| Show I XEWS OE TIE DAY iit i expected that the Grant family will remain at McGregoruntil October 1 cGregqrPjl Oct I The Tailors National Union of the United States is i session Baltimore The Executive Mansion in Washington now presents a deserted appearance and displays I dis-plays a sign on one of the entrance doors with theword Closed in black letters The Montreal Board of Health declares 1 that small pox is now epidemic there The city hospital contains thirtysix patients and i crowded A new wing I being built which will holdjfifty more Chief Bushy Head of the Cherokee Nation issued a proclamation to h people soon after General Grants death calling him the red mals friend qiving hIm credIt for inaugurating the Indian peace policy inauguratif rna nmnunihnn fhnf ho n pace nha a the day of hi3 funeral thU t religious I re-ligious ceremonies A copy of the proclamation procla-mation printed on mourning paper has I been received at the Interior Department A seizure of Peoria whiskey was made yesterday in Philadelphia There were fifty I packages composed of funny barrels and to just what extent the fraud has been practiced prac-ticed cannot be told but the scheme is regarded re-garded OB one of the most gigantic swindles that has ever been perpetrated upon the Government I is said the entire country has been flooded with crooked barrels They are so constructed that gangers rods and I callipers do not give the true register of the contents of the package When the liquor has been poured out into buckets it has been found to measure a greater quantity than the gaugers rods showed This led to investigation in-vestigation and seizure sezre The Pacific Mail Company refuses to carry the Central American mails without a II share of the 400000 but there are five I American steamship lines which were very glad to take these Central American mails and they make twelve sailings a month for Central American ports The result is that the mails for Central America are now sent hy way of New Orleans and reach ports of delivery in about the same time At any rate the time is no loner while the delivery is more frequent TIe same is true of the Mexican mail that part of it which goes by sea But a good deal of the Mexican mail is now sent by railroad Those who have correspondence with Central America ought not to be displeased with this At Belmont Park Philadelphia yesterday yester-day 5000 persons witnessed the match trotting II trot-ting race between J 1 Cases brown stallion Phallas and W C PrancLss bay gelding Ham Wilkes for special purse of 4000 of which 1000 went to the second horse best three in five heats Phallas was driven by Either while Frank Van Ness held the reins over Wilkes The track was in perfect order The betting was brisk Plmllas ruling a big favorite before the stat at 100 to 28 and the same odds on the stallion wee forthcoming in any amount even after the first heat had fallen to Wilkes The race was eventually won by Wilkes who took first second and fourth heats Phallas winning win-ning the third heat Wilkes breaking so badly in the first 100 yards that he lost nil I chance Time first heat 216 second 220 i third 221M fourth 218 1 |
