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Show IT BOTKIN GETS A CONSULSHIP. Judge Theodoslus Botkin, for many $ ' years an ardent worker in tho ranks , ' of tho Republican party, a resident of ' r tills stato for somo time, and ono of i tho best campaigners In it, is about to J? bo appointed to a consulship, if reports jf aro correct. Tho post to which lie will , bo assigned is what was known to tho Si last generation as tho Islo of Franco, and it is located in tho Indian ocean, S oar tho equator, and about COO miles 'i? oast of Madagascar. Tho Island Is a $ British dependency, and hns a popula- M Hon of about 'J0.000 people, or which J ffif lart aro ISngllsh, pnrt Irish, part GJsk, Scotch, and part Portuguese, with a Hmattoring of French and a fow of tho ?L old natives. The climate Is said to be j ' oxcollent. Tho cost or living is cheap, Pmrs nn(1 n,tll0l'K tho place is far away it S't-W 1 is in tho track of steamers through tho Z yjjfc' Suez canal and Judge Botkin will get j . , " ! his Truth regular onco per week, only ; it will bo a fow weeks old after arri- I Tho salary and emoluments of tho 3 gin offlco aro good, and a man can live comfortably and savo a little somo- 11 Judge Botkin is well qualified for IS tho duties of tho place, and it is In- Ikjv deed high time ho wns rewarded for jp party fidelity. Ho has boon a rustler 111 and a hustler for-a long tlmo without recognition. Ho is a veteran of tho 1st' civil war, and when tho Spanish-Amor i ' lean conflict broko out enlisted again I and was rewarded by being appointed I assistant ndjutant general of volun- I , tcors with tho rank of major. Ho I - . sorved a term on tho Kansas bench I Jf"' with distinction nnd was at ono tlmo I r department commander of tho 0. A. R. I I K of that stato, besides serving a term or I f two In tho legislature Senator Suth- BS orlnnd was asked to na,nio a man for m tho place, and ho selected Judgo Bot- P kin. Wo congratulate tho senator on |