Show NEWS OF THE DAY The Senate adjourned this afternoon sine die The report that Mrs Garfield is contemplating con-templating marrying again is denied She is educating her children and living quietly quiet-ly at home in Ohio The troubles of the California Democracy Demo-cracy have been set forth voluminously to Cleveland and at his leisure he will consider the same California seems to jog right along regardless of so much political poli-tical ferment I The Grant Fund of 250000 will be left intact to Mrs Grant by the trustees providing the General has made 110 other provision in his will It is thought by the trustees that he has bequeathed it to his wife and family Commissioner Black talks straight civil service reform to the pension agents when he tells them Investigate your agencies thoroughly and take all possible precautions to cleanse the service of every suspicious unworthy person Commissioner Sparks of the Land Office has made an order that no cases heretofore made special shall be acted upon until they have been reached in the regular order examination This order does not include cases already approved for patent and in such cases patents may issue Secretary Manning is going to do some vigorous pruning in his department A circular issued to the officersof his department de-partment yesterday requests such suggestions sugges-tions and recommendations as may occur to them whenever the efficiency of the service may he improved and expenses curtailed The Union Soldiers Alliance of Washington passed a resolution of sympathy sym-pathy and sorrow for Gen Grant last evening in which they expressed their heartfelt wishes and most earnest prayers that the Allwlse Ruler may yet avert the irreparable loss a sorrowing nation would sustain in his death The United States now have money order relations with the following foreign governments and countries Canadian British German Swiss Italian French Jamacia New Zealand New South Wales Victoria Belgium Portugal Sweden Tasmania Windward Islands Cape Colony Hawaiian Islands Hong Kong and Egypt After the DEMOCRAT went to press yesterday the following dispatch in regard re-gard to the Manitoba rebellion was received re-ceived It is dated Battleford The women in the barracks arc greatly relieved feeling feel-ing that the Indians do not contemplate attacking them Every precaution has been taken to repulse the Indians should they make an attack J Strong one of the men in the barracks wires as follows With a heavy attack our situation is critical It is understood from this that the Indians are not believed to have gone I far and that danger from the attack is not yet over The latest in regard to the situation there will be found in todays dispatches The destruction of Aspinwall was mentioned in our dispatches yesterday Later dispatches give particulars of the I fight and the defeat of Preston On the morning of the 31st the fight in the town of Colon commenced Cannon were used and the firing was heavy While the fight was in progress fire the origin of which is not yet known brokeout Preston Pres-ton when he saw defeat was inevitable made his escape Many of his men were killed or captured The town was by this I time in flames Everything was swept away save a few Panama Railroad buildings build-ings On the north beach all the piers except the Pacific Mail Companys were burned and all the railroad companys books lost The canal company saved its I books and 160000 in specie |