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Show Tho itellojis-Cary Company. Boston, 13. Thomaa Maguire is here prepared to secure the Kellogg- Cary company for California. Hathaway Hath-away & Pond of the Redpath lyceum bureau have a contract with Strakosch and refuse f'2,000 a night. The combination com-bination is so enormous and expensive expen-sive that Hathaway it Pond have determined de-termined to rent and have secured 1 th Baldwin theatre to open on Sep - j teuiber 1st. j DOMESTIC BRIEFS. Last week the New - York police made 2,-517 arrests, more than ono luurtb being of Liquor-dealers. Darwin H. Sherman, the most entensive merchant of Troy, N. Y. has failed; liabilities $160,000-; ass eta unknown. Since July 1st the secretary of the navy has given employment to 8,400 meu at the navy yards throughout the coutry. Cadet Northrop of the third clasa in Wed Point military academy was drowned while bathing in the Hudson Hud-son on Saturday. Tho New York Sun hopes that Howard will be removed, hia place to be supplied with a man who knows what lndiau fighting is. During the Sunday school of the Swedish Lutheran church at Jamestown, James-town, New York, lightnings truck the building, killing one and prostrating four ofhera. In his dispatch to General Sheridan Gen. Gibbon saya he surprised the Nez Perces camp at Big Hole on the morning of the 0th and got possession of it after a hard fight. Sargent has preferred charges against Charles H. Chamberlin, the present receiver of the land office at San Francisco, for exacting illegal lees, end at least a dozen applicants have filed their recommendations for the position. A circular has been issued bv A circular has been issued by Assistant Secretary McCorraickto the eflect that the clerks of the treasury departmeut who refuse to pay their just debts would be charged with dishonorable practices and recommended re-commended for dismissal. The president said he is anxious to go to Greenbrier and White Sulphur springs duriug his southern trip, but it there was going to be a collection of Virginia politicians there he did not not want to go among them, nor be mixed up in their movements. Wm. J, Murtagh, proprietor of tho National Republican was cowhided Monday morning in front of his office by Joseph R. Wheatley of Harrods-burg, Harrods-burg, Ky., on account of an article which appeared in that paper rellecting upon his private character. An attempt was made Sunday to wreck a through passenger train at Packerton, Pa. Some one unlocked and turned the switch, but the engineer engi-neer saw the danger in time to check tho speed of the train, and although every car but one ran oil the track, none of the passengers were injured. |