tenbroeck" will run against time. By a collision between a steamer and a schooner on Capa Cod Wednesday Wed-nesday alternoon, six persons were drowned including the captain of the schooner and wife. Two frigates from the Russian fleet at New York went to sea on Thursday Thurs-day morning and were saluted by the United States vessels and batteries iu the harbor. They returned the salutes, sa-lutes, j Secrotary of the Treasury McCrary believes that the officers of the army will avail themselves of the proposi- ; tion of Drexel, Morgan fc Co., to advance their pay, but doe3 not think it necessary for the enlisted men to avail themselves of the offer. General and Mrs. Grant and party breakfasted with Governor Hartrauft on Tuesday, after which, by invitation invita-tion of the municipality, be made an excursion on the Delaware river to New Castle, where General Grant was transported to tho steamship Indiana, in which vessel the Grant party will sail for Liverpool. |