| Show NEWS OF THE DAY Victor Hugo is certairly dying and cannot can-not survive many days The Confederates Soldiers Home was finally opened at Richmond Va yesterday Miss Cleveland has taken up the old bhakespeareBacon controversy and is devoting de-voting much time to investigating it Humors were current in St Petersburg yesterday that pence negotiations had collapsed col-lapsed There was nothing definite in the reportThe The Standard Oil Companv are about to get possession of the St Louis gas works over which there has been incessant fishtiu t > ° for the past year The annual convention of the National Wool Growers Association meets in St Louis next week A large attendance of delegates is expected Odiums leap from the Erooldvn bridge was made a sensation by the New York papers However it is the last sensation that Odium will furnish them Three medical men have been indicted by a Washington Grand Jury for presenting false vouchers to the Navy Department for medicine etc to the amount of 10000 AttorneyGeneral Garland reconsidered his somewhat hasty declaration and at tho late White House reception appeared in the regulation full dress suit for the first time in his life William G Turner tho American sculptor has just started for his homeland after living liv-ing fifteen years in florence Ho brings with him his best work the statue of Commodore Com-modore Perry As a precautionary measure against cholera the city authorities of Portland Oregon have caused all the wells to be filled with earth and destroyed Death lurks in the bottom The New York Herald says it is rather agreeable to have a President who looks after the concerns of the Republic with as much snap and vigilance as he would exert exer-t ciao in his own pnfate affairs I Tho New York Herald Sun World nnd Times publish in full salacious testimony testi-mony given in the Winans divorce case Its It-s about as decent reading as the testimony hi a Utah unlawful cohab case The Apaches on the warpath are being pursued by Col Morrows cavalry but were giving the cavalry dust at last advices Settlers along the borders of New Mexico preparing for the Indians if they take that route n The cashier of the Union National Bank New York took a ticket for Canada the other day and the books reveal the cause of his sudden departure The amount that he borrowed from the bank has not yet been made public The brigade of guards on the way from Suakim to England will be detained at Alexandria and some of the Australian contingent con-tingent at Aden The latter port is a serious obstacle in the way of peace between England Eng-land and Russia The President has a great admiration for a fine physique and physical excellence and manly beauty He likes a man who looks as though he cats well and sleeps well and is capable of hard and much work and possesses abounding animal spirits The fight in Salvador between the regular forces and the insurrectionists was ended Tuesday after an engagement of several hours the rebels being thoroughly whipped I and routed No other Central American revolution has been telegraphed this week Printing machinery is now being bought in Chicago for the work of publishing the text books of tho schools of California The Legislature appropriated 170000 for the I work and 225000 school children will be benetitted by purchasing their school books at cost ExSecretary Frelinghuysen died at his residence in Newark N J last evening passing away quietly and without a struggle The Cabinet telegraphed sympathy and condolence to Mis Frelinghuysou last evening The funeral will take place on Saturday J The London Daily News says Gladstone cannot resign until the Russian and EgyptIan Egyp-tian questions ire settled and that the general gene-ral elections to be held in November will turn on his foreign and home policy The Liberals the Notes says cannot fight these issues without him General Logan says the New York Situ won his Senatorial fight by superior generalship general-ship and the New York World upbraids the Illinois Democrats for bad management party jealousies general demoralization and concludes that after all Logan is a splendid representative of the Republicanism Republican-ism of Illinois General Grant expects to complete writing his history within a mouth It will published in two volumes of about SOU be each under the title of The Personal Memoirs pages of U S Grant the period covered from the days of his childhood down being to tho time of the grand review of the Fed of eral armies in Washington at the close the war Archbishop Alemany of the Roman Catholic Church was presented with purse Francisco 10000 yesterday by his San of the The Archbishop has been on flook beloved years and is greatly Coast thirtythree the archbishopric and He resigned loved Archbishop lliordnn succeeded by was lately of Chicago Archbishop Alemauj leaves for Rome next Sunday < The cholerain Spain is being treated by I of cholera microbesan opera inoculation tion resembling vaccinationand wonderful I inoculated is said to attend those exemption commission of eminent physicians will be A condition the present appointed to investigate and also to report on dition of the epidemic discoveries and the chances of preventing Ferraris pre-venting in future cholera epidemics by the general use of his system of inoculation Department have par The WOUBounces Treasury of silver bullion for G03OUO ounces chased and hiadelphia New Orleans Sote into standard dollars for coinage mints ounce lower cents perounce paid was 1M per The price fixed by bidders last than the lowest rates purchase of silver is in week Tho weekly consisting of Assistant the hands of a commission Fairchild Mr Burchar sistant Secretary Jordtw S and Treasurer director of the mint |
