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Show for the Presidency, he knows he wouldjbc accused of declining something some-thing that had never been offered to him. Therefore he is silent but says he favorB Mr Harrison's re-nomination. re-nomination. Secretary Proctor last week awarded the largest single contract I ever given for harbor improvement to a Dallas, Texas, firm. It was for improving the entrance to Galveston harbor, and the amount of the bid was $3,469,710. The secret service officials of the Treasury department have had their ingenuity severely taxed by the dangerous counterfeit of the $2 silver certificate. It is supposed that an impression on soft metal or wax was takeu from the genuine plate. The Government Printing Office is in a ferment. Some copies of the Attorney General's brief, which was today submitted to the Supreme Su-preme Court in the Say ward case, were in some way stolen either from the Government Printing Oflice or from the Department of Justice and offered for Bale by a newspaper man last week, Pkdko Waililii);(uii l.rtlvr. From Our Own i 'orrc-punilcml San DnminjiM haw an a iron I here , wiin i anxious fur a reciprocity treaty with u. lie otlbrs a coal-inn coal-inn station in the Samoan bav. The count of the oasli in the i T,-c: --ury cemseeiuont upon the in-1 in-1 (lueti'Oi etf a new iT. S. Treasurer I bejia'i this nmrnine; and will take all ttto time of about seventy five j 01111,.. -os for ten davB ur thcre-! thcre-! abeu';', I If Pec'vctary Iilaino ehould pay I ho if n't r candiit.ito and that he ; wvdd vn-x a-.-c-r-pt the nomination. |