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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. A $150,000 fire at Teada, Mich., Monday. An earthquake shock in southern California Wednesday morning. Sixty clerks have been removeJ from the treasury department. New York upecie shipments to Europe Eu-rope Thursday $2,000,000. The straggling bandB of Indiana in eastern Oregon are to be forced to locate upon their reservation. One million dollars of government gold has been awarded in New York at LOG, 28. General Comely, ol the Ohio State Journal, baa accepted the post of minister to the Sandwich Islands. The failure ot Wm. B. Clarke formerly president of the Now York stock exchange, is announced. The Espy coal breaker, Hanover, Pa , was struck by lightning on Wednesday Wed-nesday and destroyed. Losa 95,000. Ex-Governor Warmouth of New Orleans was married on Wednesday at Newark, N. J., to Miss Sallie Du-rand. Du-rand. General Butler is preparing what he claims will be a crushing reply to Wayne MacVeagh's denial of hifl statements. The Stockton grand jury ignored the libel bills of Senator Sargent against the proprietors of the San Francisco Chronicle. President Hayes is said to favor the partial remonetizstion ot silver, but not to the exteut of making tbe public pub-lic debt payable in silver. The striking miners at Wellington coal mines Victoria, ofler to return to work at tbe old rates. Three of the r rioters on trial wero acquitted. The recent rain has bad a benefi-1 benefi-1 cial effect on the California crops, and exporters estimate the probable sur-( sur-( plus at 200,000 or 300,000 tons. Alfred C. Andersoa, a leading colored man of Hamilton, Ohio, has tiled an application for tbe position of United Stales minisLei to Hayti. Horace F. Smith, general freight agent ef the Louisville and Nashville railroad, was drowned in the river opposite Memphis Wednesday night. The South Carolina house of representatives repre-sentatives 66 to 29, has refused to admit to seats the seventeen Charles-ten Charles-ten members, fifteen of whom are colored. ! Tbe president, has offered the position po-sition of solicitor of the treasury to General GofV ot WeBt Virginia, who is considering the question of its ac-I ac-I ceptance. ILoHsieur La Alvergnat, an instructor in-structor of French in the Hartford school, who was bitten by a dog on April 30th, died on Thursday morning of hydrophobia. The corperation of London will present General Grant the honorary freedom of the city in a gold box. The corporation will entertaia bim at a dfjuencr at Guild hall. It is said that some one has taken away the petitions, numerously signed asking Lit the removal of Fred Douglass Doug-lass as United States marshal, and has failed to return them. At a musical soiree Wednesday night in the Twenty - third street theatre, the scenery on the stage took fire, but a panic wnaprevented by the artists, who extinguished the flames. Tbe Indians murdered a mail carrier car-rier three miles east of Camp Bowie, Arizona, on Wednesday. Lieutenant West with thirteen men pursued and overtook the Indians, but found them too strong and retired. On the records of Pueblo county appears a warranty deed from Wm. Craig to B. F. Butler for 71,000 acres of land. This is dated April 20th, 1377, aud is for the consideration of $30,000. General Ord has left Washington to resume his command on the Rio Grande. He takes no new instructions instruc-tions with bim, and says that the accounts of Mexican raids across the Texas border are greatly exaggerated. At Fleetwood park, New York, the first race in 2.30 class "Steve Maxwell" Max-well" won, "Maryland" second. Time 2.32, 2.27i, 2.30. In the 2.34 race "Young Sentinel" won, "Modesty" second. Time, 2.30, 2.291. General Wharton denies Butler's Btory that he had an understanding with Commissioner MacVeah to buy , the Packard legislature to recognize the Nicholls government of Louisiana, Wharton to be made United States marshal. The following Pacific Mail directors have been elected: William P. Clyde, Andrew Boardman, Charles H. Mount, Henry Hart, Edward A. Quiuhard, Charles G. Franklin, Samuel Sam-uel C. Thompsou, George A. Hoyt, Thomas Owen. A large number of citizenB of North Carolina who acted as deputy United States marshals at the last presidential presiden-tial election have been indicted for violation of the state laws; but the judge decides that they are not answerable to state laws. The charge against Pintiey of conspiracy con-spiracy to defraud the banks by the issue of bogus certificates was dismissed dis-missed by the court on the ground that the allegations each constituted separate oflense, and tweuty-seven indictments covering this oharge will be brought against him, A complaint has been lodgod against George M. Finney by Wm. B. Carr, charging him with con-h con-h pi racy with the late J. E. De La Moutagnie, government contractor, by which Beveral banks of the city were swindled out of about half a million dollars on bogus United States certificates aggregating upwards of six hundred thousand dollars. |