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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. A destructive fire at McKeesport, Pa., Wednesday night. . The national pork packer's conveL-tions conveL-tions ia iu session at Keokuk. Tbe navigation of tbe upper Mississippi Mis-sissippi ia closed for the season. The total amount- of the Gilman forgeries known is about $207,000. Olapp of the Washington National Republican is friendly to the admiuis tration. The Cape Cod 5 cents saving bank, at Harwick, Mass., has suspended temporarily. The New York republican state committee haa elected John F. 8mytb of Albany chairman. - Car-bouse and stables of New York dry dock railroad burned Wednesday morning; loss $500,000. , The sacred congregation of the vaii can has pronounced against tbe can-conization. can-conization. Columbus. Edwin Price was killed and Thomas Kirk fatally injured by a falling scaflold in Pittsburg, Pa. A steamer exploded her boiler near Wheeling, Wednesday, killing and wounding Beveral persons. Thomas Sayles baa sued George M. Pullman in the Chicago courts for the infringement ol his palace car brake. The president has issued a proclamation procla-mation placing all the unaold public lands in the state ot Arkansas in the market. . Senator Dorsey ot. Ark., (rep.) announces himself a supporter of the administration. "Senator Conover ot Fla., (rep.) will not.oppose it. General Ed McCook, formerly governor gov-ernor .of Colorado and minister to the Sandwich Islands, is an applicant for tbe position of consul general at Paris.- .. , The Kansas republicans will not hold a state convention. - The state committee have nominated (or chief justice Hon. A. H. Hortou, and for lieutenant governor L. A. Humphrey. It is understood that the grand jury' have indicted Ja,. F. Preston, cashier , of the suspended Merchants' Loan , and Trust company of Paterson, N. J., for illegally disposing of the assets of tlie company alter it closed. There ara displayed near Fulton market, New York, two specimens ol California cucumbers grown from California seed in New Jersey soil, each of which measures over four leet in length aod about three inches in diameter. Ex-Goveruor Walker at a public meeting in Richmond, Va., delivered an address on tbe public debt of the state. He took tbe ground that it was honestly contracted and justly owed, that Virginian's only hope of prosperity pros-perity is in preserving her credit and invitiDg capital. Wells and Andtraon will probably be tried at the present term of tbe court now sitting in New Orleans. Jere Black will assist the prosecution and Congressman Shellabarger and Wilson the accused. It ib stated that an attempt will be made to involve Secretary Sherman and Senator Matthews Mat-thews as acceneoi ies, by showing that whatever was. done by. Wells axid. Anderson was upon thtir BUgelton and advice. |